An Oklahoma man who murdered his wife after she told him she wanted a divorce last year was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Clifton Hampton, 51 years old, pleaded guilty to strangling his wife Christina Hampton, 47 years old, nurse and mother of three children.

“She was a very well-liked person in the community,” Rogers County District Attorney Matt Ballard told People, adding that Christina was a victim of domestic violence.

“On the night of her death, she had told him that she wanted a divorce,” he added. “She called him pathetic. He didn't like it. He wanted to be in control, she took it away from him and he responded.” "he committed a senseless act of violence against her. We believe that, at least when the attack started, she was probably asleep. An absolutely horrible crime."

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by People, officers with the Rogers County Sheriff's Office were informed of a “suspicious death” around 7:30 a.m. on October 2,2025.

Upon arriving at the residence, the officers learned that Clifton had moved his wife —wrapped in a mattress— to the emergency room of St. Francis Hospital in Vinita, where she died.

Christina, dressed in underwear and a t-shirt, “had visible injuries described as drag marks,” states the affidavit.

Initially, Clifton told investigators that she had told her she wanted a divorce and that “the conversations”about the divorce were "They lasted for most of the previous day, October 1, 2025, and throughout the night until early morning on October 2, 2025."

They had been 12 years married

Clifton claimed that then they went for a brief ride in the car and that Christina “exited the vehicle and went in another direction, and that he found her slumped over and injured on the side of the road shortly afterward.”

“Clifton told a version of the facts that contained flagrant contradictions,” the affidavit states.

He later confessed to investigators that he had lied. The affidavit indicates that “they were both in bed after arguing all night, and that after Chris Tina told him that he was 'pathetic' and that she and her friends were making fun of him, Clifton felt humiliated and angry, and he strangled Christina while she was lying in bed.”

Furthermore, he stated that his intention in circling Christina's neck with his hands was to “shush” her.

Ballard told People that in Oklahoma life sentence is equivalent to 45 years, and that Clifton must serve 85% of the sentence before being eligible for parole.

“We hope she spends the rest of her life in prison,” he stated. “That's where she should be. It's what she deserves. She was.” a light in our community, and that his life has been taken in such a horrible way is absolutely absurd.”