An Elizabethtown man will spend the rest of his life in prison for brutally beating his wife to death in front of their children, the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office announced on Friday, Oct. 24.
Christopher Alexander Mello, 43, pleaded guilty to First-Degree Murder in the death of his wife, 39-year-old Alexandria Reynolds, at their home in the 300 block of West High Street on Sept. 30, 2021, authorities said.
Police were called after Mello’s father reported his son had been “acting crazy” and saying something about his wife being dead. Officers arrived to find Mello with a teenage boy carrying an infant, believed to be his children, according to investigators…