Husband Unable to Pay Medical Bills Kills Wife in Her Hospital Bed: Police

A Missouri man is charged with murder after he admitted to strangling his wife to death while she was lying in lay in a hospital bed because he couldn’t take care of her and was unable to afford her medical bills, according to local police.An off-duty officer with the Independence Police Department (IPD) responded on May 3 to the intensive care unit at a hospital in Jackson County, Missouri, where a witness reported “suspicious injuries” on a woman, according to the probable cause statement. The victim was pronounced deceased the following morning.The victim’s husband, Ronnie Wiggs, was…