Prosecutor seeks to keep Howland woman in prison for murder of husband

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins has written a letter to the Ohio Parole Board asking that they keep a former Howland woman convicted of killing her husband behind bars.

Marie Poling, 60, is serving a 20-year-to-life sentence in the Ohio Reformatory for Women for her part in the 1987 murder and dismemberment of her husband, Richard.

In the letter, Watkins details how Poling had "dreamt up the perfect murder" and had murdered her husband while he slept before she and her paramour Rafael Garcia had, "dismembered the victim and stuffed him in the trunk of a small car."

Watkins goes on to say, "Inmate Poling deserves NOTHING!"

After serving as lead prosecutor in the trial, Watkins has written the board opposing Poling's release several times, most recently in November of 2014.

Poling's next parole hearing is in December.

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