PORTLAND (AP) – A Bangor man was found guilty Friday in the fatal stabbing of his pregnant wife last year.
Penobscot County Superior Court Justice E. Allen Hunter found Roscoe Sargent, 30, guilty of intentionally or knowingly committing murder.
Sargent had waived his right to a jury trial. He had pleaded innocent to the charge he was convicted of, and innocent of depraved indifference murder.
Heather Fliegelman Sargent, 20, was eight months pregnant with the couple’s first child when she was killed in the mobile home where the couple lived. She was stabbed nearly 50 times in the head and torso, according to prosecution testimony.
Prosecutors said after Sargent killed his wife, he emptied their savings account and went on a party spree, staying at two hotels in Bangor, ordering champagne from the bar and having Chinese food delivered from a local restaurant.
Her body was found two days later with a laundry bag over her upper body and four dead cats on the bed, the state said.
Sargent was not charged in the death of the unborn child because Maine’s homicide law does not apply to fetuses.
Sargent faces a possible sentence of life in prison. Hunter did not set a sentencing date Friday.
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