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Miranda Miller is now on the stand.
Prosecutor asks: Do you share responsibility in killing your son? Yes, she says.
Who killed Evan? She says Stephen Bodine.
She says her memory was clouded on the exact date he died, because she was on drugs like meth and cocaine.
Last time Carlo would’ve seen Evan is April 2017, when he pulled up to the house & tried to take Evan with him. She says Carlo saw Evan. Bodine was living at the house with Miranda and Evan.
The last time Carlo got to take Evan with him to spend the night was in Feb 2017. In March 2017, Carlo wanted to see his son. She got Evan out. That’s when Carlo saw a scab on Evan’s nose.
Feb 2017 she says she wanted to be a good mom and give her son a “father” figure. She says initially, Bodine’s relationship with her was good but then turned violent. She remembers him using a pen to her neck and threatened to kill her, and then threw her on plastic tubs.
She says the violence became regular.
She was once chocked to the point of passing out. His “favorite thing” was using his knuckles to hurt her.
She says Bodine suspected that she was with other men including Evan’s father.
She had a child with Bodine and miscarried the pregnancy. She said she was punched in the stomach twice and was dragged by her hair, while pregnant. She miscarried at the end of January.
“I loved him” and “he was my king” and said “he was my best friend” She said Bodine used drugs daily (meth, anti anxiety meds/numbing meds) She said he was “very agitated” using drugs
She said that after the miscarriage, Bodine started changing his attitude toward Evan (Evan couldn’t do anything right, according to Bodine)
As discipline, Bodine would send Evan to his room with his hands behind his back (something similar that was described by Bodine’s biological daughter earlier today). Evan would refuse to apologize to “Bo”....then made Evan change it to “daddy” or “sir”
She said Bodine would punch and kick Evan as part of discipline. There were cameras in the house and it would upload to the cloud. Once Evan died, she said she told people she went out of state but she never left.
Miranda reached a plea agreement with the state for her truthful testimony in this trial. She plans to enter this plea from first degree to second degree murder & other charges like kidnapping, child abuse. She agrees to prison for 25+ years.
Miranda says the more Evan got scared of Bodine, the more violent Bodine became with Evan (smacking and kicking him) March 2017, it escalated to more physical violence on Evan.
