Man pleads guilty in cold case murder
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 2, 2008
PROVIDENCE—A 52-year-old man has admitted killing another man in 1990 that he believed was having an affair with his ex-wife.
Keith Burke pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Wednesday and was sentenced to 28 years in prison for killing Robert McHugh. Burke was already serving a 20-year sentence for intimidating a witness, his ex-wife.
His plea just before the start of a trial closed a cold case reopened by North Providence police and prosecutors.
A grand jury indicted Burke on a murder charge in 1992. The case was dismissed two years later when Deborah Burke remarried the defendant and refused to testify against her husband. They have since divorced.
A spokesman for Attorney General Patrick Lynch said the woman recently told prosecutors that Burke threatened to kill her unless she remarried him.
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