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dismembering-wife-who-was-the-daughter-of-famed-serial-killer/

A Georgia man leaned back in his wheelchair and breathed a sigh of relief 
after a jury acquitted Friday for the 1998 murder of his wife.

Christopher Wolfenbarger was found not guilty in the death of of Melissa 
Wolfenbarger after jurors in Fulton County deliberated for just two hours. 
He was charged with his wife's murder last year thanks to a task force 
that believed it had enough evidence to convict him of the crime.

The victim's family last heard from her on Thanksgiving 1998. But the 
family's alarm bells went off when she missed her mom's birthday a few 
months later. Investigators found a severed head in a black trash bag in 
April 1999 in the back of Christopher Wolfenbarger's workplace, and more 
body parts were located nearby about a month later.

But the remains were misidentified as a missing man. They weren't 
identified as hers until 2003 when investigators identified them as thanks 
to her father Carl Patton's arrest in a series of killings known as the 
Flint River Murders that occurred in the 1970s. He's now serving a life 
sentence.

Atlanta police investigators believe the homicide occurred sometime 
between Dec. 10, 1998, and April 29, 1999. When questioned, Christopher 
Wolfenbarger said he believed his wife had moved to California for a new 
life. He has always maintained his innocence.

"Yeah, I have a criminal history. But I'm not a murderer," he told 
Dateline in 2021.

But prosecutors believed he killed her because of their rocky 
relationship. Her sister said the summer before her disappearance, 
Christopher Wolfenbarger had allegedly assaulted his wife and dragged her 
by the hair down a sidewalk.

By being acquitted, the defendant avoided a life sentence.


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