Torrid affair between Manling and classmate led to 2007 triple slaying
A woman who killed her husband and two children was tired of being a wife and mother, a prosecutor argued Thursday.
So tired of the drudgery that Manling Willians smothered her two young children sliced her husband Neal to death with a Kitana sword.
Why?
She was having a torrid affair, prosecutor Pak Kouch said.
Meanwhile Manling's attorney admitted her client's guilt in the 2007 triple slaying, but tried to minimize the premeditation.
On her blog, Grief's Journey, Neal's mom, Jan WIlliams, described the first day of the hearing as gut wrenching.
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I'm shell shocked. I don't know how much I can write about this right now. It's going to take a lot of assimilating. My notes are disjointed and staccato, and it will be a few days before my feelings and stomach settle down and I can really write about it. It's too new, too immediate and too awful.
The defense attorneys admitted to the jury that Manling committed the murders. They are not contesting the crime scene information. What they will argue is the legal definition of first degree murder. I don't really understand that, but I'm not understanding much of anything today. My system is on complete overload.
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