On this day, June 29, in 2001, a 60-year-old Boston doctor was found guilty of murdering his wife of more than 30 years.
In October 1999, Dirk Greineder called police saying his 58-year-old wife, Mary, had been attacked and killed in their local park. He told officials his wife’s back was hurting so he stepped away to exercise their dog. When he returned, Greineder said he found her dead.
Police said she was stabbed in the chest and nearly decapitated. They found the murder weapons in a wooded area.
Friends and family told investigators the couple had been very close. But as detectives dug into Greineder’s life, they found that the doctor had been spending several hours a day on porn Web sites and frequenting prostitutes. In the week before Mary Greineder’s death, police said the doctor’s sex addiction had spun out of control.