Man pleads guilty to killing wife, taking kids to dump her body

A Texas man pleaded guilty to killing his wife and then taking his kids on a road trip to dump her body, according to reports.

Jonathan Allee, 31, agreed to a plea deal Tuesday in Harris County Criminal Courthouse that would require he serve 35 years in prison for the 2016 murder, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Prosecutors allege the defendant beat and strangled his wife, 28-year-old Elizabeth Ferrell, before tossing her body in a waterway west of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Her body was discovered with blunt force trauma to the head on April 23, 2016.

The prosecution team pointed to how Allee allegedly changed his story. He initially told investigators he saw his wife four days before her body was found, but then claimed he’d last seen her on April 21, 2016.

The couple’s 5-year-old daughter told police Allee took her and her baby sister on a road trip. Allee allegedly stopped the car at a point during the trip and got something from the trunk, according to the Houston Chronicle.

“God only knows how this will impact [their daughter] in the future when she figures out why he stopped on that bridge,” Ferrell’s cousin, Daphne Hesse, told the newspaper.

via: https://nypost.com/2019/03/05/man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-wife-taking-kids-to-dump-her-body/

Photo Credit: Jonathan Allee and Elizabeth Ferrell Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office