James Radford (Shawano County Sheriff’s Office).
A Wisconsin man allegedly claimed that his wife shot herself in the chest — while holding a gun in both hands — after he said he was going to leave her, but authorities didn’t believe him.
According to a criminal complaint, the widower, James C. Radford, now 39, was allegedly the one who shot and killed Sabrina Radford, 25, while she was holding a phone, and he concocted a story about her supposed “suicide” as well as about him doing CPR.
From the complaint:
Complainant further alleges that when law enforcement arrived on April 11, 2016, items of clothing and other things were thrown on the floor in an upstairs bedroom. The complainant believes the defendant had done this because he was mad she was with another man, and SR was leaving.
Radford is charged with first-degree reckless homicide with use of a dangerous weapon. He was charged on April 11, nine years after he allegedly killed Sabrina Radford, but Shawano County deputies announced it on Tuesday. Radford is scheduled for a status conference to take place June 9. Bond was set at $800,000 and he remains behind bars as of Tuesday.
