Erin Corwin Cause Of Death: What Really Happened To Erin Corwin? Who Was Erin Corwin Husband?

Erin Corwin found out she was pregnant a week before she was strangled to death and dumped in an abandoned mine shaft near Joshua Tree National Park in 2014.

Corwin was the wife of United States Marine Jonathan Corwin, and the two were living at the Twentynine Palms Marine base in California.

Corwin’s killer was later found guilty of first-degree murder.

The murderer falsely told the police that he didn’t see Corwin the day she went missing. However, in November 2016, after confessing that he did indeed strangle the woman using a homemade garrote, he told the jury it was a crime of passion and not premeditated.

Supposedly, because he suspected her of molesting his 6-year-old daughter. At least, that’s what he told the jury, who unanimously convicted him of premeditated murder regardless.

Corwin often babysat the young girl and had a close bond with her. The girl’s father was Christopher Lee, Erin Corwin’s neighbor, secret lover, and, in June 2014, her killer.

Lee said he took Corwin to the national park and was enraged when Corwin allegedly admitted to him that she had molested his child.

“I was controlled by the anger. The hate I felt that day, was something I never want to experience again,” Lee said in the San Bernardino County courtroom

He detailed the strangulation, which took at least five minutes, with a garrote made of a cord and two pieces of rebar.

After confirming that Corwin was dead, Lee said, he pushed her headfirst into the mine shaft. It took the police almost two months to find the body.

Who Was Erin Corwin’s Husband?
Jonathan Corwin hails from Tennessee and works with the U.S. Marines.

He and Erin met when they were in middle school, they didn’t begin dating until her 16th birthday – until Jonathan, one year her senior asked for her parents’ permission and got approval.

Their relationship continued even as Jonathan decided to pursue a career with the U.S. Marines, so he ended up proposing to his sweetheart while still in high school.

The couple got married in November 2012 and relocated to Jonathan’s marine base in Twentynine Palms, California, in September 2013.