Democrat Staff Report
Testimony in the murder trial of Daniel Tappen continues Monday in Circuit Court.
Tappen, 47, is charged in the September 2008 death of his wife, Kimberly, who was found strangled in the couple’s SouthWood home.
The trial began last week with testimony from law enforcement and medical experts.
In taped phone conversations from jail played in court Friday, Daniel Tappen could be heard telling his brother and father that he couldn’t change his explanation for how he found his wife strangled .
“That’s the way it was,” Tappen said in one conversation with his brother.
Tappen insisted that the belt he pulled off her neck was unattached to anything in her closet.
“That’s the statement that’s got you in a pickle,” his brother William Tappen said.
Later, he would tell his jailed sibling, “She had to be hanging on something.”
A significant portion of Friday’s testimony centered on whether Kimberly Tappen could have committed suicide.
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