Defendant denies guilty plea in wife’s disappearance

Perry March said in separate jailhouse interviews Monday with The Tennessean and WTVF-TV that he didn’t offer a guilty plea, as Nashville police Sgt. Pat Postiglione testified at a bond hearing last week.

“I’m maintaining that my remembrance of the questioning on the airplane is materially different than Postiglione’s, and I’ll be looking to address that prior to trial,” March said.

March is charged with second-degree murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in the 1996 disappearance of Janet Levine March. Her body has never been found.

March has spent much of the past nine years living in Mexico and his ties to foreign countries were noted in a judge’s order on Tuesday setting his bond at $3 million.

March denied to both news organizations that he killed his wife.

“Of course, the answer is no,” March told The Tennessean. “It’s been no for nine years, and that hasn’t changed once since the day she left.

“By the way, no one has proven to me that she’s deceased. I’d like to be the first one to know.”

March said he is eager for trial but concerned an impartial jury can’t be found in Nashville.

“I look forward to trial and winning an acquittal,” March told WTVF. “The police and DA had nine years and have spent money to build cases against me — a frame up, that’s what I’m fighting right now.”