Feb 16
More on the trial of John Wall which begins tomorrow:
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – The long-awaited trial for a Utah pediatrician accused of killing his ex-wife begins Tuesday.
Uta von Schwedler was found dead in her own bathtub in Sugar House on September 27, 2011. She was a 49-year-old researcher at the University of Utah. The medical examiner called it a drowning, but she had cuts and bruises–and family members suspected her ex-husband John Wall.
“His behavior, I think, immediately after was very unusual, highly unusual, very suspicious,” Pelle Von Schwedler-Wall said of his father.
The couple divorced in 2006 and engaged in a heated custody battle. When von Schwedler drowned, the medical examiner found a high amount of Xanax in her system. Wall had written and filled a prescription for Xanax a few months before her death. The defense claims she overdosed and drowned.
“The medical examiner couldn’t say this was a homicide,” Wall’s Defense Attorney Fred Metos said. “In looking at the DNA evidence, it’s consistent with other members of his family that were living in the house.”
A coveted scrapbook the mother created for her children was found in the bathtub, along with a knife. Friends and family say von Schwedler would not want to hurt her scrapbooks and that she was not suicidal at the time of her death. <more in link below>
http://fox13now.com/2015/02/15/son-...death-trial-begins-tuesday-in-salt-lake-city/