Ex-NY prof pleads guilty to strangling wife in '09
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A former associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology admitted Wednesday that he strangled his wife last year and took her body to a suburban Rochester park because it was her favorite place.
Timothy Wells, 58, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Monroe County Court while friends of the couple looked on.
Prosecutors said Wells strangled Christine Sevilla, 58, on Nov. 30 at their home in suburban Perinton. Police said he put her body in the trunk of his car and drove to a park in the nearby town of Mendon, just south of Rochester.
Wells later called 911 and said he had killed his wife, authorities said.
Wells taught computing and information sciences courses at RIT. Sevilla was a photographer and environmental activist who had also taught at the institute.
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