La Plata, MD – Brian Patrick Weyhenmeyer, 32 of Waldorf, has entered a plea of not criminally responsible for the first-degree murder of his wife.
The plea was filed in Charles County Circuit Court Feb. 11.
Weyhenmeyer was before Judge Amy J. Bragunier, Tuesday, Feb. 16 for criminal motions.
He is accused of allegedly running over his wife, Jennifer Lynn Weyhenmeyer, behind a Waldorf shopping center on Route 301, Oct. 12, 2014.
He faces yet another motions hearing April 1 before a scheduled trial date of April 25, 2016 before Charles County Circuit Court Judge Helen I. Harrington.
Weyhenmeyer will continue to be held without bond until his jury trial.
Charles County State’s Attorney Anthony Covington told Circuit Court Judge Helen I. Harrington back on Nov. 20, 2014, that Weyhenmeyer “ran over his wife with their vehicle at least two times.”
Covington described how on Oct. 12, 2014, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office received a phone call from Jennifer Weyhenmeyer telling police her husband was mad at her and wouldn’t let her out of the car. The caller indicated they were on Route 301 going past the New Life Church located between La Plata and White Plains.
“We know that call ended abruptly,” Covington said, adding that the phone was later recovered by police from the median strip on Route 301.
Twenty minutes later police received another call, Covington said, that there was a subject behind a very narrow alley at a shopping center in Waldorf. Responding officers found Jennifer Weyhenmeyer’s body on the scene with severe trauma “all over her body,” Covington stressed.
Weyhenmeyer is being represented by Edie Cimino of the Charles County Office of the Public Defender.
Contact Joseph Norris at joe.norris@thebaynet.com