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allowed to sit inside the courtroom until the very end. as much as i could i went between classes for the rest of it. how did he seem? how was he putting up with it sf. some days were harder than others. some days he seemed good. the evidence seemed to support domestic violence. play that tape of gene tan calling the cops two weeks before the shooting. hi, my name is gene tan, and my husband beats me up, and i need your protection. are you injured? yes. he choke me, and i m so scared. defense attorney james noland thought the 911 recording spoke volumes about that house. it was almost as if we were put in the hell that charlie lived in for a brief moment and the hell that gene lived in for a brief moment. and they kept piling on. jim tan, continued the defense, wasn t just a bully at home. his employees testified about the abuse they, too, enkoushtcod
carried the day from outside the courtroom. some think the golden ivy league boy was able to kill his father and get away with it. strange story, the whole thing. yeah. charlie s mother, according to the district attorney, will not be prosecuted. because there s no evidence to show she was responsible for the murder. could it have been the mother? i look at a 12-gauge shotgun. she was a small woman. i don t know if she was capable of even being able to discharge that kind of weapon. so the only two people who know what happened in that house, charlie and his mother, have stayed mum. neither was ever interviewed by police. neither has spoken publicly about a case now closed but far from resolved. people will say this is a kid who killed his father and got off. and people will also say, no it isn t, they couldn t prove it. you ve got two groups of people back there who said i don t care what happened. i m never sending this 19-year-old cornell student to
charlie tan told police he shot his father to save his mother, but investigators were finding flaws in that story. the ivy league student had been arrested and was facing second degree murder charges. was this an intentional killing, or justifiable homicide? here, again, is dennis murphy with house of secrets. aern anna was in a state of disbelief when she learned charlie tan had been arrested where. did you have a chance to talk to charlie himself? he called me on the phone, actually, from jail. i talked to him a couple of times. anna didn t sit around. she was going to do whatever she could to defend her friend because she knew there was no way charlie did anything wrong. you did something remarkable, anna, and that is you pulled together a whole community behind charlie. yeah. anna started a defense fund support page for charlie. it just, like, spread like crazy. i had no clue what was going to happen. you just threw it out there. i put up the page and people
he had been upset. i asked him to call me when he got home just soy knew he was okay. and that very evening back in pittsford, new york, charlie spent time at an old friend s house where he seemed to his pal deeply derespondent, sad, possibly depressed. after charlie left, the friend and his mother were so concerned they called 911. was charlie suicidal. he didn t give us a lot of details. i am just worried that he might do something at his house. i don t know if anything is going to happen, but i just can t take a chance. all right. i m going to have to go to the house and check on him. and a deputy did just that. detective steve peglo of the monroe county slev s office. charlie told the deputy that he was upset over some things. he had come home to talk to people and that he was just working out some things and he would be okay. it was now late thursday night, almost the weekend.