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Credit card debt alleged in slaying

Published 01/29/03

A Shady Side woman fatally shot her husband after he threatened to divorce her over a $48,000 credit card debt she ran up, county prosecutors told a judge yesterday.

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Terry Harriett Pierce Eslin, 58, confessed that she shot Richard Paul Eslin, 66, in the head with a rifle as he slept in the bedroom of their home at 1664 Snug Harbor Road, said Deputy State's Attorney Gerald Anders.

She shot him after what investigators believe was an attempt to poison him with prescription-strength sleeping pills failed, Mr. Anders said.

After hearing details of Mrs. Eslin's statements to police, Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Hackner refused...

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