Traverse City -- A Traverse City man faces murder charges after authorities said he stabbed his wife to death.
Authorities this afternoon charged Michael David Marvin, 47, with an open count of murder after he allegedly stabbed his wife, Shari Lee Marvin, 46, in the chest with a knife after an argument at their Garfield Township residence.
The suspect "stabbed his wife out of anger," court records show.
Authorities removed three young children from the home, Grand Traverse sheriff's officials said. There was no indication of injuries to the children.
Grand Traverse County sheriff's deputies obtained search warrants early today, including for the couple's apartment on Glen Drive, off LaFranier Road.
The warrants allowed investigators to seize items including "bedding from bedroom area where dead woman found, any alcohol or drugs including alcohol or drug containers, whether empty or not, any knives or other weapons ... ."
The warrants permitted investigators to obtain "clothing including shoes, hair specimens, swabs under finger nails for blood or human tissue, swabs of Marvin's skin for blood, photographs of Marvin, a swab/scraping of the inside cheek area of Marvin for purposes of obtaining a DNA sample of human tissue for later testing."
Deputies also received permission to obtain results of blood and urine tests administered to Marvin today at Munson Medical Center, where Marvin was admitted as a patient at 8 a.m. today for a "reported suicide attempt with knife wounds to Marvin's neck area."''
