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Saturday September 20, 2008
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Mary Winkler and her late husband’s parents embraced Friday after a judge gave the mother permanent custody of her three daughters.
Winkler said she’s reconciled with the children’s paternal grandparents, who had fought to keep the girls away from her after she was convicted of killing their father two years ago.
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Saturday August 2, 2008
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Mary Winkler has gotten her three daughters back.
The girls had been living with their paternal grandparents since Winkler killed her husband Matthew in 2006. Now it appears the bitter custody battle is coming to a close.
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Saturday May 17, 2008
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Mary Winkler and the parents of the husband she killed were back in court Friday, arguing over custody of her three daughters and information about the trust fund established for the children.
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Friday February 15, 2008
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Winkler was convicted early last year of voluntary manslaughter in the March 2006 shooting death of her minister husband, Matthew Winkler.
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Thursday December 20, 2007
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The Tennessee Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to modify or overturn a lower court’s ruling allowing Mary Winkler, convicted of killing her minister husband, visitation rights with the couple’s three daughters.
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Saturday December 15, 2007
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The parents of Matthew Winkler have been fighting for permanent custody of their three granddaughters, ages 10, 8 and 2, since April. Mary Winkler was convicted April 19 of voluntary manslaughter for shooting Matthew Winkler in March 2006.
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Wednesday November 28, 2007
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Mary Winkler’s attorneys say they’re working to reunite her with her children as quickly as possible following an appeals court ruling on Tuesday that removed a barrier to her having supervised visits with them.
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Sunday September 30, 2007
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An appeals court Friday blocked a supervised visit between Mary Winkler and her children scheduled for Saturday.
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Monday September 24, 2007
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Mary Winkler will be able to visit her three daughters again, starting a week from Saturday, after more than a year with no physical contact with them.
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At a hearing last week, Winkler asked for private visits with the children, but Judge Ron Harmon refused after listening to testimony on her mental health and the youngsters’ mixed feelings about her.
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Wednesday August 15, 2007
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After spending a total of seven months in custody, the Tennessee woman who fatally shot her preacher husband in the back was released on Tuesday, her lawyer told CNN.
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Tuesday August 14, 2007
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Winkler had been charged with first-degree murder, but jurors convicted her of the lesser charge. She testified that her husband hit and kicked her, emotionally abused her, forced her to look at pornography and demanded sex she considered unnatural.
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Thursday August 2, 2007
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The Tennessee Court of Appeals on Wednesday denied Mary Winkler’s request to proceed with efforts in juvenile court to regain custody of her three daughters.
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Monday July 9, 2007
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NBC Dateline will take a look at “The Preacher’s Wife” at 9 tonight on WAFF TV, featuring a story on Mary Winkler, who was found guilty of murdering her husband last month.
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Saturday July 7, 2007
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Thursday June 21, 2007
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Mary Winkler, a preacher’s wife who was convicted in April of involuntary manslaughter in the shotgun slaying of her husband in Selmer, has been moved from the McNairy County Jail to a mental health facility.
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Thursday June 14, 2007
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Mary Winkler will have to respond by Friday to a Jackson appeals court order that says the court appears to lack jurisdiction to hear an appeal she filed in her child custody case.
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The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Jackson has issued an order stating that it appears the court lacks jurisdiction to hear an appeal filed by Mary Winkler in her case seeking custody of her three children.
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Sunday June 10, 2007
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A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on probation in a little more than two months.
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Thursday June 7, 2007
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Mary Winkler also awaits a decision from the Tennessee Court of Appeals on her May 23 motion to stop efforts by her in-laws to terminate her parental rights and adopt her children.
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Tuesday June 5, 2007
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Dan and Diane Winkler, whose son Matthew Winkler was shot to death last year by Mary Winkler, have had custody of the girls since the shooting and are seeking to adopt them.
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Monday June 4, 2007
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Mary Winkler asked the Tennessee Court of Appeals to stop efforts by her husband’s parents to terminate her parental rights and adopt her children until a juvenile court judge hears her petition for their immediate return.
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Friday May 18, 2007
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A new date has been set to sentence Mary Carol Winkler after her April 19 conviction for voluntary manslaughter.
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Monday April 23, 2007
Domestic Violence • Mary Winkler:
Mary Winkler’s story of abuse at the hands of her husband has struck a chord with many women across the country who identify as a survivor or victim of domestic abuse.
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Friday April 20, 2007
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A jury of 10 women and two men convicted Mary Winkler today on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of her preacher husband.
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