Texas Man Sentenced to 50 Years for Shooting Wife in Head, Wrapping Her Body in Tarp
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A Texas man was sentenced to 50 years in prison this week after a jury convicted him in the death of his wife last year.

Krystlynne Robertson was found dead at the home she shared with Christopher Robertson on April 19, 2024, when the husband’s brother came home after several days away and found Robertson “extremely intoxicated” in his room with his wife’s dead body wrapped in a tarp, KDFW reported.

Police said they tried to speak with Robertson at the scene but he was “too intoxicated to understand what I was saying or provide a meaningful response,” an arrest affidavit says.

But he was not taken into custody that day nor the next day when he called 911 and said he’d killed his wife.

“My father-in-law is going to kill me,” he told the dispatcher. “I actually killed his daughter.”

Police didn’t arrest him until the day after that, when they finally spoke with him and again he admitted that he’d shot Krystlynne to death and said that he wanted to go to jail.

He was given a $100,000 bond but remained behind bars until his trial.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office said Krystlynne Robertson died from a gunshot to the head and had been dead for a week when her brother-in-law found her.

Krystlynne Robertson was a mother of five.

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