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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Man pleads guilty to killing wife found whose remains was found Sept in their exploded home</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Steven Pirus of Madison was sentenced to life behind bars, after pleading guilty to first-degree intentional homicide Monday in the death of his wife, Lee Ann Pirus </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>After shooting his wife Pirus, 60, reportedly blew up their Southwest Side home to cover up the crime</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The remains of 50-year-old Lee Ann was found in the wreckage of their home</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Autopsy result contradicted Steven&#8217;s alibi that Lee Anne Pirus was suicidal, she had a gun inflicted head wound did not appear consistent with suici</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">de</span></h6>
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Steven Pirus, was sentenced to life in prison Monday, after pleading guilty to first-degree intentional homicide in the death of his wife, Lee Ann Pirus</strong></h6>
<p>A Wisconsin man accused of fatally shooting his wife and then blowing up his home in September to cover up the killing was sentenced to life in prison Monday.<br />
Steven Pirus of Madison was sentenced after pleading guilty to first-degree intentional homicide Monday in the death of his wife, 50-year-old Lee Ann Pirus.<br />
Pirus, 60, was on trial for shooting and killing his wife, Lee Anne, sometime last year and then in September blew up their Southwest Side home. Her decomposed body was found in the wreckage of the couple’s home.<br />
At sentencing on Monday, the judge asked him what he did, Pirus replied, “I killed my wife, your honor.”<br />
Asked whether he did that with intent, Pirus answered, “Yes.”<br />
<a href="http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/courts/man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-wife-whose-body-was-found/article_1584a401-577f-5eec-aa3a-4517e6544787.html">The Wisconsin State Journal reports</a> that other charges, including arson, first-degree reckless endangerment and animal mistreatment, against Pirus were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.<br />
However, Dane County Circuit Judge Nicholas McNamara can consider those charges when he decides when, if ever, Pirus would be eligible for release.<br />
Under Wisconsin law, Pirus cannot be made eligible for release until he has served at least 20 years in prison.<br />
Deputy District Attorney Matthew Moeser said he has only agreed not to ask that Pirus never be made eligible. <img class=" size-full wp-image-292181 alignright" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Lee-Ann-Pirus-1.png" alt="Lee Ann Pirus 1.png" width="312" height="404" /><br />
According to the criminal complaint, Pirus gave several conflicting stories about his wife’s death, first telling police that he last saw her alive when he left for work on Sept. 13, the day the house exploded. Then he claimed Lee Ann [photo, left], killed herself. Eventually he admitted shooting her weeks earlier, but claimed she begged him to do it, the complaint said.Police and prosecutors alleged that Pirus sent money to a Russian woman seeking to come to the U.S. and also made payments to online dating sites in the months before the blast.<br />
Pirus initially told investigators his wife had a mental health disability but was taking her prescribed medications. He said she had talked about suicide in the past but he was unaware of any attempts. Her psychiatrist told a detective that she denied any suicidal thoughts at her last visit.<br />
The autopsy found Lee Anne Pirus had a gunshot wound in the head that did not appear consistent with suicide.</p>
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<strong>Autopsy result contradicted Steven&#8217;s story that Lee Anne Pirus was suicidal. She had a gunshot wound in the head that did not appear consistent with suicide</strong></h6>
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<p>When the house exploded, four of the Pirus’ five pets were killed and some neighbouring homes were damaged.<br />
Pirus initially told police that he had loosened the gas connection to the clothes dryer and extinguished the pilot light on the water heater, figuring that an explosion would eventually happen. At that point, he said he was trying to cover his wife’s suicide.<br />
But later Pirus told police he came home one night to find his wife crying, and she begged him to help her kill herself. He said that she already had a gun.<br />
“She just finally wore me down and she just kept begging and begging and pleading with me to do that,” the complaint quoted him as saying.</p>
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Wisconsin man Steven Pirus, sentenced to life in prison, after admitting first-degree intentional homicide in the death of his wife, Lee Ann
