Woman’s Day (Australia)

The heartbroke­n husband

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We all love you you, please come home,” Mark Galante begged his pregnant 26-year-old missing wife Jody. Days later, on January 14, 2006, her body was found dumped in the NSW Blue Mountains. She had been shot in the head. Galante, 29, sobbed alongside Jody’s family at her funeral, but two months after her death, he was arrested and confessed. Galante told police his wife had said the baby she was carrying wasn’t his and that she was going to leave him and take their two-year-old. But police discovered evidence of his own sordid internet dealings, including an affair with a woman he met online. He also stood to inherit Jody’s $598,834 life insurance payout. He was sentenced to 27 years in jail for the murder.

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