Guilt-stricken husband of woman who vanished ‘confesses to her murder exactly 13 years later’
A husband wracked by guilt about murdering his wife finally confessed to the crime 13 years to the day after committing it, police say.
Keith Comfort, 37, is reported to have walked into Lake Geneva Police Department in Wisconsin on August 4 to admit killing his wife Megan Shultz exactly 13 years earlier.
He is said to have told police that he ‘grabbed’ Shultz then ‘took her to the ground and strangled her’ after a row which saw her ‘frantic’ and ‘swinging her arms at him.’
Court documents seen by Fox6 claim that Comfort put Shultz’s body ‘in a black garbage bag’ then ‘thew her in the dumpster.’
Shultz vanished while she and Comfort were living in Columbia, Missouri.
Her body has never been recovered.
Comfort only filed a missing person’s report about Shultz when asked by his concerned mother-in-law where her daughter had gone.
Games Inbox: What’s your worst game of the year so far?Just three weeks after filing that report, Comfort filed for divorce and moved to Wisconsin.
He remarried, but divorced again a year ago, and had been living in a long-stay motel at the time of his alleged confession.
His alleged victim’s mother Debra Shultz said: ‘Keith could smile and put on the charm, but he was a very troubled young man.
‘Keith had it down to an art – of lying and smiling.’
Comfort was charged with second-degree murder on August 5, and is being held at Walworth County Jail pending an extradition back to Missouri.
His bond has been set at $1million.