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| Man Who Confessed to Killing Wife Dies in Prison Fall |
| By Newsday |
| Published: 03/18/2003 |
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A man convicted of killing his paralyzed wife with a hammer as she sat on a toilet died himself after apparently falling from a prison bunk bed. Laurence Babish was found dead with a broken neck on the floor of his jail cell February 26. Six years ago, he bludgeoned his 52-year-old wife, Carol, to death with a small hammer in their Bridgewater home. He confessed to the killing, saying he could no longer care for his wife, who had suffered a severe stroke that left her paralyzed and unable to speak. Babish, 58, told psychiatrists he was willing to go to prison to save her from spending the rest of her life in a nursing home. He recently had been preparing for a parole hearing. 'We were hopeful he was going to get out because he's been a model inmate,' Babish's attorney, Gerard Hanlon, told The Star-Ledger of Newark. In 1998, Babish was sentenced to 30 years in prison, the maximum term allowed for aggravated manslaughter. State Department of Corrections spokeswoman Deirdre Fedkenheuer said Babish was found in his cell at Riverfront State Prison in Camden at 8 a.m. February 26. An autopsy report revealed no foul play, although the investigation by prison officials and the Camden County Medical Examiner's Office is continuing, Fedkenheuer said. Babish, a retired telephone company worker, killed his wife on Jan. 24, 1997, more than a year after her stroke. 'I think they initially both thought he could take care of her on his own,' Hanlon said. 'But he just couldn't do it.' |
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