Twiggs County Man Gets Life in Prison for Killing His Wife

JEFFERSONVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Twiggs County man was sentenced to life in prison Monday for killing his wife last January.

The couple had only been married for 19 days when, according to the Twiggs County Sheriff Darren Mitchum, Daniel Hoskins shot and killed his wife.

Mitchum said Hoskins took his wife, Danielle Kelly Thompson, to Longleaf Trail near Bond Swamp and shot her three times in the front and three times in the back of her upper torso. Hoskins used a .380 handgun to kill her inside his car.

Investigators found the gun in the woods 30 feet from where Hoskins dumped his wife’s body. The incident happened on Jan. 30, 2013. The same day Thompson’s sister, Sandy Williams, told the sheriff she had not seen her sister and suspected foul play.

“On the morning her sister reported her missing, she really felt like something had happened to her and probably within an hour of her coming to file the report of it, everything transpired,” said Sheriff Mitchum.

The sheriff said Hoskins told investigators he dumped his wife’s body and went “partying.” Hoskins was upset with his wife, because she said she was leaving him and going back to the father of her children, according to Sheriff Mitchum.

Hoskins later told his brother what he had done, and they contacted a Jones County investigator. Hoskins confessed to the murder to the Jones County investigator, and later to a Twiggs County Sheriff investigator.

Hoskins pled guilty Monday to malice murder, during pre-trial motions. The murder trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday. Hoskins is currently being held in the Twiggs County Jail, until he is extradited to a state prison.