Woman Found Dead In Home's Attic After Several Months
POSTED: 5:49 pm EST January 5, 2010
UPDATED: 6:18 pm EST January 5, 2010
INDIANAPOLIS -- An appeal by a Carmel man who killed his wife and hid her body in the attic of the family's home was rejected on Tuesday.
The Indiana Court of Appeals rejected a request from J.J. Paulsen, 49, to throw out his 26-year prison sentence.
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The former television comedy writer and producer pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, neglect of a dependent and moving a body from the scene of death in the killing of his wife, Leanne Serrano-Paulsen, 39, in April 2007.
Investigators said Paulsen killed Serrano-Paulsen while the couple's toddler son was in the home.
An autopsy showed that Serrano-Paulsen had been dead for at least a week before her body was discovered, and her remains were partially mummified by the time they were found.
The judge issued the maximum sentence allowable under Paulsen's plea agreement.
The couple moved to Carmel from New York in 2004. Paulsen, who was a writer and producer for "Cosby" and "In Living Color" and other television shows, was no longer working as a writer and had fallen on financial hard times, prosecutors said.
Serrano-Paulsen was Carmel High School's homecoming queen in 1985 and an Indiana University graduate. She had pursued her dreams of acting and singing before marrying Paulsen, appearing in local productions and in a national tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar."
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