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statement in which he said that the defense intended to prove that Billy Ray Wallace was “not a man of violence.”Cindy Wallace, 20, and Michelle, 17, daughters of the defendant, testified that their mother frequently lost her temper and threatened the family’s four children with verbal and physical abuse.Both daughters testified to an incident prior to the family’s moving to Sulphur Springs in which their mother flew into a rage regarding a recently purchased pickup truck and farced the family out of the house with a gun.In another incident, the daughters said that their mother made reference in anger when the children failed to iron some living room curtains to anotherman at work” interested in marrying her.Although both daughters testified that their father tried to protect them in disputes with their mother, they said he never reacted violently against her.Under examination by Chapman, Cindy Wallace said her mother did not own a nightgown similar to the one found on the body discovered in December 1979 and that she did not recognize a blue pillowcase found with the body.Cindy also testified that an electric blanket that the body was alleged to have been wrapped in had not belonged to the family.The two daughters also testified regarding their whereabouts and actions at the time their mother disappeared in July 1979.
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Paris News
Paris, Texas, US
Wed, Dec 02, 1981
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