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Marital therapist testifies in Turner murder trial
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Published: August 13, 2009
MOCKSVILLE - A marriage therapist for Kirk Allen Turner testified this morning that Turner was starting to hate his wife by May 2007.
Kirk Turner is being tried in Davie Superior Court for murder in the September 2007 stabbing death of his wife.
Karen Barry described the therapy sessions that she held with Kirk Turner and his girlfriend, Tondja Woods Colvin, and with Turner and his wife, Jennifer.
Under cross-examination, Barry testified that Turner said at the close of a session on May 15, 2007, that he was starting to hate his wife. When defense attorneys later questioned her, she said Turner was upset with his wife's actions and didn't hate her as a person.
Prosecutors have argued that Kirk Turner was so angry over an impending divorce and a lawsuit that Jennifer Turner filed against Colvin that he killed his wife with a pocketknife.
Jennifer Turner was found dead Sept. 12, 2007, in the shop building of the couple's house at 627 Jack Booe Road, just north of Mocksville. Her throat had been slashed.
Defense attorneys have said that Kirk Turner was defending himself after Jennifer Turner stabbed him twice with a 7-foot-long Viking-like spear.
Barry is a witness for the defense, which began presenting its case yesterday afternoon. Lawyers for Turner are expected to call crime-scene experts this afternoon.
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