A man who walked into the Lynnwood Police Department with a note saying he had killed his wife was charged Thursday with second-degree murder in Snohomish County Superior Court.
John A. Derosia, 48, is accused of the strangulation death of Marilyn Derosia, 51, whose body was found in the couple’s mobile home the morning of Nov. 17.
According to court documents, Derosia and his wife had been drinking Nov. 14 when the two began to argue.
She hit him on the shoulder, and Derosia said he "just lost it," documents say.
He told officers he was tired of being hit by her, and he struck her in the face with his fists. She looked bad but was still making noise, so he grabbed a sweater and pulled it tight around her neck, documents say.
He released pressure, then tightened it a couple of more times, documents say. She stopped making noise, and Derosia went to sleep at the foot of the bed that night and the next.
He said he didn’t contact police immediately "because he wanted to say goodbye to Marilyn," documents say.
The note he gave to a police clerk gave the mobile home’s address and said: "In the back bedroom is my wife. She is dead. So I am here to turn myself in for killing wife. The door is unlocked so you can get in."
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