The doctor went into prison because he had strangled wife to death

A prominent doctor in Massachusetts received his fate on Friday after a jury had sentenced him in the strangulation death of his wife.

The 63 -year -old Dr. Ingolf “Harry” Tuerk was convicted of a stream of detention with a loan for the time that served in her home in her home in Dever. In April, a jury was guilty for the lower number of voluntary homicide instead of a first degree murder.

McLeans sister called her alive.

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“She always had a smile, she was calm. She had more patience than anyone else I know,” Beth Melansen told the court.

The victim's 21 -year -old daughter was at home at the time of the incident.

“Five years ago I woke up in the middle of the night, looked down the stairs and saw Harry Tuerk,” she said. “I knew immediately that something bad had happened. We made eye contact and since then I have been full of new fear that I didn't know about it was quite possible.”

The public prosecutor argued that the murder was deliberately because the doctor had the feeling that his wife would take his house and money in a divorce.

Tuerk stood for his own defense during his process.

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“I didn't want to cause another person's death,” he said. “I spent my whole life saving life. So I was pretty shocked myself.”

In the conviction, a tear -rich tuerck apologized for his actions.

As Law & Crime previously reported, Tuerk claimed that he and the victim began to argue while drinking. McLean met Tuerk with an object; Tuerk strangled her until she passed out, realized that she had died and brought her body to a pond. There he weighed the body with rocks.

Death followed a number of domestic violence against the accused. Police reports describe allegations in which Tuerk repeatedly beat McLean and threatened. For example, in an incident in January 2020, he allegedly threw her to the ground on the ground that her shoes were cut off. In December 2019 he supposedly hit his head into a headboard and strangled her as she covered the nose and mouth.