Nov 10, 2005 10:15 pm US/Eastern
Radio Host Pleads Not Guilty To Wife's Murder
WALTHAM (CBS4) ―
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James Keown is charged with poisoning his wife Julie in 2004
CBS4
A Missouri radio host charged with slowly poisoning his wife in Massachusetts last year says he's innocent. 31-year old James Keown pleaded not guilty in a Cambridge courtroom Thursday. He was ordered held without bail.
Julie Keown's parents, Nancy and Jack Oldag, said in a statement that it's time for their daughter to receive the justice she deserves. They called her alleged murder "horrible, evil and senseless." They also said they're tormented daily trying to figure out why it happened.
Authorities say James Keown slowly poisoned his wife by spiking her Gatorade with antifreeze in the summer of 2004, while they were living in Waltham. She died in September 2004.
He was arrested Monday during a commercial break at the Jefferson City radio station where he works. He was returned to Massachusetts from Missouri Wednesday afternoon.
Prosecutors say Keown also lied to his wife about getting accepted to Harvard Business School and that the couple was broke when she died.
They say money was the motive. He was waiting to collect a $250,000 life insurance policy on his wife after her death. Keown never received the money because the death was still under investigation.
Keown's attorney, J.W. Carney, says his client was in love with his wife and had nothing to do with her death. Carney said the case against his client must be weak because it took prosecutors a year to bring it.
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