A Virginia man has been indicted on murder charges for the 2021 death of his wife, which authorities say he staged to appear as a suicide.
Ross Butler, 56, was indicted by a grand jury in Chesterfield, Virginia, on May 18 on charges of murder and strangulation in the death of his wife, 36-year-old Ashlee Butler. He was arrested this week in Florida after authorities learned he had been living there. The case dates back to December 20, 2021, when Ashlee Butler's body was found at the couple's home on the 5500 block of Alberta Road in Chesterfield, an unincorporated community about 15 miles southwest of Richmond.