Andrew J. St. George of Norway appears Friday in Oxford County Superior Court in Paris by videoconference from Oxford County Jail where he pleaded not guilty to murdering his estranged wife. screenshot from video
PARIS — A Norway man, who police said drove his truck over his estranged wife before fatally stabbing her in July, denied a murder charge Friday.
Andrew J. St. George, 61, appeared in Oxford County Superior Court by videoconference from Oxford County Jail in Paris.
He pleaded not guilty to a charge of intentional or knowing or depraved indifference murder, which was handed up in August by an Oxford County grand jury.
If convicted, St. George could be sentenced from 25 years to life in prison.
He has been held at the jail without bail since his July arrest.
His attorney, Jeffrey Wilson, said Friday that he would not argue for the release of his client, but may seek a bail hearing in the future.
Judge Katherine Tierney, who presided over the arraignment, said she would schedule a status conference that would include the trial judge assigned to the case, the defense attorney and prosecutor.
Police said St. George had called his son and told him he had just killed his wife, Barbara, 60, and planned to kill himself.
He and his wife had reportedly been feuding over ownership of the home at 353 Greenwood Road in Norway, where investigators found a 2018 full-size Chevrolet pickup truck registered to St. George parked in the driveway at the home on July 7.
A woman was lying face-down under the truck’s driver’s side front tire, police said.
The front and rear quarter panels of the truck showed damage and its bumper was down the driveway from where the truck was parked, according to police.
St. George was located in a fenced area behind a parked camper clutching several knives when police took him into custody.
The couple had been separated for two years and reportedly had a history of relationship issues, including verbal and physical abuse, police said.
The medical examiner who conducted an autopsy on Barbara St. George, concluded she “died as a result of injuries sustained as a result of being run over by a vehicle and had sustained multiple stab wounds located in several areas of her body,” police said.
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