EL DORADO, Ark.
A jury has convicted a former Fordyce police chief of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife.
The Union County jury recommended a 40-year prison sentence for Paul Douglas Gill. The jury deliberated for about four hours today before convicting Gill in the death of his wife, Sandra Kaye Gill.
Gill testified yesterday that he did not kill his wife, and witnesses said he wept and expressed grief after her death. Doug Gill had been charged with capital murder, though prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.
Sandra Kaye Gill was found in bed in March 2007 with a gunshot wound to her head.
Gill was a former police chief at Fordyce in the early 1990s and also a former deputy sheriff. At the time of the crime, he was a quality control inspector with Georgia Pacific in Fordyce.
Prosecutors allege that gunpowder residue from Gill's clothing showed he killed Sandra Gill as she lay in bed. They argue Gill tried to make his wife's death look like a suicide.
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Thugs. Corrupt lowlife wife beating adrenalin addicted thugs. All of them. We should take away their guns.
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