Ex-Ohio professor kills spouse to keep away from $15K sextortion: cops
An aged former Ohio State College professor allegedly murdered his spouse — after which tried to kill himself and his canine — after a lady he met on a relationship app threatened to launch nude pictures of him in a $15,000 sextortion sting, in accordance with police.
James Hill, 76, of Higher Arlington, advised cops he felt he had no different manner out after the unidentified girl threatened to launch the embarrassing pics except he paid her $15,000 in Apple reward playing cards, in accordance with the Columbus Dispatch.
Hill stabbed his spouse, Mary Kathleen Hill, 64, within the chest with a kitchen knife Sunday, in accordance with courtroom paperwork cited by the paper.
He then apologized to her and held her as she took her final breath, ABC 6 reported. Hill additionally tried to stab his canine — however she ran away, in accordance with the courtroom data.
He then deleted the pictures from his laptop and plunged a knife into his personal chest in a doomed try to take his personal life, in accordance with police.
Hill is a retired music professor and was concerned in an upcoming efficiency, in accordance with ABC 6.
“There’s no pleasure in performing realizing this info,” an nameless pupil advised the station. “Everybody was shocked. No person might have seen this coming.”
He was charged with premeditated aggravated homicide and is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
