Two days before Missouri man James Addie was due to become a bigamist, he became a murderer instead. The prison officer's double life was exposed after the body of fiancee.
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Watson was found shot to death April 27, 2018, in a remote area of western Monroe County.
Addie, 54, who was employed as a senior officer at the Moberly Correctional Facility, is being tried on charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action.
Though married to his wife of 22 years, Melanie Addie, Addie was engaged to marry Watson on April 29 in Columbia. Investigators said that his wife had no idea that he had been dating Watson for at least seven years. The couple met while employed at the prison.
In a short opening statement, Assistant Missouri Attorney General Katharine Dolin, who prosecuting the case against Addie with Monroe County Prosecuting Attorney Talley Smith, said the Watson was living a double life.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Herald-Whig) The ex-wife and daughter of the man charged in the death of his fiancée testified they didn t know about his seven-year relationship with the woman during his trial on Tuesday.
During the second day of the trial, two men jailed in the Monroe County Jail with James Addie also testified that he told them he faced a $500,000 cash-only bond because he put “someone face down in a ditch.”
Addie, 54, is accused in the April 27, 2018, shooting death of 35-year-old Molly Watson at a remote low-water creek crossing near the intersection of Missouri Route 151 and Highway M.