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Teacher's Grisly Murder Case Ends with Husband's Guilty Plea

By David Lohr

William Walsh, 31, pleaded guilty in a New York courtroom on Thursday to second-degree murder in the 2008 strangling of his wife, Leah Walsh. The case came to light on October 27, 2008, when Walsh contacted police and reported Leah, a 29-year-old Bethpage schoolteacher, missing. Walsh told police his wife had contacted him that morning and said that her car had broken down on the Oyster Bay Expressway near Bethpage. Walsh said he went to help his wife; however, when he arrived, her black Ford Focus was parked on the northbound shoulder of the road with a flat tire and she was nowhere to be found. While searching the area, investigators found Leah's purse discarded on the side of the road. Despite the find, investigators told reporters they were treating the incident as a missing person case, not as an abduction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on May 23, 2010 (boomark / email).