A veteran battalion chief with the Camas-Washougal Fire Department spent this week at the defense table in a Clark County courtroom as prosecutors argued he murdered his wife after her sudden death in January 2024. Jurors are expected to start deliberations on Tuesday, following the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. At the heart of the case is a stark question: Does the medical examiner’s finding of neck trauma show a calculated assault or a sudden medical emergency gone horribly wrong?
Prosecution: Evidence Points To Strangulation
Deputy Prosecutor Melinda McMahon told jurors that the injuries found on Marcelle “Marcy” West do not line up with a seizure, describing bruising behind her ears and trauma to the carotid area. Prosecutors say those…..