Marcus Plautius Silvanus was a Roman senator, and was praetor elect in AD 24.
Silvanus' response was to say that he had been asleep and was unaware of the circumstances leading to her death, saying that she had perhaps committed suicide.
The murder was investigated by the Emperor Tiberius who, having inspected the couple's bedroom, discovered proof of a scuffle, and therefore referred the case to the Senate for trial.
Shortly after the murder of Apronia, his first wife was "charged with having caused her husband's insanity by magical incantations and potions", but was acquitted.
[5] Plautius was a minor character in the Robert Graves novel I, Claudius, where it is implied that his second wife was murdered by an admirer of his first.