PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP)
Kathy Putnam, the long suffering wife who stuck by her FBI agent husband after he admitted killing an informant he got pregnant, died Feb. 5 of an apparent heart attack. She was 38.
Mrs. Putnam was found dead in her Manchester, Conn., home by her 13-year-old daughter.
Mrs. Putnam was the wife of former Pikeville field agent Mark Putnam. He became the first agent ever convicted of a homicide when he pleaded guilty in June 1990 to strangling his lover, Susan Daniels Smith, to death the previous year.
A year later, Putnam, who said he was racked with guilt, led authorities to the body. He pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in exchange for being allowed to serve a 16-year sentence in a federal medical facility.
Mrs. Putnam blamed what she called the FBI's lax supervision of the tiny Pikeville office for her husband's situation and had threatened to release information she said would damage the agency.