http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/02/10/ap2517097.html

from the article:

In 2002, Spraggins, a bail bondsman, stunned a crowd of 100 when he accused Waites of killing his wife and dared the man to sue him for slander if he was wrong. Waites was not at the forum, never responded publicly to the accusation and never sued.

In an otherwordly turn to the saga Friday, Spraggins disclosed that he never had any evidence to make the accusation and that it was based entirely on Mrs. Waites' appearing to him in a series of dreams.

"She started appearing to me within the first weeks of her death," said Spraggins, adding that the dreams prompted him to enter the City Council race for the sole purpose of making the accusation.

Both he and Waites lost their bids for the City Council amid the controversy, but Spraggins said he got what he wanted in the end.

"I hate it for his family. ... I hate it for Charlotte's family. But I'm glad justice is finally going to be served," he said in a telephone interview.

Waites, 58, was arrested Thursday at a clothing store he runs with his current wife. He was jailed on $150,000 bail. It was not immediately known whether he had hired a lawyer.

It's hard to tell, but its a good thing it turned out to be true. The candidate would have looked like a damned fool if it turned out that someone else had committed the crime.

It would have been even more interesting if the killer had gotten elected.

There's a popular show here in America called, "Medium." It's about a wife and mother who works part time at a district attorney's office. She also has a special gift. The murdered communicate with her in her dreams and each new clue she dreams about leads her further to the truth of the crime.

The most interesting thing about the show---it's based on a real-life person!
http://www.nbc.com/Medium/about/

The link to the original article doesn't work anymore, so I couldn't get the full story.

I don't understand what Waites was arrested for. You have to have evidence to arrest someone of a crime--an eye witness, a weapon left at the scene, DNA evidence, fingerprints, etc.

I guess it is explained better in the article.