
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 3, 1992                   TAG: 9203030295
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
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JUDGE LETS TRUESDALE REMAIN FREE ON BOND

A Roanoke judge on Monday allowed a woman convicted of killing her husband to remain free on bond until she is sentenced in May.

Frances Ann Truesdale, 50, was convicted last week of killing her husband, Jerry Daniel Truesdale, along Interstate 581 four years ago as they drove from Pennsylvania to their home in Winston-Salem, N.C.

A jury that heard four days of testimony rejected Truesdale's story that her husband was killed by two robbers in a roadside encounter.

Truesdale - who stood to gain $285,000 in life insurance from her husband's death - was convicted of second-degree murder. The jury recommended that she serve 20 years in prison.

Commonwealth's Attorney Donald Caldwell said he had no objection to Roanoke Circuit Court Judge Clifford Weckstein'd allowing Truesdale to remain free on bond until sentencing.

by CNB