People v. Craver

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County (Keegan, J.), rendered January 18, 1991, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of murder in the second degree.

*818Defendant strangled his wife in April 1989 and buried her body in the dirt floor of a neighbor’s garage. Defendant later reported his wife missing to the local police and engaged in certain conduct to deflect suspicion from focusing on him as the cause for her disappearance. Laura Vescey, a local newspaper reporter, conducted several interviews with defendant, and defendant also appeared in several videotaped…