An elderly retired professor, charged in the stabbing death of his wife, told detectives he was facing an unthinkable choice that drove him to kill. Authorities revealed the 76-year-old felt he had no option but to commit murder and then attemtp to take his own life to escape a sudden, secret scandal that threatened his entire existence.

James Hill, 76, was charged with aggravated murder in the death of 64-year-old Mary Kathleen Hill in Columbus, Ohio, according to WSYX. Hill told detectives that he attempted the murder-suicide after a woman he met on a dating app threatened to release racy photos of him unless he paid her $15,000.

Police say they were called to the couple’s home in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington on Nov. 9 after someone called 911 then hung up.

The caller only p

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