YOUNGSTOWN Elizabeth Clausen, 34, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to assault and domestic violence for hitting her husband, Eric Clausen Jr., 35, in the head with a thick candle two days before he died, June 10, 2018.
Prosecutors will recommend she get six months in the Mahoning County jail.
Clausen and her husband lived on Innwood Drive in Austintown at the time. Eric Clausen was an Air Force veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan. Prosecutors pursued charges against Elizabeth Clausen after interviewing her and a second woman. While being interviewed by police, she gave several different versions of what had happened, police said.