A Georgia man leaned back in his wheelchair and breathed a sigh of relief after a jury acquitted Friday for the 1998 murder of his wife.
Christopher Wolfenbarger was found not guilty in the death of of Melissa Wolfenbarger after jurors in Fulton County deliberated for just two hours. He was charged with his wife’s murder last year thanks to a task force that believed it had enough evidence to convict him of the crime.
The victim’s family last heard from her on Thanksgiving 1998. But the family’s alarm bells went off when she missed her mom’s birthday a few months later. Investigators found a severed head in a black trash bag in April 1999 in the back of Christopher Wolfenbarger’s workplace, and more body parts were located nearby about a month later…