A Memphis woman has been charged with second-degree murder after deputies discovered her husband had been fatally stabbed at the scene of a single-vehicle crash in Cordova on Saturday night. Sheila Curtis, 56, was arrested the following day and is being held at the Shelby County Jail on a $500,000 bond.

According to an arrest affidavit, deputies were called to Macon Road and Houston Levee Road at 9:53 p.m. after a Chevrolet Colorado was found wrecked in a ditch. The driver and only occupant, identified as 59-year-old Derrick Curtis, was bleeding heavily. Deputies noted a large pool of blood in the driver’s side floorboard that appeared inconsistent with the relatively minor crash damage.

First responders said Derrick told paramedics that his wife had stabbed him. He was found with three

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