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Highly decorated computer analyst for the military figured he d be spending his retirement years. inside a courtroom, in a defendants chair, on trial. step from the cherry box and yet, state of new jersey was about to tell 12 jurors why they should convict this grandfather of murder. the case, the killing, paul. wayne mellow, this isn t for the county, opened the state s case, talking to the jurors not about the defendant, but about the victims. 40-year-old paul, while the pharmaceutical executive, how heat, the victim, had weathered a brutal divorce from edward s daughter, stacey. how paul, on the day he died, was trying to turn the page. on the phone, chatting with his new fiancée, laurie, when he

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