Woman Allegedly Stabs and Kills Fiance On Her Wedding Day

A woman in eastern Pennsylvania has been found guilty of harming her husband-to-be in a horrible way, right after expressing her love for him.  The woman was tried and convicted of first degree murder for stabbing her fiance just hours before the two were planning to wed.

Na Cola Franklin stabbed her fiance, Billy Brewster, several times in the middle of the night.

According to NBC Philadelphia, Franklin was upset when Billy came home drunk from a bachelor party.   She stabbed him, but didn’t realize he was dead until the next day.   She was arraigned that night.

Franklin was apparently stunned to find out that her man was deceased after the incident.  When the judge told her that he was dead, she told him “you better check again.”

Franklin’s defense attorney, John Waldron, says that Brewster attacked her and threatened to take away their 9-month old baby.   The death scene was unearthed by the pastor who was set to marry the couple that morning.   Wedding guests arrived to the home, prepared for the ceremony, only to find that the area had become the subject of a police investigation.

Prosecutors successfully proved that the child was not in danger, leading to the first-degree murder conviction.  Franklin’s lawyer had been seeking a verdict of manslaughter, which would have led to a lighter sentence.

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TOBIT 3: 7 It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father's maids;

8 Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them.

9 Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter.

10 Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.

11 Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.

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