HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- An Indiana man was arrested for the 1990 murder of his wife after his teenage daughter turned him in because he allegedly threatened to kill her.
Alicia Boesel, 19, had heard from her father all her life that her mother had abandoned the family for a truck driver and would never be coming back, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Then one night, her father, Rodney Boesel, 51, of Hammond, became upset when he could not locate his medication. The teen told authorities she was helping her father look for his medication when she saw a machete on top of a home entertainment center, the newspaper said.
"He said, 'Why are you looking at that? You don't know what to do with that. I'll kill you like I killed your mother,'" she recalled.
The girl left the home and called sheriff's detectives, wanting to know if her father's slip of the tongue could be used to help solve her missing mother's case. Investigators said Rodney Boesel was subsequently picked up on a minor infraction warrants, and eventually admitted to police that he had accidentally killed his wife, Donna, in 1990.
