COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho – The trial of the Former Idaho State Police Trooper Daniel Howard, who stands accused of killing his wife, concluded its second week of testimony Thursday.

Kendy Howard, a 48-year-old wife and mother, was found dead in her bathtub with a gunshot wound to the head. Evidence at the scene led investigators to take a hard look at her husband, a former ...

Dan and Kendy Howard had been married since 1994. By 2021, Dan Howard had gone from working as an Idaho State Trooper to working in the Alaskan oil fields for three weeks at a time. Kendy seeks ...

Additional research concluded that Kendy Howard had planned to leave Dan. The friends testified that she had informed them of her decision to leave him and start a life alone.

When former Kootenai County detective Jerry Northrop arrived to Daniel and Kendy Howard’s Athol home to process the scene where she died on Feb. 2, 2021, something seemingly ordinary caught his eye.

Daniel Howard, 57, has been charged with murder and domestic battery for Kendy Howard's death in February 2021. Daniel Howard surrendered himself to police on April 21, according to a police report.

After hours of deliberation, a Kootenai County jury found Daniel Howard guilty of second-degree murder and domestic battery, but not guilty of first-degree murder.

Body camera footage played in court Tuesday showed Daniel Howard’s conversation with deputies after they arrived at the home in Athol where Kendy Howard died.

Dan and Kendy had been married 27 years and lived in a home in Athol. A relationship she says had far more lows than highs. Howard once worked as an Idaho State Police Officer.

KOOTENAI COUNTY, Idaho — On Thursday, a Kootenai County judge sentenced the former Idaho State Police trooper to life in prison for killing his wife, Kendy Howard, in 2021.