A Utah man admitted that he tried to kill his terminally ill wife in hospice care in front of her family to “ease her suffering” during his battle with cancer.
DeWayne McCulla, 46, pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter on Thursday after he accepted a deal from prosecutors for choking his wife, Arenda McCulla, 47, according to court documents .
Arenda McCulla had been diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma breast cancer in 2020.
In October 2021, the cancer had spread to Arenda’s neck, brain, lungs, and liver, and she was considered terminal, according to a GoFundMe page set up by her son, Anthony Ryder.
Despite undergoing multiple rounds of radiation in a last-ditch effort to battle the fatal sickness, she was placed in hospice care at her home in La Verkin, a small town in southwest Utah.
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