officers found johnnie sutton dead inside the couple's home on frostwood drive in laurel. the couple's 22-month-old child was home at the time. this is the latest on that investigation. darcy? >> reporter: sadly, you can see this family was preparing for  christmas. they have decorations in the front yard, a red bow on the front door. but something terrible happened inside this home on friday. a husband is dead. the wife and mom is in jail, and that child is now staying with relatives. friends of the family remove items from a house where a wife and mother allegedly murdered her own husband while their 21-month-old child was in the home. 30-year-old marquita sutton charged with killing her 38-year-old husband, johnnie sutton, who was in the army. anne arundel county police confirming his body was stabbed, found in the home friday at 10:30 in the morning. police were called to check on his welfare after he failed to show up for work. his wife turned herself in saturday and is being held on second degree murder. the couple's child, who was there when the killing happened,