Aug 26, 2022
RawNews1st – Man Accused Of Kidnapping Ex-Wife In Murder-Suicide Plot Questions His Kids On The Stand.
Summers is accused of kidnapping his estranged wife, Alisa Mathewson, and plotting a failed murder-suicide back in 2017.
He spent years hiring and firing attorneys, causing years of legal delays. A few months ago, a judge allowed him to represent himself. On the first day of his trial, he had a change of heart and requested that his stand-by defense attorney take over. Now he has changed his mind again.
Judge Christopher Sabella questioned Summers extensively about the risks before allowing him to act as his own attorney.
The decision to represent himself led to some bizarre moments in the Tampa courtroom.
Alisa Mathewson, Summers’ ex-wife and his alleged victim in the case, would now be cross-examined by her accused attacker, and her discomfort was evident.
She refused to look at Summers during his questioning.
As police closed in, Summers wrote goodbye letters to his children, then tried to cut his own throat just before his arrest, prosecutors said.
Mathewson had been rescued in the nick of time.
“I was in complete shock. I can’t believe I’m alive,” she testified.
Summers faces a number of charges, including two counts of attempted murder, sexual battery, and kidnapping. The trial is expected to wrap and go to the jury on Friday.
Note: On March 11, 2017, Mathewson and her estranged husband Trevor Summers were going through a bitter divorce.
The couple’s five kids were living with her. Despite a restraining order against him, prosecutors say that didn’t stop Summers.
They say Summers tricked his daughter Arden, who was 14 years old at the time, to leave a window unlocked for him — allowing him to break into Mathewson’s house and attack her in her bedroom, where she would be kept against her will for hours.
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