On stand, Lynn admits to hitting wife

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Katie Cofer
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Wednesday, June 13. 2012
“If I could un-ring the bell, I would un-ring it. I'm extremely sorry and I wish none of this would have ever happened.”

Those were words uttered by James Morris Lynn Jr. while on the witness stand after admitting to striking his wife with a baseball bat in late July of last year.

Thursday marks day three of the murder trial for Tonya Royster Lynn, the defendant's late wife and mother of their four children, who went missing three days before Lynn confessed to police on July 29, 2011. Lynn pleaded “not guilty” when he was formally indicted on the charges of murder, felony murder and aggravated assault in October of 2011. Lynn's defense attorneys filed a motion to suppress the confession before the trial, but last week, that was overruled. [Full Story »] 

Testimony begins in Jim Lynn trial

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Katie Cofer
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Wednesday, June 13. 2012
Witness testimony during the first day of a trial in the case of a Winder man charged with killing his wife in July 2011 and later leading police to the discovery of her body in a well revealed details about the defendant’s confession.

Jurors also heard reports of a questionable statement made by the victim to her supervisor and about the discovery of the alleged murder weapon.
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