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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has refused to overturn the murder conviction of a Minden woman sentenced to life in prison for killing her husband and dumping his body in the desert in 2006.
The high court on Thursday rejected 45-year-old Karen Bodden's appeal. She was convicted in 2008 of fatally shooting Robin Bodden.
The 50-year-old mechanic at Minden-Tahoe Airport was shot twice in the head in with a .22-caliber weapon that was never recovered.
Authorities said Bodden killed him in an airport hangar because she had been embezzling money from him and his business.
Bodden's appeal argued that her original attorneys were ineffective, partly because they failed to present her alibi claiming that a man named Ramos killed her husband and dropped him out an airplane.
The Supreme Court disagreed.
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