A man facing nearly 40 years behind bars for snapping his wife's neck after she said she wanted to leave him has killed himself in jail.
Vicious Joshua Fury admitted killing Maria Pew Fury by suffocating her with a plastic bag and then burying her at their home.
He had choked Maria until he heard her neck snap, a court in Minnesota heard. The 28-year-old killer, who admitted second degree murder, was found unresponsive in his cell on Saturday.
His death was ruled a suicide by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, KMSP reports. A criminal complaint claimed the couple had argued about Covid-19 in the build-up to Maria's death, but relatives say she intended to leave him and branded Fury controlling.
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