Then No One Can Have Her by Caitlin Rother

Author:Caitlin Rother [Rother, Caitlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2015-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

A couple of weeks after Carol’s murder, Steve asked Barb to go hiking and camping with him near Durango, Colorado, but she declined.

“I was really trying to be done with the relationship,” she said later, but he was trying to save it, to “fix things between us. He wanted to talk. He wanted to go camping, and we never went camping. I thought it was odd.”

“You didn’t think Steve was going to take you up in the mountains and kill you, did you?” defense attorney John Sears asked during the 2010 pretrial hearing.

“I didn’t know what the purpose was. I wasn’t going to go up into the mountains with Steve at that time.”

“You weren’t afraid of Steve, then, were you?”

“I was. At that time I was.”

Prosecutor Joe Butner asked Barb why Steve’s camping invitation was more worrisome in light of Carol’s recent murder.

“Because I had no idea what happened, and I wasn’t going to place myself at that time in a position where—we’ve already established . . . I am not an outdoors person. I wouldn’t know how to take care of myself outside, out of doors.... I wasn’t willing to go camping with him.”

Sears argued that much of Barb’s testimony at the pretrial hearing should be inadmissible at trial because it was too prejudicial. Butner disagreed, arguing that “this is highly probative of the kind of pressure that he was experiencing when he cracked and killed his wife.”

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