ME Destroys Wedding Ring

When Gary McInich was watching the fireworks with his family on his boat on July 4, 2013, another boat slammed into them and Gary was thrown overboard and killed.  The driver of the other boat left the scene but turned himself in four days later.  That man goes on trial this spring. 

Gary’s widow, Linda, said the only thing she wanted of her husband’s was the wedding ring she had put on his finger.  Yet, after months of asking the Medical Examiner’s office for the ring, she was appalled when they told her it had been destroyed. 

For the past month, Linda has been trying to uncover why it was destroyed, but has gotten no answers.  “What do you do at that point? What can you do? What rights do I have? The ring’s gone.  The ring’s gone,” she said, heartbroken. 

See Lori Fullbright, State ME ‘Destroys’ Man’s Wedding Ring, Wife Wants Questions Answered, Oklahoma News 9, Feb. 25, 2015.