Melanie Lyn McGuire is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering her husband, Bill McGuire on April 28, 2004. That night, McGuire allegedly drugged her husband, shot him to death and, subsequently, dismembered his body. She put his remains into a 3-piece suitcase set. Those three pieces were later found in Chesapeake Bay in what media dubbed the 'Suitcase Murder'. She was sentenced to life in prison, on July 19, 2007, and is serving her sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey. She will not be eligible for parole until she is 101 years old. By April 2004, the McGuires had been married for five years. Melanie was a nurse at a fertility clinic and Bill was a computer programmer. The couple had two sons and lived in a Woodbridge Township, New Jersey apartment, but planned to move that month to a larger home in Warren County. They closed the documents on their new house, on April 28, but never moved in. That night, according to the prosecution, McGuire drugged her husband, shot him to death and, subsequently, dismembered his body. She put his remains into a 3-piece suitcase set. Those three pieces were later found in Chesapeake Bay. On May 5, 2004, the first suitcase, containing human legs, was found floating near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel's fourth artificial island. On May 11, a second larger suitcase was found on the beach of Fisherman Island. That suitcase contained a head and a torso. The head had one bullet wound and the torso had two bullet wounds to the chest. The third and smallest suitcase, containing arms, was recovered floating in the water near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel's second artificial island, on May 16. Police released a facial reconstruction sketch of the victim which an acquaintance of Bill McGuire's recognized. Melanie then became the prime suspect. On April 23, 2007, McGuire's murder trial jury found her guilty of first-degree murder, finding that the evidence established her culpability for the murder beyond a reasonable doubt. She was also convicted of the lesser charges of perjury, desecration of human remains and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.