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Why would somebody fake cancer?

Jennifer DeLeon was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

A former child actor will stand trial for murder in a scheme to steal a yacht from a retired couple. They disappeared four years ago. Their bodies were never recovered.

Because we were going to lose anyway. He was going to get convicted. They had the evidence and they had somebody who was there confess. If I tried to mislead them during the guilt phase, then they're not going to believe me when I get up there and talk about the penalty phase.

not only in the physical abuse, the sexual abuse, the emotional abuse, but the abandonment issues. Everybody in his life basically abandoned him at one time or another.

You try to explain as best you can who the person is and hopefully get some sympathy from the jury that might impact on whether they vote to impose the death penalty or not.

He is a pathetic figure in a lot of ways, and he has a hard time telling the truth.

Dilliam was convicted for the murders of Thomas and Jackie Hawks.

The jury recommended the death penalty.