Trial for ’93 killing opens in Hartford
By James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. | |
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
Calloway, 60, was charged with murder, kidnapping, retaliating against a participant in the legal process and tampering with physical evidence in the death of
"Really, the story starts ... on
"She's already said, 'If Larry doesn't quit messing with that girl, I'm going to come forward" about the arson, Coleman said.
Later in the trial, jurors will hear from
After she was charged in late 2012,
"She knew Patsy was dead because she was a participant in it," Coleman said.
Defense attorney
Austin said
"The fact that no one has seen her is not evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that she's dead," Austin said. "You think that would be obvious, but somehow, we're here."
"I just happened to look up and I saw her in the parking lot with
Later, Coleman produced a copy of a newspaper he said investigators received from
"Patsy came into the break room. She cussed ... She said, 'My SOB husband has brought in this young girl,' he wants to have him, her and Patsy in a threesome arrangement, and there was no way in H-E-L-L was she going to put up with that," Hertzog testified, spelling out words he didn't want to say aloud. "She said, 'I'm going to put a stop to it.' She said, 'I'm going to turn them in for burning this house down.'"
Hertzog testified that during the argument,
Hertzog also testified that
"He said he killed her," Dunning said. "He choked her to death."
Dunning said she didn't tell anyone at the time because "he was my brother and I loved him."
Dunning testified that on
The trial resumes at
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