Dr. Timothy Stryker

She described a fight where she was injured.

Up angry, storms out.

threw pearls, flips me into railing, back and foot injury, shaking, chills, swollen foot.

Altman says the note proved Stryker could be violent.

Stryker says Lynn was injured when they were practicing a dance step.

Does that sound like a dance step?

That's Lynn's voice describing what happened.

Compare that to his.

Where are the witnesses?

Stryker's attorney Martin Lepo says the case against his client isn't just weak.

He argues there is no case.

Where is one person, one scintilla of evidence, just one person who heard one noise of a fight in that house, of a person screaming?

Lepo asked the jurors to use common sense and ask themselves one question.

Has the plaintiff proved her case?

that Lynn Gowdy was there that night and that Tim Stryker caused her death.

Special verdict questions.

Question one.

It took nearly 13 years to get this case to a civil court trial.

The defendant, Timothy Stryker, caused the death of Linda Gowdy.

But it took only a day and a half for the jury to reach a verdict.