SPRINGFIELD, MASS.: A Massachusetts judge has denied a motion to dismiss the murder case against an Ohio man arrested in 2014 in connection with shooting death of his wife nearly 20 years prior.
Robert Honsch is charged with killing 53-year-old Marcia Honsch, whose body was found in 1995 in western Massachusetts. He also faces a murder charge in Connecticut in connection with his 17-year-old daughter’s death. The family lived in New York at the time.
The 72-year Honsch’s attorney argued that the Massachusetts charge should be dismissed because much of the evidence has been destroyed.
The Republican newspaper reports that a judge this week denied the motion because Honsch failed to prove the evidence was exculpatory.
Honsch was found living under an alias with his current wife and three children in Dalton, Ohio.