Mentally ill man who killed wife won't get her pension

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A man who was found not guilty of his wife's death by reason of mental insanity will not get her pension under a judge's ruling.

The Olympian reported that a judge ruled Jan. 22 that the state's slayer law that says killers cannot profit from their victims' deaths applies to Robert Louis Selland, a patient at Western State Hospital.

Selland stabbed his wife, Carol Selland, to death in 2011.

Cheryl Gacek pushed to make sure her sister's killer didn't get the $21,000 she'd paid into her pension as a state employee.

Gacek said as the primary beneficiary, she'll give the money to her sister's three adult children.

State senators have unanimously sent a bill clarifying the slayer law to the House.

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