Was Kim Williams involved in the death of her paralyzed husband?

A panicked woman called in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania around 3 p.m. on March 14, 2019 to say her husband had shot himself in the head. When state police arrived, they found 49-year-old Ronald Williams dead in bed – with a gun in his right hand. Kimberly Williams, 46, said she heard the shot and ran into the bedroom.

“She said he had a stroke about six years earlier and can’t get out of bed or really do anything he used to be able to do. So there were concerns that mentally he just didn’t want to continue,” Clearfield County District Attorney Ryan Sayers explained. Snappedairs Sundays at 6/5c on Oxygen. “Everything at that point pointed to a suicide.”

But not all of Ron’s family was convinced he had committed suicide.

“For me, the fact that he hung around there for years without killing himself, I just don’t see him doing that. He doesn’t stop like that,” said Miranda Williams, Ron and Kim’s daughter Snapped.

Keep reading to find out why police said Kimberly Williams may have been motivated to stage her husband’s death as a suicide.

Ronald Williams suffers a debilitating stroke

Ron and Kim Williams met shortly after he joined the military after high school. They married in February 1992 and had two daughters together, Angel and Miranda.

“We were a very close family and that’s the way my parents preferred it…we had a family dinner on Sundays,” Miranda Williams said.

But that all came crashing down after Ron suffered a stroke in 2013.

“He was virtually paralyzed after the stroke. So he had no use of either the upper or lower extremities,” said Dr. Eric Raydo, Ron’s physiotherapist, op Snapped.

It was difficult for both Ron and Kim and their marriage.

“Ron was dependent on a wheelchair,” says Nicole Twoey-Cieslewicz, Ron’s occupational therapist, on Snapped. “He relied on his wife to get in and out of bed. Also to complete his bathing and dressing. And cooking. Every functional task, Ron trusted someone to complete it for him.”

After Ron suffered another stroke, his family learned it was caused by an error in his care at the hospital.

“There is a drug that the literature says should have been administered; it could have prevented the second stroke, and the second stroke is what disabled him the most. So they filed a lawsuit,” said attorney Steven Trialonas Snapped.

The Williams family received $1.4 million in a hospital settlement and put it into a trust for Ron’s treatment.

One email turns Ron Williams’ investigation from suicide to murder

After Ron’s death, state police considered the case closed until they received a call from the man who managed Ron’s trust fund.

“The trust officer said, ‘Hey, I got this email, I want to bring it to your attention,’” Sayers said. ‘He had received an email from Mr Williams earlier in the day. And the email essentially said, “If anything happens to me, have an autopsy done.” He doesn’t know what, but he thinks something is wrong. It turned what was a presumed suicide into a murder investigation.”

The trust officer also told police that there had recently been a change in the trust that would give the entire trust fund to Kim if Ron died. But if they were to divorce, Kim would receive none of the trust fund proceeds.

Kim opposed an autopsy on Ron, but state police ordered one anyway.

“It was very suspicious that she would contact (the trust officer) to tell him, ‘No, we don’t need an autopsy,’” said Jeff Corcino, reporter for The progresssaid further Snapped. “Usually people are not against an autopsy being performed.”

When police questioned Kim, she denied killing her husband and insisted he had been battling depression before his stroke. Her daughters also confirmed that their father was depressed. Kim agreed to let police test her hands and clothing for gunshot residue.

“She said Mr. Williams had talked about killing himself, and he wasn’t happy,” Sayers said. “And she said that at some point he actually received a 302-ed, involuntarily committed, because of those statements.”

The police discover that Kimberly Williams was having an affair

When police interviewed Ron Williams’ daughters, they discovered that Kim Williams was having an affair.

“In one of the conversations my dad had with me, he said he kicked my mom out, and he wasn’t going to be made a dick in his own house,” Miranda Williams said.

She told police that her mother was dating Terry Carter, Kim’s high school girlfriend.

“I don’t think it’s really excusable for someone to betray the person they’ve been married to for 25 years,” Miranda Williams said. ‘And then you add that the man can’t walk and is dependent on you to literally go to the toilet. And then you have the nerve to throw it in his face that you’re not happy with him. I really can’t ignore it.”

Terry Carter admitted to the affair, saying it began six months before Ron’s death.

“As time went on, however, Kimberly became less discreet,” says criminologist Dr. Casey Jordan Snapped. “She would actually bring her boyfriend Terry into the house, with Ron next door, in a separate bedroom.”

Carter also admitted to police that Kim tampered with Ron’s medication to knock him out so they could spend time together. This matched what Ron’s therapists reported to the police.

“On my last visit there he was a little bit out of it and didn’t act correctly in my opinion,” Twoey-Cieslewicz said. “Ron was a bit sleepy and tired and was acting strange that night, and our session was cut short as well.”

Police believed the affair only added to Kim Williams’ motive, especially after Miranda Williams said her father threatened to divorce her mother.

“She had the motive that the only thing between her and the money and her lover was her husband,” Sayers said.