Boyfriend Charged with Murder of Pregnant Woman in Spring Hill

A Murfreesboro man has been charged in the killing of his pregnant girlfriend in Spring Hill.

According to a Spring Hill Police Department news release, on Monday, Jan. 20, 29-year-old Vidol Wegner strangled the victim who is identified in court records as 30-year-old Ariel Nevills.

“At 6 a.m., the Robertson County Sheriff’s Office asked SHPD officers to check the welfare of residents at a house in the 2000 block of Gale Lane because of a phone call their dispatch center received,” the SHPD news release reads. “Officers went to the house and located a 30-year-old woman who had sustained fatal wounds.”

According to a warrant filed in a Maury County Court, Vidol “did admit to murdering his girlfriend,” and “stated that he strangled Nevills two different ways,” waiting until she was dead before leaving the Spring Hill home. Nevills was seven-months pregnant with their child.

SHPD detectives traveled to Robertson County and arrested Wegner, who was initially identified by police as an Indiana man but who has a Murfreesboro address.

Wegner was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony murder. He was booked in the Maury County Jail and held on no bond.