Police to reinvestigate death of convicted doctor's first wife

BRUNSWICK - Glynn County police have reopened their investigation into the 1989 death of Margaret ``Peggy&#39;&#39; Adams Drury, the first wife of Doctor Carl Drury Junior, who was sentenced last week in a plot to kill his current wife. <br> <br> Forty-six-year-old Peggy Drury was found dead May 2, 1989, sitting upright in a bathtub inside her locked home. The couple was divorcing at the time. <br> <br> After conflicting reports from medical examiners, a coroner&#39;s inquest ruled Peggy Drury died from unknown causes. No criminal charges were filed. <br> <br> Glynn County police Captain. Jack Boyet said investigators do not have much new information stemming from Drury&#39;s recent trial on charges he hired an undercover ATF agent, posing as a hit man, to kill his estranged wife, Mary Drury. <br> <br> But Stephen Whatley, a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms instructor, testified that when he told Drury police would catch him if anything happened to Mary Drury, the doctor told him he had already gotten away with one murder. <br> <br> A federal jury convicted the 62-year-old Drury in February of four counts of using a telephone in a murder-or-hire plot and for possession of a firearm in the furtherance of a violent crime. He is serving a 17-year sentence.

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