Major v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice SCOTT.

This is a matter of right appeal, Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b), following a retrial before the Boone Circuit Court pursuant to our prior decision in Major v. Commonwealth, 177 S.W.3d 700 (Ky.2005) (hereafter referred to as Major I).

Facts

The facts on retrial, with some exceptions, were essentially the same as in Major I. Appellant, William Major, and his wife, Marlene Major, had two (2) children, a son, D.O., and a daughter, L.B. By the fall of 1980, however, their marriage was failing. On the night of October 11, 1980, Marlene disappeared.

On November 29, 1981,…