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Pennsylvania wife accused of killing, burning husband on back porch
Evelyn Zigerelli-Henderson has been charged with criminal homicide, aggravated arson and arson. (Photo via the NY Post)
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June 20, 2022

Pennsylvania wife accused of killing, burning husband on back porch

PENNSYLVANIA, United States — A Pennsylvania woman has been arrested for allegedly murdering her retired deputy sheriff husband — and then burning his naked body on their back porch.

According to an article from the New York Post, Evelyn Zigerelli-Henderson, 66, was charged with criminal homicide, aggravated arson and arson, over the grisly death of her 84-year-old husband, Carmen Henderson, last Thursday.

The NY Post article says authorities discovered the gruesome scene after the wife, who is a former political candidate in Dauphin County, called 911 to say she thought her husband of 30 years had set himself on fire but then changed her story repeatedly when questioned by investigators about her husband’s death.

She initially claimed it was suicide and then allegedly said her husband had accidentally set himself alight after smoking a cigar on their porch.

Upon inspection of the body however, authorities said they spotted fly larvae in his mouth and nostrils, indicating he’d been dead for a while.

It wasn’t immediately clear when Henderson died and authorities haven’t released his exact cause of death.

Authorities said the couple were in debt after the wife allegedly said she’d blown all their savings on vacation homes and indulgent activities like day spas.

Zigerelli-Henderson said they had owed $40,000 on a second mortgage and their sheriff’s office was going to seize the property, according to the complaint.

The wife also allegedly admitted her husband, who retired as a Dauphin County chief deputy sheriff in 1995, had a $10,000 life insurance policy.

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