EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: 'My Wife Was Raped, Robbed & Murdered', Says America's Got Talent Contestant
Dec. 7 2010, Published 9:00 a.m. ET
The America's Got Talent contestant whose wife was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel says she was brutally raped, strangled and robbed before her body was moved to the bottom of a staircase to appear like she fell.
Speaking exclusively to Breaking Celebrity News, a devastated Joe Finley said he was convinced Laura, 48, was murdered after being sexually assaulted at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel on October 23.
He said there's yet-to-be-released evidence that will prove his stunning claims, including DNA found under Laura's fingernails from when she scratched the killer during the rape.
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"It's obvious that she was murdered," Joe told Breaking Celebrity News, breaking his six-week silence on the mysterious case.
"I believe she was raped, killed and her body was moved, (to the bottom of the staircase) and the scene was staged to make it look as though she'd fallen to her death."
The mother-of-three vanished while her rocker husband was waiting in line to audition for the hit NBC show.
Her body, clad in just her underwear, was found at about 8 a.m. and investigators initially believed she'd plunged eight stories to her death.
Joe, a singer/guitarist who went ahead with his audition in front of judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie M