After spending a total of seven months in custody, the Tennessee woman who fatally shot her preacher husband in the back will be released as early as today.
Mary Winkler, a 33-year-old mother of three girls, is expected to be freed from a mental health facility today or Wednesday, lawyer Steve Farese told CNN.
Farese said his client will not talk to the news media because she continues to wage a legal battle to win custody of her girls and faces a $2 million civil suit filed by the parents of of her slain husband, Matthew Winkler.
Mary Winkler likely will return to work at the dry cleaners in McMinnville, Tennessee, where she worked before the trial, Farese said.
Winkler served about five months in county jail as she awaited trial, then spent two months undergoing therapy at a Tennessee mental health facility following her conviction for voluntary manslaughter.
Five months in the county jail and and two months of therapy for shooting her husband in the back; it's pathetic. But just as pathetic is the idea that these children should be given back to the woman who killed their father.