"How did he refer to his wife?" Deputy District Attorney Christopher Hicks asked Kim Ramey, a traveling nurse who met Higgs July 7, 2006, the day before paramedics took Augustine to a hospital.
"He said, 'She's a (expletive) stalker, she's a bitch, she's psycho,'" Ramey testified. He said he planned to get a divorce and "said he was getting an apartment because she was a stalker," she added.
When their conversation drifted to a high-profile Reno divorce case involving Darren Mack, charged with killing his wife and shooting their divorce judge, Ramey said Higgs made a comment that gave her "goose bumps."
"He said that guy did it wrong," Ramey testified. "If you want to get rid of someone you just hit them with a little succs because you can't trace it post-mortem."
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