Man Who Told Wife's Children She Was Terminally Ill Pleads Guilty to Beating Her to Death with Hammer

Mar. 15, 2025

Jackie Glynn, left, and Joseph Glynn.Photo:Metro Nashville PD/X (2)

Metro Nashville PD/X (2)

A Tennessee man whokilled his wife with a hammerand told her children that she was terminally ill and had left home pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.

Joseph Glynn, 70, hit his wife, Jackie Glynn, 76, over the head with a hammer on Jan. 1, the Nashville Police Department said at the time. The next day, according to police, he drove her body to DeKalb County, Tenn., where he buried it.

Police said Joseph then told his deceased wife’s children that she had been terminally ill and decided to leave home, though her medical provider refuted that claim.

Police previously said Jackie’s body and car were found in separate locations in DeKalb County in the days after she went missing.

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“I was told my mother left and had been ill for a long time, and it was her will that they didn’t follow her,” Folk reportedly said, adding that his daughters doubted that their grandmother would have left without telling anyone.

“My oldest daughter, through tears, said, ‘Yaya wouldn’t do that. She loved us too much,’ ” Folk said, according to the outlet. “ ‘She would never leave us. Something has happened to Yaya. Dad, you have to find her.’ "

source: people.com