PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Maine’s supreme court has rejected the appeal of a man who’s serving 55 years in prison for killing his wife and burying her body with a wedding band, flowers - and a bottle of Gucci cologne called “Guilty.”
Luc Tieman, of Fairfield, contended the evidence was insufficient to convict and that a judge erred in admitting Facebook Messenger records into evidence.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday found that there was “ample evidence” of guilt and that the judge didn’t abuse his discretion by admitting the messages.
Tieman originally told investigators 34-year-old Valerie Tieman disappeared at a Walmart, but he later changed his story to say he buried her behind his parents’ home after she overdosed. An autopsy showed she had ingested painkillers but died from two gunshots.
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