TAMPA, Fla. (Court TV) — A child testified to hearing an argument in the hours before a woman disappeared from the house where they lived, but the defendant on trial wasn’t in court to hear it.
Robert Kessler sits with his head in his hands. (Court TV)
Robert Kessler, 74, chose not to attend the fourth day of his trial; instead, he stayed at the Hillsborough County Jail. Kessler has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and abuse of a dead body in the death of Stephanie Crone-Overholts, 47, whose body was found dismembered in Tampa’s McKay Bay…