"Husband guilty in grisly killing" June 11, 2011|Associated Press
MEMPHIS — A father was found guilty yesterday of murder after his three children gave vivid testimony about how he stabbed and strangled their mother, then dismembered and disposed of her body....
The chief witness was Hawkins’s 15-year-old daughter. She testified that she was often sexually abused by Hawkins, who had reconciled with Gaither after he got out of prison.
The girl said she saw her father stab and strangle her mother on Feb. 9, 2008. She said Hawkins threatened her with a knife to force her to help him put the body in a freezer and later cut it up. She said she had to hold the head as Hawkins severed it....
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