tammie, in which, sure enough, ken brought up the idea himself. i guess i don t want to say it. but she did say, choke me so i could die. i really believe this was ken s subconscious talking out. no one, not a soul, was thinking this was a strangulation case. until he opened his mouth and until he brings this up. that made everybody suspicious. every witness who testified as to having some contact with ken spoke about his unusual behavior. his focus was not on his wife. it was on other things. but! there s always a but. ken s defense attorney, mal gillin, accused police and prosecutors of jumping to the wrong conclusions and rushing to judgment against ken. that ligature mark? must have been
than once. he brought it up with the medical examiner s investigator and was basically telling them, this is not a strangulation case. in fact, said the prosecutor, ken tried to persuade the examiner not to do an autopsy. but, of course, there was one. the result took months but, sure enough, cause of death, said the medical examiner, brain damage due to ligature strangulation. when an arrest warrant was issued, detective cambra served it personally. police arrested 45-year-old kenneth wakisaka tonight. prosecutors say he strangled his 52-year-old wife last april. tonight, police charged him with murder in the second degree. how d he react? he said, nick, you know i didn t kill my wife. i didn t kill my wife. in 2002, two years after their mother s death, tammie and tiffany came back to hawaii. this time to the courthouse where ken wakisaka went on trial for murder. he took the life of another human being, and that human being was our mother. this was a murder by
said she found ligature marks on her neck. and in court the prosecutor played a tape of that recorded phone call with tammie, in which, sure enough, ken brought up the idea himself. i guess i don t want to say it. but she did say, choke me so i could die. i really believe this was ken s subconscious talking out. no one, not a soul, was thinking this was a strangulation case. until he opened his mouth and until he brings this up. that made everybody suspicious. every witness who testified as to having some contact with ken spoke about his unusual behavior. his focus was not on his wife. it was on other things. but! there s always a but. ken s defense attorney, mal gillin, accused police and prosecutors of jumping to the wrong conclusions and rushing to judgment against ken. that
on to the next day and how he tried to prevent her from dying. shirlene s daughters were horrified. now, they were fully determined to keep their promise to their mother, they d need to ensure that ken was charged with her murder. next to look at the case, prosecutor dan oyasato, who found ken s remarks about strangulation very disturbing. and here s why. this was viewed as an overdose. that s how this case went to the hospital. that s what tiffany and tammie were thinking. that s what the police department was thinking. and yet, as oyasato began to dig deeper, he found that ken talked about strangulation more than once. he brought it up with the medical examiner s investigator and was basically telling them, this is not a strangulation case. in fact, said the prosecutor, ken tried to persuade the examiner not to do an autopsy. but, of course, there was one.