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| Former Officer On Trial For Killing Wife |
| By montereyherald.com |
| Published: 11/19/2010 |
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A former Soledad correctional officer testified Thursday he was "out of control" and in a rage when he grabbed his wife around the neck and squeezed until she stopped fighting. In a hushed courtroom, Dan Mark Gibson said he loved his wife and didn't plan to kill her, but then admitted on cross-examination that he "stuck" her in the shoulder with a knife and held her face down in a bathtub half-filled with water because "I wanted to make sure she was dead." Gibson, 61, said he then called 911, but "couldn't get through," and wandered around his Seaside condominium complex looking for help, "hoping she would still be alive." Unable to find anyone, he said, he climbed onto the ledge of his third floor balcony to commit suicide, reconsidered and tried to climb down, but slipped. Police found 53-year-old Maria "Cherry" Gibson's body in the bathtub shortly after dawn Oct. 31, 2008, after neighbors found her husband critically injured on the concrete below. Read More. |
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