that will relate to her addiction. he said the only crime was that emily never received the help she needed. the defense called emily s mother to the stand to show that detox at her house was at best amateur hour. you have no certificate or any license. no, i don t. are you telling this jury that you know all the subtlties of withdrawal. he tried to cast out on the fact that emily got clean. were you in denial at the time? absolutely not. to drive home that point, the defense called witnesses that say they saw signs emily was still abusing the pain pills and alcohol in the weeks before she died. one of them was alex s mother. she was argumentive, agitated and she didn t seem to comprehend sometimes what we were talking about.
help alex tried. tilt her dead back. okay. did you do that? yeah. the sergeant got the call and arrived at the house with two other officers. his body camera was rolling. oh, come on, please. as we entered the master bathroom, emily was laying on the floor face up and she had a bluish tint to her. how long has she been in here. i don t know. she was taking a bath. could you tell? i checked her pulse and breathing. i didn t feel any so i instantly started cpr. she s freezing cold. blood? no blood anywhere. she did have a big bruise on her forehead? what was around? anything? the bathtub was full of water and there were oil droplets on
head. possible the injuries could have occurred while alex was dragging his wife out of the tub? i don t think so. and there were bruises on emily s neck. she had bruising to the muscles in her neck area that were of concern that maybe she was possibly held under the water by her neck. he said he tried cpr on her. those couldn t have been caused by someone that didn t know what they were doing with cpr. how could emily have gotten the bruises. i know she hit her head when i was getting her out of the batht bathtub. when i picked her up, i heard it. i heard it hit when i was pulling her out. her head hit. the side of the tub? the floor? i don t know. i was heaving her out. it was so hard to get her out. would you have bruised her
emily s sister amy told investigators alex was also a mobster. did you say that alex and his family are in the mafia in organized crime and that women that try to divorce their way out of the family wind up dead. that was information that emily had told me. amy doesn t realize that my mom s six siblings and my dad s one sibling, there s been 11 divorces. those people all still alive? they re not all still alive, but none of them were killed. but they weren t murdered. so they re not some hooked up organized crime family? no, and i resent her saying that. alex insists the allegations were ludicrous and that s also what investigators determined. did you pick up in your investigation any indication that the family was involved in organized crime. no. you didn t find any evidence that that was true.
that s faking it. part of the argument to the jury is it has to be a horrific thing to commit a murder. so what we re hearing is horror at having just committed a murder. that would be a way to characterize it, yes. prosecutors claimed that in that 911 call, alex had already concocted a story that emily committed suicide or died from a drug overdose. my wife s killed herself. my wife s killed herself. even at that police interview a few hours later, prosecutors said alex was pushing his theory that emily somehow overdosed. maybe it was an accident. then the prosecution called the state medical examiner to tell jurors about that key piece of evidence. the toxicology report. did you also have testing done on the body fluids and blood that were taken from emily at her autopsy. yes.