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[PA] Officer Dennis murder-of-wife-Carli trial Day 3
[PA] Officer Dennis murder-of-wife-Carli trial Day 3
pennsylvania I'm counting jury selection so for me it's day three of trial - Oct 17, 2007 EXCERPTS: CO-WORKERS TESTIFY IN DENNIS MURDER TRIAL WNEP-TV, PA By Sarah Buynovsky Wednesday, October 17, 2007 Prosecutors in Luzerne County brought a key witness to the stand Wednesday... State police analyst John Evans is a gunshot residue expert. He testified that Jeffrey Dennis had 95 gunshot residue particles on his hands. Carli had 16. Evans also testified that he could not tell for sure whether Jeffrey Dennis or Carli Dennis shot the gun. Carli Dennis worked at the Luzerne County 911 center. Several former co-workers told jurors that Carli was trapped by a controlling husband. Robin Jensen told jurors, "she had told me in the past he had put a gun to her head." Jill Hudak said Carli was, "going to leave him. She was going to come stay at my house. He had threatened to kill her and make it look like a suicide." Adam Burke said he spoke with Carli hours before her death and she told him, "things were not going well at home" and that her husband told her "she had a choice to pick either him or her job"... Carli's supervisor, John Emmert, said Carli told him Dennis had threatened to kill her and, "Make it look like a suicide"... http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=7227940&nav=5ka4 DA: COP KNEW HOW TO KILL WIFE OPENING STATEMENTS MADE IN JEFF DENNIS' TRIAL. DEFENSE SAYS MUCH OF CASE IS HEARSAY. Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA By David Weiss dweiss@timesleader.com 10/17/2007 WILKES-BARRE -- Jeff Dennis knew how to do it, a Luzerne County prosecutor said. The trained police officer had a strong theory of how he could kill his wife with a bullet to the head and make it look like she pulled the trigger, according to First Assistant District Attorney Jackie Musto Carroll. "The cop knew how the body falls, how the gun lands, and how the blood flows"... Dennis bragged about that skill. After her death, Dennis wove nine different tales about the shooting. His words, coupled with some forensic evidence, show Dennis is guilty of first-degree murder in Carli's death, Musto Carroll said. But the theory is full of hearsay, defense attorney Ferris Webby told the jury... The 36-year-old Jeff Dennis was a Dallas Township police officer when, police say, he shot Carli in the head Feb, 27, 2006, inside their Ninth Street home in Wyoming. Jeff Dennis, they say, was angry Carli was having an affair... "She was deathly afraid of him," Musto Carroll said. And she wanted to end her marriage with him... He gave nine variations of where he was when he claimed Carli pulled the trigger, Musto Carroll said. Once, he was sitting on the foot of the bed. Another time, he was standing near the bed. Then he was outside the bedroom in the hallway. He even told one person he was at work and came home to find her dead. He still wasn't done talking, though. He uttered more telling words at Carli's funeral, Musto Carroll said. "I can't believe I took her away," one witness heard Jeff Dennis say, according to the prosecutor. Another witness heard Jeff Dennis, peering at his wife's casket, say, "Carli, I hate you." "I told you she would never get away with this," Jeff Dennis told a friend, Musto Carroll said. "That man could not keep his mouth shut," Musto Carroll said. All of the evidence, she said, will show Jeff Dennis killed his wife in a "willful" and "intentional" manner. But Webby said the case is full of "speculation and conjecture."... Webby and his defense team of attorneys William Ruzzo and Al Flora Jr. will call the former chief medical examiner for Rhode Island to say the blood evidence shows Carli died of a self-inflicted wound or an accidental shooting. A gun expert will also testify and support Jeff Dennis' version. And a prosecution witness will even say Carli could have been the shooter, he said... http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071017_17dennis_main_dw_ART.html
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