By: Hendersonville Times-News
Published: October 31, 2011
HENDERSONVILLE, NC --
The former girlfriend of a man on trial for murder testified Monday morning about the defendant's actions the night before the assault, according to our news coverage partners at the Hendersonville Times-News.
Forty-two year old Charles Anthony Ball is charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of Paul Chanin and first-degree burglary and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill to Chanin's wife, Carol.
According to the Times-News, Ball's former girlfriend, Angela Edens, said she meet him in 2008 through personal ads on the internet, Prosecutors asked Edens about Ball's actions the night before the assault on the Chanins.
"It seems like I went to bed earlier in the evening and I don't sleep well, so I was up and down," she told the jury, according to the Times-News. "I remember seeing Charles during the night. His plans were to go get a job in Tennessee. Sometime before daylight he left the house."
The Times-News reports that Edens testified that on April 20, 2009, neighbors told her that Ball was involved in an assault. She also said that she spoke with police and arranged for Ball to meet her for dinner so police could arrest him, but he was arrested before they could meet.
Carol Chanin told investigators that she and Ball were lovers, but she had ended the relationship about six months before he allegedly attacked her and her husband with a baseball bat. Defense attorneys claim that Ball was mentally ill at the time of the assault.
To read the story from the Hendersonville Times-News, click here: http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20111031/ARTICLES/111039962/1151?Title=Former-girlfriend-testifies-in-Charles-Ball-murder-trial
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