Man told investigators he shot his wife
TEMPLE, TEXAS (AP) -- A 54-year-old Temple man has told sheriff's investigators that he shot his wife to death nearly 15 years ago.
Milton Britt Crowe walked into the Bell County Sheriff's Department on Friday afternoon and told investigators he wanted to confess to the July 1994 slaying of Linda Louise Crowe, according to a news release from the agency.
Crowe told them the matter had been bothering him and he had spoken with counselors at a local church. The counselors went with him to the sheriff's office.
Crowe was jailed on a charge of murder and was being held in the Bell County Jail on $200,000 bond.
Linda Crowe, 47, a medical transcriptionist at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in 1994, was reported missing by her husband, who said she did not return from a Sunday walk.
"Britt called me and said he had come home and Linda was gone. I remember driving around with him looking for her," the Rev. Don Paulson, their former pastor, said in Sunday's Temple Daily Telegram.
Her body was found about 10 feet from the side of a road, and autopsy results showed she died from a single gunshot wound to the head.
Officials said investigators in 1994 believed Crowe was involved in the murder, but that he left the state and the investigation stalled.
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