A husband who learned of his wife’s affair is accused of killing her with a corn rake in Iowa. Before her death, the woman left clues with a lover and friends describing the possible danger to her life if her husband were to uncover the affair.
12 years ago we said I do…
Posted by Amy Fuller Mullis on Sunday, 11 September 2016
Todd Mullis of Earville, 42, has now been charged for the Nov. 10, 2018, murder of 39-year-old Amy Mullis who was found impaled with the farmer’s tool, according to People. Todd claimed that his wife fell on the tool while helping with farm chores.
Todd called 911 reporting that his son found her impaled and hunched over, and that no one had seen what happened to her, according to People. However, upon investigation medical examiners noticed that the rake was four-pronged; but Amy had six puncture wounds.
The Iowa Public Safety Department said that Todd Mullis had called 911 and said no one had seen what happened — that her death was unattended.
The department says an autopsy report has since listed the manner of her death as homicide. https://t.co/gbJKeYXNgo pic.twitter.com/96CMYhnmAn
— The Courier (@wcfcourier) December 10, 2018
Posted by Amy Fuller Mullis on Saturday, 20 December 2014
Emergency Rush and Marital Problems
Todd told the police that he rushed his wife to the hospital after removing the rake from her body. On their way, an ambulance met them and transported Amy to the hospital, according to People. She was later pronounced dead.
Authorities found that the couple had been having marital problems and that Amy had been caught cheating with another man. She disclosed her worries with her friends and her lover.
Posted by Amy Fuller Mullis on Thursday, 5 February 2015
“You’ll know Todd did something to me,” she allegedly told a friend in case she vanished, according to People. “If he catches me, he might make me disappear,” she allegedly told one of her lovers. That lover said in an interview with investigators that Amy was “scared to death” of him.
The marital problems began in 2013 after Todd caught her cheating for the first time. And though Todd said that the relationship was okay, it was found that she had a second lover over the summer of 2018.
Interviews With Friends and Family
In an interview, a friend of Amy Mullis said that after Todd learned of the affair in 2018, one of their three children was crying and did not want to get on a bus because the child did not know of what may happen to the mother, according to Dyersville Commercial.
Amy’s brother Jeff Fuller said in an interview that Amy was planning to move out and leave her husband.
Another friend of Amy’s told Dyersville Commercial that after Amy’s alleged murder, Todd visited to say, “You really have to watch what you text on your phone because it could come back to bite you.”
The spokesman of the case told People that Todd’s iPad had also revealed incriminating evidence when investigated. Searches such as “what happened to cheating spouses in historic Aztec tribes,” “organs in the body,” and “killing unfaithful women,” were found.
Todd Mullis is being held in the Delaware County Jail on a $5 million cash-only bond. https://t.co/a6pUzwDgzm
— We Are Iowa Local 5 (@weareiowa5news) March 1, 2019
Todd has a hearing on March 8. He currently being held on $5 million cash bail.
