By Leah Sanson and Stacy Moore, Hi-Desert Star |
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Christopher Lee confessed Thursday to killing 19-year-old Erin Corwin and pushing her body down a mineshaft, but said he did it because Corwin admitted she had molested his young daughter.
Lee took the stand in a San Bernardino courtroom Thursday morning and under questioning by his lawyer, described strangling Corwin at the edge of an abandoned mine near Twentynine Palms on June 28, 2014.
“I came up behind her and I put it (the garrote) around her neck,” he said. “I just kept choking her.”
“I pulled and I pulled,” he said. “I freaked out … I killed her. … I dragged her to the edge of the mineshaft and I pushed her in.”
Lee said he did it because Corwin, with whom he had been having an affair, admitted to molesting his 6-year-old daughter.
Lee said as his wife, Nichole, bathed their daughter one night, she found her private area was red and irritated. Nichole, who at that point did not know about the affair, accused Corwin.
Lee said he became seriously depressed, and grew suicidal in the time before killing Corwin. He started playing Russian roulette a great deal, even when he was out in the desert with Corwin.
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