David Swift indicted on voluntary manslaughter charge
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — David Swift has been indicted by a Dyer County grand jury on a voluntary manslaughter charge in the 2011 death of his wife Karen, the district attorney’s office said Thursday.
“We did so to include language that would toll the Statute of Limitations allowing us the ability to retry David Swift on the remaining charges for which there was a hung jury in the previous trial,” said Danny Goodman, District Attorney General for the 29th District.
Earlier this month, a jury found Swift not guilty of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and attempted second-degree murder.
David Swift not guilty of murder; mistrial declared on manslaughter charge
But the jury deadlocked on the voluntary manslaughter charge, leaving open the possibility of a new trial.
After that trial, Goodman admitted it was challenging to try a case based primarily on circumstantial evidence and after a considerable passage of time, but said his office would make a decision on whether to retry it.
Karen Swift was reported missing on Oct. 30, 2011, after attending a Halloween party at a Dyersburg country club. Several weeks later in December 2011, the 44-year-old’s partially skeletonized remains were discovered by a group of hunters not far from her home in a cemetery just off of Harness Road and Burnt Mill Road in Dyersburg, Tennessee.
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