Husband of Irish-born wife Caroline Coffey on trial for her murder

Joch said that “unseen forces” had replaced his wife, a delusion he called Capgras Syndrome.

Joch added that his client intended to commit suicide by cutting his own throat and jumping into a gorge.

After he discovered the knife he wanted to use was “too dull,” he drove back to the apartment, which was smoldering at this stage, to research on the Internet how to cut his own throat.

He returned to Taughannock Falls State Park with a sharper knife and a few bottles of wine. He was only wearing a bathrobe.

After the police chase, officers found a bloody folding knife in the bathrobe pocket.

Ann Williams, a nurse from the Intensive Care Unit at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayer, Pennsylvania, where Kot was treated for his wounds, said that when Kot awoke from anesthesia, his first question was on the condition of his wife.

Jurors have to decide if Kot should be found guilty of manslaughter or murder. He faces life in prison if found guilty of murder.

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