Police ruled in 2015 that Brenda Joyce Leon shot herself to death after finding a suicide note on a laptop at the foot of her bed.
On Monday, her former husband Michael Anthony Leon appeared in court charged with her murder a decade after her death, and the attorney representing their daughters revealed for the first time what caused law enforcement to pursue a criminal case.
Digital forensic evidence collected from Brenda’s husband indicated that the suicide note was “not authored on that laptop,” attorney Matt Guichard said Monday afternoon outside the Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez…