Closing arguments are scheduled Thursday in the trial of a woman charged with having aided her husband in a slaying at a remote southwestern Pennsylvania hunting cabin.
Forty-one-year-old Lana Roe of Daisytown is accused of having acted as an accomplice for her 33-year-old husband, Jason, in the August 2012 shotgun slaying of 38-year-old Cordele Patterson of Grindstone.
Authorities allege that she lured Patterson outside the cabin before he was shot by her husband, who also wounded her.
A jury last fall convicted him of first-degree murder but was unable to reach a verdict on the charges against her.
The (Uniontown) Herald-Standard reports that Roe testified emotionally Wednesday that “I'd never hurt Cordele, ever.”
She said she was “confused” and “traumatized,” which explained her different accounts of events.
