Melanie McGuire, Convicted As ‘Suitcase Killer,’ Claims New Evidence Proves Her Innocence
Melanie McGuire, the woman dubbed the “suitcase killer,” after she was convicted of first-degree murder for killing, dismembering and throwing the pieces of her husband’s body into suitcases and into the Chesapeake Bay, is claiming that she is innocent.Prosecutors alleged that Melanie McGuire killed her husband in May 2004 after suitcases with Bill McGuire’s body parts were discovered along the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The fertility nurse had been having an affair with a doctor at the practice she worked at, and allegedly had a difficult marriage with her physically abusive husband with wh...