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Seventeen Hairs | The State's Car Wash Theory | The Hair Evidence | So Many Unanswered Questions | Scratch Marks Found Inside the Trunk | The Alleged "Shoe Print" on the Trunk Lid | The Police Uniform Theory | N.C. Department of Transportation Map | Salisbury Telephone Book | Time Line | The Tape Evidence | Ballistics Evidence - Gunnarsson | Kay Weden and I Meet | An Unbelievable Theory | Shirley Scott & the 404(b) Hearing | Gunnarsson Alive? | Who was Viktor Gunnarsson | Three Strange Men | A Confession to Gunnarsson's Murder | Robbie Smith | The Missing Key | Brandon Shelton's Confession to Investigators? | One Puzzling Question | Coincidences? You be the Judge | Death of Catherine Miller | The Miller Evidence | Rex Allen Keller, Jr. | Beth Pitts | Kay Weden - Jason Weden | A Suspect in the Miller Murder | Still So Many Unanswered Questions
Kay Weden and I Meet
At trial the prosecution argued that I
killed Gunnarsson, a man that trial evidence showed I did not know and
had never met (Volume IV, P. 1425), out of jealousy because he had
started dating my ex-fiancée, Kay Weden.
I first met and was introduced to Kay
Weden in July 1992 by her neighbors, Wayne and Nancy Whitman. We began
dating and became engaged, marking the beginning of a stormy, on-again,
off-again relationship. Weden had a 15 year old son, Jason. She and I
fought frequently over her son’s drug use and his excessive drinking.
Weden told Detective Paula Townsend in a
statement on January 21, 1994 that we were engaged around Thanksgiving
1992 (Statement of Kay Weden, Pg. 16, paragraph 2). During my trial she
swore under oath that she had not dated another man while we were
engaged (Volume I, TPP. 238-243). Yet, in a statement to Detective
Terry Agner dated February 4, 1994, she admitted she not only dated a
man named Johnny Deaton during the Thanksgiving holiday in 1992, but
also had sex with him at her girlfriend’s house (Statement of Kay Weden,
Pg. 3, paragraph 2).
The prosecution argued that I killed
Gunnarsson out of jealousy. He had only been dating Kay Weden for a
week before he disappeared. The
prosecution never explained
how I was able to recognize and kill a man
out of jealousy when the state’s own evidence showed that I did not know
and had never met him (Volume IV, Pg. 1425).
Weden and I broke our engagement in early
December 1992, but by New Year’s Eve we were engaged again. In June
1993, Weden and I broke off our engagement for a second time.
Weden and I stayed in touch and tried to
give our on-again, off-again relationship one more try, but an incident
that occurred in a restaurant would give weight to the prosecution’s
jealousy theory.
On the evening of November 12, 1993, I
entered a restaurant in Salisbury and saw Weden eating dinner with
another man, David Sumner of Gastonia, North Carolina. Weden owed me
money, that she had agreed to pay back for not having her son arrested.
This was after I discovered he had broken into my home and had stolen a
large amount of property which he had traded for drugs. I was angry
because she had told me she did not have any money, yet she was able to
drive a new car. I demanded my money and words were exchanged before I
dumped a glass of tea in her lap.
Weden and Sumner would later testify that
I had threatened to kill Sumner but in a statement made to police three
months after the incident, Sumner never tells the police I threatened to
kill him. He told police Weden brushed off the encounter and was
laughing about the incident. Defense attorneys never made the jury
aware of Sumner’s statement to the police about this incident.
Prosecutors never explained why I never
harmed or harassed two men I knew for a fact that Weden had dated, one
of whom she had sex with while we were engaged, yet killed a man their
own evidence showed that I did not know and had never met or seen
(Volume IV, Pg. 1425).
Thirteen days after the incident in the
restaurant, Weden met Gunnarsson and the two began dating.
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