Beau Rothwell, 31, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his wife of four years, Jennifer Rothwell, who was pregnant at the time, KSDK reported Friday. “We issued this murder case first and as stated in today’s sentencing, we never made any other offers. This was not an option,” St. Louis County District Attorney Wesley Bell said, according to the station. Bo Rothwell of Missouri was sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 murder of his wife Jennifer Rothwell. Facebook Bell also mentioned how Jennifer Rothwell will never be able to hold the child she was six weeks pregnant with at the time of her death. “We felt that this person needed to be held accountable for their actions and that’s what we intended to do.” Bo Rothwell was found guilty of first-degree murder and lesser charges earlier this year. Rothwell admitted to killing his wife during his trial, but claimed it was not planned. Louis County Sheriff’s Department via AP At trial, he admitted killing his wife but insisted it was not planned and rather happened during a heated argument over a relationship he had with another woman, hoping to be found guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter. He testified that he hit his 28-year-old wife with a hammer in November 2019. Prosecutors argued the husband was a careful planner, showing texts between him and another woman in the months before the killing and a list of pros and cons he drew up about whether to leave his wife. He was also seen on camera buying cleaning products the day before Jennifer Rothwell disappeared, police previously said. Her badly beaten body was found a week after she was reported missing by Beau Rothwell. “To Jennifer’s family, words cannot describe how sorry I am. This should never have happened,” Bo Rothwell said during the sentencing, according to KSDK.
