Hamilton, Ohio: Former Butler County Jail Deputy Wilford Jenkins III Gets 20 Years for Killing and Trying to Decapitate His Wife

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‘Senseless and Selfish’: Former Jail Deputy Gets 20 Years for Killing and Trying to Decapitate His Wife

7 July 2022

A former member of law enforcement in Ohio has been sentenced to decades in prison for the gruesome death and attempted decapitation of his wife. Wilford Jenkins III, 49, previously worked as a guard at the Lebanon Correctional Facility under the auspices of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, and as deputy at the Butler County Jail. For reasons still unknown, he stabbed 47-year-old Huletta Jenkins to death at the couple’s home in October 2021. Initially charged with murder in Hamilton County, the defendant recently pleaded guilty to one count each of involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, and tampering with ...

'Senseless and Selfish': Former Jail Deputy Gets 20 Years for Killing and Trying to Decapitate His Wife

"The only thing I heard him say was, ‘There’s a lot of blood in there,’” a contractor who was working near the house on the day of the killing said.

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