A Georgia solider accused of using insurance money he received after his wife's death to fund an anti-government militia will face a court-martial for murder, Desert News reported.
Pvt. Isaac Aguigui is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Sgt. Deirdre Aguigui, in July 2011, said Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson on Wednesday. Prosecutors said she was in handcuffs when she died, likely from being choked.
Commanders decided to not try for the death penalty.
Two months earlier, Pvt. Isaac Aguigui plead guilty to civilian murder charges for the deaths of former soldier Michael Roark and his girlfriend, Tiffany York, who were found shot to death in the woods a few months before his wife's murder. He was sentenced to life in prison and three other soliders -- Sgt. Anthony Peden, Pvt. Christopher Salmon, and Pfc. Michael Burnet -- were charged in the deaths as well.
The Huffington Post reported that prosecutors said he recruited angry soldiers to commit theft, purchase weapons, and kill people for a militia that allegedly planned to bomb a park fountain in Savannah, poison apple crops in Washington, and assasinate the U.S. president. After receiving $500,000 from his wife's life insurance policy, he invested all of it in the militia group, F.E.A.R. -- short for Forever Enduring Always Ready.
His attorneys for each criminal case, Capt. Scott Noto and Newell Hamilton Jr., have not commented on the allegations.
At least 11 soliders have been arrested in relation to the militia on charges of theft, drug dealing, and murder.
When investigators asked Aguigui about the killings of Roark and York, he reportedly told authorities he was "the nicest cold-blooded murderer you will ever meet."
During the 2008 Republican National Convention, Aguigui worked as a page.
