Susan Spencer
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Podcast Appearances
The most important call, one Harwood made from a pay phone a 40-minute drive from Lita's house, 40 minutes after she was shot.
But Belinda Trahan clearly remembers her own unwitting role in Lita's death, and she tells the jury of that casual remark she made to her boyfriend, Harwood.
Prosecutors set up a mock diner, and Belinda reenacts Sullivan's payoff to Harwood, the money in a newspaper stuffed with cash.
Push the paper across the table like this.
For 11 years, she says, she was too afraid of Harwood to speak out.
Until finally... I couldn't live like this anymore.
And now, the state asks her to speak out one last time.
You know, uneducated, hardworking, blue collar woman from Texas calling this millionaire a murderer in open court.