Pleading guilty?
NE man likely to plead guilty in strangling of wife.
It looks like Christopher Murray, the Northeast man charged with strangling his wife last Aug. 5 along the edge of Pennypack Park, will be pleading guilty.
Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore confirmed the move Wednesday after Murray's attorneys, Andrea Konow and Roger Schrading, made the request during a pretrial hearing before Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner.
Pescatore said the guilty plea would likely take place May 26, Murray's next pretrial hearing before Lerner.
Murray, 49, who is being held without bail in the city prisons, was arrested four days after the body of his 46-year-old wife Constance was spotted by a pedestrian at the edge of the park near Holme Crispin Cemetery.
Police said Murray originally reported his wife missing but confessed after taking a police polygraph test. According to his statement to detectives, Murray said his wife went out jogging about 9 p.m. on Aug. 4.
Murray said he went to the park, met up with her and they sat on a park bench and began arguing about text messages he had received from a female friend. Murray said his wife, whom a birth defect left with one complete arm, smacked him and he strangled her and left the body.
The Murrays' had two teenage daughters.
Meanwhile, Steven Anderson, 33,of Parkwood Manor, a nephew of Constance Murray, and Brandon Howard, 28, of Bensalem, both remain in custody awaiting trial on burglary charges after being arrested trying to enter the Murrays' then-vacant house last Aug. 13.