housekeeping in central indiana. he eventually became a self employed moving contractor and she the go getter marketing manager at a local mall. her son dylan from a previous relationship grew to call scott dead. growing up i didn t really have a fatherly figure and i slowly and surely called him dead. 13 years on all were living a comfortable life together in a nice big house with acreage out in the country. they were vacations in the caribbean soaking in hot tubs snorkeling with the sting rays. scott like that people thought of him as a good time guy. mr. wiig. if you knew scott the new would know that he wanted everything to be the biggest in the best. and he kept up on his fitness regimen. the former bodybuilder didn t want to slide into flab. he kept up to at least get a stay in shape with him and her best friend, a local woman named lisa frazier became her workout buddy.
could happen to anyone. equipment does at times malfunction. but so do relationships. here is dennis murphy with the beauty mystery. claude the images are fuzzy homebody of the wedding reception. but anyone who was there remembers the event vividly. the bride own way and the groom he s the dance partner in the group goofy beast costume. kind of a strange way to begin marriage some guest murmured. but then, it was a union that would end strangely. last dance still more than ten years away that point lisa the bride had no idea what was in store for the two of them. she glad about with her signature 50,000 watt smile. you can t take a smile like that, that was just her. lisa had been a single mom raising her small son when she joined her sister for a rare girls night out an indiana
had. meanwhile the people who knew lisa best were wondering what in the world she was doing on the weight bench in the first place. christine smith knew her sister liked to work out but lisa was a treadmill girl, not a weightlifter. she was doing treadmill, doing more robust stuff. and the dead woman s best friend from the melia knew very well that lisa couldn t lift heavy things. that with a neck injury she had suffered a couple years earlier in a minor car accident. even the holiday ornaments in the most orange room were too much for her. the weight machine? she doesn t lift weights. then there was the elephant in the room since lisa s death, the subject that her friends and family didn t even feel comfortable putting words to. and that was how they felt about scott all the years that he had been married to lisa. impressions of him that ran from self-centered jerk to nasty drill instructor. now that circle of lisa s friends were asking if scott had something to do with that
fracture of that cartilage here, the adam s apple, more injury. the defense introduced a new team. they talk to the jurors about a toxicology report that lisa had with the defense as a dangerous cocktail of drugs in her system. particularly a diet drug that snow does sometimes produce side effects like fainting spells and irregular heartbeats. lisa had three times the therapeutic amount of that drug in her system. she s already exerting herself, heart pounding. that could tip her over the edge and at that point the bar comes down on her neck it could take anywhere from just a few seconds at that point for unconsciousness to occur. that quickly. with a conclusion from the expert witness lisa pattison s death was not a homicide but one of an undetermined cause. there s no physical evidence that prove to me that scott pattison murdered his wife. but what about the defense s biggest obstacle, that damning
she was on always conscious about what she was eating and how she was a purse or sizing. she would do aerobics, the star stepper. scott installed a few pieces of gym equipment in the basement of the house. a treadmill attending bed and await machine. it was there that something catastrophic happened on the morning of july 2nd 2009. and now scott was in his truck racing for help calling them one. the moment what is your emergency? my wife s had an accident at home. it s got spread through summer cornfield his wife lisa was in the back of the cab in very bad shape as he told the dispatcher. i need an escort or something to get to the hospital quicker. what kind of accident has she had? i found her in a workout room with bars on top of her. scott would say later he had gone downstairs just before noon and found his wife straddled face up on the exercise bench with the barbell weight crushing her throat.