Crossville Man Arrested For His Wife’s Murder

Cookeville, TN (WDEF) TBI agents and Cumberland County deputies arrest a Crossville man accused in connection with his wife’s death.

39-year-old Matthew Owens faces a first degree murder charge.

A grand jury indicted him Thursday morning.

His wife Nina’s skeletal remains were found on Pugh Cemetery Road late last month.

Her sister had reported her missing the month before that.

An investigation lead to her husband.

Owens is being held in the Cumberland County Jail on a $500,000 bond.