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TexasTowelie

(117,236 posts)
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 08:11 AM Jan 2018

Man accused of killing wife for changing channel

CARLISLE, Ark.—Investigators say a central Arkansas man fatally stabbed his wife after she changed the TV channel from a football game he was watching while he went outside to smoke.

Tony Thomas, 58, of Carlisle, was charged Monday with capital murder. Investigators said he admitted killing his wife, Elke, during an argument after she switched the TV channel in November. He's been jailed since the incident.

"He went outside to smoke and upon returning, he discovered that Elke had changed the channel. He asked about the score and she began yelling at him and got in his face," Lonoke County Sheriff's Detective Anthony Counts wrote in an affidavit.

Thomas said he blacked out and came to while standing over the woman with a knife in his hands, according to the affidavit. Court records show his bond is set at $1 million.

Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/arkansas/story/2018/jan/10/man-accused-killing-wife-changing-channel/707973/

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Man accused of killing wife for changing channel (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2018 OP
he asked the dispatcher for a 'meat wagon and police' Motley13 Jan 2018 #1
Did it ever occur to him to buy her a t.v. to watch what she wanted to on the weekends? shraby Jan 2018 #2
I suspect that the answer is "no", TexasTowelie Jan 2018 #3
Egads. And I'll bet he owns guns, too Ohiogal Jan 2018 #4
Can not fairly comment without knowing Funtatlaguy Jan 2018 #5
I admit that I was looking for that information in the article. TexasTowelie Jan 2018 #6
the thing is d_r Jan 2018 #7
wonder if he wore his MAGA cap when he stabbed that poor woman... samnsara Jan 2018 #8

shraby

(21,946 posts)
2. Did it ever occur to him to buy her a t.v. to watch what she wanted to on the weekends?
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 08:20 AM
Jan 2018

I have my own because we watch totally different things. Mr. Shraby has no interest in what I like and vice versa.

TexasTowelie

(117,236 posts)
3. I suspect that the answer is "no",
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 08:26 AM
Jan 2018

yet I wonder how many other arguments occurred previously between the couple.

TexasTowelie

(117,236 posts)
6. I admit that I was looking for that information in the article.
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 08:59 AM
Jan 2018

If he was watching and betting on the Dallas Cowboys then I can understand why he was drinking.

samnsara

(18,290 posts)
8. wonder if he wore his MAGA cap when he stabbed that poor woman...
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 09:32 AM
Jan 2018

...wonder if he will wear it in jail???

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