‘Currently Not an Option’: Cheating Missouri Wife Allegedly Killed Her Sleeping Husband Because She Couldn’t Pay for a Divorce Gets 10 Years In Plea Deal

A Missouri woman admitted to shooting her husband in the back of his head while he slept because she couldn’t afford a divorce. She then tried to pin it on an alleged intruder. Melanie Biggins was initially charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action, which could have put her behind bars for life. But the mom of two struck a plea deal, and on Jan. 27, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter. When first responders arrived at the couple’s Kansas City home around 1 a.m. on Aug. 31, 2022, they found Biggins performing CPR on her husband, Etienne McEwan, who was lying in a pool of his own blood in the couple’s bed in their upstairs bedroom. Turns out, it was part of an elaborate lie to blame the killing on a mysterious intruder. Melanie Biggins (Photo: Jackson County Detention Center) Biggins told 911 dispatchers that she woke to the sound of gunfire and noticed McEwan had been injured, but she didn’t see the culprit, according to court documents. She said she ran downstairs and found the front door open, but there wasn’t a person in sight, KCTV stated. At first,...