
Wife of Arizona Rancher Charged in Murder of Illegal Immigrant Testifies She Saw Armed Men on Her Property
Published on April 4, 2024
NOGALES, Ariz.—The wife of an Arizona rancher accused of shooting an illegal Mexican immigrant to death testified in court that she was “terrified” to see two men armed with rifles walking across the couple’s property the day the victim was found dead hours later. The men were also dressed in camouflage clothing and carrying “big brown backpacks,” Wanda Kelly testified under cross-examination by Santa Cruz County prosecutor Kimberly Hunley. Mrs. Kelly testified that her husband, George Alan Kelly, first saw the men through windows while standing in the kitchen around 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 30, 2023. “Alan was standing at the counter having his lunch,” Mrs. Kelly told a jury on the seventh day of her husband’s trial in superior court....
