HOUSEWIFE ACCUSED OF STAGING HUBBY’S SUICIDE

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AFTER dialing 911, Jeane Harrington told a dispatcher in a shaky voice that she had come home to find her husband dead with a suicide note near his body. But police now say the 56-year-old mom used a stun gun to incapacitate Michael Gabel, 55, then battered and suffocated him with plastic wrap. What’s more, she’d discussed it with several people beforehand. 

“She had no trouble letting anyone know her disdain for him,” Police Chief Duane Streator of Avon Lake, Ohio, told The National ENQUIRER. “She told lots of people she wanted him dead!”

Harrington called 911 at 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 16, 2011, and took pains to mention Michael had recently been contacted by the IRS and a debt collector seeking a total of $33,000. When police arrived, they found him with the wrap wound around his face, bruises on his head and 20 burns on his body. Harrington admitted they had a fight that turned physical and she used the stun gun to fend Michael off.

But she insisted he was alive when she left at 2 a.m. Now she’s pled not guilty to murder, assault and evidence tampering and will go to trial in January.

Neighbors were stunned, but said they could understand her possible motive. “His gambling caused them to lose two houses,” one told The ENQUIRER. Michael had taken out advances from credit cards and a 401(k) fund to pay off his debts. “It’s a shame,” a neighbor told The ENQUIRER. “She was happy until Michael gambled away their lives.”