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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Dr. Richard Nelson and his wife Phyllis were married for 33 years and had two grown daughters.";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>He was the 54-year-old executive dean of the University of Iowa College of Medicine, a nationally regarded pediatrics specialist. Both were active in the Lutheran church in Iowa City (home pictured above).";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>But all wasn't well with the Nelsons' marriage. Dr. Nelson and his assistant Mary Joe Young (couple pictured above) had begun an affair that lasted three years -- until his death.";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Phyllis was talking to a divorce attorney after finding out about the affair and on the night of December 11, 2001, when she and Dick had planned a dinner together at home, she left the divorce papers out where he could see them. She said he took it badly.";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>That night, after making unanswered phone calls to her husband, Phyllis drove to Richard's apartment in Cedar Rapids. She told police she knew Mary Jo Young had been at the apartment when she arrived a little after 5 a.m. (Richard Nelson's apartment complex pictured left)";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>When she arrived at the apartment, Phyllis said the apartment buzzer was broken so she threw her shoe at the window to wake them up. Dick let her into the apartment. Police later photographed her shoe on the roof.";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>At her trial, Phyllis Nelson testified she told her husband \"This is about our future!\" and threw her other loafer at him on her way out the door. Police photographed the shoe for evidence.";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Phyllis said the couple got into an argument, Richard became angry, and when she spotted a knife on the kitchen counter she picked it up. When she rounded a blind corner from the kitchen she stabbed Dick once in the chest. Phyllis Nelson called 911, and when police arrived they photographed her with bloody hands.";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Nelson testified \"I stepped into the kitchen and thought this is too small a space, I can't get out of here, and, I saw a knife on the counter. I picked the knife up, he, he was going to hurt me. There was no question in my mind.\"";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Dr. Nelson was rushed to the emergency room with a single stab wound to the heart. The weapon was a bloody paring knife found in the kitchen. About four hours later, Dr. Richard Nelson died in the emergency room.";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The four-inch paring knife is shown in this police photograph.";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>There was also a bloody dishrag in the living room.";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Among the items investigators methodically photographed in Dr. Nelson's apartment was a book by the bedside table titled \"After the Affair.\"";

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dtl_nelson_story[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Prosecutors in Cedar Rapids charged Phyllis Nelson with first-degree murder. (Booking photo at left)";

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