Posted on 11/10/2007 6:19:28 PM PST by NormsRevenge
GRASS VALLEY
A Grass Valley man on trial for murder says he felt possessed while he strangled his wife and shot her three times with a nail gun.
Richard Williams says he felt like he was on autopilot during the killing in October 2005.
Williams told jurors he had stopped taking his antidepressant medication when he shot his wife, then himself with the nail gun. Williams wrote a suicide note before trying to kill himself.
He cried as he described shooting the first nail into his wife. But he otherwise showed little emotion during Friday's testimony.
Nevada County prosecutors say Williams planned the slaying weeks in advance.
The case is being tried in Napa County because there was too much media coverage in Nevada County.
Will he call Linda Blair as an expert witness?
Hit the nail on the head? One hates to pry....
This guy needs to be on a new game show, “You take ‘em out!” as a participant at the receiving end of a high velocity object or two.. what a piece of .. we’ll have to wait and see what they say he was or was not taking as far as medications, he may have been a basketcase anyway.
Testimony like that will get your sentence upgraded from life in prison to execution.
‘hate crime’ defense maybe or a spin on it, is that case still going on or what happened? Thx.
You nailed that one!
...’possessed’ from of a lack of ‘trim’?
Article doesn't mention where he shot himself.
Shes a punch.
Just the other day there was a story about a big time real estate agent in Manhattan,an "agent to the rich and famous",who was murdered by her assistant.The assistant,who was black,claimed,according to the NY press,that she did it because her boss called her some kind of racial slur.
The guy blew it. You gotta cry a whole hell of a lot for the jury. Women know this and are experts at it.
Pluse if the guy isn’t good looking, even the crying probably won’t work for him.
Men just can’t use women’s phony tactics (if they really do cry they are crying ‘cause they got caught) and get away with it like women do.
Oh, shoot! I have some nice x-rays of heads full of nails and for some reason I can’t post pics lately. Of of the people lived. This guy must have done it wrong. I think the strangling part must be the problem.
He said he planned it for weeks. What’s to plan. Just drag the compressor into the living room and ask her to look into the gun and see if she can see if there’s a nail stuck in it. Then double tap and see how it goes.
I saw that. two lives ruined. over words... We’ve all heard of fighting words,, but .. killing words?
I think I have galvanized the facts pretty well. Screw you.
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