Boston’s doctor who strangled his wife and threw his body with a pond duration that a night of drinking in 2020 broke and cried when he was sentenced by disgusting his in -laws.
Ingolf Tuerk’s head knocked down while crying when he was convicted of involuntary homicide within the Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday, according to the NBC Boston video.
“It is guilty of voluntary homicide,” the Foreperson jury announced.
Tuerk, the former Urology Chief of the St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Brighton, had been tried for killing his wife Kathleen McLean inside his suburban house in Boston in May 2020.
The now 63 years admitted to having drunk with McLean, 45, when a fight broke out and supposedly broke a glass of wine on his head.
“I was afraid of hell,” Tuerk told the court on Tuesday. “I broke. I was a child or fainted.”
Mclean’s body was found in a pound in a wooded area near the couple’s house two days after she disappeared.
Tuerk confessed the murder after his trial, but said he was not intentional, adding that he put rocks inside McLean’s pants to ensure that his body sank at the bottom of the pond.
“I walked through the patio and tried to look for something that, you know, knock it down,” he said.
Tuerk lawyers framed their defense around the former surgeon who protects himself from his wife, claiming that McLean had tried to control her husband’s financial portfolio.
“This is money,” Kevin Reddington argued according to NBC Boston. “And she played it quite well.”
“I suggest you reacted. He was drunk … He defended himself. And the beauty of the law is that the government demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that did not act in self -defense.”
Prosecutors advocated a first -degree murder position, claiming that Tuerk took out his wife “as a piece of garbage.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, I suggest that it is not the heat of passion. It is not an own defense. It is a reason to kill,” said Norfolk district prosecutor Lisa Beatty, in her final statement.
A sentence hearing is scheduled for May 16, the fifth anniversary of when McLean’s body was found.
Tuerk faces up to 20 years in prison.
The couple had been together for two and a half years, the first meeting in an appointment application before escaping in Las Vegas in December 2019.
Friends of McLean said that his relationship began to have problems a month before his marriage when Tuerk reached an agreement with the Massachusetts Attorney’s Office that accused him of falsely billing the State Medicaid program.
Tuerk paid $ 150,000 to resolve accusations that he made his employer invoice Masshealth incorrectly.
“The slow deterioration of his career as a doctor and surgeon is when he began to be more violent,” said Larry Corcoran, a friend of McLean’s, to Boston Globe.
Tuerk had allegedly drowned and cut his wife with repeated scissors repeated attacks.
He faced charges of abuse and a restriction order of McLean.
The couple finally reconciled on May 2 after McLean wrote in an affidavit of the Court that felt safe with her husband.
The audience took a turn last year, it was revealed that the Massachusetts state soldier Michael Proctor was involved in the case.
Proctor, an agency researcher, was fired from his position after sending lascivious texts about Karen Read while he was the main detective in the high profile case.
Reddington presented several motions in the Court in August 2024, but if he needed to submit an affidavit to explain his need to read the police texts that door to investigation.
