- Elizabeth Larson
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Upper Lake man arrested for wife’s murder
William “Bill” Morton Henry, 64, was taken into custody Thursday morning for the murder of 51-year-old Cindi Henry, according to Lt. Corey Paulich of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
Relatives found Cindi Henry dead in her Elliot Street home on Monday, as Lake County News has reported.
Detectives with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office’s Major Crimes unit subsequently launched a search for Bill Henry, who was not at home at the time his wife’s body was discovered and had last been seen there by family between Saturday evening and early Sunday morning.
Paulich said an autopsy was conducted on Cindi Henry’s body on Wednesday. The findings confirmed that her death was a homicide, with the cause of death being mechanical asphyxiation.
Authorities so far have not given a time frame for when Cindi Henry died.
Paulich said Major Crimes unit detectives had obtained a probable cause arrest warrant for Bill Henry before the autopsy was completed.
Just after 9 a.m. Thursday, the sheriff’s office received information that Henry was at his residence in Upper Lake, Paulich said.
Deputies responded to the residence and contacted Henry, who they took into custody without incident, Paulich said.
Henry gave deputies a statement, but Paulich said they are not releasing the specifics of that statement at this time.
Paulich said Henry is in custody at the Lake County Jail on $1 million bail.
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