By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-03-12 14:31:14 | Updated at 2025-03-12 18:31:54
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A furious Tennessee husband has been accused of stabbing to death an 18-year-old boy he found in bed with his wife.
Jonathan Belk, 41, is accused of killing Billy Jean Floyd early Saturday after coming home and finding the teen with his 31-year-old wife, Jada Gholston, who was also hospitalized with several stab wounds, police told News Channel 9.
The body of Floyd — who had turned 18 just three days earlier — was found stuffed in a garbage can in his mistress’ home in Dunlap.
The cheating wife initially told police that a “man had jumped on her boyfriend while they were in bed,” police wrote in an affidavit.
When cops arrived, they found Belk “standing in his doorway covered in blood” with cuts on his hands — and only then found out he was the caller’s husband.
His biggest concern appeared to be that the deadly attack might ruin his marriage.
“I am worried about my relationship with my wife due to the fact that I offed him,” he allegedly told investigators.
He’s being held on criminal homicide charges ahead of a bond hearing scheduled for March 21.
Floyd was known as “Lil Bill” and “enjoyed hunting, fishing, four wheelers and working on everything,” according to an obituary.
“He mostly enjoyed spending time with his family and friends,” it stated of the slain teen.
Sequatchie County Sheriff Bill Phillips told Channel 9 News the fatal stabbing “is an isolated incident to that home and there’s no reason to believe anybody else is in danger.”
