get started today. windows 10. a more human way to do. prosecutors believe shirley garvin had planned to leave her husband and that her husband, mike, knew it. shirley probably found out
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when 55-year-old shirley garvin went missing from her hotel in key west, florida, police wanted to know more about her activities. so they asked mike to retrace their steps and tell them everything they did together since their arrival. mike said they checked into their hotel and that he left to get them both dinner. ordered our evening meal. i think it was a ranch chicken sandwich or something like that with french fries, came back to the room, finished our meal, went to bed. did you order two meals or just one? two. but the bartender said he only ordered one chicken sandwich, and the restaurant receipt confirmed it. well, that receipt started making me believe that mrs. garvin never made it to key west. a check of mike s credit card activity revealed he stopped at a convenience store in miami on the way down to key west. but the store s security camera showed mike was there alone.
sincerely that he was running around. and he also was extremely heavily in debt. and this was his way to take care of everything. since most of the couple s assets were in shirley garvin s name, mike undoubtedly felt threatened. mike went from being a user and a taker to a murderer. on the night of january 25th, 2003, prosecutors believe mike garvin waited for shirley to come home from her shopping trip and killed her with a .22 caliber pistol. he wrapped her in garbage bags and sealed them with duct tape. forensic analysis confirmed the tape was from the garvins home.
murder, mike garvin decided he had no choice but to plead guilty. it made me sick to know that he finally personally had admitted it. it made me absolutely sick, but it confirmed every thought that i had. garvin was sentenced to life in prison without parole. but there s still a mystery, and the mystery was we ll never really know what happened because he didn t go to trial. he never revealed what he did with the murder weapon, other than to say it was irretrievable. michael garvin s arrogance caused him to believe that even if he used his own duct tape to seal her body, that science couldn t trace it back to him, and in the end, it sealed his fate. the science in this case is better than an eyewitness because the science doesn t lie or doesn t get confused or forget. but it s never going to bring shirley back, and we know that.