Man Allegedly Throws Wife From Balcony

[Kor37 9]

Man Allegedly Throws Wife From Balcony

AP

Posted: 2007-08-17 06:25:00

Filed Under: Crime News

 

 

AP

Police say Stanley Reimer kissed his seriously ill wife goodbye and threw her four stories to her death.

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Aug. 16) - A man threw his seriously ill wife four stories to her death because he could no longer afford to pay for her medical care, prosecutors said in charging him with second-degree murder.

 

According to court documents filed Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, Stanley Reimer walked his wife to the balcony of their apartment and kissed her before throwing her over.

 

The body of Criste Reimer, 47, was found Tuesday night outside the apartment building, near the upscale Country Club Plaza shopping district.

 

Stanley Reimer, 51, was charged Wednesday. He remained jailed on $250,000 bond and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

 

In the probable cause statement filed with the charges, police said Reimer was desperate because he could not pay the bills for his wife's treatment for neurological problems and uterine cancer.

 

Investigators said that Reimer was in the apartment when they arrived. He told them, "She didn't jump," but did not elaborate, they said.

 

Criste Reimer's caregiver told police she could barely walk and would not have been able to climb over the railing of the balcony, according to the probable cause statement.

 

Reimer's alleged motive emerged after several more hours of questioning, police said.

 

According to Jackson County Probate Court records, Criste Reimer had been in ill health for several years. Her weight had fallen to 75 pounds and she was partly blind.

 

According to the court records, she had no health insurance to pay for medical bills that ranged from $700 to $800 per week.

 

The Probate Court documents were filed in April, when Stanley Reimer petitioned to be allowed to sell personal property his wife owned in Wheeler County, Texas, for $20,000.

 

The documents listed her assets at approximately $6,700, with monthly income of $725 from oil royalties and Supplemental Security Income.

 

It was not immediately known if Stanley Reimer had an attorney.

 

 

 

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[Odie 0]

What a shame that we live in the wealthiest country on this planet and there are too many that do not have heath insurance!

[Gummy 0]

This is just horrible.

[Theunicornhunter 2]

The man murdered his wife - that's what is horrible.

[TJ Phaserman 2]

thats just senseless. even if she left a suicide note.

[A l t e r E g o 9]

We don't know what they may have said to each other prior; she may have begged him.

 

All marriages shouldn't be judged by the sorry state of most of them, beautiful marriages do exist.

[Odie 0]

I ever wonder if most people watch their love ones die and knowing that they can't afford to keep them alive. Oh, well, he could have declare bankruptcy. It does look like they worth was too much to qualify for medicaid. I wonder if there was Universe Heath Insurance would she still be alive.

 

Alterego, did make an excellent point. She could have begged him to do it.

[Kor37 9]

It doesn't specify in the article if the wife wanted the husband to kill her or not. I suspect she didn't. If I wanted to kill myself, I could think of a lot of less painful ways than being thrown off a tall building.

[Theunicornhunter 2]

It doesn't specify in the article if the wife wanted the husband to kill her or not. I suspect she didn't. If I wanted to kill myself, I could think of a lot of less painful ways than being thrown off a tall building.

 

If women want to commit suicide they overwhelming choose drug overdoses - men generally choose the more violent means. I seriously doubt she wanted to be thrown off of a balcony.

[Lady Britannia 0]

Double tragedy.

 

The act itself and the circumstances (if true) that led to it.