Timothy Lucie
From an earlier television report, covering the trial.
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Day three of testimony in Lucie trial
Updated: 5/20/2004 7:52 PM
By: Lyndsay Mammen, News 10 Now Web Staff
Thursday was day three of testimony in the trial of Timothy Lucie, and it was an emotional one for jurors.
Lucie is charged with raping and sodomizing his eleven-year-old daughter, Valerie, last year in their Syracuse home. Valerie was found dead a few hours later, hanging from one of her bedposts.
The focus today has been on Lucie's written confession.
Sergeant Tom Connellan of the Syracuse Police Department testified yesterday that Lucie confessed to the crime soon after he was arrested.
According to the prosecution and the Syracuse Police Department, in his written confession, Lucie described in great detail raping and sodomizing his daughter.
Detective David Buske testified as to what Lucie told him when he was arrested.
“He proceeded to take Valerie’s clothes off, help Valerie to remove her clothing, put her in the shower, raped and sodomized her. He threatened to cut her hair if she didn’t comply with what he was telling her. At the end, he told her not to tell anyone. If she did tell anyone, in particular his wife, Andrea Lucie, that Andrea would not believe her…even if she told her mother,” he said.
Lucie later recanted in what was to be a videotaped confession, saying his written confession was a lie.
The defense maintains that police pressured Lucie to confess by threatening to take away his children.
Valerie Lucie