COWETA COUNTY, Ga. - A Coweta County jury has convicted Cheryl Coe of murdering her husband, Luke Coe, in 2021 after a retrial of the case.
What we know:
She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on charges of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault.
Prosecutors said the couple had argued over their open marriage in the days leading up to the shooting. During trial, they highlighted Coe’s shifting accounts of what happened that night, along with testimony from the medical examiner that the fatal shot was fired at close range.
Senior Assistant District Attorney Laura Lukert said Coe showed "a total lack of remorse" and changed her story multiple times.
The backstory:
FOX 5 has obtained never-before-seen police video of that night when investig