Wife accuses husband of having affair, then he kills her, Florida officials say
A man having an affair got in a fight with his wife on Thanksgiving, then he sat on her chest and held her down until she died, Florida authorities said.
Now, a jury has convicted 45-year-old Eugene Anderson of manslaughter, the State Attorney’s Office for the Fourth Judicial Circuit announced April 24.
Anderson’s attorney declined to comment to McClatchy News.
Anderson got into an argument with his sister on Thanksgiving 2022 over a picture of him that was posted on Facebook, and his mother asked him to leave, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office wrote in an arrest affidavit.
Velvet Anderson took her husband home and planned to come back to the dinner afterward, police said.
Ring camera footage showed the woman outside her home with her neighbor, talking and laughing, before she went back to the family gathering, according to officers.
Eugene Anderson said when his wife got home again, she tried to fight him and armed herself with a butter knife, police wrote. He said he grabbed her from behind, brought her down to the floor and straddled her with her face down, police said.
He told officers she was able to breathe and move, then she went to sleep.
The husband wrapped the Ring camera in a towel and threw it in the trash, then called police in the afternoon, according to authorities.
A medical examiner ruled Velvet Anderson’s cause of death was mechanical asphyxiation by chest compression.
Investigators looked through Velvet and Eugene Anderson’s cellphones and found text messages between them “discussing cheating,” as well as over 100 deleted messages and calls “between him and a woman he had an affair with,” authorities said.
Anderson was arrested nearly a year later when he was accused of choking a woman he was dating, records show.