Wife of suspect in prison guard killing files for divorce
Apr 30, 2012, 6:10 AM | Updated: 7:13 am
The wife of Byron Scherf, the man suspected in the killing of Monroe Correctional Office Jayme Biendl is filing for divorce from her husband.
The woman married to an inmate accused of killing Monroe Correctional Officer Jayme Biendl is cutting loose from her man.
The Herald reports Byron Scherf’s wife has filed for divorce, saying their 24-year marriage is “irretrievably broken.”
The couple married while Scherf was serving a life sentence at the State Penitentiary in Walla Walla back in 1988. She was living in California at the time and met him through her church’s letter-writing ministry.
Scherf’s wife helped him get paroled in 1993, but was out of town when he kidnapped and raped a Spokane real estate agent in 1995, earning him yet another life sentence.
Scherf’s wife reportedly visited him regularly. Their last visit in January of last year, was just days before Biendl was strangled in the prison chapel.
Scherf could face the death penalty if he is convicted in the 2011 slaying of Biendl.
