Was Kim Williams involved in the death of her quadriplegic husband?

A distraught wife called 911 around 3 p.m. in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, on March 14, 2019, to say her husband had shot himself in the head. When state police arrived, they found 49-year-old Ronald Williams dead in his bed – with a gun in his right hand. Kimberly Williams, 46, said she heard the gunshot and ran to the bedroom.

“She said he had had a stroke about six years earlier and was unable to get out of bed or do anything he normally did. So there were concerns that mentally he just didn’t want to go on living,” explained Ryan Sayers, Clearfield County District Attorney, in Snappedairs Sundays at 6/5c on Oxygen. “Everything pointed to suicide.”

But not all of Ron’s family were convinced that he had taken his own life.

“For me, the fact that he hung there for years without doing (suicide), I just don’t see him doing it. He doesn’t leave like that,” said Miranda Williams, Ron and Kim’s daughter Snapped.

Read on to find out why police said Kimberly Williams may have been motivated to make her husband’s death look like a suicide.

Ronald Williams suffers a devastating stroke

Ron and Kim Williams met shortly after he enlisted in the Army out of high school. They married in February 1992 and had two daughters together, Angel and Miranda.

“We were a very close-knit family and that’s what my parents preferred… we had family dinner on Sundays,” Miranda Williams said.

But it all came crashing down when Ron suffered a stroke in 2013.

“He almost became a quadriplegic after a stroke. So he couldn’t use either his upper or lower limbs,” said Dr. Eric Raydo, Ron’s physical therapist, in Snapped.

It was difficult for both Ron and Kim and their marriage.

“Ron was wheelchair dependent,” said Nicole Twoey-Cieslewicz, Ron’s occupational therapist. Snapped. “He relied on his wife to get in and out of bed. Also to finish bathing and dressing. And cooking. Every functional task that Ron had delegated to someone to do for him.

After Ron suffered further strokes, his family learned that they were caused by errors in his care at the hospital.

“There is a drug that the literature says should have been given — it could have prevented a second stroke, and it was the second stroke that made him most disabled. That’s why they filed the lawsuit,” said defense attorney Steven Trialonas Snapped.

The Williams family received $1.4 million in the hospital settlement and placed it in a trust fund for Ron’s treatment.

One email turns Ron Williams’ investigation from suicide to homicide

After Ron’s death, the state police considered the case closed until they received a call from the man managing Ron’s trust fund.

“The trust officer said, ‘Hey, I received this email, I want to bring it to your attention,’” Sayers said. “Earlier that day he received an email from Mr Williams. The email basically said: “If something happens to me, order an autopsy.” He doesn’t know what, but he thinks something is wrong. It turned a presumed suicide into a murder investigation.”

The trust official also told police that there had been recent changes to the trust fund and that he had transferred the entire trust fund to Kim in the event of Ron’s death. However, if they divorced, Kim would receive no income from the trust fund.

Kim objected to Ron’s autopsy, but the state police ordered it anyway.

“It’s very suspicious that he would contact (the trust officer) and tell him, ‘No, we don’t need an autopsy.'” – Jeff Corcino, reporter Progresshe said further Snapped. “Usually people don’t object to an autopsy.”

When police questioned Kim, she denied killing her husband and insisted he had been struggling with depression even before his stroke. Her daughters also confirmed that their father was depressed. Kim agreed to let police check her hands and clothing for gunshot residue.

“She said Mr. Williams had talked about taking his own life and that he wasn’t happy,” Sayers said. “And she said that at one point he was actually sentenced to 302 years of service because of that testimony.”

The police learn that Kimberly Williams was having an affair

When police interviewed Ron Williams’ daughters, they learned that Kim Williams was having an affair.

“One of the conversations my dad had with me was about kicking my mother out and that he wasn’t going to make him look like a crazy person in his own house,” Miranda Williams said.

She told police her mother was having an affair with Terry Carter, Kim’s high school friend.

“I don’t think you can justify cheating on someone you’ve been married to for 25 years like that,” said Miranda Williams. “And then you add to the equation that the man can’t walk and you care about you literally going to the bathroom. And then you have the nerve to throw it in his face that you’re not happy with him. I really can’t deal with it.”

Terry Carter admitted to the affair and said it began six months before Ron’s death.

“But as time went on, Kimberly became less discreet,” criminologist Dr. Casey Jordan said in an interview with Snapped. “She actually brought her boyfriend, Terry, home with Ron next door in a separate bedroom.”

Carter also admitted to police that Kim tampered with Ron’s medications to knock him out so they could spend time together. This lines up with what Ron’s therapists reported to the police.

“The last time I was there, he was a little out of sorts, he was behaving inappropriately in my opinion,” Twoey-Cieslewicz said. “That evening Ron was a bit sleepy, tired and acting strange, and our session was also interrupted.”

Police believe the affair only strengthened Kim Williams’ motives, especially after Miranda Williams said her dad threatened her mom to divorce her.

“Her motive was that the only thing between her and her money and her lover was her husband,” Sayers said.