Woman found dead was ex-wife of a doctor

A police officer discovered the body Wednesday after he arrived to help a motorist.

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) — A woman found dead along a rural western Pennsylvania road was the ex-wife of a doctor imprisoned for writing illegal painkiller prescriptions to his patients.

Lawrence County Coroner Russell Noga says autopsy results on 40-year-old Kristiana Wilkins were inconclusive, pending toxicology tests that will take weeks to complete.

State police say the woman’s body was found at 5 p.m. Wednesday along County Line Road in Shenango Township.

A township police officer discovered the body when he arrived at the scene to help a stranded motorist.

The woman’s ex-husband, a chiropractor named Thomas Wilkins, was sentenced to seven to 15 years in prison in 2006 for writing unnecessary prescriptions and Medicaid fraud.