MI Inmate Serving Life Rewarded With Xbox After Telling Police Where He buried Wife

FULTON, MI. (THECOUNT) — Doug Stewart, 29, who is serving a life sentence in the death of his estranged wife, Venus Stewart, was rewarded with a Xbox after telling officials the location of her buried body.

Stewart will also be allowed to participate in some prison programs, the Sturgis Journal reported.

Stewart was living in Virginia when his estranged wife disappeared in April 2010 from her parents’ home in Michigan. She had moved after accusing her husband of domestic violence and molesting their daughter, according to police reports. source

Stewart took detectives on Monday to a wooded area in Kalamazoo County where he had buried 32-year-old Venus Stewart. He’d left two stumps at the site as a landmark.

“I knew I couldn’t forget where she was,” he told WWMT-TV .

Stewart is housed in a veterans unit at the Saginaw Correctional facility that sometimes offers special incentives.

The gaming console was donated and is available to all members of the housing unit, but it isn’t connected to the internet and inmates can’t access to violent games, officials noted.

Tests are being conducted on the remains, but authorities say they are confident they have found Venus Stewart.