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Man Allegedly Throws Wife From Balcony

AP
Posted: 2007-08-17 06:25:00
Filed Under: Crime News

Police say Stanley Reimer kissed his seriously ill wife goodbye and threw her four stories to her death
AP

Police say Stanley Reimer kissed his seriously ill wife goodbye and threw her four stories to her death.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Aug. 16) - A man threw his seriously ill wife four stories to her death because he could no longer afford to pay for her medical care, prosecutors said in charging him with second-degree murder.

According to court documents filed Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, Stanley Reimer walked his wife to the balcony of their apartment and kissed her before throwing her over.

The body of Criste Reimer, 47, was found Tuesday night outside the apartment building, near the upscale Country Club Plaza shopping district.

Stanley Reimer, 51, was charged Wednesday. He remained jailed on $250,000 bond and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

In the probable cause statement filed with the charges, police said Reimer was desperate because he could not pay the bills for his wife's treatment for neurological problems and uterine cancer.

Investigators said that Reimer was in the apartment when they arrived. He told them, "She didn't jump," but did not elaborate, they said.

Criste Reimer's caregiver told police she could barely walk and would not have been able to climb over the railing of the balcony, according to the probable cause statement.

Reimer's alleged motive emerged after several more hours of questioning, police said.

According to Jackson County Probate Court records, Criste Reimer had been in ill health for several years. Her weight had fallen to 75 pounds and she was partly blind.

According to the court records, she had no health insurance to pay for medical bills that ranged from $700 to $800 per week.

The Probate Court documents were filed in April, when Stanley Reimer petitioned to be allowed to sell personal property his wife owned in Wheeler County, Texas, for $20,000.

The documents listed her assets at approximately $6,700, with monthly income of $725 from oil royalties and Supplemental Security Income.

It was not immediately known if Stanley Reimer had an attorney.

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flamencopupil 04:22:59 PM Aug 28 2007

sndrake 09:35:31 PM Aug 21 2007

Report This! AOL is doing a disservice by not posting the followup coverage. Criste Reimer's family has been speaking out and this is turning out to have little do with health care costs or compassion. Just your old garden variety domestic violence.

You can read more about it here - along with what research says about other husbands who kill ill or disabled wives:

http://notdeadyetnewscommentary.blogspot.com/2007/08/criste-reimers-death-not-about-health_21.html

YOUR THEORY MAY BE CORRECT, BUT NOT-DEAD-YET--WHO PUBLISHED THIS ARTICLE---IS DETERMINED TO PUT AN END TO VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA AND THE RIGHT TO DIE. THEY ARE BAD NEWS.

nelsonmrt6 06:17:30 PM Aug 22 2007

BASTARD!

gatjack 04:07:44 PM Aug 22 2007

WHY PROSECUTE A MAN WHO CANNOT PAY FOR HIS WIFE'S MEDICAL BILLS? HE HAD NO OTHER COURSE OF ACTION. PERHAPS KILLING HIS WIFE IS AGAINST THE LAW, PERHAPS HE SHOULD ATTEMPT TO GET A LOAN TO FINANCE HER CONDITION. WELL, GO AHEAD AND PUT HIM IN PRISON HE DID KILL HIS WIFE, MAYBE WE WILL END UP PAYING THE MEDICAL BILLS.

zbigbet 11:25:30 AM Aug 22 2007

I myself have sarcoma and my expenses are ridiculous but I do believe in mercy death but what this man did was neither mercy or neccessity. Throwing someone off a balcony at 4 stories is not mercy I believe in those few seconds she suffered more pain then the cancer caused he could have given her an overdose of her medicine or some gentle thing if that is what she wanted but no where in this article does it mention she wanted to die. So the husband was a bastard and that is that and deserves a prison sentence.

hnjsmom683 12:36:49 AM Aug 22 2007

i am in total agreement with pkkbh, this countries leaders have there head up there ass, who need to get some priorities.there are so many others like this couple in america who need help but are turned away tto fend for themselves what in the HELL is america coming to?

angelsandpixies 12:33:48 AM Aug 22 2007

That creepy guy has an ugly face. He looks insane.
Maybe he'll use insanity as his defense. I can see it.

You have to wonder if her spirit will haunt the apartment.
She apparently had enough money to take care of herself,
if the estimates in the article are correct.

Stanley Reimer, you are a hideous murderer and a lunatic.

Criste Reimer, rest in peace, go to the light now.

tletitflow 09:41:27 PM Aug 21 2007

LIFE, WHAT IS LIFE? IS THERE A MEANING OF LIFE? DO WE CHOOSE TO LIVE OR CHOOSE TO DIE? THE WORLD IS FULL OF CURPTION WE HAVE ALOT OF KILING IN THE WORLD TODAY. IT'S LIKE A MIND SET THING I ASSUME, BUT WHEN YOU KILL SOMEONE SO DEAR AND SO CLOSE BECAUSE U CAN'T AFFORD THIS AND THAT TO KEEP THEM ALIVE THAT'S WHEN YOU PUT IT IN GODS HAND AND NOT YOURS CAUSE THE MOST AND BIGGEST PROBLEM HE CAUSED HISSELF IS THAT HE'S GOING TO JAIL AND IN DUE TIME TO HELL AND SHE'LL BE IN HEAVEN. I GIVE MY SYMPATHY OUT TO THE FAMILIES HIS AND HERS CAUSE BOTH SIDES ARE HURTING ONE IN THE SAME WAY TOO IN ANOTHER. I SUFFERED 5 LOSTS AND MORE SO I KNOW THE PAIN AND FRUSTRATION THAT THIS MAY CAUSE AND MAY GOD BE WITH THEM ALL.

tletitflow 09:41:24 PM Aug 21 2007

LIFE, WHAT IS LIFE? IS THERE A MEANING OF LIFE? DO WE CHOOSE TO LIVE OR CHOOSE TO DIE? THE WORLD IS FULL OF CURPTION WE HAVE ALOT OF KILING IN THE WORLD TODAY. IT'S LIKE A MIND SET THING I ASSUME, BUT WHEN YOU KILL SOMEONE SO DEAR AND SO CLOSE BECAUSE U CAN'T AFFORD THIS AND THAT TO KEEP THEM ALIVE THAT'S WHEN YOU PUT IT IN GODS HAND AND NOT YOURS CAUSE THE MOST AND BIGGEST PROBLEM HE CAUSED HISSELF IS THAT HE'S GOING TO JAIL AND IN DUE TIME TO HELL AND SHE'LL BE IN HEAVEN. I GIVE MY SYMPATHY OUT TO THE FAMILIES HIS AND HERS CAUSE BOTH SIDES ARE HURTING ONE IN THE SAME WAY TOO IN ANOTHER. I SUFFERED 5 LOSTS AND MORE SO I KNOW THE PAIN AND FRUSTRATION THAT THIS MAY CAUSE AND MAY GOD BE WITH THEM ALL.

rayda273 07:08:43 PM Aug 21 2007

Man's inhumanity to (wo)man! What a pitiful excuse for a human being. There were many solutions to his problem. Dissertion, although cowardly, being one. Divorce, being another. And many more that do not include murder.

sndrake 05:35:31 PM Aug 21 2007

AOL is doing a disservice by not posting the followup coverage. Criste Reimer's family has been speaking out and this is turning out to have little do with health care costs or compassion. Just your old garden variety domestic violence.

You can read more about it here - along with what research says about other husbands who kill ill or disabled wives:

http://notdeadyetnewscommentary.blogspot.com/2007/08/criste-reimers-death-not-about-health_21.html

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