It seems that Republican nominees are just getting worse and worse. Another problematic Republican has won a local primary election this week, but this one has been charged with murder. Despite being incarcerated in the Boone County Jail since March, Andrew Wilhoite of Lebanon, Indiana, won the primary election for Clinton Township Board on Tuesday.

According to Boone County election data, Wilhoite ran uncontested and received 60 votes. Two other Republican candidates for the three seats received 106 and 100 votes each. While no Democratic candidates were on the ballot in the Clinton Township Board primary, candidates from other parties could still make the ballot by November, WXIN reported. If not convicted, Wilhoite is expected to be seen on the November ballot.

Wilhoite was charged in March in connection with killing his wife, Elizabeth “Nikki” Wilhoite, after she had completed her last chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. According to the Lebanon Reporter, Elizabeth Wilhoite was allegedly seeking a divorce after confronting Wilhoite about having an affair when the two got into an argument.

According to the Indiana State Police, as the argument escalated Wilhoite “allegedly struck her in the head” with a cement, gallon-sized flower pot. He then allegedly placed her body in his car and dumped her body in a nearby creek.

“She’s fighting to stay alive, to see her kids grow up. To have it end like this, it’s just a tragedy that no one should have to go through. It just shouldn’t be that way,” a childhood friend of Elizabeth’s, Mary Smith, told local news outlet WRTV.

Wilhoite’s arrest was detailed on social media weeks before the election.

“The investigation continued into the evening and, eventually, Andrew Wilhoite, Nikki’s husband, was arrested for murder by the Indiana State Police and Nikki Wilhoite’s body was found in a creek within a few miles of the Wilhoite residence,” a Facebook post by the Boone County Sheriff’s office said. It explained how the missing person report escalated into a domestic homicide investigation. FULL STORY HERE