Former Farmington Hills teacher Nancy Seaman has hit the end of the State Appeals Court line, according to Mike Martindale’s story in today’s Detroit News.
Seaman, you may recall, was convicted of killing her husband, Robert, on or around Mother’s Day in 2004. Acting on a phone call from relatives, police discovered the 57-year-old businessman’s body wrapped in a tarp and duct tape, in the back of an SUV parked in the garage at the couple’s Farmington Hills home. Oddly enough, Nancy Seaman arrived at school on the morning after the murder and taught a full day. During the trial, evidence showed she had purchased the murder weapon in advance, then shoplifted an identical item, which she later returned with the original receipt.
An Oakland County jury didn’t buy Seaman’s claim that she was a victim of domestic abuse. She was convicted of first-degree murder and is serving a mandatory life sentence. Trial judge John MacDonald initially reduced her conviction to 2nd degree, a decision overturned by the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Noted author Joyce Maynard chronicled the case. Learn more about her book Internal Combustion HERE.
