Sep 21, 2006 By Jennifer Harr 2 min read

A man charged with beating his girlfriend to death at their Uniontown home wants anything he told police investigating the case to be suppressed. Through his attorney, Fayette County Public Defender Jeffrey Whiteko, Walter Fordyce claimed he was highly intoxicated when police talked to him about Mary McCann’s April 12 death.

Whiteko wrote that Fordyce, 58, “did not knowingly, intelligently and/or voluntarily waive his right to self-incrimination.”

Fordyce is charged with criminal homicide and aggravated assault.

McCann, 54, was found dead in the upstairs bedroom of their 70 Carlisle St. home. Police alleged Fordyce hit her with a microwave oven, and then stomped on her body following an argument that started over a roast beef sandwich and escalated into accusations of infidelity.

At Fordyce’s preliminary hearing in April, police testified they audiotaped his confession, and one officer said Fordyce smelled of alcohol, but appeared coherent.

Fordyce’s told officers that the two fought when McCann asked him to heat a roast beef sandwich, and as the argument heated up, he threw her to the living room floor and slammed a microwave oven into her chest. Police said Fordyce admitted to then standing over her and stomping on her chest.

Police said that Fordyce told them that that while he was beating her, McCann asked him why he was doing it. He reportedly told police he responded by grabbing McCann by the hair and beating her head off the floor to the point of unconsciousness.

Whiteko also said in his motion filed last week that prosecutors failed to show that Fordyce intended to kill McCann. He asked that the charges filed against Fordyce be dismissed.

A hearing date has not yet been set in the matter.