Man accused of killing wife for changing channel

[TexasTowelie]

CARLISLE, Ark.—Investigators say a central Arkansas man fatally stabbed his wife after she changed the TV channel from a football game he was watching while he went outside to smoke.

Tony Thomas, 58, of Carlisle, was charged Monday with capital murder. Investigators said he admitted killing his wife, Elke, during an argument after she switched the TV channel in November. He's been jailed since the incident.

"He went outside to smoke and upon returning, he discovered that Elke had changed the channel. He asked about the score and she began yelling at him and got in his face," Lonoke County Sheriff's Detective Anthony Counts wrote in an affidavit.

Thomas said he blacked out and came to while standing over the woman with a knife in his hands, according to the affidavit. Court records show his bond is set at $1 million.

Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/arkansas/story/2018/jan/10/man-accused-killing-wife-changing-channel/707973/

[Motley13]

1. he asked the dispatcher for a 'meat wagon and police'

horrible

[shraby]

2. Did it ever occur to him to buy her a t.v. to watch what she wanted to on the weekends?

I have my own because we watch totally different things. Mr. Shraby has no interest in what I like and vice versa.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I suspect that the answer is "no",

yet I wonder how many other arguments occurred previously between the couple.

[Ohiogal]

4. Egads. And I'll bet he owns guns, too

[Funtatlaguy]

5. Can not fairly comment without knowing

Which football game it was.

[TexasTowelie]

6. I admit that I was looking for that information in the article.

If he was watching and betting on the Dallas Cowboys then I can understand why he was drinking.

[d_r]

7. the thing is

when somebody changes the channel, you lose the buffer in the dvr and can't rewind

[samnsara]

8. wonder if he wore his MAGA cap when he stabbed that poor woman...

...wonder if he will wear it in jail???