Boston surgeon Ingolf Tuerk breaks down in tears as hes found guilty of murdering wife, dumping her body in pond

The Boston doctor who strangled his wife and dumped her body in a pond during a night of drinking in 2020 broke down and cried when he was convicted to the disgust of his in-laws.Ingolf Tuerk’s head shot down as he began to weep when he was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter inside Norfolk Superior Court on Thursday, according to video by NBC Boston.“He is guilty of voluntary manslaughter,” the jury foreperson announced.Tuerk, the former head of urology at St.

Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton, had been on trial for murdering his wife Kathleen McLean inside their suburban Boston home in May 2020.The now-63-year-old admitted to drinking with McLean, 45, when a fight broke out and she allegedly smashed a wine glass over his head.“I was scared to hell,” Tuerk told the court Tuesday.“I snapped.

I kind of blacked out.”McLean’s body was found in a pond in a wooded area near the couple’s home two days after she disappeared.Tuerk confessed to the killing after his arrest, but claimed it was not intentional, adding he put rocks inside McLean’s pants to ensure her body would sink to the bottom of the pond.“I walked through the yard and tried to look for something that may, you know, bring her down,” he said.Tuerk’s lawyers framed their defense around the former surgeon protecting himself from his wife, claiming McLean had attempted to control her husband’s financial portfolio.“This is all about money,” Kevin Reddington argued according to NBC Boston.

“And she played him pretty darn good.”“I suggest to you that he reacted.He was drunk… He defended himself.

And the beauty of the law is that the government has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did not act in self defense.”Prosecutors argued for a first-degree murder charge, claiming Tuerk tossed his wife out “like a piece of trash.”“Ladies and gentlemen, I suggest it is not the heat of passion.It is not self-defense.

It is motive to kill,” Assistant Nor...