Posted on 04/03/2012 2:36:48 AM PDT by blueplum
No one disputes who killed San Jose resident Donna Fife -- not even the teenager who slammed his beige Honda Civic into her so hard her neighbors said they heard a sickening thud.
What jurors will have to decide is whether the young man, Richard Delgado, killed the popular matriarch in 2009 intentionally.
Delgado, now a short, skinny 23-year-old with a shaved head and thin mustache, is charged with one count of murder. As the first day of Delgado's long-awaited trial got under way Monday afternoon, Fife's still grief-stricken husband of 25 years, Mark, clutched his sister-in-law's hand, and about 10 other friends and relatives also choked back tears.
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Three years later, Mark Fife is still struggling in the aftermath of his wife's death. He has put most of his time and effort into remodeling their three-bedroom house, using hundreds of thousands of dollars in proceeds from her insurance policy. He said he's trying to make the house the way she would have liked it, adding marble floors and a garden because she loved to plant things. He even installed a big, deep bathtub for two.
Why invest so much in a home memorial?
After Donna died, Mark said he found the following note:
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Then, on a separate page, she added a line responsible for his devotion to fixing up their house: "Please, since you didn't do it while I was here, clean the house as my last wish."
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Um... how did she know she was going to die? Or did she leave the note lying around “just in case”? Is that a common thing for people to do, if they are not expecting to die?
Ummmm -- we're all going to die! Nobody gets out of here alive!
I don't know how common it is, but my mother and more recently my late aunt both left notes around in various places. Both died of natural causes. I'd guess it's not uncommon.
P.S. At least take out the trash.
P.S.S. That includes the moron who hit me...
He wasn’t a bad driver, he was a DRUNK driver.
And why on earth did it take 3 years to bring this to trial?
Either it’s weird that she would leave her last wishes and final goodbye lying around or the reporter is doing a crap job of explaining the story so that it is better understood for the readers.
Another white hispanic maybe?
I don’t know if it’s common, but it is not uncommon either, to leave a note of last wishes and remembrances even if you’re not expecting to die. Lots of people write wills and include a personal letter with it as well.
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