Brian Winchester from Florida, who is accused of killing best friend Mike Williams for former mistress and wife of the deceased, twice broke into tears during testimony in court.
Yesterday, December 12, Winchester admitted that he, along with his wife friend, Denise Williams, had planned the murder of Mike while on a trip hunting on lake Seminole in December 2000.
Winchester and Williams went to North Florida Christian School. But according to the accused, his romantic feelings for Denise began later, when he and his first wife, Kathy, began to meet with Her on a double date at the bars in Tallahassee.
«Once, in particular, we started to talk a lot about sex, told Winchester. – I was friends with Denise in the middle and high school, but until then I was never attracted to her.»
Their romance began in 1997, when man first kissed a sweetheart.
«We just found the contact like no other», says Winchester.
He admitted that he and the woman never thought about divorce, because «it is better to be a rich widow than a poor divorced».
Florida man relives killing best friend to be with his wife and $2m cash – Accused the pair of Brian Winchester and Denise Williams Salo, were childhood friends of the victim, Mike Williams https://t.co/rv2jm7uqjR pic.twitter.com/CL3mnh6Wap
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According to Winchester, a couple in the next few months planning the murder of Mike, considering many options, including shooting him in his office. But still they decided to do it so that it looked like an accident.
16 Dec 2000 Winchester took Mike to duck hunting on lake Seminole, and then pushed him overboard to drown him. But Mike was able to swim to the stump in the lake and stay afloat. Then Winchester came up to the victim on the boat and shot him.
«When you shot Mike Williams at lake Seminole, Denise Williams with you?» – the lawyer asked Denise Williams Ethan way.
«No, she was in my head,’ replied Winchester. We were best friends; Bonnie and Clyde. We were partners in crime. If we were obsessed with each other? You can call it that. I’m not going to argue with you about this».
Mike Williams murder: Brian Winchester testifies affair 'snowballed' into plot to kill https://t.co/98J92Yz0tA pic.twitter.com/OirXH9Ji9o
— Wacissa (@WacissaFlorida) December 12, 2018
The pair is accused of having arranged the murder of Mike as an accident and cashed in on his insurance in the amount of $1.75 million to the Widow faces life in prison if she is convicted on any of the charges.
