During the trial Cottrell's adoptive aunt, Wendy Cottrell McAnly testified that Cottrell confessed to her that he had planned Phillips' murder.
And this.
McAnly said her nephew told her that he killed Phillips on purpose and that he had lured Phillips into his motel room where he hit him, and then strangled him with a duffel bag.
And this.
But, prosecutor Chris Shaw said in his closing statements that Cottrell harbored a "steaming anger" toward gay men and lured Phillips to his motel room to kill him.
Shaw said Cottrell's "intent all along was to kill," and dispose of the body in a "cold, calculated" scheme to "get away with murder."
But it's just manslaughter.
Only manslaughter, because that dirty old troll of a disease infested queer tried to rape that virgin, innocent, 23 year old child!
I harbor no illusions -- Kentucky was kind to me because I walked around in a military uniform. This happened in fucking Elizabethtown? I suppose it doesn't have to be hicksville USA like Radcliff and some of the even worse parts of Kentucky for shit like this to happen.
Listenting to the dipshits defense attorney you'd think the fucking murderer was the victim!
Shit on a stick wrote:But what set it all in motion, he was privileged to do.
