Why Did Preacher’s Wife Mary Winkler Shoot Her Husband in the Back?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A new date has been set to sentence Mary Carol Winkler after her April 19 conviction for voluntary manslaughter.

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.

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.

Mary Winkler told a Tennessee jury on Wednesday about her volatile marriage to a preacher she said berated her, forced her to watch pornography and to wear slutty costumes for sex.

A jury is expected to begin deliberations Thursday to decide if a Tennessee preacher’s wife was an abused woman who accidentally shot her husband, or whether she blasted him with a shotgun on purpose.

A preacher’s wife testified at her murder trial Wednesday that her husband abused her physically and sexually, but she said the shotgun fired accidentally as she pointed it at him in their parsonage bedroom.

A preacher’s wife accused of murdering her husband told a psychologist that he often threatened her with a shotgun and forced her to have sex, the psychologist testified Tuesday.

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