William Hurst Gets Life in Wife’s 1982 Death
The disappearance of Amy Rose Hurst from her New Port Richey home had been a Pasco County cold case for decades until DNA evidence was used to identify a body found months after the woman went missing.
Pasco County Sheriff’s detectives have one less cold case in their files. William Hurst of Kentucky was sentenced last week to life in prison, following a Pasco jury’s decision to convict him on a first-degree murder charge in relation to the death of his wife, Amy Rose Hurst, in 1982, Channel 10 is reporting. Amy Rose Hurst disappeared from her New Port Richey home in the 80s. A few months later, a body found wrapped in an afghan, tied to a cement block, was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. That body was eventually classified as a Jane Doe because a positive identification couldn’t be made. While Pasco detectives questioned Amy Rose’s husband, William Hurst, they could not make a charge stick. Without a body, there wasn't a crime, …
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