Dr. Ablow testified to the following: “[W]hat happens is on that morning he tells me his wife had worked until about [7 P.M.] the night before, had gone to bed at eight. She was sleeping a little bit late. He usually rises early. He was getting the kids ready for school and did so.“They left. He walked past his office. In the office he noticed a bat. He went in, he picked up the bat. He walked upstairs, standing outside the bedroom. His wife was inside sleeping, in the bedroom.“He says that for thirty minutes to an hour he stood outside the room with the impulse, you have to do it, the strong thought, the impulse, you have to do it, seizing him at the same time as he responded, you can't do it. You have to do it, you can't do it.“This builds, and he stands there for thirty minutes. He then goes numb. Hits the wife with the bat, is surprised not only by the event but how much damage he has caused, how bloody it is, says, ‘I could not have done that,’ to himself, ‘I could not have done that’ and then in a sequence separated perhaps by ten or fifteen minutes, cleans the bat and noticing that his wife is suffering, he delivers an additional or additional blows in order, he says, for her suffering to end. And he prays to God to take his wife. And that's what he says happened.”
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