How Denise Williams Orchestrated Her Husband's Murder

Denise Williams was arrested in 2018 and charged with murdering her husband, Mike Williams — almost two decades after Mike's death was chalked up to an alligator attack.

When Mike Williams went missing in December 2000, police initially believed that he had been killed by alligators during a hunting trip in Florida’s Lake Seminole. His wife, Denise Williams, seemed bereft, and the whole incident was chalked up to a tragic accident.

But 17 years later, police found Mike’s body 60 miles away in Tallahassee. Mike’ death was clearly not an accident. And police began to suspect that Denise Williams had had something to do with her husband’s demise.

She had been the one to petition to declare her husband dead — and she’d taken out a large insurance policy on him before his disappearance. What