As the State sets up for the DNA on this case, something hit me --
This last witness kept banning naming AW and BW, because obviously it's their DNA (and where it was found) that's central to this case.
Guessing we are going to hear the scientific proof behind the details we've heard that BW's DNA is on the hacksaw from which AW's DNA was recovered.
The last time AW and BW's DNA combined in such an intimate was was in... the conception of their children.
HDV is such an utter violation. He murdered the mother of his children. The woman he vowed to cherish and protect (or whatever version of vows they chose). Those same children, with AW and BW's combined DNA, are forever motherless, with a father who allegedly murdered and dismembered her. In their own home. Layer upon layer of violation.
And a trial to make it just that much worse. He chose not to plead guilty, knowing the evidence against him. IMO that only exposes the enormity of his ego, the absense of shame, and the lack of love for anyone but himself. No genuine father does any of this.
Had the children awakened...
The man is cold as ice.
JMO