SAMPSON ARRESTED FOR MALICIOUS WOUNDING - Wife Is Hospitalized

(03/04/2004)
Husband arrested for malicious wounding

By David Hedges PUBLISHER

Republished Times Record-Roane County Reporter

The walls of the home were splattered with blood and a Spencer woman was on the floor, also covered in blood, when police from three departments responded to a domestic incident early Tuesday.

Police reported finding Donald Eugene Sampson, 27, sitting in front of his home at 817 Jefferson St. when they answered the call shortly before 2:30 a.m.

Sampson's hands and arms were covered in blood and his face and chest were also blood-spattered, according to a criminal complaint filed by Cpl. R.H. Eads of the Spencer Police Dept.

Eads entered the home and saw blood on the walls in the hallway and living room, where he found Sampson's wife, Susan Sampson, on the floor ... www.thetimesrecord.net