Myra Morton
Myra Morton became furious when her bigamist husband had taken a Moroccan woman as a second wife. Or when he started sending his second wife $3,000 a month, using medical money from a medical settlement after his daughter died. Or when her husband announced he had plans to fly to Morocco to bed his second wife, who had told him she was ovulating. Or when Mr. Morton purchased sexy undergarments as a gift for his second and younger wife.
All of the above drove her to fatally shooting her husband of 25 years, Jereleigh Morton, a northern philadelphian who had became a millionaire. Ms. Morton’s attorney Brian McMonagle doesn’t know why she killed her husband. He stated that she just “snapped.”
Ms. Morton plead guilty yesterday to third-degree murder. She admitted that she shot her husband twice in the head as he was sleeping in their mansion in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, just hours before he was to fly to Morocco.
“She had recently lost a child and as a result of her child’s death, they were awarded a lot of money and she was now confronted with a scenario where her husband wanted to add another wife and use the money that had come from the loss of a child to fund this other wife and a new child,” McMonagle said after the court hearing in Norristown. “With all those factors colliding, she simply snapped.”
Ms. Morton, 48 years old, faces five to ten years in prison - a sentence normally meted out for manslaughter, not murder. The prosecutors agreed not to seek more than a ten year prison term, though the judge can go higher.
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