Angela Guinn, a 41-year-old woman from Rockingham, NC, was found dead in her bed on October 7, 2007. Her body was discovered with a .22-caliber rifle lying beside it, both under the covers. Initially, the case was deemed a suicide and closed immediately. However, new leads and investigations reopened the case years later.
Angela Guinn's husband, Jerry Dean Guinn, was arrested and charged with her murder nearly a decade after her death.
He was accused of killing Angela, who was 41 years old at the time, with a gunshot wound. The couple had been separated for a week or two before the murder, and Angela had told friends and family that Jerry was not allowed to come back onto the property.
Jerry Guinn pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2017, admitting to killing Angela. He was sentenced to a minimum of 11 years in prison. During the trial, it was revealed that Angela had a history of cocaine use and had recently used it again before her death. Jerry's defense attorney claimed that he shot Angela after seeing her having an affair with two men.
The case saw various legal proceedings, including Jerry being charged with intimidating a witness in 2016. He was accused of trying to convince a witness not to testify against him. Despite these charges, Jerry's criminal history had been clean for the past 15 years before his arrest for Angela's murder.
Angela Guinn's death was one of seven murders in Richmond County in 2007, a year that saw a high occurrence of murders in the area. Her obituary stated that she was the owner of Mom's Kitchen in Rockingham and died at her home on Essie Mae Lane, near the South Carolina border.
