PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A former Oregon man accused of murdering his wife concedes he felt increasingly frustrated with her and considered getting a divorce but says he didn’t kill Heather Dawn Mallory.
Under questioning Friday by a prosecutor in his Portland murder trial, 38-year-old Brian Cole denied that he lied to detectives or fabricated a story to cover anything up.
He claimed earlier that the last time he saw Mallory she was walking out of their Portland apartment with her purse in hand while their 3-year-old son watched from a couch.
The Oregonian says prosecutors contend Cole killed his wife in a fight at the apartment, then dumped her body outside Estacada.
