In a plot involving mind control and extortion, Susan Hamlin told an El Dorado Superior Court jury, her husband would beat her every day and stab her in the scalp to hide puncture wounds.
"He strangled me. He punched me. He held a barrel of a gun in my mouth and asked if I was ready to die," a sobbing Hamlin said as her husband sat a few feet away, charged with torture, domestic violence and child endangerment.
In six days of testimony that ended Tuesday, Hamlin said the domestic violence began during the last five years of their 20-year marriage and ended with Richard W. Hamlin's arrest Feb. 28, 2004.
After the beatings escalated in severity and number, Richard W. Hamlin, a defense attorney and former Sacramento prosecutor, began to brainwash his wife and the couple's four children into believing a twisted tale of incest, prostitution, child molestation and devil worship, she said.
Central to "the story," as the Hamlins called it, was a conspiracy to murder Richard Hamlin because his Christian beliefs would make him a "trophy" for a Satanist cult.
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