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Geoffrey Adams expected to die before sentencing for killing his wife Colleen in 1973
South Australia’s oldest-ever solved cold case disappearance will end without wife-killer Geoffrey Gordon Adams being sentenced for manslaughter.
Key points:
- Geoffrey Adams killed his wife Colleen in 1973
- In August, he was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder
- He is expected to die of brain cancer before he can be sentenced
Supreme Court Justice David Peek today allowed the media to report that the 72-year-old was dying of cancer.
Adams pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied he murdered his 24-year-old wife Colleen Adams inside their matrimonial home at Maitland, on the Yorke Peninsula, in November 1973.
Her remains were not found until September 2018 — after Adams confessed to killing her.
The jury acquitted him of murder in…
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