A Granbury woman accused of killing her husband's mistress in Missouri told him that she did it to protect him and others from "this evil woman," according to a Missouri probable-cause affidavit obtained Sunday by the Star-Telegram.
After the slaying Friday afternoon in Gladestone, Mo., Shannon L. O'Roark Griffin called her husband, told him that she had killed Irina Puscariu and that the Missouri woman was not going to hurt anyone else again, the affidavit said.Before the shooting, Roscoe L.O. Griffin, 62, had told his wife that he wasn't leaving Puscariu and that he wanted a divorce, the affidavit said. A Kansas City, Mo., TV station said he is a retired Air Force colonel.Griffin, 52, was in the Sedgwick County Jail in Wichita, Kan., on Sunday, awaiting extradition to Missouri on charges of murder and armed criminal action in the slaying of Puscariu, 46.She was being held in lieu of $1 million bail.Griffin was stopped and arrested without incident at about 5 p.m. Friday on Interstate 35 near Newton, Kan., by a Kansas state trooper. At the time of her arrest, Griffin told a trooper that there were two unloaded handguns in her white Buick Lucerne.The killing shocked the town of Gladestone, which is a suburb of Kansas City, Mo. Gladestone is about 600 miles from Granbury."It's pretty rare; it's been three years since the last homicide," Gladestone city spokesman Richard King said Sunday. "Neighbors were concerned but not at all in a state of panic."The affidavit gave this account of the killing Friday:Roscoe Griffin told authorities that he and his wife had a meeting with a therapist in Great Bend, Kan., on Friday. In the meeting, Roscoe Griffin told his wife about Puscariu and that he was not going to leave her. Shannon Griffin left the meeting.In telephone conversations after the meeting, the couple discussed a divorce.In one last call before the slaying, Shannon Griffin called her husband and told him that "he was not the first person I. Puscariu would hurt and would not be the last," the affidavit stated.Hours after the couple's meeting in Great Bend, Aneta Puscariu, Irina Puscariu's mother, told investigators that a woman rang the doorbell to her daughter's Gladestone's home and that she allowed the woman in. At some point, as the women were about four feet from each other, the visitor pulled out a gun and shot Irina Puscariu three times, Aneta Puscariu said.That visitor later was identified as Shannon Griffin, according to the affidavit.After the meeting in Great Bend, Roscoe Griffin went home, took a nap and was awakened by his daughter, who told him that "Mom" had just called and said she shot and killed "Irina," according to the affidavit.Roscoe Griffin called Irina's home, and her mother answered and confirmed that Irina was dead. He then called Gladestone police.As he drove to the Gladestone Police Department, Roscoe Griffin had several conversations with his wife as she was driving in Kansas, according to the affidavit.Shannon Griffin admitted to the shooting and told her husband, "I. Puscariu was not going to ever hurt anyone else again," according to the affidavit. It was also during the conversations that Shannon Griffin said she did it to protect her husband and others from Puscariu, the affidavit stated. A website for Puscariu stated she had 15 years of medical experience and practiced psychiatry in the Kansas City area.Domingo Ramirez Jr.,817-390-7763Twitter: @stcrime
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