Aug 9 - Ohio ex-officer gets 16 years in wife's slaying

The[..]ociated Press

MENTOR, Ohio —

A former police officer from northeast Ohio has been sentenced to serve at least 16 years in prison in the slaying of his wife — whose body was found wrapped in plastic inside a sleeping bag at their home last fall.

Gary Stroud, a 58-year-old former Lake County sheriff's deputy and Mentor police officer, had pleaded guilty to last month to charges that beat his 53-year-old wife, Diane, in the head with a hammer. Then he wrapped her body and left it in the garage of their home.

At the sentencing Wednesday, Stroud said he loved his wife and was recovering from a head injury due to a stroke when he k!lled her. He also apologized to his children and the police agencies.

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They should have gave him life. RIP to the victim.

police always get reduced sentences...should've gave him life for a life.

16 years for k!lling someone [pic]

If it ain't white, it ain't right! Sorry to bring up race

if he just got caught k!lling his wife i wonder what other heinous[..] !! this prick did while he was "serving" as a cop. word. he should've gotten life. never heard of no one getting under like 30 for a body. i know cats that got 16 for selling drugs. the price of life is cheaper for white ppl. if he was black, wouldn't been a word not a number. and for those saying race doesn't have anything to do with anything, y'all some ignorant ppl, white or black. just cuz there's a half black dude as president don't mean !!. when i see a nicca from the hood, talking slang in the white house then i'll believe that this system isn't rigged. black holocaust has lost more black ppl throughout history than any other race, hands down.....even more than the jew holocaust. look it up. he'll die in there. good for him.

so it was all about race? had nothing to do with the fact he was a sheriff for over a decade and he prob new the judge, DA, etc. nope it was all cause he's white. !!ing bx

I was thinking before I opened this thread, " They probably were fighting, and wifey fell and hit her head on something, and died."


This dude got a hammer and beat her to a bloody pulp and wrapped her in plastic.

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That's life if I ever seen it. [pic]