DOVER, MASS. (WHDH) - A former Dover doctor who was once the Chief of Urology at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton admitted to killing his wife and getting rid of her body in a pond.
Ingolf Tuerk, 63, strangled his third wife Kathleen McLean in their home in 2020. He recounted the night McLean saw a text from another woman and hit him over the head with a glass.
While testifying, Tuerk said the two got into an argument while drinking. Tuerk says he “snapped” and grabbed her by the neck. He said this all happened while the couple was going through a divorce.
“She just flailed around, kind of flailed around. We fell to the floor together, in sync,” said Tuerk during his testimony. “When I came out of my blackout, that’s where we were… She was not responsive. I asked her, Katie, c’mon, please wake up. Katie, wake up.”
When asked if he realized she didn’t wake up and what he did then, Tuerk says he put her on a bed, tried CPR, and sat there crying when it didn’t work. Tuerk said he panicked.
Tuerk testified that he carried her out of the house, put her in the passenger seat of their car, drove to a nearby pond, and dumped her body in the water. He also admitted on the witness stand that he used rocks to try to weigh her body down.
Tuerk said he eventually moved his wife’s body because he didn’t want her three children to find her dead.
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