The man charged with killing his wife in Miami County and transporting her body in a camper back to Carthage, Missouri has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison. Twenty-four year-old Gavino Macias was initially charged last summer in Miami County District Court with one count of intentional second-degree murder. Earlier this year, though, a plea agreement was reached where Macias pled guilty to an amended charge of one count of unintentional but reckless second-degree murder. Chief District Judge, Amy Harth, imposed the maximum of 123 months, which equates to 10 years and three months in prison.
Last June Macias was taken into custody by members of the Carthage Police Department and booked into the Jasper County Jail in Missouri for abandonment of a corpse. He told authorities that his deceased wife had died in an RV park in rural Louisburg, and he panicked and drove to Carthage. The deceased woman, identified as 24-year-old Kenia Lopez, of Carthage. Macias is still facing a charge of abandonment of a corpse in Missouri, but his attorneys wanted to take care of the Kansas case first so the criminal history of the Missouri case would not impact the plea agreement.
