SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) -- A West Texas man accused of killing his wife in Colorado in 2008 is free on bond after a judge declared a mistrial when jurors were deadlocked four days after deliberations began.
The San Angelo Standard-Times (http://bit.ly/X0jMaE) reported Sunday that Frederick Harold Mueller was released late Saturday in Gunnison, Colo. He had been jailed in Colorado for more than a year.
The panel began deliberating Wednesday and was deadlocked 11-1 in favor of acquittal Saturday.
Prosecutors are deciding whether to retry the case.
Mueller is suspected in the drowning death of Dr. Leslie Mueller. An obituary had described her drowning in a creek as a hiking accident.
The Montrose Daily Press (http://bit.ly/Z3weMM) in Colorado reported that prosecutors claimed Mueller held his wife's head under water to drown her.
