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murder trials are by their nature emotional Affairs but the murder trial of Dr Johnny wall of Salt Lake City is
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perhaps one for the ages Dr Wall is charged with murdering his german-born ex-wife UTA a prominent cancer
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researcher who drowned in her own bathtub with a lot of the tranquilizer Xanax in her system also in that bathtub
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was a scrapbook more on that in a minute anyway among the first people convinced
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that Dr Wall had Dr druged and then murdered his ex-wife was their oldest son Pella who then launched a campaign
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to see to it that he was indicted having succeeded in that Pella is now sitting front row in the murder trial hoping
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that his father will be convicted there's been a lot of interesting evidence in this case but what I find
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mesmerizing is this whole family Dynamic especially since at one time this family
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was so close that they kept individual scrapbooks for each child child beautiful elaborate scrapbooks that
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themselves became the objects of custody fights now two of the kids in those scrapbooks are testifying against their
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father the question before the court is is that father so unhinged and was he so
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filled with hate that he snuck out in the middle of the night and murdered his ex-wife to gain custody of the children
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and of those scrapbooks or was the ex-wife so suicide idal and so upset about her relationship with her children
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that she killed herself and threw the Scrapbook into the bathtub just for spite that's what the jury is
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considering and they're doing so with Father and Son sitting right there