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Donald Southworth begged to recover consciousness into work on June 9, 2010, UPS dispatcher Josh Elkins told a Fayette Circumference Court jury on Thursday.
"In seven years of working at UPS I've never had a driver beg to find into work," Elkins said.
He was the first of several witnesses in a long day of testimony in the experimental of Southworth, 49, who is accused of murder in the death of his wife, Umi, 44.
The patient gained notoriety because investigators did not realize Umi Southworth was alive for more than three hours after they arrived at the wrong scene. The trial began Monday; it resumes Tuesday and is expected to last through next Friday.
Umi Southworth was found seriously beaten later the same day that Elkins said Donald Southworth begged to move along disintegrate into work. She died the next day.
Southworth, who drove a semi for UPS, was supposed to have been at labour at 3:15 a.m., the dispatcher said. When he didn't show up on time, Elkins assigned another driver to bag Southworth's loads, he said. The dispatcher said he tried to call Donald Southworth repetitively, starting about 3:20 a.m.
Source: Lexington Herald Leader