Woman Allegedly Killed Husband For Watching Porn Despite Her Warnings

An Arkansas woman allegedly killed her husband after he watched porn despite several warnings, a court heard. The trial of the 69-year-old Jefferson County woman began Monday in First Division Circuit Court with Judge Alex Guynn.

Patricia Hill, 69, had asked her husband to cancel his subscription after she caught him watching porn on multiple occasions, but he apparently refused. Deputy Prosecutor Holden Raines said Frank Hill had re-ordered the pornographic channel even after his wife canceled it, according to the New York Daily News. When Patricia received the next bill and saw the channel had been re-added, she “flew into a rage.”

Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office investigators said a deputy was sent to the house on a reported domestic disturbance on July 28, 2018, and later found that a man was shot by his wife.

“She lost her mind,” Patricia's attorney Bill James said in his opening statement Tuesday. “She didn’t try to hide it. She told the truth (about what happened).”

Prosecutors said that during the confrontation, Patricia apparently didn’t like what her husband said and she fetched her Beretta .22-caliber pistol and fatally shot him. She left the gun inside their home — right next to the TV bill.

According to James, Patricia viewed pornography as a “personal affront to her and to her god. She told him over and over again to stop, and he said he would but went right back to doing it.”

Authorities found the pistol and an open Dish Network bill in the living room of the house on the day of the incident, along with a spent .22-caliber shell casing in the shed where Frank’s body was found.

The trial in the case continues and the defense is expected to present doctors who can testify to Patricia's mental state at the time of the shooting.

“During the interview, Mrs. Hill admitted to investigators that she arrived home and at some point walked to the utility shed on the property to confront her husband. Mrs. Hill told investigators that there had never been any physical altercations between her and her husband," Major Lafayette Woods Jr. said in a statement at the time of Patricia's arrest in July 2018.

"However, Mrs. Hill stated that she disagreed with her husband’s purchase of video pornography via the television guide, which she cancelled upon discovering the purchase but Mr. Hill managed to place a subsequent order. Mrs. Hill stated that she entered the shed and asked her husband to leave but he refused. Mrs. Hill admitted that she then returned inside the residence, where she armed herself with a .22 caliber pistol. She went back to the shed a short time later, where she entered and shot her husband twice, striking him once in the leg and once in the head. Immediately following the shooting, Mrs. Hill stated that she returned inside the residence, where she returned the weapon and called 911 to report the shooting,” the statement added.