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GADSDEN, Alabama — An Etowah County grand jury has indicted an Attalla man on a capital murder charge in the strangulation death of his wife.

Roy Thomas Smith was indicted on Tuesday.

The 53-year-old Smith was charged in November with murder in the death of his wife, 44-year-old Carla Parton Smith, whose body was found Nov. 1 in the trunk of her car parked in a gravel lot.

Marcus Reid, chief assistant district attorney, says the charge is under the statute of murder for monetary gain. He says he can’t talk about the facts of the case.

Carla Smith, a nursing supervisor at Riverview Regional Medical Center, did not show up for work on the morning of Nov. 1. Her body was found that afternoon by ambulance personnel who recognized the car.

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