Murder Charge Stemmed From 2024 Stabbing
A Buena Vista woman pled guilty on Friday to a charge of second-degree murder in connection with the death of Carl Agnor in April 2024.
Margaret Mary Wright, 46, was arrested on May 7, 2024, and charged with second-degree murder in connection with Agnor’s death on April 23 and has been in custody since that time.
In April 2025, Wright was directly indicted by a Buena Vista grand jury on a charge of aggravated homicide and she was later indicted on the second-degree murder charge in September 2025. The aggravated homicide charge was dismissed during Friday’s plea hearing.
A sentencing hearing for Wright has been scheduled for Aug. 7 in Buena Vista Circuit Court.
“Our thoughts remain with the family of Mr. Agnor as they continue to grieve this tragic loss,” said Buena Vista Interim Police Chief David Clements in a press release. “While crimes of this nature are thankfully rare in our community, I am deeply appreciative of the hard work, professionalism, and dedication demonstrated by the members of the Buena Vista Police Department in thoroughly investigating this case and bringing Ms. Wright to justice. This outcome reflects great collaboration with our regional partners and Buena Vista Commonwealth’s Attorney Josh Elrod. This was a collective departmental effort, led by Lt. Chris Plogger.”
During a preliminary hearing on the second-degree murder charge in September 2025, Clements, who was the department’s assistant chief at the time, testified that Wright had said in an interview that he had conducted with Lt. Plogger that she had moved in with Agnor “about a week prior” to his death and that Agnor had “wanted the relationship to be physical,” but they had never done anything other than “cuddle on the couch sometimes.”
Clements also testified that Wright had confessed to stabbing Agnor twice during the interview – once after being shown a picture of Agnor’s body and once in response to a question from Plogger – though she didn’t give a clear reason for doing so.
Sgt. Darin Hogan, who was one of the officers who responded to Agnor’s house on Hawthorne Avenue on April 23, 2024, testified that when he and Officer Cameron Wheeler arrived, Agnor’s son was outside the house and was “very, very upset.”
Upon entering the house, Hogan said that he saw a man lying in the living room with his head propped up against a TV stand. There was large pool of blood and Hogan testified that he could see that the body had “multiple stab wounds” and that there was “no indication that he was still living.” An autopsy was performed on Agnor, which recorded that he had received between 50 and 60 stab wounds.
Hogan also testified to finding several pieces of mail addressed to Wright in a closet in one of the bedrooms in the house, along with a pair of gray shorts with a red stain on them and a pair of youth size six-anda half shoes by the bed, both of which had red stains on them.
He also said that a knife was found on the TV stand in the living room which had blood on it. The shoes, shorts and knife had all been sent to the lab for testing but results of those tests had not been received at the time of the hearing.
Plogger testified during the September hearing that several shoe prints had been found in the living room just outside of the pool of blood which were a visual match to the shoes collected from the bedroom, though additional testing would be needed to confirm if those shoes were the ones that left the prints.
During the interview, Plogger testified, Wright said that the shoes collected at the house were hers and that they’d been given to her by Mike Camden. Plogger testified that he had taken photographs at Camden’s house as part of a previous, unrelated investigation, some of which showed the pair of shoes in question.
