San Diego Based Marine Suspected of Killing Wife Pleads Not Guilty
A San Diego Miramar based Marine pled not guilty on Thursday to the murder of his 19 year-old wife of two months at their Mira Mesa apartment.
21 year-old Lance CPL. Patrick Thomas Poteat who had earlier allegedly confessed to the homicide, never reported to work on Tuesday at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. He sent his superior a text and told him to call 911 and “force entry into the apartment,” where “you’ll find my wife’s body,” said Deputy District Attorney Dan Link.
San Diego police found the body of Kalyn O’Barr-Poteat who with scratches on her neck appeared to have been choked to death. Kalyn who worked at Goldfingers Gentlemen's Club as a nude dancer had recently told her mother that her husbands temper was starting to frighten her.
Police also found a signed note by Poteat on the refrigerator confessing to the killing, linking the Marine to the murder. Poteat was heading to Twenty-nine Palms when officers arrested him for the San Diego murder of his wife. He is being held on $1 million bail. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled by Judge Szumowski on January 22. If Poteat is convicted he could face 25 years to life in prison.
Newlywed Expressed Fear of Marine Husband before Murder, San Diego 6 The CW, January 7, 2010
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