True-crime series details twisted tale of man who brutally murdered an 18-year-old mother then plotted to fake his own death to escape arrest after police exhumed her body
Marilyn McIntyre was murdered by her husband Lane McIntyre s high school friend Curtis Forbes in her home in Columbus, Wisconsin, in 1980
The crime was revisited on the Oxygen network s true-crime series Exhumed
Lane found Marilyn with a steak knife sticking out of her chest on the morning of March 11, 1980, after he had returned home from work
She had been beaten with blunt force trauma to her head and strangled, but their three-month-old son, Christopher, was untouched in his crib
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Lace McIntyre with his wife Marilyn McIntyre (Oxygen)
There is that ineffable feeling that investigators experience when a cold case that s practically collecting dust in a corner of the office suddenly comes to light. And for Lt. Wayne Smith and Sgt. Daniel Garrigan, their description of the feeling as excited could almost be synonymous with sheer exhilaration when they found leads on a case that was three decades old. Oxygen s latest true-crime series examines the gruesome killing of Marilyn McIntyre. Titled Exhumed , each episode looks at a powerful and suspenseful exhumation that opens the door to shocking new breakthroughs, unexpected plot-twists, and ultimately, justice.
Lane McIntyre’s world stopped in March 1980. McIntyre, then 23, came home from his third-shift job to the one-bedroom apartment in Columbus he shared with his 18-year-old wife, Marilyn. He’d saved her from an abusive foster father and married her when she was 17. “I’ve never felt that strong of love since. It was pure,” he said Thursday. “Marilyn was a living angel.” But his angel was dead. A knife stuck out of her chest. Her skull had been fractured. Her neck was bruised from being strangled. A coroner later reported “evidence of traumatic sexual contact.”
Advertisement Their 3-month-old son, Christopher, lay sleeping, untouched, in his crib. Lane McIntyre managed to call his mother, who called police. As five officers pushed past him into the apartment, he remembered, “my brain didn’t want to believe what I was seeing.”
Murder of 18-year-old Marilyn McIntyre by Curtis Forbes investigated by ID
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It took 20 years to put Curtis Forbes away for the murder of 18-year-old Marilyn McIntyre. Pic credit: Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections
Investigation Discovery is examing the cold case of a murdered young mother from Columbus, Wisconsin; Marilyn McIntyre was killed in her own home by Curtis Forbes, a long-time friend of her husband’s.
On March 11, 1998, Lane McIntyre returned home from work to find his 18-year-old wife Marilyn lying dead on the floor of their apartment with a knife sticking out of her chest.