Jury acquits Georgia man of wife’s murder in shocking cold case

A Fulton County jury delivered another blow to prosecutors late last week, acquitting a man in the decades-old cold case killing of his young wife whose scattered, decomposing remains weren’t discovered until months after her disappearance in the late 1990s.

It took jurors just two hours to acquit Christopher Wolfenbarger of the lone murder count he still faced by the time the case was handed to them. Judge Rachel Krause dismissed a second felony murder charge ahead of closing arguments Friday, ruling that if a weapon had been used in his wife’s alleged killing, no evidence to support that was presented at trial.

The felony murder charge was predicated on the theory that Wolfenbarger had used a weapon to kill his wife Melissa Dawn Wolfenbarger.

Wolfenbarger’s attorneys argued the prosec