Beau Rothwell of Creve Coeur will be sentenced on July 8, 2022, for the killing of his pregnant wife Jennifer Rothwell in 2019. According to the Daily Mail, the jury convicted Beau Rothwell of murder in the death of his pregnant wife Jennifer whose battered body was found about a week after she was reported missing in 2019.
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In addition to the murder count, Beau Rothwell, 31, of Creve Coeur, was found guilty on Thursday of tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Rothwell admitted to killing his 28-year-old wife, Jennifer Rothwell, during his trial, but denied the killing was premeditated and sought conviction on a lesser manslaughter count.
He testified during the trial that he bludgeoned Jennifer to death with a mallet at their home on November 11, 2019, during a heated argument over his affair with another woman.
Rothwell reported Jennifer missing on November 12. Police then found her car abandoned on the side of a busy intersection. Her body was found about 45 miles northwest of her home and authorities said she was about six weeks pregnant when she died.
In the days prior to her tragic death, Jennifer, who was a chemical engineer, had looked up ‘what to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant’ on her cellphone, police said.
Prosecutors during Beau Rothwell’s trial made some shocking revelations about his marriage to Jennifer Rothwell.
Rothwell had made a pros and cons list about his affair before killing Jennifer, the St. Louis Dispatch reported. He reportedly wrote ‘better sex life,’ ‘more respect,’ and ‘fresh start’ as pros, and listed ‘half my assets/money,’ ‘trust is shaken/tainted,’ ‘my family disappointment,’ and ‘take on her kid with his probs,’ as cons.
Rothwell’s attorney argued that the pregnancy had not been a surprise to him and he was happy about it but it was an argument about his extra-marital affair what ignited the violence that led to Jennifer’s murder.
According to Facebook messages shared by prosecutors, Rothwell told his mistress that ‘part of him wanted Jennifer’s pregnancy not to work out.
‘If there is a miscarriage or something I’ll leave her after that and be with you,’ another message reads, according to FOX News. Law enforcement also said in court that he referred to Jennifer’s body as ‘it,’ when telling police where it was located.
She was found naked and in fetal position, with her head covered in a plastic bag on November 18.
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