Trial begins for man accused of killing estranged wife at family gathering in Bakersfield

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — They’d planned a celebration.

But when Rafael Estrada crashed the party, events quickly took a turn for the worse — and then the horrific.

Estrada, 45, allegedly argued with and followed his estranged wife to a bedroom where he stabbed her in the neck with a pocketknife in front of at least one of her children…

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