Man guilty of killing ex-wife hours after she remarried

Published February 02, 2017

A West Virginia man has been found guilty of fatally stabbing his ex-wife 86 times hours after she married another man.

WVVA-TV (http://bit.ly/2ksSr78 ) reports that a Mercer County jury convicted 34-year-old William Jessie Seal of Princeton of second-degree murder Wednesday in connection with the June 2015 slaying of 26-year-old Ashley Seal.

Ashley Seal was killed at her ex-husband's apartment about four hours after she had remarried. Family members said the new bride had gone to his apartment to pick up a few belongings.

William Seal's defense attorney had argued that the woman had attacked his client with a knife and his client was defending himself. The jury took less than an hour to reach its verdict.

William Seal faces a sentence of between 10 and 40 years in prison.

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Information from: WVVA-TV, http://www.wvva.com

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