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| Husband in 2008 York County mercy killing found beaten to death |
| By charlotteobserver.com- Andrew Dys |
| Published: 05/13/2015 |
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In 2008, Gustave Adolph Hartner of York County shot his elderly wife in the back of the head in what he claimed was a mercy killing. Now, seven years later, after his release from prison, Hartner himself is the victim of a homicide, according to Lexington County’s coroner. Hartner, 79, who pleaded guilty but mentally ill to voluntary manslaughter in 2009 for killing his ailing 90-year-old wife, Mildred Hartner, and was sentenced to seven years in prison, was identified Tuesday as a homicide victim from an April incident in the Lexington County town of Gaston, said Margaret Fisher, Lexington County coroner. Hartner was found April 28 in a home at 107 Anderson Road yet was finally identified Tuesday through X-ray medical records, Fisher said. Hartner’s death is a homicide, Fisher said. He died from a skull fracture secondary to blunt force trauma to the head after a beating, Fisher said. “Hearing that Mr. Hartner has died – and apparently has been killed – makes me very sad,” said Harry Dest, 16th Circuit chief public defender who was Hartner’s lawyer and argued that Hartner’s diminished mental capacity, and love for his wife, led to Hartner killing Mildred Hartner. Read More. |
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