Prosecutors say a Gresham man who claims he killed his terminally ill wife to end her misery was not the loving, devoted husband he pretended to be.
Court documents filed Monday after John Lyle Roberts was indicted on a charge of murder paint a dramatically different portrait of the man who claimed to be a compassionate mercy killer.
For starters, Virginia Roberts wasn't dying of an illness when she was shot in the head as she slept Feb. 2. And she wasn't the only woman in John Roberts' life.
The "dying" wife wasn't even sick with anything more than carpal tunnel syndrome, yet the husband decided he wanted to off her anyway. He was busy screwing around with a bunch of different women, including a prostitute. The wife was inconveniently in the way.
I wonder if there was a life insurance policy involved.
