“This is a classic case of domestic violence,” Preston told the jury.
Though the couple had been married for 32 years, after years of unhappiness, Mickey Faville was planning to leave her husband once and for all. She had recently reconnected with an old high school sweetheart, Chris Crowley, and was looking to move out of their Montgomery County house.
On the night Mickey Faville died, she told her husband that she would be leaving him immediately.
“You have to make her stay. You don’t know what I’ll do,” Ward Faville pleaded with his daughter, Wynne Packard, according to Preston.
According to Packard’s testimony, her father had been “extremely controlling and demanding” throughout her parents’ marriage.
“It was nearly impossible to speak with her on the phone,” Packard said.
She testified that her mother would have to “hide on the floor and whisper” her phone conversations and that Ward Faville would get upset if he found her on the phone.