Bond set at $750K for preacher's wife

A judge set bond at $750,000 Friday for a small-town minister's wife charged with killing her husband at their Church of Christ parsonage.

"For her, that's tantamount to no bond at all," said defense lawyer Steve Farese.

Mary Winkler, 32, has been held without bond since March 23, the day after her husband, Matthew Winkler, 31, was found dead at the parsonage in Selmer, about 80 miles east of Memphis.

If unable to post bond, Mary Winkler will remain behind bars awaiting her first-degree murder trial scheduled to begin October 30.

Winkler told police she shot her husband as he lay in bed on the morning of March 22 after they argued over finances and other family matters.

She was later arrested in Alabama with the couple's three young daughters, who are now living with their paternal grandparents.

Authorities say had Mary Winkler deposited $17,500 in checks from unidentified foreign sources in family bank accounts over several months prior to the killing, and a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent accused her at a bond hearing last week of "check kiting."

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