URBANDALE, Iowa (AP) - A man arrested over the weekend on suspicion of first-degree murder in a woman’s death was the victim’s husband, police in suburban Des Moines said.
In a Monday news release, Urbandale police identified the woman as Mary Sample, 29, of Urbandale. Investigators said she was found in an Urbandale home around 6:45 p.m. Saturday suffering from severe head trauma. She died at the scene.
Police arrested her husband, Dustin Sample, 35, of Urbandale, on Sunday morning and charged with first-degree murder, officials said.
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