Sept. 16, 2025

"TOMAHAWK WIFE MURDER, PREGNANT MISTRESS TRIAL & ONLY FANS KILLER'S EVIDENCE DESTROYED"

"TOMAHAWK WIFE MURDER, PREGNANT MISTRESS TRIAL & ONLY FANS KILLER'S EVIDENCE DESTROYED"

Reid Carter examines Tuesday's collection of American horror stories. A Hawaii man allegedly killed his wife with a tomahawk because divorce is apparently too complicated. Jose Soto-Escalera goes to trial for murdering his pregnant mistress who threatened to tell his wife. Herbert Swilley allegedly dosed his wife with drugs then choked her for insurance money. A woman shot her husband at his assisted living facility in front of nurses. And Courtney Clenney's lawyers claim prosecutors destroyed evidence in the OnlyFans murder case. Tuesday proves murder is America's favorite problem-solving technique, whether the weapon is a tomahawk or Instagram fame.

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Callarogus shark media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Tuesday, September sixteenth,

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twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity trials. No massive breaking news,

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no political assassinations, no celebrity scandals, just your regular Tuesday

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collection of Americans solving their relationship problems with murder. A

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Hawaii man who allegedly used a tomahawk on his wife

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because apparently that's easier than filing for divorce. A Florida

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man on trial for killing his pregnant mistress who made

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the mistake of wanting him to leave his wife. Another

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Florida man who dosed his wife with drugs then choked

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her because insurance money beats marriage counseling. Plus updates on

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the Only Fans killer, Courtney Clennie, whose lawyers now claim

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the state destroyed evidence because when you're on video stabbing

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your boyfriend, your only hope is technical violations. Just another

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Tuesday in a Maria where murder is always on the

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table as a conflict resolution strategy. This is Celebrity Trials.

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Let's start in Hawaii, where paradise apparently includes tomahawk murders.

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Bryant to Jada forty five has been charged with murdering

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his wife, Alvina with a tomahawk. A tomahawk in twenty

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twenty five in Hawaii, where you have to really go

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out of your way to find a tomahawk to murder

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someone with September third, Honolulu neighbors called nine one one

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after hearing screams from the Tejeda residents, not arguing, not yelling,

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screams the kind that make you stop everything and reach

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for your phone. Police arrive to find Alvina to Jada

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forty three with massive head trauma. The tomahawk was still

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in the bedroom, covered in blood and hair. Bryant was

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in the living room, also covered in blood, watching TV

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like it was a normal Tuesday night. When police asked

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what happened, Bryant's response was remarkable in its stupidity. She fell.

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She fell onto a tomahawk multiple times, causing defensive wounds

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on her hands where she tried to block the weapon.

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The real story emerged through investigation. The Tajadas had been

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married eighteen years, three kids, ages sixteen, fourteen, and eleven.

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Bryant had been unemployed for six months. Alvino was supporting

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the family working two jobs as a nurse, and a

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hotel cleaner. She'd filed for divorce two weeks before her death.

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Bryant's Google searches tell the premeditation story. Two days before

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the murder, he searched how sharp does a tomahawk need

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to be? Then tomahawk versus hatchet for self defense? Then

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Hawaiian divorce laws, then how much alimony in Hawaii? Then

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back to best tomahawk brands. He literally went shopping for

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murder weapons on Amazon with prime shipping. The tomahawk arrived

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August thirtieth. Alvina was dead September third, three days from

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delivery to murder. The children were home when it happened.

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The sixteen year old heard the screams and locked her

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younger siblings in a bedroom. She called nine one one

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while her mother was being murdered down the hall. Imagine

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being sixteen and having to choose between helping your mother

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and protecting your siblings. She chose right, but she'll live

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with that choice forever. Bryant's defense attorney, Michael Chang, is

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trying to claim temporary insanity brought on by economic stress.

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Economic stress. He was stressed about money, so he tomahawked

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his wife, who was working two jobs to support him.

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The prosecutor, Jennifer Kowamoto put it perfectly at the arraignment.

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The defendant chose to murder his wife rather than accept divorce.

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He chose violence rather than alimony. He chose to orphan

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his children rather than co parent them. Bryant is being

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held without bail. The tomahawk has been entered into evidence.

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Amazon has provided purchase records showing he paid for expedited shipping.

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He paid extra to get his murder weapon faster. Alvina

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Tejeda was forty three. She was one semester away from

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finishing her r N degree. She'd been accepted into University

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of Hawaii's Nurse practitioner program. She was going to specialize

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in pediatric care. Instead, she died with a tomahawk in

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her skull while her children hid in a bedroom. Bryant

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Tajada thought a tomahawk was better than divorce court. Now

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he's facing life without parole and his kids are in

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foster care. Paradise indeed, now to Florida, where Jose Sodo

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Escallera is on trial for murdering his pregnant mistress. Because

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nothing says I love my wife like killing the other

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woman carrying your child. The trial started yesterday in Miami.

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Sodo Esclera, thirty eight, is charged with murdering Melissa Rodriguez,

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twenty six, who was seven months pregnant with his child

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seven months viable, a baby that could have survived outside

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the womb. June twenty twenty four. Melissa made the fatal

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mistake of calling Jose's wife, told her about the affair,

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told her about the pregnancy, told her Jose had promised

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to leave his wife months ago. Classic mistress mistake, believing

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the married man's promises. Maria Soto Escalera, the wife didn't

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take it well, but instead of divorcing Jose, she gave

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him an ultimatum, fix this or get out. Jose chose

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to fix it with murder. Jose lured Melissa to a

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warehouse in Hialea, told her they needed to talk about

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the baby, about their future, about finally being together. Melissa

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believed him, because pregnant women want to believe the father

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of their child isn't a monster. Security footage shows Melissa

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arriving at nine pm, walking in alone. Jose's car was

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already there. Melissa never walked out. Jose left at eleven

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forty seven pm alone. Her body was found three days

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later by a maintenance worker, strangled with an electrical cord.

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The baby died with her. The medical examiner testified yesterday

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that the baby suffered for approximately four minutes as oxygen

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was cut off. Four minutes of a viable baby dying

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because daddy didn't want to pay child's support. Jose's story

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has changed more times than a teenager's Instagram bio. First

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he never met her that night, Then security footage proved

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he did. Then they met, but she left alive. Then

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footage showed she didn't. Then she attacked him, and it

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was self defense. A seven months pregnant woman attacked a

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two hundred pound man. Sure his wife, Maria is standing

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by him. She's in court every day, holding his hand

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during breaks. The woman whose husband murdered his pregnant mistress

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is playing supportive wife. Either that's de nile or she's

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as sick as he is. The prosecutor, Anna Martinez laid

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out the motive yesterday. Jose was broke, his landscaping business

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was failing. His wife controlled the money from her family inheritance.

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A baby would mean child support for eighteen years murder

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was cheaper than monthly payments. Jose's phone had searches from

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the week before. How much is child support in Florida?

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Can you avoid child support if not married? Electrical cord

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strength test? How long does strangulation take? He googled it?

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They always google it like Google doesn't keep records, Like

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clearing your browser clears your crime. Melissa Rodriguez was twenty six.

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She was a kindergarten teacher. She'd named the baby Sophia,

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had a nursery set up in her apartment with pink everything.

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She believed Jose would be a father to their daughter. Instead,

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he became their killer. The trial continues this week. Jose

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faces life without parole for two counts of murder Melissa

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and baby Sophia. His wife still sits in the gallery,

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pretending her husband isn't a monster. And somewhere another mistress

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is calling another wife, not knowing she's signing her own

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death warrant. We'll be right back with more Florida murder

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and what happens when you kill your husband in front

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of the entire assisted living staff staying in Florida, because

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of course, we are Herbert Swilley's trial for murdering his wife.

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Starts next week, but jury selection began yesterday. This is

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a special kind of evil. The slow motion murder. March

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twenty twenty four. Timothy and Patricia Swilley had been married

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thirty one years. Patricia had early stage Parkinson's. Herbert saw

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opportunities where others would see obligation. Herbert started drugging Patricia's food,

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crushed up sleeping pills in her morning oatmeal, xanax in

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her afternoon tea ambient in her dinner. She complained about

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being tired all the time, dizzy, confused. Herbert told friends

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she was deteriorating from the Parkinsons, but Herbert got impatient

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drugging her was taking too long. So on March fifteenth,

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while Patricia was unconscious from the cocktail of medications he'd

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fed her, Herbert strangled her with her own bathrobe belt.

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He then called nine one one, claiming she'd committed suicide.

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Said she was depressed about her diagnosis couldn't handle the deterioration.

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The responding officer noted Herbert was remarkably calm for a

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man who'd just found his wife's body. The medical examiner

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found enough drugs in Patricia's system to knock out a horse.

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But more importantly, the ligature marks were inconsistent with suicide.

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The angle was wrong, pressure points didn't match. This was

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murder dressed up as suicide, Herbert's mistake. Patricia kept a

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journal hidden in her craft room, where she documented feeling

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strange after meals, documented Herbert bringing her special tea, documented

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her fear that something was wrong. The last entry dated

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March fourteenth, the day before she died. Herbert has been

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so attentive lately, too attentive. I'm scared to eat what

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he brings me, but scared to refuse if something happens

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to me. Look at Herbert. She knew, She knew her

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husband of thirty one years was poisoning her, But where

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could she go? Who would believe a Parkinson's patient over

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her devoted caregiver husband. Herbert's Google history sealed it. How

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much ambient is fatal? Mixing sleeping pills with other medications,

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How to make strangulation look like suicide? Life insurance payout

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timeline remarrying after spouse death, Florida. He was already planning

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his next wedding while planning his wife's murder. Patricia's life

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insurance was worth five hundred thousand dollars. Herbert had taken

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out additional policies in the months before her death. Total

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payout would have been one point two million. For a

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retired plumber. That was worth more than a sick wife.

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Patricia Swilley was fifty eight. She was an art teacher

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for thirty years. Even with Parkinson's she was teaching painting

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classes at the community center. She had years left, good

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years until Herbert decided her life insurance was worth more

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than her life. The trial starts Monday. Herbert faces life

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without parole. He's sixty one. Life without parole means dying

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in prison, probably wondering if his cellmate is putting something

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in his food. South Carolina, where Dorothy Williams seventy two,

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shot her husband Charles seventy four, at his assisted living

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facility in front of the nursing staff during morning medications

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September tenth, Sunrise Senior Living in Charleston. Charles Williams had

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been a resident for six months following a stroke. Dorothy

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visited every day at ten am. The staff loved her,

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called her devoted, dedicated, the perfect wife. Last Tuesday, Dorothy

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arrived at her usual time, signed in at the front desk,

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brought Charles his favorite cookies from home, sat with him

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in the common room while he had his morning medications.

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Then she pulled out a thirty eight revolver and shot

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him in the chest once, in front of three nurses,

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two aides, and six other residents. She didn't run, didn't

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resist when security arrived, just sat there holding Charles's hand

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while he bled out saying, it's okay, baby, it's over now.

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The investigation revealed Charles had been diagnosed with advanced dementia

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two weeks earlier. He didn't recogniz Dorothy anymore, called her

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by his first wife's name, sometimes thought she was trying

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to poison him. The man she'd been married to for

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forty five years, didn't know who she was. Dorothy had

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inquired about medical assistance in dying. South Carolina doesn't allow it.

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She'd asked about hospice. Charles wasn't eligible yet. She'd begged

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doctors to increase his comfort medications. They said he wasn't

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in physical pain, but Dorothy saw pain, saw her husband

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of forty five years terrified of his own wife, saw

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him crying for his mother, who'd been dead thirty years,

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saw him disappearing, one memory at a time, so she

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decided to end it. Not a murder suicide, just murder.

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She wanted to face the consequences, wanted to go to prison,

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said it was worth it to end his suffering. The

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staff is traumatized. The nurse who was giving Charles his

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medications is on leave. The residents who witnessed it are

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having nightmares. The facility is facing lawsuits from families claiming

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inadequate security. Dorothy's lawyer is pleading not guilty by reason

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of insanity, claims she snapped under caregiver stress, but Dorothy disagrees,

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told the judge at her arraignment she was completely sane,

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knew what she was doing, would do it again. The

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prosecutor doesn't want to pursue the death penalty. Dorothy is

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seventy two with diabetes and heart disease. Prison is essentially

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a death sentence anyway. Charles Williams was a retired teacher

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taught high school chemistry for forty years. In his lucid moments,

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he'd still explain chemical reactions to anyone who'd listen. Dorothy

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said she couldn't watch his brilliant mind disappear anymore. Sometimes

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murder isn't about anger, or money or revenge. Sometimes it's

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about love so twisted by disease that death seems like mercy.

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Dorothy Williams loved her husband to death literally. Finally, an

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update on Courtney Clennye, the Only Fans model who stabbed

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her boyfriend Christian Obumcelli to death in their Miami apartment.

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Clennie's lawyers filed a motion yesterday claiming prosecutors destroyed evidence

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and failed to disclose a witness. When you're on video

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attacking your boyfriend multiple times before killing him, your only

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hope is technicalities. The destroyed evidence a hard drive containing

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surveillance footage from their apartment building. The prosecution says it

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was corrupted and unrecoverable. The defense says it was deliberately

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destroyed because it showed Christian as the aggressor right the building.

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Surveillance would show what happened inside their apartment. That's definitely

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how cameras work. The undisclosed witness is supposedly a neighbor

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who heard Christian threatening Courtney. This neighbor mysteriously appeared eighteen

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months after the murder, didn't come forward during the investigation,

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didn't call police, just remembered now that they heard something important.

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The state filed their response yesterday. The hard drive was

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corrupted when they received it. They have documentation from three

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D forensic experts saying it was unrecoverable. As for the

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mystery witness, they note this person only came forward after

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being contacted by the defense's private investigator and paid for

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their testimony. Meanwhile, the evidence against Clennie keeps mounting. Her

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phone had videos of her attacking Christian on ten separate occasions.

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Ten times she filmed herself being violent because nothing says

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self defense like a Greatest Hits compilation of domestic violence.

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In one video from a month before the murder, she's

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throwing glass bottles at him while he begs her to stop.

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In another, she's hitting him with her purse while he

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tries to leave. Each video shows Christian trying to de

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escalate while Courtney escalates. But the defense wants to focus

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on a corrupted hard drive and a witness who suddenly

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remembered crucial information after being paid. The trial is set

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for December. Clennie remains on house arrest in her parents'

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home making tiktoks about being a victim. Christian's family has

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to watch his killer playing victim on social media while

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wearing an ankle monitor instead of handcuffs. Christian Obumcelli was

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twenty seven. He was a cryptocurrency trader. His family says

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he was planning to leave Courtney, had started looking for

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his own apartment, was going to move out April fourth.

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She killed him April third. Sometimes the timeline tells you

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everything you need to know. That's celebrity trials for Tuesday,

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September sixteenth. Five cases, five murders, five different weapons, tomahawk,

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electrical cord, drugs and strangulation, a gun and a kitchen knife,

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but all the same motive. Someone decided murder was easier

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than the alternative, divorce, child support, medical bills, watching dementia,

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breaking up normal life problems that normal people solve without murder.

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But Bryant Tajeda, Jose Sodo Escalera, Herbert Swilleye, Dorothy Williams,

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and Courtney Clennie all chose violence. Tomorrow, Verdict Watch continues

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in the Kiss and Kill trial. Updates from the federal

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trial of Ryan Routh and whatever Fresh horror emerges overnight.

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I'm read Carter Today's lesson. Your Google search history will

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convict you, your journal will save others, And murder is

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never the answer, whether your weapon is a tomahawk or

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an OnlyFans account. See you tomorrow,