Abortion doctor guilty of murdering wife
The conviction of Oklahoma City abortionist John Hamilton in the 2001 Valentine’s Day murder of his wife Susan Hamilton will be examined on “True Crime with Aphrodite Jones” in an episode titled “Loved to Death,” airing at 9 p.m. Monday on Investigation Discovery.
Abortionist John Baxter Hamilton
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Hamilton performed abortions at the Oklahoma Clinic for Women in Oklahoma City, OK. Hamilton was found guilty in the Valentine’s Day killing of his wife, Susan Hamilton, 55. Her nude body was found lying in blood in the master bathroom of the Hamiltons’ Quail Creek home, her skull fractured and face disfigured. She had been choked with a necktie and beaten to death.
December 11, 2001, The Oklahoman detailed the murder trial of abortionist John Baxter Hamilton. Hamilton performed abortions at the Oklahoma Clinic for Women in Oklahoma City, OK.
Hamilton was found guilty in the Valentine’s Day killing of his wife, Susan Hamilton, 55. Her nude body was found lying in blood in the master bathroom of the Hamiltons’ Quail Creek home, her skull fractured and face disfigured. She had been choked with a necktie and beaten to death.
News Reports of the case indicated that Hamilton’s wife had suspected the abortionist of having an affair with a topless dancer who may have been a patient of the doctor’s. His wife was considering leaving him and talking of divorce two days before the murder.
Authorities noted that after Hamilton murdered his wife he then called 911 to report the death. Authorities found the woman dead on the couple’s master bedroom floor.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the murder of his wife and was ordered to pay $11,104 for the cost of his incarceration. Following his murder conviction, Oklahoma and Tennessee revoked his medical license and on September 19, 2003, Hamilton voluntarily surrendered his Georgia license.
In 2010, NewsOk.com reported (In TV interview, Oklahoma doctor says he didn’t kill wife, BY KEN RAYMOND, March 27, 2010) that John Baxter Hamilton, an Oklahoma City physician convicted of murdering his wife on Valentine’s Day 2001, proclaimed his innocence in a prison interview that aired Friday on “Dateline NBC.”
“I didn’t do it,” he said. “I didn’t kill Susan.”
Hamilton, 62, was an Oklahoma City obstetrician, gynecologist and abortionist. On Feb. 14, 2001, he phoned 911 to report finding his wife in the master bathroom of their Quail Creek home.
Susan Hamilton, 55, had been strangled with two neckties and beaten. Her husband was arrested that day and later charged with her murder.
Hamilton maintained his innocence throughout his trial, which may have turned on dramatic testimony from the final witness in the case.
Tom Bevel, a blood spatter expert hired by the defense, testified on cross examination that the “most probable” explanation for blood inside Hamilton’s shirt sleeve was that he had struck his wife with a blunt object.
With that revelation, the defense expert became the star witness for the trial’s prosecution.
“It was a shock to everybody,” Hamilton said on the news program.
“Nobody expected that to happen.”
On “Dateline NBC,” as in his legal appeals, Hamilton criticized Bevel and the accuracy of his blood spatter analysis, which Hamilton called “junk science.”
His attorneys have claimed that police had improper contact with Bevel, who is a former police officer, during the trial. Bevel and prosecutors have denied those allegations.
“He (Hamilton) was really clinging to the defense lines that the blood result was not the way it was interpreted,” Dennis Murphy, a “Dateline NBC” reporter, told The Oklahoman on Wednesday. “Blood spatter is not an exact science, and Bevel had gone over to the dark side on him. He has not given an inch in that regard.”
Murphy said Hamilton still has the “command authority” of a physician and chatted about vacationing in Italy “as if he was still in touch with the outside world.”
Hamilton is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole at the state penitentiary in McAlester.
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August 23, 2010 at 4:59 pm
There is something very important that everyone has overlooked. They had stated that Dr. Hamilton had enough time to kill his wife and get back to the hospital in time to perform a surgery. They also stated that by killing his wife with a blunt object is what forced blood up his sleeve. There was also blood on shirt that matched a fracture on her skull. If he was going back to the hospital to perform surgery, why would he wear a bloody shirt to the OR? If he had changed his shirt, wouldn’t it show it had been removed and put back on again? It doesn’t add up. Think about it. Why would he wear a BLOODY SHIRT BACK TO THE HOSPITAL??? It only proves one thing. The Dr. did not commit the crime. The blood was forced up the sleeve of his shirt from him giving CPR to his wife. The procedure for CPR is to place one hand on top of the other and compress the chest. The sleeve of his shirt that had blood forced up the sleeve is the hand that was on the bottom with the other placed on top as to give more strength to start the heart. Dr. Hamilton is innocent!
November 7, 2011 at 7:34 pm
I completely agree with you, Susan! I just watched Dateline on ID and it featured Dr Hamilton’s case. Since the show ended I have been on the computer reaserching about this case because, like you, I feel like the shirt issue was a huge oversight. So what the state is trying to say is that he came home, killed his wife, took his shirt off and changed into another one, went to the hospital for another surgery, but not before getting rid of the murder weapon, returned home, put BACK on the bloody shirt then called 911? Well, seems like if thats what happened they would have found blood where he layed the shirt down, or the blood on his shirt would have been dried by the time the first responder arrived. It dosent make sence. He odviously didnt wear his bloody shirt to the hospital, so the only logical solution is that he did NOT kill his wife and the blood on the shirt was from the attempted CPR. Seems like though, if the shirt issue is that odvious to us, shouldnt the defense realize it too? I wish I could find a trasncript of the trial so I could see if the issue ever came up, and if not, I could report it to his attorney. I cant find a website for him though, I believe his name is Rob Nye, so if anyone reads this and can help me get an email or phone number for Mr. Nye I would appreciate it. I dont know what it is, but this case is really bothering me. Ive never watched a murder type show and had it bother me before, especially like this. So, any help is appreciated!!
March 29, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Are you a blood spatter analyst?
June 30, 2011 at 12:37 am
Dr.Hamilton is guilty, and is right where he belongs.
January 29, 2012 at 2:04 am
It was not like the shirt was dripping in blood. This was blood spatter. Usually small circular blood stains not always visible to the naked eye. Your theory is flawed.
January 29, 2012 at 5:04 am
Who was his new attorney?….looked like the teacher I had at William Mitchell College of Law.
January 29, 2012 at 8:54 am
I just watched dateline. The defense witness gave a complete story spin because I think he was thinking about his consulting fee income. At the last minute he fingered the doctor to please the prosecutor. He could make a lot more money in the future serving the district attorney on case after case. I was left scratching my head. He put the dried bloody shirt back on when he got home? I would think that if he disposed of the weapon he would have sisposed of the shirt, not leave it laying around for a few hous after the murder.
November 13, 2012 at 8:31 pm
The punishment DOES NOT fit the crime here. The doctor was convicted by a jury of HIS peers. How in the world did he avoid the death penalty? That’s right, we only execute poor people in this country. RIDICULOUS! What’s more heinous than murdering your wife over your lunch break, and staging a break-in on VALENTINES DAY?!!
May 9, 2013 at 11:18 pm
I don’t see how the death penalty suits this crime at all. No murder is pleasant or enjoyable for any of the victims but this crime does not seem to be exceptionally heinous in any way. I watch a lot of shows concerning murder and murderers, read extensively about murders and murderers and this crime does not stand out as particularly gruesome.
I seriously doubt this murder was premeditated in any way. I suspect Doctor Hamilton lost it and went off the deep end in a moment of rash decision making. The murder involved no torture, no sexual assault, only one victim (yes, the families are victims in my mind but you know what I am talking about) and no forcible confinement. As far as murders go this one is pretty tame.
February 9, 2013 at 6:38 am
Moral to this story. Do NOT mess with strippers!
February 9, 2013 at 8:20 pm
To me, the key that the doctor is messed up in the head is that he wrote in his Valentine’s Day card to his wife, “We are important, (blah, blah)… people together.” He was all about his image at the country club. Whacko. Your “importance” doesn’t belong in a love note.
February 9, 2013 at 8:22 pm
Oh… and the acting in the police interrogation room. If you’re truly heartbroken over the death of someone, you’re in shock and likely still, trying to think about who might have done this to your wife, not in physical distress like a spastic monkey. Egomaniac behavior.
February 10, 2013 at 2:18 am
To the question why did this defendant not get the death penalty the answer is found in Oklahoma law. I am surprised that the person id’d as SoonerBarrister, which, I presume, means the person is a lawyer in Oklahoma, did not know his own states law. To get the death penalty the person has to have at least one of the following conditions, otherwise its life without parole:
The defendant was previously convicted of a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person.
The defendant knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person.
The person committed the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration or employed another to commit the murder for remuneration or the promise of remuneration.
The murder was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.
The murder was committed for the purpose of avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest or prosecution.
The murder was committed by a person while serving a sentence of imprisonment on conviction of a felony.
The existence of a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society.
March 28, 2013 at 10:08 pm
They both got what they deserved. They were both filthy murderers!
March 29, 2013 at 1:39 pm
An abortionist violates the Hippocratic Oath he or she swears when they decide to practice medicine. Anyone that cavalierly makes promises before God with no intention of honoring them is craven.
A big house, fat bank account, and an attractive socialite wife that is abetting the fraud means and changes nothing fundamentally. Both of these adults made free will choices that triggered dire consequences. The consequences of grave sins are horrific.
People that strive to live a virtuous life are all but immune to this kind of tragedy. What was that old adage, ” beware of bad companions”.
April 18, 2013 at 6:44 pm
Agreed, Mike! I think the doctor became callous about life and death in general as he performed the “surgery” over and over again. Kill a baby, kill your wife . . . no difference in his heart or head – just a difference in the law. Maybe most of the people in that industry can handle it without killing outside of the OR, but it sure wasn’t that doctor.
May 10, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Do you really believe that women don’t deserve proper health care? Why so self-loathing?
May 9, 2013 at 11:06 pm
And you are the ultimate authority on the definition of when life begins? Last I checked that argument was ongoing.
Seems to me that anyone who claims to know what is right and what is wrong because some unseen being told them so has serious mental health issues going on. Seems strange to me that people such as David Berkowitz can say Satan talked to him through a neighbor’s dog and people say he is insane. Millions of people worldwide claim that God talks to them all the time and some call them righteous. The absurdity of it all is rather obvious to anyone not suffering from delustions. The Christian bible is not accepted as an equivalent to the criminal code. Maybe you should try to remember that from time to time.
May 9, 2013 at 11:09 pm
Almost forgot!!! “People that strive to live a virtuous life are all but immune to this kind of tragedy.” This is a purely stupid comment. Bad things happen to good people all the time. Think about it you deluded moron.
May 10, 2013 at 2:43 pm
You’re a man, what right have you to make moral judgments about what’s right or wrong for ANY woman? Make health care decisions for anybody other than yourself? Make your own vows to God and leave others to do the same for themselves.
What’s un-Godly and hypocritical are those people who don’t do well by women and children in America yet think they are holier-than-thou.
If this man is guilty, it’s because he committed murder. Period.
May 9, 2013 at 10:59 pm
I think you bible thumping abortionist haters have a biased opinion for sure! Your bias sticks out like a sore thumb. Try harder to hide that next time. It is very unbecoming.
The guy was found guilty by a jury of his peers. The justice system makes mistakes. Of that there is no doubt. I think convicting a guy on mostly circumstantial evidence is tenuous at best but personally I believe he is where he belongs.