The Brief
- Dima Tower, 24, testified Thursday that he planned and carried out the 2023 killings of his adoptive parents, Robbie and Jennifer Tower.
- Tower told jurors he stabbed both with kitchen knives inside their North Port home.
- Jurors found him guilty of murder and fleeing and eluding.
NORTH PORT, Fla. – A North Port man on trial for murdering his adoptive parents delivered chilling testimony Thursday, admitting to the brutal killings and describing in detail how he stabbed them to death.
The backstory:
Cameras captured 24-year-old Dima Tower confessing that he planned the attack in August 2023, killing his father, Robbie, as he slept. He then chased his mother, Jennifer, when she ran to a neighbor’s house for help. Tower said he forced her to return home, made her sit on the couch, and told her what he had done before stabbing her multiple times.…