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Wife's confession
Monique Berkley told police she planned to get Paul Berkley's insurance money.
 
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(RALEIGH) - The wife of a Navy reservist who was shot and killed in a Raleigh park early Sunday morning has confessed to the crime and given details of the incident to police.
At a news conference at police headquarters, Sergeant J.C. Perry says Monique Berkley told police she planned to get Paul Berkley's insurance money.
Perry also confirmed that Monique Berkley was having an affair with Andrew Canty, one of the other two suspects.
Canty moved into the Berkley home while Paul Berkley was deployed to the Middle East.
Perry says Paul Berkley suspected that his wife was having an affair, and that he told his daughter, Becky, that he planned to divorce his wife.
Perry says Becky told her stepmother, who allegedly put the plot in motion.
The couple had dinner in Clayton, went to a movie in north Raleigh and then went to the park.
Perry says the plan called for Monique Berkley to be beaten up, but he didn't comment on why she was shot instead.
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