Former Navy JAG Officer GUILTY of Killing, Dismembering His Wife
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A former Navy prosecutor was convicted Thursday of killing and dismembering his wife in 2022.

A jury in Liberty County, Georgia, took roughly an hour to convict Nicholas Kassotis on 12 charges, such as malice murder and felony murder, as reported by the Coastal Courier. Superior Court Judge Paul Rose handed down a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, in addition to a consecutive 25-year term.

The jury concluded that Kassotis was responsible for the death of Mindi Mebane Kassotis, subsequently dismembering her and scattering the remains across hunting club grounds spanning three counties.

“This is a genuinely atrocious act,” Judge Rose remarked during sentencing, highlighting the “web of lies” Kassotis spun for his wife, which included an entirely fictional character named “Jim McIntrye,” who he falsely claimed was in control of their actions and finances.

“You crafted fiction — and your existence was fabricated, at least for the last six to seven years,” Rose commented. “Then, you executed a savage, ghastly, and gruesome murder of Mindi.”

Hunters discovered Mindi Kassotis’s torso on December 2, 2022, at the Portal Hunting Club in Riceboro. Additional body parts were located in the following days.

Initially, authorities were unaware of the identity of the found remains, as Mindi Kassotis had not been reported missing, with Nicholas Kassotis deceitfully informing her family that she had passed away in a hospital.

The remains were eventually identified via familial DNA, and Kassotis was arrested in May 2023, by which time he had changed his name to Nicholas Stark, remarried, and moved to Pennsylvania. That new wife, Samantha Kolesnik, sent a victim impact statement that was read in court after her husband was convicted, CourtTV reported.

“I feel raped by him … I was not allowed to consent to a romantic and intimate relationship with Nicholas because he lied about his entire identity,” said Kolesnik, who said she had met Kassotis online and that he had lied and said his wife and child had died two years prior. “There was no opportunity for true consent.”

Kassotis’s parents begged for mercy, saying their son could not have committed such a brutal crime.

“We feel incredible sympathy for (Mindi’s family),” said Linda Kassotis. “Nicholas was not responsible for this; we know him to be a kind and gentle person.”

But Mindi Kassotis’s family was especially harsh.

“You are a pathological liar,” her sister-inlaw, Megan Mebane, said. “You are a psychopath and a sociopath. You thought you were so much smarter than everyone else. You have forever changed the meaning of trust for me and my family.”

“You have no remorse for what you did,” she continued. “You deserve to sit in prison for the rest of your life and think about Mindi every day.”

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