

Mark fews wife free#
Watch More 'Dateline' Episodes In Our Free App Mark said he had been sleeping in a downstairs bedroom when he woke up to the sound of a carbon monoxide detector going off and ran to check on his wife, who had suffered from epilepsy since she was a child. “The flame would go out occasionally and he felt that was the problem due to the carbon monoxide detectors going off.” Wangler made a comment that they were having problems with this water heater in the past few weeks,” former Allen County Sheriff Sam Crish said. When Kathy was found dead in the upstairs bedroom of the family’s home, Mark told investigators he believed a faulty water heater was to blame. Mark admitted the marriage was struggling after their boys left for college and said Kathy had seemed depressed and had lost her “purpose in life.”Īccording to Mark, the couple had been in counseling to try to save the marriage at the time of her death. “And at one point, one of the boys jumped out and there was a lot of yelling and carrying on and Kathy left with the boys.” “She got in the car, the boys got in the car, Mark was hanging on the side of the car and Kathy was driving away, yelling at him,” she told Snow. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Her sister Diana remembered one incident after a family photo was taken where Kathy had stormed off in anger. They also described Mark as being critical of Kathy’s weight, her housekeeping skills, and her money habits. “She could never, ever forgive him for that,” her brother said. Kathy confided in her family that Mark had an affair, creating a permanent divide between the couple. “We were always, like, a very close family.”īut as the decades wore on, problems in the union began to surface.

“We were the family that you would give hugs and kisses every morning and every night before you go to bed and when you leave for school or even if you were just going out to hang out with your friends,” he said.

Son Aaron remembers growing up in a home filled with love. “It was a good marriage,” Mark told "Dateline" correspondent Kate Snow. The couple eventually had two sons, Aaron and Nathan, and moved to Lima, Ohio in 1990. While Mark went to medical school, Kathy worked to support the young family. The loud and bubbly Kathy complemented Mark’s more quiet personality, and t he pair got married a few years later in 1977 when Kathy was 18 years old and Mark was 21 years old.

Mark, three years her senior, swept the teen off her feet by serenading her outside her home with a guitar. Mark and Kathy Wangler started dating in the small town of Fort Recovery, Ohio when she was just 15 years old. It was a question that would divide a family and take years to unravel, according to “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered.” Was it a tragic accident set off by a faulty water heater inside the home as some believed? Or was it a much more calculated plan by her anesthesiologist husband, Mark, who had made his career by being an expert in gasses? 4, 2006.īut investigators were puzzled about how the 48-year-old was poisoned. The mother of two was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in an upstairs bedroom of her Lima, Ohio home on Sept.
