Mary Winkler, convicted of killing her husband, picked up her three daughters today from their grandparents and took them to her home in McMinnville, Tenn.
Mary Winkler, after shooting her husband in the back while he slept, has had supervised visits since September 2007. Now has custody of the children.
Dan and Diane Winkler of Huntingdon, the girls’ paternal grandparents, took custody of the three girls following Mary Winkler’s arrest in the death of their son, Matthew Winkler in March 2006.
Mary Winkler was convicted of voluntary manslaughter last April in the shotgun slaying of her husband, a Church of Christ minister, at their home in Selmer. At the time, their daughters were 8, 6 and 1 year old.
Winkler was charged with first-degree murder but convinced a jury that she had suffered years of physical and emotional abuse from her husband. She was sentenced to three years in prison and is free on probation.
She actually served 12 days in jail for murdering him as well a lengthy stay in a mental institution of two months.
Rachael Putnam, a custody attorney, said the former minister’s wife picked the girls up Friday from the slain man’s parents, Dan and Diane Winkler.
“She is absolutely overjoyed,” Putnam said. The lawyer said the children will live with Winkler at her home near McMinnville, about 60 miles southeast of Nashville.
As if there was ever any doubt to how literally screwed up our current court system is here in America.
Whats a mans life worth. A father, Son, husband, and pastor of a small church in middle Tennessee.
Matthew Winkler’s life was worth 2 months and 12 days to the United States of America’s Court System.
Thank You Judicial Courts from all us fathers here for showing us how worthless men, fathers and your sons really are.
written by Ken Maddox exclusively for OneAngryMan.com
