A millionaire hospital executive stabbed to death his wife then set fire to their New Jersey home in a murder-suicide, officials have ruled – despite the couple’s children insisting they were both murdered.
John Sheridan, 72, the CEO of Cooper Health System, and his 69-year-old wife, Joyce Sheridan, were found dead, with seven stab wounds between them, in their blazing Skillman house last September.
Mrs Sheridan, a retired high school teacher, died from a stab wound to her chest, while her husband, an ally of state governor Chris Christie, passed away from ‘sharp force injuries’ and smoke inhalation.
On Friday, prosecutors ruled Mr Sheridan had attacked his wife with a knife in the seconds leading up to their deaths, which occurred just a day after the couple had decorated their home for Halloween.
Mrs Sheridan suffered eight wounds to her head, a stab injury to her chest that ‘perforated her aorta’, wounds to her hands that were ‘characterized as defensive in nature’ and bruising, officials said.
She was ruled to have died before the fire started on September 28. After killing his wife of 47 years with a ‘carving-type knife’, Mr Sheridan then doused the room with gasoline and set it alight, it is said.
Source:Daily mail
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