A Missouri woman will serve ten years in jail after shooting her sleeping husband in the head and being convicted of murder.
According to The Daily Mirror, Melanie Biggins, 42, was sentenced for fatally shooting her husband, Etienne L. McEwan, in 2022.
According to court documents, Biggins told investigators that she had been in an intimate connection with another man for approximately 18 months at the time of the shooting. “BIGGINS has also wanted to get a divorce from the victim but due to their financial struggles, that is currently not an option,” according to records.
Biggins implied to officers that the shooting was a suicide, telling them that she “woke up to the sound of a gunshot and noticed her husband was shot but did not see who did it,” according to court filings.
However, based on physical evidence, crime scene personnel assessed that the gunshot was not a suicide, including the discovery of a pillow on the floor at the foot of the bed with visible blood and a hole in it. Police discovered a projectile in the pillow’s stuffing, as well as a blanket on the floor with a hole in it and visible gunpowder burns around it.
Police responded to a call at the residence at approximately 1 a.m. Upon their arrival, the couple’s two children, aged 10 and 11, were seen anxiously gesturing for the officers to approach them, as stated in the police reports.
Police entered the couple’s bedroom and discovered McEwan lying on the bed in a pool of blood, with Biggins giving CPR.