Margaret Litchfield and Red Litchfield

As seen on Season 23 of Oxygen's Snapped, Margaret Litchfield was convicted of killing her husband, Red Litchfield. It took many years for her to be arrested and go to trial. She was convicted and sentenced to sixty years in prison. She did appeal, but the conviction stood as is. The alleged motive is that she did not want to explain an 8k credit card bill so she killed him.

Her appeal (see link) includes:

Margaret and Raymond dated ten years before they were married. According to friends and family, they were the best of friends who loved each other. Four years into their marriage, on January 29, 1999, Margaret reportedly came home on a rainy, Friday afternoon after running errands to find her husband murdered in the home they had recently built together. Margaret dropped the groceries she was carrying and made a frantic call to 9-1-1 at 1:52 p.m. In a hysterical tone, she told the dispatcher that Raymond was lying naked on the kitchen floor covered in blood. She added that Raymond had "gone cold" and asked rhetorically, "Why would somebody do this?" The dispatcher reassured Margaret that help was on the way and instructed her to wait outside.

Paramedics, including Carla Armstrong Polidoro, were the first to arrive at the Litchfield home and moved Raymond's body in an attempt to treat him before the police arrived. In doing so, Polidoro saw that Raymond was shot and testified that he had been deceased for "quite some time" because he "was stiff as a rock." Based on her experience, she estimated that the shooting and the time of his death occurred around 8:00 or 9:00 a.m. Because no medical intervention could assist Raymond, paramedics placed a bandage on a wound on his right rib cage to prevent him from "leak[ing] any more blood on the tile floor." By this time, Ricky Helms, an investigator with the Coryell County Sheriff's Office at the time, arrived at the Litchfield home and concurred that "there was some stiffness" in the body and that nothing could be done to save him. He turned his attention to investigating the bloody murder scene.

Links

Remembering Red Litchfield

Central Texas woman sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing her husband

You can write to her at:

Margaret Litchfield #02101926
Mountain View
2305 Ransom Rd,
Gatesville, TX 76528

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