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A Hawaii island man pleaded guilty Tuesday to stabbing his wife to death more than two years ago.
Steve Santos Dingle was scheduled to stand trial next week for second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Cathy Esteves Dingle.
Instead, he’ll be sentenced in October.
Reading from a prepared statement in Ilocano, Dingle admitted stabbing the mother of four multiple times with a kitchen knife in May 2010 along the Hilo bayfront.
The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports that in exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors won’t pursue a possible sentence of life without parole.
According to court records, he had threatened to kill his wife if he caught her with another man.
The Dingles were married for 19 years. Steve Dingle filed for divorce in 2004 but the case was dismissed in 2007.
