EKB News

Police are continuing to investigate the death of (Vadie) Michelle Stroud whose body was found Tuesday afternoon stuffed inside a refrigerator in a wooded area near Newsome Ridge, between Kermit and Dingess. Early Wednesday morning (today) police arrested her estranged husband, 39 year old Roger Stroud, and charged him with first-degree murder and concealment of a body. Stroud told investigators he drove his estranged wife to a remote location at Kermit Coal on Monday, where they engaged in an argument. He says he then returned to his truck, put on a pair of jersey gloves, retrieved a .357 revolver and shot her several times before placing her body inside the refrigerator in the back of his truck and then dumping it.