A former amusement park manager took the stand in his second-degree murder trial Saturday and told jurors that he did not jerry-rig the ride from which June Alexander fell 60 feet to her death in 2004.
"Did you kill Mrs. Alexander?" defense attorney Andrew Roskind asked his client.
"Absolutely not," Charles Stan Martin testified Saturday in Sevier County Circuit Court.
"I am deeply sorry for the Alexander family and I am in no way guilty of the crimes I'm being accused of," he said. "It is the cruelest slap in the face life has ever dealt me."
With measured composure, the defendant testified he did not place jumper cables in the ride's electrical cabinet and never knew they were there. The cables were later determined to have bypassed the safety system, allowing the ride to begin to move although Alexander's safety harness was not locked.
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