Dec. 11, 2025

"HACKSAW DNA PROVES ANA WALSH'S FATE, JUDGE-KILLING SHERIFF'S INSANITY DEFENSE & MISS SWITZERLAND BLENDED BY HUSBAND"

"HACKSAW DNA PROVES ANA WALSH'S FATE, JUDGE-KILLING SHERIFF'S INSANITY DEFENSE & MISS SWITZERLAND BLENDED BY HUSBAND"

Reid Carter covers days six and seven of Brian Walsh's murder trial as DNA evidence places Ana Walsh on the hacksaw blade used to dismember her - thirty nonillion times more likely to be her blood. Surveillance footage shows Walsh buying cleaning supplies hours after killing his wife. Kentucky sheriff Mickey Stines unveils insanity defense for murdering Judge Kevin Mullins - claims paranoid psychosis and California encephalitis. Swiss businessman charged with strangling Miss Switzerland finalist wife Kristina Joksimovic, decapitating her with garden shears, removing her womb, and pureeing body parts in industrial blender. She wanted to leave him.

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Calarogus Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter Thursday, December eleventh,

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twenty twenty five. Three stories today that remind you exactly

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how dark human nature can get Dedham, Massachusetts, Today's six

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and seven. In the Brian Walsh murder trial, prosecutors presented

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DNA evidence that Anna Walsh's blood was found on the

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blade of a hacksaw. Forensic scientists told the jury the

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DNA profile was thirty nine million times more likely to

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be Anna's than anyone else's. That's a thirty, followed by

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thirty zeros her blood on a hacksaw found in a

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dumpster near Walsh's mother's apartment. Surveillance footage showed Walsh buying

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that hacksaw hours after his wife disappeared. Black face, mask,

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blue gloves, four hundred and sixty dollars in cleaning supplies,

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mop buckets, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide. Smart enough to pay cab bush,

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too stupid to avoid the cameras. Kentucky, the sheriff who

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shot a judge, has unveiled his defense. Mickey Steins walked

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into Judge Kevin Mullen's chambers in September twenty twenty four.

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And executed him at point blank range, caught on camera.

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No dispute he did it, but now his lawyers claim

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he was suffering from paranoid psychosis and a neurological disease

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from bug bites. Says he lacked the capacity to intend

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the murder. Wants to avoid the death penalty. And Switzerland,

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a businessman has been charged with murdering his Miss Switzerland

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finalist wife in the most horrific way imaginable. Strangled her,

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decapitated her with garden shears, removed her womb, then puraied

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her body parts in an industrial blender, played YouTube videos

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while he did it. His defense, she attacked him with

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a knife self defense. I'm Red Carter today, DNA that

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proves a murder, a sheriff claiming insanity, and a beauty

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queen destroyed by her husband. This is celebrity trials. Let's

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start in Dedham, Massachusetts, Norfolk Superior Court State versus Brian Walsh.

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Week two of testimony, day six and seven focused on

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what prosecutors say proves Walsh murdered his wife Anna and

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dismembered her body. Quick background. January first, twenty twenty three,

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New Year's Day. Anna Walsh, thirty nine years old, corporate

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real estate manager, mother of three young boys, disappeared from

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her cohase at home. Her employer reported her missing January fourth.

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Her body has never been found. Brian Walsh, fifty years old,

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was on house arrest at the time, awaiting sentencing for

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a federal art fraud case involving fake Andy Warhol paintings.

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He initially told police Anna left early that morning for

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an emergency work meeting in Washington, d C. Prosecutors say

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that was a lie day. He murdered her sometime after

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midnight on New Year's Day, then spent the next several

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days dismembering her body and disposing of the remains in

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dumpsters around eastern Massachusetts. Before the trial started, Walsh pleaded

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guilty to two charges, misleading police and improperly disposing of

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a body. But the jury doesn't know that. They're deciding

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whether he murdered her. His defense, she died suddenly in

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her sleep, sudden, unexplained death. He found her cold in bed, panicked,

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and made terrible decisions, but he didn't kill her. Day six, Monday,

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December eighth, prosecutors played surveillance footage that painted a damning

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picture of Walsh's movements in the hours after Anna allegedly died.

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January first, twenty twenty three, approximately fifteen hours after Anna disappeared,

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surveillance cameras captured Brian Walsh outside Vinin Liquors in Swampscott.

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He's throwing a trash bag into the dumpster behind the store.

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Normal behavior if you're disposing of beer bottles. Not so

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normal when your wife is missing. Minutes later, he's at

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the Lows and Danvers, black face mask covering his face,

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blue gloves on his hands. Security footage shows him walking

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the aisles, loading his cart, spending more than four hundred

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sixty dollars in cash. What did Brian Walsh by that day?

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Let me tell you. A hack, saw, a hatchet, a hammer,

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wire snips, garden shears, mop painters, buckets, rags, three sixty

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four ounce bottles of ammonia, five bottles of hydrogen peroxide,

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cleaning supplies for a slaughterhouse, cash transaction, no paper trail

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except every single store has cameras and Brian Walsh wearing

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a mask in gloves is clearly identifiable. Smart enough to

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plant a cover up, too stupid to realize you can't

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hide from surveillance. In twenty twenty three. Three days later,

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January fourth, surveillance captured Walsh at a Low's in Weymouth.

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This time he brought one of his sons with him,

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a child, while shopping for a trash can, while his

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wife's body parts were allegedly decomposing in dumpsters across the region.

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Day six also brought testimony from Anna's co workers, Teresa

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Marchesi and Patrick Dunlevy. They testified about the day Anna

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was reported missing January fourth, Brian Walsh called the office,

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claiming his wife had vanished. Said she left for work

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on New Year's Day and he hadn't heard from her since.

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Anna's co workers immediately started searching in Washington. D C

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checked her town home, checked the buildings she managed, found

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her car at a Tishman Spire property she oversaw she'd

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left it there December thirtieth. Last day she used her

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work email, last day she used her corporate card. She

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never made it back to d C because she never

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left Massachusetts alive. Forensic scientist Matthew Sheehan took the stand

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Monday afternoon. State Police Crime Lab walked j jurors through

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blood evidence that stretched from the Walsh home in Cohaset

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to trash bins across the region. Blood in the basement,

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blood on the basement stairs, blood on a support beam,

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blood on a knife found stashed above the kitchen refrigerator,

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and blood on the items recovered from dumpsters, a hacksaw,

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a hatchet, a rug with embedded blood clots, towels, slippers,

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a Tyvek protective suit. Sheehan testified about the hatchet, specifically

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said he noticed a greasy, oily substance on the head.

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Explain to the jury that when a hatchet is used

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on a person, it can leave behind fatty tissue substances.

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Fatty tissue on a hatchet found in a dumpster near

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Brian Walsh's mother's apartment. Defense attorney Larry Tipton, cross examined,

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pushed the sudden death theory. Asked the forensic pathologist if

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people can experience sudden, unexpected death from neurological causes without

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any prior symptoms. The answer yes, technically yes, but sudden

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death doesn't explain the hacksaw doesn't explain the hatchet doesn't

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explain the four hundred and sixty dollars in cleaning supplies

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doesn't explain the blood in the basement. Day seven, Tuesday,

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December ninth, DNA evidence took center stage. Forensic scientist Saman

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Salim testified State Police Crime Lab DNA unit walked the

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jury through the painstaking process of DNA collection and analysis,

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then delivered the evidence that may seal Brian Walsh's fate.

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Anna Walsh's DNA was found on a blood stain on

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the blade of a hacksaw. Selim told the jury the

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DNA profile from this item is at least thirty non

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illion times more likely if it originated from Anna Walsh

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than if it originated from an unknown, unrelated individual. Thirty

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nine million. That's a thirty followed by thirty zeros, not

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thirty million, not thirty billion, thirty nine million, a number

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so large it's essentially infinite certainty. Anna Walsh's blood on

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a hacksaw blade found in a dumpster near Brian Walsh's

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mother's apartment, purchased by Brian Walsh on January first, twenty

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twenty three, hours after his wife allegedly died. But it

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didn't stop there. Anna's DNA was also found on the

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head of a hatchet. Same statistical probability, same dumpster, same

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purchase date. Her DNA was on blood stained slippers, on

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a Tivek protective suit, on towels with reddish brown stains,

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on pieces of carpet, on tissue samples recovered from the

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Swampscott dumpster, on a stain from the basement floor. The

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carpet from the dumpster had blood clots embedded in it.

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A metal piece with a Gucci engraving was found inside

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Ana Walsh's belongings. Ana Walsh's blood, Ona Walsh's DNA everywhere

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prosecutors look. The defense cross examined Selim got her to

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confirm that DNA testing on an object doesn't determine that

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the object was ever used against the person whose DNA

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appears on it. A fair technical point. But how else

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does Anna Walsh's blood end up on a hacksaw blade

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her husband purchased the day she disappeared. Prosecutors also presented

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evidence about Brian Walsh's DNA samples. The FBI collected DNA

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from both Brian and Anna in May twenty eighteen during

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the Federal Art Fraud investigation. Those samples were retrieved from

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FBI headquarters and delivered to the State Police Crime Lab

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for comparison chain of custody maintained one more detail from

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day seven. A blood stain found on the basement floor

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contained DNA from Anna Walsh and an unknown male source.

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Prosecutors didn't explain who the unknown mail might be, but

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Anna's DNA was definitively present. Here's where the defense theory collapses.

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If Anna Walsh died suddenly in her sleep, why is

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her blood on a hacksaw? Why is her DNA on

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a hatchet? Why are their blood stains in the basement.

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Why did Brian Walsh by dismemberment tools hours after her death.

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The defense says he panicked found his wife dead, made

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terrible decisions, But dismembering a body isn't a panic response.

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It's a calculated decision. It takes hours, it requires tools,

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it requires planning. Brian Walsh's Internet search history from January

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first tells you everything you need to know. We covered

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this earlier in the trial, but it bears repeating. Four

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fifty five AM Best ways to dispose of a body,

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five forty four AM how long for someone to be

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missing for inheritance? Eleven thirty three AM Best ways to

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dispose of body parts after a murder twelve twenty seven pm.

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How to dismember a body twelve thirty eight pm. Hacksaw

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The best tool for dismembering a body twelve forty sive

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seven pm. Can you be charged with murder without a body?

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He also searched for Patrick Kearney, the trash bag Killer,

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serial murderer who disposed of victims in trash bags. Brian

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Walsh was studying the playbook. The trial continues, Prosecutors will

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likely rest soon. Then the defense will present their case.

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Try to convince the jury that sudden death explains everything,

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that panic explains the dismemberment, that grief explains the lies.

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But DNA doesn't lie, Surveillance footage doesn't lie, search history

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doesn't lie. Anna Walsh was thirty nine years old, corporate

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real estate executive, mother of three boys. She was having

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an affair, was planning to leave her husband, told a

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friend she was afraid of him. She should be raising

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her sons, should be building her career, should be alive.

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Rest in peace, Anna, The DNA tells your story. Now

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we'll be right back with the Kentucky sheriff who executed

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a judge and now claims paranoid psychosis, plus the Swiss

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businessman who allegedly blended his beauty queen wife. Welcome back

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to celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter. September nineteenth, twenty twenty four.

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Letcher County Courthouse, Whitesburg, Kentucky. Sheriff Shawn Mickey Steins walked

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into Judge Kevin Mullen's chambers, drew his weapon. Judge Mullins

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tried to hide behind his desk. Stein's opened fire, shot

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him at point blank range, killed him instantly, caught on camera.

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No dispute about the facts. The sheriff executed a judge

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inside a courthouse. Steins was immediately apprehended has been behind

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bars ever since, charged with murder of a public official,

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death penalty eligible. Now, his defense team had unveiled their strategy,

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and it's exactly what you'd expect when the evidence is

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inescapable insanity. Court documents filed November twelfth claimed Stein's lacked

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the capacity to intend to shoot and kill his longtime friend,

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say he was exhibiting paranoid and psychotic conduct when he

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pulled the trigger. His lawyers laid out a series of

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potential defenses. Pre existing conditions, no control over his actions,

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no malice, intended mental health, incapacitation, extreme emotional distress. If proven,

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these claims could spare Steins from the death penalty. Here's

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the backstory that makes this case bizarre. Stein's and Mullins

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were friends, good friends, knew each other for thirty years.

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So what drove a sheriff to execute a judge he'd

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known for three decades? A federal investigation, a sex scandal,

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and a lawsuit that threatened to expose everyone. January twenty

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twenty two, a woman named Sabrina Adkins filed a lawsuit

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claimed a Lecher County deputy named Ben Fields forced her

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to have sex inside Judge Mullen's office in exchange for

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staying out of jail, sex for favors inside a courthouse

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inside the judge's chambers. Adkins also accused Judge Mullins of

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inappropriate behavior. Claimed she witnessed him engaging in sexual acts

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with women in exchange for special treatment. Said Fields film

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some of the encounters, some reportedly involved the judge. The

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lawsuit named sheriff Stein's said he failed to properly supervise

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Deputy Fields said the sheriff's office enabled the corruption federal

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investigators opened an inquiry, started looking into the sex for

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Favour's allegations, started looking at the judge, started looking at

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the sheriff. Three days before the shooting, Steins gave a

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deposition in the federal case. During that deposition, Steins claimed

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he was suffering from California encephalitis, a neurological disease caused

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by Bugby. Said he'd been experiencing dizziness, sweating, headaches, and

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memory loss. His defense attorney, Jeremy Bartley, has said that

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deposition will be central to their case. Said Stein's was

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concerned about backlash from the investigation, feared for his life,

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feared for his family's safety. Footage from just before the

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shooting supports this claim. Steins called his daughter from the

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judge's phone, expressed concerns about his family. Was clearly agitated.

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After the shooting. Body camera footage showed Stein's in extreme distress,

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handcuffed in the courthouse, legs shaking nervously, telling state troopers

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he wouldn't survive if he went to jail. I leave

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this building, I won't draw another breath. Stein's told officers

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he begged to be taken to the jail next door

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instead of the Leslie County jail an hour away. Officers

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took him to Leslie County anyway. When he arrived at

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the detention center, staff documented his mental state. A September

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Umber twenty third report read upon evaluation of mister Stein's

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it appears that he is still in an active state

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of psychosis. He appears disoriented and is only aware of

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things jail staff tell him. He has no recollection of

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the recent past active psychosis days after the shooting. That's

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significant evidence for an insanity defense. But here's the problem.

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Stein's earlier attempts to dismiss the charges have failed. His

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lawyers argued prosecutors didn't inform the grand jury about his

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mental state, argued the grand jury proceedings weren't properly recorded.

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A judge rejected both arguments last week, said the grand

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jury had enough evidence found no prosecutorial misconduct. The judge did, however,

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grant Stein's a bond hearing. His defense plans to argue

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emotional disturbance and possible insanity at the time of the shooting.

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Date for that hearing hasn't been set yet. Meanwhile, Judge

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Mullins's widow has filed a civil lawsuit against Stein's against

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three Sheriff's office employees, claims they failed to warn the

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judge about Stein's erratic behavior. Says Jason eccles, LASHAWNA. Frasier,

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and Christine Bohling noticed Stein's was exhibiting anxious, paranoid and

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psychotic conduct. Says they had a duty to alert the

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judge failed to do so. The civil case has a

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hearing scheduled for January seventh. Stein's lawyers are trying to

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dismiss the civil suit too, claiming sovereign immunity, arguing that

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as sheriff, he was acting in his official capacity, therefore

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protected from civil liability. Make it make sense? A sheriff

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executes a judge over a sex scandal investigation, and his

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defense is that he was too crazy to intend it,

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that bug bites caused brain damage, that he was in

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such distress he can't be held responsible. Judge Kevin Mullins

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was fifty four years old district court judge, public servant.

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Whatever his involvement in the sex scandal allegations, he didn't

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deserve to be executed in his chambers by a friend,

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by a fellow public official. If Steins succeeds with the

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insanity defense, he goes to a mental institution for treatment,

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not prison, not death row. Treatment your tax dollars at work.

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February thirteenth, twenty twenty four, Binning, in Switzerland, small town

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near Basel, police responded to a home found the ravaged

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body of Christina Joksimovitch, thirty eight years old, former Miss

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Switzerland finalist, mother of two young children. What they found

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inside that house will haunt you. She'd been strangled, decapitated,

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dismembered with a jigsaw, a knife and garden shears. Her

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womb had been surgically removed. Some of her body parts

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had been forced into an industrial blende under puade. Others

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were dissolving in a chemical solution. Her husband, identified in

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Swiss media only as Thomas due to privacy laws, has

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been charged with her murder. He's forty one years old,

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a businessman, father of her two children. The Basle Landshaft

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Public Prosecutor's Office has concluded its criminal investigation. A trial

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date hasn't been set yet. Court documents obtained exclusively by

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the Daily Mail reveal the horrifying details The autopsy found.

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Christina's cause of death was strangulation a reddish throttle mark

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around her neck. But that was just the beginning. Her

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body showed signs of blunt force trauma before death. Cuts

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on her cheek, under her eyebrow, on her nose, bruises

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on her right lower leg, foot, shoulder blades, and the

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back of her head. Examination of her head revealed wounds

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indicating some of her hair had been ripped out. Then

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came the dismemberment. Thomas allegedly broke Christina's hip joints out

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of their sockets, performed what medical examiners call disarticulation on

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her left upper arm, fore arms, and right lower leg,

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removal of bones from their joints like an amputation. He

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roughly severed her upper spine to decapitate her, split her

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torso in half above the pelvis. And here's the detail

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that separates this from other dismemberment cases. Her womb was

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carefully removed. The only organ cut out of her torso

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surgically extracted. Deliberate, calculated investigators found what happened to the

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body parts. A large number of skin flaps, some with

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attached muscles, pieces of muscle with attached bone, fragments, various

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body parts thrown into an industrial blender, others dissolved in

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chemical solution. While allegedly cutting up his wife's body, Thomas

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played YouTube videos on his phone. Picture this a man

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in his home, wife's body on the floor, garden, shears

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in hand, YouTube playing in the background. That's not panic,

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that's not sudden death response. That's methodical destruction of evidence.

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Thomas initially told police he found his wife dead by

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the stairs, later changed his story, claimed self defense, Said

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they had a positive conversation before she suddenly attacked him

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with a knife, said he strangled her defending himself. The

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court rejected that explanation, found his planned and systematic approach

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over several hours in dismembering and attempting to dispose of

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the body using special tools and chemicals contradicted any claim

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of panic or self defense. The deliberate removal of her

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womb raised additional concerns. Court documents mentioned signs of deliberate

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mutilation or ritualized degradation of the body, suggested Thomas possibly

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had a mental disorder. The womb removal wasn't practical, it

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was symbolic, personal, vindictive. Why did he do it? A

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source close to Christina told Swiss media. She wanted to

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leave him, was planning to end and the marriage, but

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was afraid of him. She wanted to break up, but

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was afraid of him. The source told Twenty Minutes the

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relationship had been in crisis for months. A friend's partner

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told Blick newspaper that police had been called to the

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house before over reports of physical violence. Just weeks before

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the murder, Christina posted photos on social media of an

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idyllic couple's getaway to Lake Lucerne Facebook Perfect Life Hiding

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domestic terror. Thomas claimed he felt like he was getting

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into a tunnel. Said fear of losing his children, house

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and company stressed him out. Claimed this fear prevented him

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from reflecting on his decisions. Said his control mechanisms were

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missing due to shock. But that's not how dismemberment works.

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You don't accidentally spend hours cutting up a body because

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you're stressed. You don't carefully remove a womb because you're

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in shock. You don't pure body parts and a blender

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because you panicked. Thomas's phone remains encrypted. He's refused to

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give investigators access. The court noted the phone could hide

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more evidence whatever's on that device he doesn't want anyone

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to see it. Christina Yoksimovitch was thirty eight years old

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Miss Switzerland finalist, mother of two children who lived in

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that house, who may have been in that house when

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their mother was killed. She worked in design and fashion,

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competed in beauty pageants, built a life, had dreams. A

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neighbor confirmed the children live there too. Those kids lost

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their mother. Their father allegedly destroyed her body in ways

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too graphic for most media to describe. If convicted, Thomas

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faces years in Swiss prison. Swiss law is more lenient

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than American law, but some crimes transcend legal systems. Some

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evil is universal. Christina wanted to leave, wanted to escape,

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wanted a different life. Instead, she became a victim of

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the man who promised to love her. The court will

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determine Thomas's fate, but we already know Christina's strangled, dismembered, purade,

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Rest in peace, Christina, you deserved so much better. That's

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Celebrity trials for Thursday, December eleventh, twenty twenty five. Brian

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Walsh Trial, Days six and seven. DNA evidence places Anna

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Walsh's blood on the hacksaw blade. Thirty non illion times

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more likely to be her. Surveillance footage shows Walsh buying

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dismemberment tools hours after her death. Defense claims sudden death,

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prosecutors say murder. Kentucky Sheriff Mickey Steins unveils insanity defense

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for executing Judge Kevin Mullins claims paranoid psychosis and California encephalitis.

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Bond hearing coming civil lawsuit hearing January seventh. And Swiss

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businessman Thomas charged with strangling, decapitating, and blending Miss Switzerland

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finalist wife Christina Djoksimovich. She wanted to leave him, he

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made sure she would. I'm read Carter tomorrow updates on

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all three cases and whatever else breaks. This is celebrity trials.