Man convicted in wife's fatal frying pan beating

Source: Associated Press

Man convicted in wife's fatal frying pan beating
| December 4, 2014 | Updated: December 4, 2014 2:55pm

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man was convicted of murder Thursday for bludgeoning his wife with a frying pan then strangling her, apparently after they argued over the dire state of their finances.

Former securities salesman Patrick Allen had been trying to hide the family's financial difficulties from his wife, Kimberly, before the argument that led to her death in 2011, prosecutors said.

Allen, 47, of Middletown, had been concealing the fact that they were about to lose their home to foreclosure, prosecutors said. He also had more than $600,000 in debt, between two mortgages on the family's house and $25,000 in credit card debt, they said.

Prosecutors claimed an argument ensued when his wife learned of the situation and Allen killed her while the couple's two children were at school.


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