Metzger's alleged confession as read in court Wednesday
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Published in News on October 16, 2014 1:46 PM
"On Saturday, Jean came over so I could work on her car.
Ann went to the store. She went out somewhere. She left for an hour or so.
While she was gone, Jean and I got in an argument.
She was continually telling everybody I was crazy -- calling my sons (racial slur deleted).
She slapped me, scratched me on my neck, kept slapping me, grabbed my arm.
I told her to stop calling my kids names. I begged her to stop. She slapped me again and I grabbed her by the neck. Everything went black for a few minutes.
We stared at each other.
When I realized what I was doing, I turned loose. She fell on the floor.
I was freaked out. I realized she wasn't breathing -- that she didn't have a pulse. I took her to the back closet and covered her up with a blanket until I could figure out what to do.
Ann came home. I went ahead and fixed the car and didn't really do anything until 9 or 10. We took the car for a ride. It was running OK. Drove to Wilson and back. We took the car to Walmart, got a taxi and came back to the house. That was about 11:30.
Ann went to sleep about 12:30 or so.
Probably 1:30 or 2, I went back and wrapped Jean in a sheet, took her through the woods as far as I could carry her. I laid her in the bushes.
When I came back in, Ann asked me where I had been. I told her to sit down and told her what had happened. I told her not to say anything. That's when we came up with the story of her dropping her off at the house until I could figure out what to do.
Sometime Monday morning, I hid the purse in the woods under the tree. I got it out of the shed. That's about it. That's all I can think of."