Husband leaves pregnant wife dying under blanket in garage with bloody tire marks on her arm, stab wounds to her chest: Police

A 49-year-old antheral successful Arizona is accused of sidesplitting his large wife, allegedly stabbing her successful the thorax and moving her implicit wrong their store earlier telling deputies helium lashed retired astatine the unfortunate aft years of "torture."

Joseph Jay Clark was taken into custody past week and charged with 2 counts of second-degree murder successful the decease of his 39-year-old wife, Noelle Clark, and their unborn child, authorities announced.

According to a press release from the Pima County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a location successful the 17000 artifact of South Ridgerunner Drive successful Vail astir 6:30 p.m. connected Oct. 9 for a study of a home disturbance. Arriving archetypal responders saw Joseph Clark leaving the location and detained him without incident.

Deputies searched the location and recovered Noelle Clark suffering from "an evident gunshot wound." She was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. The couple's 2 children, ages 3 and 4, were recovered unharmed wrong the home.

While the archetypal announcement from the sheriff's bureau said Noelle Clark appeared to person been shot, an interim transgression ailment obtained by Tucson CBS affiliate KOLD reportedly described acold antithetic injuries than a gunshot wound.

According to the report, Noelle Clark was recovered beneath a broad successful the store with wide signs of caput trauma and a heavy thorax coiled accordant with stabbing. The study besides stated that she "showed evident signs of pregnancy."

Investigators recovered a bloody weapon from the children's bedroom, according to the complaint.

Investigators said the grounds from wrong the location indicated that Joseph Clark apt "had the thought process of disposing of [his wife's] remains," according to the complaint.

The disposable reports bash not explicate the quality betwixt the archetypal gunshot statement and the injuries aboriginal elaborate successful the complaint. The sheriff's bureau did not instantly respond to a petition for clarification from Law&Crime.

During the arrest, Joseph Clark allegedly told deputies that "he had been tortured" with electrical shocks by his woman "over a mates of years."

"I was shocked, that's what caused [this]," helium allegedly said.

However, deputies reportedly could not find immoderate injuries oregon signs of torture connected Joseph Clark.

Tucson NBC affiliate KVOA reported that Noelle Clark besides had bloody tyre marks connected her arm, which allegedly indicated she had been tally over.

The Clark children were placed successful the custody of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, Phoenix Fox affiliate KSAZ reported.

Clark made his archetypal quality successful tribunal connected Oct. 10, erstwhile a justice ordered him to beryllium held connected a $1 cardinal bond. He is scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal for different proceeding connected Oct. 20, records show.