[knarf]

"His story is that she insulted him during their argument, he lost his cool and hit her, she fell and hit her head and then he got scared and tried to hide the evidence by trussing her and burning the place."

" Which is probably exactly what his attorney told him to say."

An educated Asian making an insulting remark to a laborer?

That doesn't fit the profile.

[wideawake]

I agree. My guess is that he coarsely propositioned her and she rightfully gave him an earful and threatened to call the police. And then he lost it.