Soldier deployed to Iraq 3 times kills wife, hides body

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Source: The Olympian

A 28-year-old Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier who returned from an overseas deployment last year has confessed to killing his 27-year-old wife during an argument on Feb. 18, then hiding her body in his garage, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.

On Friday morning, deputies found her body stuffed into a plastic storage container in the man’s garage in the 9200 block of Skokomish Way.

... Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokesman Joe Piek confirmed that the man placed under arrest Friday is Sgt. Sheldon T. Plummer of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 51st Signal Battalion.

... Piek’s statement continues, “While assigned at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Plummer deployed to Iraq with his unit from Nov. 21, 2005 to Nov. 20, 2006 and again from Aug. 28, 2008 to Aug. 23, 2009. He had also previously deployed to Iraq while assigned in Germany, for a total of three deployments.”

Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2010/04/23/1216564/police-investigate-reported-homicide.html

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1. Bless them both... n/t