A North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to murdering her sister's boyfriend in a sick Valentine's Day 'game' that wa...
A North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to murdering her sister's boyfriend in a sick Valentine's Day 'game' that was set up by the sister and their father so the pair could get married.
In February 2019, Anna Marie Choudhary, 33, and her sister Amanda McClure, 31, were with Amanda's then-boyfriend John McGuire, 38, and their father, 55-year-old Larry McClure, at Larry's home in Skygusty, West Virginia.
Amanda and Larry - who were both addicted to methamphetamine - set up what Anna Marie described as a 'game' where they tied John up. They then smashed a wine bottle over his head and threatened to kill him, claiming he was working for the government as an informant.
Then, they allegedly ordered Anna Marie to kill him and told her that if she didn't, they would harm her children.
First, Anna Marie injected him with a 'bad batch' of meth. Then, she strangled him and wrapped his body in a trash bag.
Anna Marie Choudhary,33, is awaiting sentencing for her role in the murder of her sister's boyfriend in February 2019
Larry McClure, 55, was having an incestuous affair with his daughter Amanda McClure, 31. After murdering Amanda's boyfriend, they got married. Both are now in prison
Victim John McGuire was tied up, tortured, injected with drugs then strangled
They buried him but two weeks later, concerned that he was somehow still alive, Amanda ordered her sister to dig him back up.
She did then they dismembered him and buried his body parts in two different places. Two weeks later, Amanda and Larry got married.
The entire plot was uncovered after Larry was arrested. It's unclear what led to his arrest but he confessed immediately.
Amanda also pleaded guilty and is in prison. Anna Marie is the last to be sentenced. She now faces 40 years behind bars.
On Wednesday, at her sentencing hearing, she gave a harrowing, blow-by-blow description of the night when the killing took place.
Amanda and John were living in Minnesota at the time but they were driving to Indiana when their car broke down.
Larry and Anne Marie went to collect them and took them back to Skygusty.
On Valentine's Day, John had bought steaks, potatoes and a bottle of wine for him and Amanda to have a romantic meal.
Instead, the then couple were joined by Anne Marie and Larry at Larry's home.
They'd been having fun until Amanda suggested a game where she said she would prove she could untie herself from 'anything'.
But Amanda tied up John. That is when, Anna Marie told the judge, 'things started to get strange'.
They'd taken homemade meth which Anna Marie says did not crystallize properly.
Once John was tied up, she said their father's demeanor changed.
'He sat down and I don’t know, it was a grin that I’ll never be able to describe.
'But as John sat up and bent over to untie his feet, and it all happened so quick, but Amanda stood up and grabbed that bottle and bashed him over the back of the head with it.
Amanda McClure and her father were both addicted to methamphetamine
Amanda and John were engaged and had been living in Minnesota. It's not clear how long she'd been having an affair with her father
'And the next thing I know John had reared up and was leaning back against the wall holding his head.
'And that’s when Larry looked at me and told me if I knew what was best for my children and wanted them to live, I would follow all instructions that were given to me from that moment on,' she told the judge on Wednesday.
Until the 6am the next day, Anna Marie says the pair tortured John by beating him and standing on him.
They were high on the home-cooked meth and were convinced he was a federal informant and kept demanding to know 'who he was'.
John pleaded with them that he was who he said he was. Anna Marie says he even recited his social security number to them repeatedly.
At 6am on February 15, Anna Marie says her sister told her to inject John with a syringe of what she thought was truth serum but was in fact the meth.
She did but rather than kill him, the drugs 'made him stronger'.
'They stood over me and told me I needed to finish it and needed to strangle him, so that’s what I did,' Anna Marie said.
After his arrest in 2019, Larry McClure penned this confession note. He will stay in jail without parole for the rest of his life
Larry then stood on his back while Anna Marie strangled him with a rope.
Once he was dead, she says the pair told her to wrap his body in a trash bag so they could throw him down a mine shaft.
'It’s not something I’ll ever forget because at that point in time, the body had become fully rigor mortis and in order to...I’m sorry. That’s not a sound I ever want to hear again,' she said.
They then buried the body and Larry and Amanda started their relationship. They got married two weeks after the killing with Anna Marie as their witness.
'[They] went on like nothing happened and started having a relationship as soon as he was buried,' Anna Marie told the judge.
Amanda then became paranoid that John was not actually dead.
She ordered Anna Marie to help her dig up his body and said that there 'were still hairs growing on his head'.
To prove he was dead, Larry drove 'bed nails' through his body with a sledgehammer.
They then dug him up again and dismembered him to bury him in two places. By then, Larry and Amanda had decided to move to Kentucky but they wanted to get rid of the body so no one would find it if they moved into Larry's Skygusty home after they'd left.
It was after that Larry and Amanda were arrested.
Larry penned a confession note where he described everyone's role in the murder. He waived his trial and pleaded guilty immediately.
On Wednesday, Anna Marie pleaded guilty to second-degree murder but she said she felt she 'didn't have a choice'.
'Look at my other options. I didn’t feel that I had a choice,' she said.
She will be sentenced in February and faces up to 40 years behind bars.
Amanda is serving a 40-year sentence for second degree murder. Larry is serving life without parole.
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