MONTROSE, Pa. (AP) — A part-time police officer in northeastern Pennsylvania is in jail, charged with shooting his wife to death in 1983.
The state attorney general's office on Wednesday filed homicide charges against 52-year-old John David Walker of Montrose for allegedly killing his estranged wife Lynda Walker.
John Walker is a part-time police officer in Montrose Borough and Silver Lake Township in Susquehanna County, north of Scranton. In 1983, he was a police officer in Great Bend, also in Susquehanna County.
Authorities say Lynda Walker's death had been ruled a suicide, but they now believe John Walker shot her with his .45-caliber handgun inside his mobile home in New Milford.
John Walker is in jail and court officials say he doesn't have a lawyer on record. He's been suspended by Montrose Police.
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