Stoess pleads guilty to murder in double-shooting

Edward Stoess pleaded guilty Tuesday morning in Kentucky to murdering his estranged wife's boyfriend in 2006. Stoess pleaded guilty to murder and burglary in the first degree; he will be sentenced to 50 years in the Kentucky Department of Corrections. Stoess was sentenced in Floyd County in 2007 to 30 years in prison for shooting his wife, Deena Stoess, three times; she survived but was left paralyzed. Photograph of Edward Stoess accompanies the article