Police find body of man wanted over death of his wife
A manhunt is over for the man South Australian police say shot and killed his estranged wife at the home they shared in Adelaide’s northern suburbs on Tuesday. Police found the body of Kevin Jewell near a town on the Yorke Peninsula late this morning.
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00:00 Police have been searching for 55-year-old Kevin Jewell since Tuesday evening, when the
00:07 body of his estranged wife, Jodie Jewell, was found at the home they shared in Modbury
00:12 North.
00:13 Emergency services were called to this isolated area this morning, just outside the small
00:19 town of Karamalka.
00:21 They sealed off the area and began an investigation, with the body discovered several hundred metres
00:27 up this dirt road.
00:29 Police say Kevin Jewell was armed and on the run after fatally shooting his wife.
00:34 The estranged couple lived on separate floors of their house.
00:38 Officers also say Jodie Jewell had confided to a friend that she'd experienced domestic
00:43 violence.
00:44 Kevin Jewell was spotted packing his white Mitsubishi Triton and he was seen driving
00:49 north of Adelaide.
00:51 Police say the vehicle was about 150 metres from where the body was found.
00:57 Major crime detectives and forensic investigators will continue their work here, but they say
01:02 there are no suspicious circumstances relating to Kevin Jewell's death.
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