The Associated Press
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — A former engineer who killed his wife by sending their minivan off a western New York cliff has been released from prison.
State Division of Parole officials say 50-year-old Walter Casper III was released Wednesday from a medium-security prison in northern New York.
Casper was initially convicted of murder in the July 1999 death of Catherine Bly-Casper. The 39-year-old woman was killed when the couple's minivan rolled off a 160-foot cliff in southern Ontario County as Casper jumped out.
Casper was sentenced to prison for 25 years to life but his conviction was reduced on appeal to manslaughter. He was resentenced to five years to 15 years.
Casper was scheduled for release in June 2010 but was freed early under a new state program for inmates who demonstrate good behavior.
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