A woman accused of fatally shooting her husband's mistress in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri, on Jan. 13 reportedly confessed the crime to her husband and told him she did it to keep the mistress from "hurt[ing] anyone else again." The murder occurred shortly after the husband had told the suspect about his affair and asked for a divorce.

According to a probable cause affidavit submitted by prosecutors in Gladestone, Missouri, the suspect and her husband went to a marriage counseling session on Jan. 13. During the therapy session, the suspect's husband told her that he was seeing another woman and that he was not going to leave that woman.

The suspect left the marriage counselor's office. She and her husband later had a series of phone conversations. During one of those calls, the husband said he wanted a divorce.

Several hours later, the suspect went to the victim's home in Gladestone, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. The victim's mother said that her daughter let the suspect into the house and that as they spoke to each other, the suspect pulled out a gun and shot the victim three times.

When the husband found out about the shooting, he called the Gladestone police and was told to report to the police station. While on his way, he spoke to his wife on the phone. The woman allegedly admitted to killing the mistress, supposedly to protect her husband and others from her. She was later arrested and was expected to be extradited to Missouri to face murder charges.

According to an article about the incident, the suspect and her husband have at least one child together.

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, "Granbury woman held in slaying of husband's mistress in Missouri," Domingo Ramirez Jr., Jan. 15, 2012