An Oregon City man condemned to rot behind bars for the slaying of his bride - got slapped with a life sentence Wednesday, after he admitted to the cold-blooded second-degree murder of his wife, officials said.
Forty-one-year-old Anthony Wessel won't taste freedom for at least 25 years, handcuffed by a life sentence without parole for extinguishing the life of 37-year-old Anna Wessel, as reported by the Clackamas County. It all started when Wessel waltzed into the Oregon City Police Department on a bleak November 13, 2023, with a chilling confession: he'd offed his wife and he was there to spill the beans about his crime, which he had initially planned as a murder-suicide Wessel had a change of heart scribbling a margin note in the same breath he opted to turn himself in instead of following through with the suicide, according to authorities.
Police, acting on Wessel's grim tale, descended on the Wessel homestead where they stumbled upon Anna's lifeless body and a note meant for the cops, penned by the killer himself. The note laid bare Wessel's sinister intentions - a planned murder-suicide pact he ultimately could not complete, according to Clackamas County.
While combing through the evidence at the crime scene, detectives unearthed more haunting written confessionals - Wessel had detailed his murderous plot in black and white, and now those words would cost him a lifetime behind prison walls, Judge Cody Weston sealed Wessel's fate with a lifetime in the clink, reaffirmed by Clackamas County officials the sentence was handed down in a court that heard the sordid details of a premeditated.
