Woman Extradited From Italy Is Convicted in Michigan in Husband’s 2002 Death

Published on April 3, 2024

CHARLOTTE, Mich.—A woman extradited from Italy for the 2002 fatal bludgeoning of her husband in Michigan was convicted of second-degree murder. A jury in Eaton County needed only two hours Monday to decide the outcome of the trial against Beverly McCallum, the Lansing State Journal reported. Roberto Caraballo, 37, was suffocated and beaten in the basement of his home in Charlotte, about 105 miles (169 kilometers) northwest of Detroit. Burned remains were found in a metal locker near a blueberry field in western Michigan’s Ottawa County, but the remains were not identified as Caraballo until 2015, more than 10 years later. McCallum, 63, was arrested in Italy in 2020 and held there for more than two years before being returned to Michigan....

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