but that was news to juanita s father, don culver. i never heard this called a honeymoon spot ever. you think calling it the honeymoon spot is some sort of after-the-fact contrivance that tom s come up with to justify going to that place? exactly. yeah. i certainly do. it should more accurately be called what? her death spot. what would that fall from the death spot have looked like? barhmann showed jurors a video re-enactment using a dummy to show how bad that fall can be. and the coroner described juanita s brutal injuries on the way down. but he also found one injury he thought was suspicious. this mysterious double bruise on her right thigh. i think those two linear bruises are the result of one impact, something that was sort of elongated linear, like a rod or a stick. a stick or maybe a kick from tom.
and each side in the courtroom thought they knew the answers. on one side, tom and juanita s three kids firmly convinced their dad didn t kill their mom. on the other side, juanita s parents and sister, equally certain of tom s guilt. with no eyewitnesses, prosecutor karen barhmann s case would have to focus on tom richardson himself. you ll learn that he wanted out of this marriage and that he chose murder over divorce by weighing the pros and cons of being widowed versus being divorced. she began with tom s story, actually those three conflicting stories he first told investigators in the hours after juanita s death. he walked to the cliff and his wife was standing there. story one, he didn t see anything. story two, he saw juanita commit suicide. and story three, he saw her accidentally fall. which of those stories did you believe?
death spot have looked like? barhmann showed jurors a video reenactment using a dummy to show how bad that fall can be and the coroner described juanita s brutal injuries on the way down. but he also found one injury he thought was suspicious. this mysterious double bruise on her right thigh. i think those two linear bruises are the result of one impact, something that was sort of elongated linear, like a rod or a stick. a stick or maybe a kick from tom. the prosecution s next witness might shed some light. tom s former karate instructor. 15 years earlier, tom had been on his way to earning a black belt. what moves or kicks or holds would he know? anywhere s between 15 and 25 different kicks. it would take just one of those kicks to knock juanita off balance and off that cliff.
since juanita richardson s mysterious fatal plunge from that wind-swept cliff at pictured rocks. two years of questions. did she fall? could she have committed suicide or did her husband, tom, somehow force her off that cliff 140 feet to the rocky shore below? what terrible thing happened at their honeymoon spot? all rise. now tom s trial would begin and each side in the courtroom thought they knew the answers. on one side, tom and juanita s three kids firmly convinced their dad didn t kill their mom. on the other side, juanita s parents and sister, equally certain of tom s guilt. with no eyewitnesses, prosecutor karen barhmann s case would have to focus on tom richardson himself. you ll learn that he wanted