According to Stltoday.com, " A Cape Girardeau County man serving 20 years in prison for the murder of his wife helped investigators working toward a new federal charge when he wrote a tell-all book about the murder, prosecutors said Monday.
FBI agents on March 8 obtained a copy of a manuscript by James Clay Waller, titled, “‘If You Take My Kids, I’ll Kill You!’: The Public Confession of Missouri’s Most Notorious Wife Killers,” Waller’s May 19 indictment says. It was not clear why the title makes reference to the plural “killers.”
If convicted, he could face a life term on the new federal interstate domestic violence charge. The indictment also seeks to block any profits from a manuscript he wrote about the crime, the U.S. attorney’s office said Monday.
Waller, now 45, pleaded guilty in June 2013 of second-degree murder in exchange for a 20-year prison sentence. As part of the plea, he led investigators to his wife’s body, which he’d buried in Alexander County, in Southern Illinois. He said that he beat her and strangled her.
Waller and Jacque Sue Waller, 39, were in the midst of a divorce when she disappeared the night of June 1, 2011. They had met with their divorce attorney that day.
At the time, she was planning to start a new life for herself and the couple’s triplets with a new boyfriend in Farmington.
In a statement announcing the charge, prosecutors acknowledged that seeking a federal charge against a man already serving a state murder sentence for essentially the same crime was “highly unusual.” But U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan said in a statement that “the facts and circumstances of this case begged for such a prosecution.”
In a phone interview, Callahan said, “The circumstances that I refer to are the particular brutality of the murder along with the fact that he was able to extract an agreement with the prosecutors’ office taking advantage of her family, who did want the body recovered and wanted some closure.”
Callahan said that Waller was told at the time of his plea that he could still face federal charges.
Federal investigators had been looking at the case after Waller’s plea. “There were some legal issues as to whether we would be able to use his guilty plea as evidence,” Callahan said. “So the manuscript certainly provided for an independent source of evidence.”
Callahan declined to comment on whether Waller already had a book deal or how investigators uncovered the manuscript, but he did say “there was some very good police work that enabled authorities to locate it.”
As federal, state and local investigators worked on the case, James Waller was first charged with threatening his sister. A prosecutor said Waller had confessed to his father, but his father then died.
In January 2012, he was sentenced to five years in federal prison on the threatening charge.
In April 2012, Waller was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence, even though his wife’s body had not been found.
The triplets were later adopted by Jacque Waller’s sister and brother-in-law. They could not be reached for comment Monday.
Waller was named May 19 on the new federal indictment, which was handed down in federal court in Cape Girardeau and unsealed Monday. The indictment says that Waller traveled between Illinois and Missouri with the intent to kill his wife and then did kill her.
It also seeks the forfeiture of any proceeds from “a contract relating to a depiction of such crime in a movie, book, newspaper, magazine, radio or television production, or live entertainment.”"
I think the feds are wrong. They should let him publish the book, get a book deal but all of the profits should go to his three children and the family that are taking care of his kids. That is my two cents advice.
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The money I make from selling downloads, and it is not much at all, goes to support my wife and autistic son.
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