Robert James Petrick will not face the death penalty in his trial on charges that he killed his wife, cellist Janine Sutphen , a prosecutor said Thursday. Assistant District Attorney Mitchell Garrell told Superior Court Judge J.B. Allen Jr. that he would not prosecute the first-degree murder case as a capital murder.

Durham cellist Janine Sutphen's decomposed body showed no evidence of injuries, leading a medical examiner to conclude she was asphyxiated, according to an autopsy report released Thursday. The report by Dr. Thomas Clark III, an assistant state medical examiner, says he reached that determination after excluding all other injuries and after being unable to find any suitable specimens to undergo toxicology tests, which can show the presence of alcohol or poisons.

A computer system, rope and a green mattress were seized from murder suspect Robert Petrick's townhouse two weeks after his missing wife's body was found in Falls Lake, according to an affidavit filed Friday. The affidavit says Investigator Terry Mikels wanted to search the couple's townhouse at 1304 Seaton Road on June 9 after Janine Sutphen's body was found May 29. She was wrapped in "numerous layers of materials, some of which had been identified by family members" as belonging to Sutphen and kept in her home.

Six months after her mysterious disappearance, the friends and family of Janine Sutphen gathered to celebrate the life she so zestfully lived. The body of the Durham Symphony cellist was found May 30 in Falls Lake. Her husband, Robert James Petrick, was charged with murder the next day.

A Durham County grand jury Monday indicted Robert James Petrick on the charge of murdering his wife, Janine Sutphen, and prosecutors said they might seek the death penalty. Superior Court Judge J.B. Allen Jr. appointed two lawyers, Mark Edwards and Robert Trenkle, to represent Petrick, 49, and scheduled the next court date for July 8. Sutphen's body was found Thursday in Falls Lake, four months after Petrick reported that Sutphen, 57, left for a Durham Symphony rehearsal and never returned.

As friends and family prepare for Janine Sutphen's funeral, they await a bail hearing this week for clues about what evidence police have against her husband. Robert James Petrick, 49, will be arraigned on a murder charge Monday, when an indictment is expected to be handed up after a grand jury hears evidence about the death of Sutphen, 57, the Durham Symphony cellist whose body was found Thursday floating in Falls Lake.

Robert James Petrick was charged Friday with the murder of his wife, Janine Sutphen, hours after an autopsy confirmed that a body found bound and floating in Falls Lake was that of the missing Durham Symphony cellist.

Durham police are looking into the possibility that the corpse might be that of a missing cellist.

Family describes husband's troubles.

Missing woman's husband charged.

Police find inconsistencies in statements made by a missing cellist's spouse.

A sheriff's deputy and a cadaver-sniffing dog searched the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship's seven-acre property Tuesday but found no sign of missing church member Janine Sutphen, authorities said.

Sheriff's deputies continued searching a South Durham lake Monday for the body of Janine Sutphen, but they didn't find any clues to the whereabouts of the Durham cellist.

She told cellist of husband's past.

The Durham woman had been without a job, then found one that was a good fit. Then, suddenly, she vanished.

Three men hope for Janine Sutphen's safe return, but Durham police are approaching the case as a homicide.