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Abortion doctor guilty of murdering wife

By: Carole Novielli

The conviction of Oklahoma City abortionist John Hamilton in the 2001 Valentine s Day murderof his wife Susan Hamilton will be examined on True Crime with Aphrodite Jones in anepisode titled Loved to Death, airing at 9 p.m. Monday on Investigation Discovery.

Abortionist John Baxter

Hamilton

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Hamilton performed abortions at the Oklahoma Clinic for Women in Oklahoma City, OK.Hamilton was found guilty in the Valentine s Day killing of his wife, Susan Hamilton, 55. Hernude body was found lying in blood in the master bathroom of the Hamiltons Quail Creekhome, her skull fractured and face disfigured. She had been choked with a necktie and beaten todeath.

December 11, 2001, The Oklahoman detailedthe murder trial ofabortionist John BaxterHamilton. Hamilton performed abortions at the Oklahoma Clinic for Women in Oklahoma City,OK.

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Hamilton was found guilty in the Valentine s Day killing of his wife, Susan Hamilton, 55. Hernude body was found lying in blood in the master bathroom of the Hamiltons Quail Creekhome, her skull fractured and face disfigured. She had been choked with a necktie and beaten todeath.

News Reports of the case indicated that Hamilton s wife had suspected the abortionist of havingan affair with a topless dancer who may have been a patient of the doctor s. His wife wasconsidering leaving him and talking of divorce two days before the murder.

Authorities noted that after Hamilton murdered his wife he then called 911 to report the

death. Authorities found the woman dead on the couples master bedroom floor.

He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the murder of his wife andwas ordered to pay $11,104 for the cost of his incarceration. Following his murder conviction,Oklahoma and Tennessee revoked his medical license and on September 19, 2003, Hamilton

voluntarily surrendered his Georgia license.

In 2010, NewsOk.com reported (In TV interview, Oklahoma doctor says he didn t kill wife, BYKEN RAYMOND, March 27, 2010) that John Baxter Hamilton, an Oklahoma City physicianconvicted of murdering his wife on Valentine s Day 2001, proclaimed his innocence in a prisoninterview that aired Friday on Dateline NBC. I didn t do it, he said. I didn t kill Susan. Hamilton, 62, was an Oklahoma City obstetrician, gynecologist and abortionist. On Feb. 14,2001, he phoned 911 to report finding his wife in the master bathroom of their Quail Creek

home.

Susan Hamilton, 55, had been strangled with two neckties and beaten. Her husband was

arrested that day and later charged with her murder.

Hamilton maintained his innocence throughout his trial, which may have turned on dramatictestimony from the final witness in the case.

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Tom Bevel, a blood spatter expert hired by the defense, testified on cross examination that the most probable explanation for blood inside Hamilton s shirt sleeve was that he had struck hiswife with a blunt object.

With that revelation, the defense expert became the star witness for the trial s prosecution.

It was a shock to everybody, Hamilton said on the news program. Nobody expected that to happen. On Dateline NBC, as in his legal appeals, Hamilton criticized Bevel and the accuracy of hisblood spatter analysis, which Hamilton called junk science. His attorneys have claimed that police had improper contact with Bevel, who is a former policeofficer, during the trial. Bevel and prosecutors have denied those allegations.

He (Hamilton) was really clinging to the defense lines that the blood result was not the way itwas interpreted, Dennis Murphy, a Dateline NBC reporter, told The Oklahoman on

Wednesday. Blood spatter is not an exact science, and Bevel had gone over to the dark side onhim. He has not given an inch in that regard. Murphy said Hamilton still has the command authority of a physician and chatted aboutvacationing in Italy as if he was st ill in touch with the outside world. Hamilton is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole at the state penitentiary inMcAlester.

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