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Article: Brother pleads guilty in killing: A prosecutor details how a Collinsville woman was strangled and her body was dismembered.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Byline: Mike Allen
May 1--COLLINSVILLE -- Nancy Wingfield's daughters wept as a prosecutor described how their mother died.
As she lay in her bed the afternoon of Jan. 2, 2006, James Motes, her brother, walked into the room holding a white cord. She asked, "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to kill you," her brother said.
"Oh, God, what have I done?" she asked, before he strangled her with the cord.
Over the next week, Motes dismembered his 55-year-old sister and hid the pieces of her body so effectively that even police cadaver dogs couldn't find them.
But under pressure from Wingfield's oldest daughter and from ...