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Springfield Man Pleads Guilty To Wife’s Murder

A man from Springfield has pleaded guilty to murdering his wife.

Jacob Hodgkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of his wife Ada Hodgkins in May of 2022.

Springfield Police went to a house on Glenview Avenue and found Ada with a gunshot wound to the chest.

She died at a local hospital.

Jacob Hodgkins was arrested later in Utah and brought back to Springfield.

He will be sentenced on August 27.