out, became catatonic, ended up in the hospital where they found nothing wrong with him and released him. rachel told james he faked the episode. but here at trial, a defense psychiatrist testified todd suffered from real mental issues, dissociative disorder, conversion disorder, which meant he could be violent if he felt he was under attack. and that awful morning? first he told the police she threatened to sic her well-armed boyfriend on him. and she said, no, you know, i m looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you. reporter: and then she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. reporter: rachel s dad, don, and self-described soulmate, james, watched as the defense argued that todd had no choice but to kill the woman they so loved. his state of mind is what you really need to pay careful attention to here. he knows she ll kill him. he knows if he doesn t end it, it could end him.
agree to you having the kids up here and having primary custody on that. i m going to fight you on this. and, she said, no, you know, i m looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you. her boyfriend is a big gun collector. as todd told it, when rachel said that when she threatened to send james white to get rid of him, whatever that meant, he overreacted and punched rachel. where did you hit her? i hit her right by the face. after she had told you basically she was going to have this, her boyfriend take care of you. yeah, yeah. todd said he tried to apologize. and i m rubbing back saying, i m sorry, you know, i m just so sorry, there s not i m sorry. but then, he said, rachel turned around and attacked him with a deadly weapon. she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. uh-huh.
and, she said, no, you know, i m looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you. her boyfriend is a big gun collector. as todd told it, when rachel said that when she threatened to send james white to get rid of him, whatever that meant, he overreacted and punched rachel. where did you hit her? i hit her right by the face. after she had told you basically she was going to have this, her boyfriend take care of you. yeah, yeah. todd said he tried to apologize. and i m rubbing back saying, i m sorry, you know, i m just so sorry, there s not i m sorry. but then he said rachel turned around and attacked him with a deadly weapon. she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. uh-huh. and i got a hold of them. and we had a struggle on the bed and rolled off onto the
i hit her right by the face. after she had told you basically she was going to have this, her boyfriend take care of you. yeah, yeah. reporter: todd said he tried to apologize. and i m rubbing back saying, i m sorry, you know, i m just so sorry, there s not i m sorry. reporter: but then, he said, rachel turned around and attacked him with a deadly weapon. reporter: she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. uh-huh. and i got a hold of them. and we had a struggle on the bed and rolled off onto the bed. uh-huh. and got into this struggle over the scissors. i took some cuts just on my hands trying to get them away from her. reporter: they wrestled on the bedroom floor, he said. just a couple of feet from the
suffered from real mental issues, dissociative disorder, conversion disorder, which meant he could be violent if he felt he was under attack. and that awful morning? first he told the police she threatened to sic her well-armed boyfriend on him. and she said, no, you know, i m looking to have my boyfriend get rid of you. reporter: and then she was coming at me with a vee of scissors. reporter: rachel s dad, don, and self-described soulmate, soulmate, james, watched as the defense argued that todd had no choice but to kill the woman they so loved. his state of mind is what you really need to pay careful attention to here. he knows she ll kill him. he knows if he doesn t end it, it could end him. reporter: all very sad, said the defense, but not murder. and what would prosecutor suder say about that? good morning, ladies and gentlemen. reporter: simple, all that psychiatric stuff, she said, was fakery. todd winkler may have had, or feigned, some disorder that got him