Woman who dragged husband under her truck learns her fate
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Left: Mary Jane Terry’s booking photo (Forest County Sheriff’s Office). Right: Mary Jane Terry in court on Jan. 6 (WJFW/YouTube).

A Wisconsin woman who admitted to dragging her husband under her truck for almost 50 feet, leading to his death, has been sentenced to ten years in prison.

Mary Terry, aged 50, entered a guilty plea on January 6 for committing homicide by driving a vehicle while intoxicated, linked to the death of her husband, Donald Britten Jr., on October 19, 2023. Terry was charged with deliberately hitting Britten with her truck while her blood-alcohol level was 0.298, over four times the legal limit. After backing into him, Terry dragged his body across 48 feet of pavement before running him over a second time. According to the criminal complaint, a neighbor recounted hearing a “prolonged thud” followed by sounds resembling a vehicle moving over a speed bump at the scene.

As reported previously by Law&Crime, Terry was originally charged with first-degree intentional homicide.

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Prosecutor Alexander Seifert demonstrated in court the distance Britten’s body was dragged by Terry’s truck, highlighting that the courtroom’s size fell just short of the actual 48-foot distance.

But Seifert stated in court that if anyone felt like 48 feet was not that long of a distance, “I would certainly encourage them to drag a finger across a cheese grater for one inch with their body weight — not the weight of a truck.”

Seifert reiterated the noise heard by a neighbor that sounded like a vehicle driving over a speed bump — “doo doo, doo doo.” He added, “In this case, obviously the bump was Mr. Britten.”

He also showed images in court of the injuries Britten sustained during the collision that killed him, graphically describing the gruesome “effect that concrete does to human flesh.” While the cameras in the courtroom were not permitted to capture those images, they turned instead to Terry, who sobbed at the defense table as she avoided looking at what she had pleaded guilty to.

Seifert stated that while Terry didn’t have a criminal history, her violent act against Britten still made her “a danger to the community” and recommended the maximum sentence — 15 years in prison plus 10 years probation.

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