Florida Wife Tried for Murder of Husband

On the morning of January 12th, 2019, responders found 65-year-old Michael Redlick stabbed to death in his Winter Park home, according to The Mercury News. His wife, now 48-year-old Danielle Redlick, had alerted officers, but prosecutors in her trial this week pointed out that she waited eleven hours after the death to contact 911. She’d first claimed that Michael had suffered a heart attack, then that he had stabbed himself, states the Orlando Sentinel. Police additionally report that two hours before the call, Redlick accessed a dating app on her phone.

Undergoing further testimony today, Redlick still pleas innocent to her charges of second-degree murder and evidence tampering, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Her attorneys have allowed that she stabbed Michael once in self-defense after he found another man’s texts on her phone and attacked her, according to the Orlando Sentinel, but The Mercury News elaborates further, saying Danielle’s current story is that the argument occurred two days before Michael’s death. On the 12th, Michael wrested the knife away from Danielle and she fled to the bathroom, emerging to find him unresponsive on the floor; “she attempted CPR but then fell asleep,” and finally called 911 in the morning.

The Mercury News adds that Danielle filed for divorce in 2018 but did not finish the process in court, and she had just begun living with Michael again in January 2019. The Redlicks had two children aged 15 and 11 at that time.

Redlick faces up to life in prison, and previously rejected an offer of ten or more years for pleading guilty to manslaughter.