Sentenced: Ohio Man Gets 20 Years For Manslaughter, Attempted Decapitation Of Wife

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Wilford Jenkins III, 49, a former Ohio corrections officer, was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for the fatal stabbing of his wife, who he then tried to decapitate.

For reasons still unknown, he stabbed 47-year-old Huletta Jenkins to death at the couple’s home in October 2021.

Initially charged with murder in Hamilton County, the defendant recently pleaded guilty to one count each of involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, and tampering with evidence. As part of the plea deal he received a 20-year sentence without the possibility of early release, according to Cincinnati-based ABC affiliate WCPO.

“I am so sorry and I wish I could take it all back,” the defendant said during a courtroom report of his sentencing hearing by the TV station. “I wish I could have her back in everybody’s lives.”

The victim’s family rejected that apology.

The circumstances of the brutal slaying are still somewhat murky.

Police in Forest Park, Ohio, a small suburb of Cincinnati, arrived at the home in Bessinger Drive over reports of a possibly suicidal individual during the late afternoon on Oct. 25, 2021, according to The Enquirer.

There, they found both the defendant and his wife covered in blood and suffering from multiple stab wounds. Huletta Jenkins was pronounced dead at the scene while her husband was still alive and transported to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, according to Newport, Ky.-based Fox affiliate WXIX.

Four days after the slaying, Wilford Jenkins was charged in his wife’s death.

Forest Park Police Lieutenant Adam Pape said investigators believe Wilford Jenkins killed his wife, then tried and failed to kill himself. The department steadfastly declined to comment on a motive.

The 911 call that led officers to the residence was made by a friend of the defendant’s, who told police that his friend had, out of character, “been experiencing mental health problems off and on for the last month,” and earlier that day had been “babbling” about stabbing himself.

“He said he just stabbed himself in the chest,” the caller reportedly said. “He wasn’t making much sense.”

A coroner’s report obtained by WCPO suggested that Wilford Jenkins had been trying to decapitate his wife due to bone fragments that were missing from part of her spinal cord. While her body had stab wounds on the chest, arms, neck, and abdomen, it was one wound across her throat that took her life, the report said.

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"The only thing I heard him say was, ‘There’s a lot of blood in there,’” a contractor who was working near the house on the day of the killing said.

lawandcrime.com

 

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[thuumpr]

Did this idiot try to decapitate himself too?

 

[Hermy]

He murdered his wife in October 2021 and has already been sentenced. That was quick! Cases like this can drag on for years. Is Ohio fast-tracking to lighten the docket?
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Did this idiot try to decapitate himself too?

Shame he didn't hit his own jugular.

 

[Flam3inKaiju]

How do you fail decapitation, their dead , ain't like they're fighting it, f'n loser

 

[Symmachus]

Straight out of a Rob Zombie film!

 

[Inferus]

Did this idiot try to decapitate himself too?

There can be only...none?