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Cory Hill charged with wife Shakeira Rucker’s murder

An estranged husband who allegedly shot his wife to death inside of a Florida storage unit is now facing a first-degree murder charge, officials said.

Cory Hill, 51, is accused of murdering his wife Shakeira Rucker inside the unit and then covering her body with two tires, a probable cause arrest affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime says. As Law&Crime previously reported, Rucker was last seen on Nov. 11 and wasn’t found until a week later when a “distinct odor of human decomposition” was emanating from the storage locker in Apopka, a suburb of Orlando, the affidavit said. Detectives found four spent cartridge casings, including one in her hair, and blood on the walls and floor.

Rucker left her Winter Springs home with Hill on Nov. 11 and they were seen on surveillance video later that day about 50 miles away at a retail store and restaurant in Davenport. Hill utilized the storage, according to investigators. Video surveillance reportedly showed a car with two people inside fitting the descriptions of Hill and Rucker drive into the facility and Hill punch in his code to enter his unit shortly after 6:30 a.m. Nov. 12.

Hill left the facility alone about 20 minutes later. Rucker’s family contacted him to ask about her whereabouts but Hill said he was not with her. Her family also received a text message around 6:45 a.m. that she was on her way home, the affidavit said.

Detectives wrote that Rucker had recently found out that Hill had been in a romantic relationship with another woman. Neither woman had been aware about the other, investigators said. The ex-girlfriend ended the relationship after she learned Hill was married, investigators said.

Shakeira Rucker missing

Shakeira Rucker, right, has been missing since Saturday and her estranged husband Cory Hill, left, a convicted murderer, is a “person of interest,” cops in Florida say. (Rucker: Winter Springs Police Department; Cory Hill: Orange County Jail)

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