Opening Statements, Family Testimony Open Spikes Trial In Hopkinsville

Shirley Bussell remembers Wednesday, December 8, 2021, all too well.

She was making a peach cobbler when her 35-year-old son, Stanley, walked in from a long shift at Martinrea — in need of a little reprieve.

A little under the weather, he fixed himself two bowls of his mother’s dessert and slurped a “hot toddy” she concocted — a family recipe of liquor, lemon juice, cough drops, honey, tea and a splash of vinegar — before answering a phone call…

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