Christina Michelle Carroll Denson, 38, died in November 2015 after her husband shot her. He pleaded guilty in Walker County Superior Court on Thursday.A LaFayette, Ga., man accused of killing his wife and trying to hide her death pleaded guilty Thursday.
Steven Marcus Denson, 43, agreed to a sentence of life with the possibility of parole on counts of felony murder and aggravated assault. The Walker County Sheriff’s Office arrested Denson in November 2015 on charges he shot his wife, Christina Michelle Carroll Denson, in the neck with a .22-caliber handgun.
According to an incident report, Steven Denson left his dead wife in the bedroom for 24-36 hours. The investigation began after he asked a friend to come look at stuff he was selling at his house on the 1900 block of Kemp Road, a rural area southeast of LaFayette.
Steven Denson talked to the friend for a couple of minutes.
“Denson became emotional,” a sheriff’s office investigator wrote in his report, “and told the witness that he had shot his wife.”