When a woman in Virginia began packing items in preparation to leave her husband, he strangled her to death and staged the scene to look like a suicide, authorities say.
Ross Butler, 56, was indicted by a grand jury in Chesterfield, Virginia, on May 18 on charges of murder and strangulation in the death of his wife, 36-year-old Ashlee Butler, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in Florida announced. He was arrested this week in the Sunshine State after law enforcement learned that’s where he had been living.
The case stretches back more than four years. On Dec. 20, 2021, Ashlee Butler’s body was found at the couple’s home on the 5500 block of Alberta Road in Chesterfield, Virginia, an unincorporated community about 15 miles southwest of Richmond…