A Memphis woman has been charged with second-degree murder after deputies discovered her husband had been fatally stabbed at the scene of a single-vehicle crash in Cordova on Saturday night. Sheila Curtis, 56, was arrested the following day and is being held at the Shelby County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
According to an arrest affidavit, deputies were called to Macon Road and Houston Levee Road at 9:53 p.m. after a Chevrolet Colorado was found wrecked in a ditch. The driver and only occupant, identified as 59-year-old Derrick Curtis, was bleeding heavily. Deputies noted a large pool of blood in the driver’s side floorboard that appeared inconsistent with the relatively minor crash damage.
