 Officers said they found Betsy Craven Brewer, 83, dead from a gunshot wound. Police said 83-year-old Leslie David Brewer Sr. was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder. According to authorities, Brewer said that he and his wife had been having a dispute at their home that stretched back years. He claimed his wife was verbally abusing him and said that he had been contemplating killing her for months.