{"id":34502,"date":"2024-08-07T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/charles-lee-spain-jr-sentenced-to-25-years-for-2023-murder-of-wife-in-wytheville\/07\/08\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T19:35:11","slug":"charles-lee-spain-jr-sentenced-to-25-years-for-2023-murder-of-wife-in-wytheville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/charles-lee-spain-jr-sentenced-to-25-years-for-2023-murder-of-wife-in-wytheville\/07\/08\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Lee Spain Jr. sentenced to 25 years for 2023 murder of wife in Wytheville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WYTHE COUNTY, Va. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfxrtv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WFXR;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WFXR<\/a>) \u2013 Over a year after his arrest, a Wytheville man has been sentenced to second-degree murder for the death of his wife, Angela Dawn Spain, that occurred on May 4, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfxrtv.com\/news\/local-news\/new-river-valley-local-news\/wythe-county-sheriff-conduct-death-investigation-in-lots-gap-road-area\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ORIGINAL REPORTING: Husband charged with First Degree Murder after wife found dead in Wythe County;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> ORIGINAL REPORTING: Husband charged with First Degree Murder after wife found dead in Wythe County <\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, August 7, 53-year-old Charles Lee Spain Jr. was sentenced to 25 years for second-degree murder, willfully defiling a dead body and strangulation.<\/p>\n<p>Spain Jr. was arrested on May 4, 2023, after his wife was found unresponsive in their home on Lots Gap Road. The Roanoke Medical Examiner determined her cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head and strangulation.<\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfxrtv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFXRtv.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFXRtv. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/charles-lee-spain-jr-sentenced-172601313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WYTHE COUNTY, Va. (WFXR) &ndash; Over a year after his arrest, a Wytheville man has been sentenced to second-degree murder for the<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/charles-lee-spain-jr-sentenced-to-25-years-for-2023-murder-of-wife-in-wytheville\/07\/08\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}