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Coroner IDs body as GV man
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| Taub |
By Jaime Richardson, Green Valley News
The body of a man found Feb. 15 in a Villages of Green Valley home has been identified as that of David Taub, a Pima County Sheriff’s spokesperson said Tuesday.
Pima County’s Office of the Medical Examiner confirmed the identity through medical X-rays, though the cause of death has not been determined, spokesperson Deputy Dawn Hanke said.
Officials are awaiting the results of toxicology tests, though Hanke confirmed that officials have ruled out homicide.
The decomposing body was discovered in Taub’s West Rio Moctezuma home after Sheriff’s officials received a call to check on the Green Valley man’s welfare.
Taub, 63, was charged for the October murder of wife Sherry Taub, 60. He told police he found her beaten and strangled in their RV outside a Lordsburg, N.M., truck stop, but he drove 120 miles from Lordsburg to Las Cruces before reporting the incident. He was released on $50,000 bond in January.
Taub’s wife suffered from paralysis related to muscular dystrophy.
The sister of Taub’s wife expressed mixed feelings at not having to sit through a trial in an interview with the Las Cruces Sun-News.
“In a way, I wish he would have sat in a courtroom and had to face us,” Nancy Kuhary, sister of Sherry Taub, said in a telephone interview with the News-Sun from her home in North Carolina. But she later added, “The trial would have been hard.”
Taub was to stand trail May 5 in New Mexico state court in Las Cruces. The Sheriff’s department said Taub likely died of natural causes, but he reportedly tried to commit suicide just before he was arrested for his wife’s murder.
Taub killed his wife because he couldn’t deal with her paralysis, Kuhary told the Sun-News.
“He did not have to beat her to death,” she told the newspaper. “What kind of a husband beats and strangles his wife of 34 years?”
Taub was charged with murder a week after his wife’s death, the same day he attempted suicide.
According to court records in Las Cruces, Taub confessed to the slaying, but his attorney said Taub had not decided whether to proceed to trial or seek a plea agreement.
jrichardson@gvnews.com | 547-9726
Includes information from The Associated Press.
Pima County’s Office of the Medical Examiner confirmed the identity through medical X-rays, though the cause of death has not been determined, spokesperson Deputy Dawn Hanke said.
Officials are awaiting the results of toxicology tests, though Hanke confirmed that officials have ruled out homicide.
The decomposing body was discovered in Taub’s West Rio Moctezuma home after Sheriff’s officials received a call to check on the Green Valley man’s welfare.
Taub, 63, was charged for the October murder of wife Sherry Taub, 60. He told police he found her beaten and strangled in their RV outside a Lordsburg, N.M., truck stop, but he drove 120 miles from Lordsburg to Las Cruces before reporting the incident. He was released on $50,000 bond in January.
Taub’s wife suffered from paralysis related to muscular dystrophy.
The sister of Taub’s wife expressed mixed feelings at not having to sit through a trial in an interview with the Las Cruces Sun-News.
“In a way, I wish he would have sat in a courtroom and had to face us,” Nancy Kuhary, sister of Sherry Taub, said in a telephone interview with the News-Sun from her home in North Carolina. But she later added, “The trial would have been hard.”
Taub was to stand trail May 5 in New Mexico state court in Las Cruces. The Sheriff’s department said Taub likely died of natural causes, but he reportedly tried to commit suicide just before he was arrested for his wife’s murder.
Taub killed his wife because he couldn’t deal with her paralysis, Kuhary told the Sun-News.
“He did not have to beat her to death,” she told the newspaper. “What kind of a husband beats and strangles his wife of 34 years?”
Taub was charged with murder a week after his wife’s death, the same day he attempted suicide.
According to court records in Las Cruces, Taub confessed to the slaying, but his attorney said Taub had not decided whether to proceed to trial or seek a plea agreement.
jrichardson@gvnews.com | 547-9726
Includes information from The Associated Press.
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