A man from Kentucky who served as a minister in an Amish church has now confessed to poisoning his wife’s drinks with antifreeze.
Samuel Borntreger, aged 39, has been charged with first-degree murder of his wife.
Anna Yoder Borntreger’s body was exhumed on Tuesday from a cemetery in Missouri.
He has been jailed without bond in Kentucky.
The charges were filed in northwest Missouri’s Harrison County, where prosecutor Cristine Stallings said Borntreger was ‘well known and liked.’
Stallings said Borntreger had a cabinetry shop and his parents also lived on the property where they ran an Amish store.
‘He needed to get it off his conscience,’ Eckerson said of the confession. ‘That is why he has come forth.’
While confessing to police, he told authorities he ‘didn’t love her anymore,’ Eckerson said.
Eckerson said the couple had four children together, the youngest just 10 months old, when Anna Borntreger died at the age of 26.
