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Toolsie said blunt force trauma to the head was the cause of Parks death.

“She had been beaten several days before her death,” he said, “but it was the beating on the day of her death that killed her.

It was much worse than the previous one.” The first beating tied into testimony from Thacker who said her sister Susie Grant had assaulted Parks at a local laundromat a few days before her death.

The entire prosecution strategy seemed to revolve around the fact Watson had confessed to killing Parks during an interview with Detective Mike Morgan.

In the confession, Watson said Thacker had told him to give Parks a bath and while he was doing so, he and Parks got into a fight over some things Parks said to him about his mother.

Watson said he slapped her twice and she fell and hit her head.

He said her eyes closed and she stopped moving.

He said he then took her into the bedroom and put some dry clothes on her.

Watson’s mental capabilities came into play while Morgan was on the stand.

Wiggins said there is a line at the bottom of interrogation forms where it asks the education level of the person being interviewed.

Wiggins asked why it was there.

Morgan said he didn’t know, it was just something that was on the form.

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