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Woman will not aorvotime In connection with husband's deathLILLINGTON - A woman charged with murdering her husband and driving around Fayetteville with the body inside the couple’s recreational vehicle has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, but will not serve prison time.Judge Wiley Bowen ordered Theresa Barutcievich, 58, who has spent time at the state’s mental hospital since the death last summer, to live with her brother and continue treatment during a two-year probation, according to the judgment filed Thursday in Harnett County Superior Court.She was given a suspended sentence of a minimum of five years and four months in prison, with credit for 110 days spent in jail.On July 15,2000, Barutcievich and her husband — 60-year-old Christopher Barutcievich — got into a fight while their RV was parked in a Dunn shopping center, police said. She was upset over suspicions that he was having an affair, police said.During the argument, her husband reached for her and she feared he would try to choke her, police said.He died sometime that day from suffocation, apparently by a small pillow found by his body, according to an autopsy.She then drove the RV to a city police substation in Fayetteville and told a clerk someone needed to check on her husband, police said. The body was covered in towels on the RV’s floor.
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The Gaston Gazette
Gastonia, North Carolina, US
Sun, Sep 02, 2001
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