Melanie Lyn McGuire (née Slate; born October 8, 1972)[3] is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband on April 28, 2004, in what media dubbed the “suitcase murder”.[4] She was sentenced to life in prison on July 19, 2007, and is serving her sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey. She will not be eligible for parole until she is 100 years old.Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story 2022 Full Movie Download
[5]Melanie Lyn Slate grew up in Ridgewood and Middletown Township, New Jersey, attending Middletown High School South.[6][7] She enrolled at Rutgers University with a double major in math and psychology and graduated in 1994.[1] She graduated, second in her class, from the Charles E. Gregory School of Nursing (now Raritan Bay Medical Center) in 1997 with a nursing diploma.[8] She married United States Navy veteran William T. “Bill” McGuire (born September 21, 1964) in 1999.[1]By April 2004, the McGuires had been married for five years. Melanie was a nurse at a fertility clinic and Bill was a computer programmer.[9] The couple had two sons and lived in a Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, apartment, but planned to move that month to a larger home in Warren County. They closed the documents on their new house on April 28, but never moved in. That night, according to the prosecution, McGuire drugged her husband, shot him dead, and subsequently dismembered his body. She put his remains into a 3-piece suitcase set, and those three pieces were later found in Chesapeake Bay.[9]On May 5 2004, the first suitcase, containing human legs, was found by two fishermen and two children floating near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnels fourth artificial island, and a murder investigation was launched.[9] On May 11, a second larger suitcase was found on the beach of Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge, by a graduate student cleaning up litter on the beach. This suitcase was found to contain the head and torso with three bullet wounds. Two in the chest and one in the head.[9] The third and smallest suitcase, containing arms, was recovered floating in the water near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnels second artificial island on May 16.[9]