Cop: Steele Stoic re: Wife’s ‘Death’

Idaho State Police Trooper Jess Spike has notified families of about two dozen deaths in his career. Never has he seen a reaction as stoic as that of Edgar Steele at his Sagle-area home last June when Spike told him his wife, Cyndi Steele, had died in a car crash after being run off the road near Portland, Ore., Spike testified today. “It was flat, paused, almost contrived. It was as if he was trying to retrieve something in an archive and come up with what the answer was. It wasn’t natural,” Spike said. “He kind of choked up. It appeared as though he was trying to develop tears, and no tears developed”/ Meghann Cuniff , Sirens & Gavels. More here.

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