{"id":359,"date":"2006-09-24T22:55:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T03:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/359"},"modified":"2006-09-24T22:55:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T03:55:49","slug":"can-james-dobson-just-shut-up-about-the-gay-lifestyle-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/359","title":{"rendered":"Can James Dobson Just Shut Up About The Gay Lifestyle Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a friend on MySpace&#8230;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courttv.com\/news\/2006\/0921\/freeman_ctv.html\">people these days&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Murder trial set for wife and lover, who allegedly lived in closet before killing husband \t\t\t\t<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almost&nbsp;16 hours after Martha Freeman&#8217;s husband was strangled and beaten to death in the couple&#8217;s upscale south Nashville home, she finally reported his death to police.<\/p>\n<p>If her decision to wait was puzzling, so was the explanation she gave police: She claimed her lover, an illegal Mexican immigrant who was&nbsp;living in her closet, killed Jeffrey Freeman after Freeman discovered him snoring in his makeshift abode.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBut prosecutors deny Martha Freeman&#8217;s version of events that led to the April 10, 2005, murder, and are expected to outline their theory during opening statements next week in the 41-year-old widow&#8217;s murder trial.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman and her former lover, 36-year-old Rahael Rocha-Perez, are each charged with first-degree murder in the violent bludgeoning of Jeffrey Freeman. If convicted, they face life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>When police responded to the 911 call that Freeman asked a neighbor to make, they found the body of Jeffrey Freeman, 44, lying face-down in the master bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>His head, which had sustained multiple blunt-force trauma injuries, was wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag and the rest of his body in a sleeping bag. A medical examiner&#8217;s preliminary examination also detected possible signs of ligature marks around his neck.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let it be said Freeman had provided for her boyfriend&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Metro Nashville Police Department&nbsp;detectives&nbsp;also found the closet that Martha Freeman claimed her lover lived in&nbsp;for about a month before her husband&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-by-8-foot storage space contained a foam pad, pillows, blankets, three loaves of bread&nbsp;and several objects of diversion, including a Nintendo GameBoy, a radio, and several adult magazines.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also found an &quot;overnight bag,&quot; which contained lingerie and pictures of Martha Freeman in various states of undress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Swear to god if I hear One More Jackass yap at me about how same sex relationships are unstable I am going to punch them in the face&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a friend on MySpace&#8230;&nbsp; people these days&#8230; Murder trial set for wife and lover, who allegedly lived in closet before killing husband Almost&nbsp;16 hours after Martha Freeman&#8217;s husband was strangled and beaten to death in the couple&#8217;s upscale south Nashville home, she finally reported his death to police. If her decision to wait was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}