Defense witness suggests suicide in former ISP troopers wifes death [Video]

COEUR D’ ALENE, Idaho – On Monday, Dan Howard, a former ISP trooper accused of murdering his wife, defense expert witness took the stand, arguing that the bullet trajectory could be consistent with a suicide.

The defense’s expert witness, Dr. Geoffrey Desmoulin, out of Canada, took the stand Monday morning. He testified to reviewing the autopsy report, conducted by former Spokane County Medical Examiner Dr. John Howard, as well as body and scene photographs prior to his testimony.

Kendy Howard was found with a gunshot wound in the couple’s bathtub inside their Athol home. Prosecutors maintain she was murdered prior to the gunshot wound and that the scene was staged to appear like a suicide.

Desmoulin testified that based on the evidence he reviewed, he sought to rule out a suicide. The defense believes Kendy shot herself.

“(It was) horizontal to slightly downwards,” he testified to the trajectory of the …