Beverly McCallum; Dineane Ducharme.Photo:Eaton County Sheriff’s Office
Eaton County Sheriff’s Office
A 63-year-old woman was found guilty earlier this week of the cold case murder of her husband.
A Michigan jury found Beverly McCallum guilty of second-degree murder and disinterment and mutilation of a body in connection with the 2002 killing of 37-year-old Robert Caraballo.
Caraballo’s charred remains were found in a blueberry field in Ottawa County on May 8, 2002.
He was partially stuffed inside a metal foot looker, according to theLansing State Journal.
McCallum was one of three people charged in the death of Caraballo. McCallum’s daughter, Dineane Ducharme, was sentenced to life in prison in 2022 for her role in the slaying, according to theAssociated Press.
Ducharme’s friend, Christopher McMillan, pleaded guilty in October 2019 to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, per the AP.
Christopher McMillan.Eaton County Sheriff’s Department via AP
Eaton County Sheriff’s Department via AP
McMillan was the star witness against the two women at their trials.
McCallum wanted Caraballo, who was newly released from federal prison, dead because he “was cramping her lifestyle," Lloyd argued during trial, perCBS News.
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McCallum was in Rome, Italy, on Feb. 13, 2020 and extradited back to the U.S. in 2022.
“I feel that finally, after all these years, Robert can finally lay in peace in a sense that all three individuals who had been charged with this crime had been convicted. And his daughter … now knows that justice has been done for her dad,” Lloyd tells PEOPLE.
McCallum’s sentencing is scheduled for May 23. She faces a sentence of life in prison, per theState Journal.
source: people.com
