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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject: Darren Mack on trial for wife's death |
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http://www.courttv.com/trials/mack/101607_background_ctv.html
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The millionaire swinger, his ex and their divorce judge: Sin City hosts Reno's trial of the century
Darren Mack was on the run for 11 days after allegedly stabbing his wife to death and shooting the judge presiding over their divorce proceedings. He surrendered to police in Mexico.
By Harriet Ryan
Court TV
LAS VEGAS — Against Reno's backdrop of casinos and neon, Darren and Charla Mack cut a glamorous figure.
A darkly handsome former bodybuilder, Darren Mack earned millions running his family's downtown pawn shop. Charla was a head-turning brunette who had briefly acted in Hollywood. They drove luxury cars and lived in an enormous Tudor-style house with a man-made lake in the backyard.
Their sex life was equally over-the-top. It was a poorly kept secret that the Macks were swingers.
But when the marriage faltered after a decade, the sexual appetites and money that had kindled the relationship quickly became fuel for an acrimonious divorce. Bitter fights over the couple's substantial assets and custody arrangements for their young daughter led to accusations of mental illness, sexual excesses, and judicial bias. Ultimately, authorities say, it ended in one murder and a daring attempt at a second.
Darren Mack, 46, goes on trial this week in Las Vegas for the June 2006 stabbing death of Charla and the sniper-style shooting of the judge presiding over the divorce.
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Mack has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. In e-mails he wrote to the district attorney while on the lam, he suggested that Weller's treatment of him and other fathers in court forced his hand. This week, his lawyers indicated they may claim insanity only as a defense to the judge's shooting and argue self-defense in the killing of Charla Mack.
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