Police: Nurse killed husband to marry inmate

MILLER COUNTY, Mo. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - A Missouri woman is behind bars after allegedly killing her husband to marry an inmate.

Police said 41-year-old Amy Murray poisoned her husband with antifreeze, placed his body on a bed, and set him on fire.

An autopsy concluded he most likely died of the poison.

Police say Murray was a nurse at a correctional center and was having a relationship with an inmate.

She's charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

FOX 5 News reported this story from Atlanta.