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\u201cI guess I strangled her.\u201d \u2013 Ian Anselmo to police<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI left so I could have a life and not be stuck in a bubble. I wanted kids, and a family, and to get to have a job, and save money, and buy my own house. Part of me wants to think you are proud of me, but I don\u2019t truly know. The biggest reason why I left though was because my dad was sexually abusing me, and it went on for the duration of two years off and on. \u2013 Dejah-Thoris Waite in the letter to her mother <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t tell you if you\u2019re telling the truth. Ian told me he wants to skin me alive and cut out my intestines and strangle me with them He said he has no problem telling me he hates me I don\u2019t know what to believe.\u201d \u2013 Sue-Ellen Anselmo in conversation to John Anselmo<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIs there anybody here who thinks brainwashing is voodoo, or fake or made up or stuff that defense attorneys like me kind of raise in cases?\u201d \u2013 Defense attorney Richard Hornsby to prospective jurors <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIs this like Alice in Wonderland<\/em> where up is down and down is up? Is this like the inmates\u2019 jail where we have an extreme patriarch relationship where everybody else is subservient to the patriarch? Is this a cult? \u2013 Defense attorney Richard Hornsbyto jurors<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c\u2026he got up there and pounded his fists and said very loudly, \u2018crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy\u2019 because he can\u2019t argue from the actual jury instruction about insanity.\u201d — Prosecutor Nick Camuccio on Richard Hornsby\u2019s defense of Ian<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis family was brought up on violence. And they carried out violence. They preached loving and kindness, but they practiced hate. I agree with that. I agree that John Anselmo was where all of that started. But that\u2019s not insanity. \u2013 Prosecutor Nick Camuccio in his closing statement to jurors<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe sheer brutality of this murder takes my breath away, and that Ian could have possibly done this. This was not a quick death or a reaction like shooting a gun. To strangle someone to the point of death, you slowly watch their life fade away. \u2013 Sue-Ellen Anselmo\u2019s daughter, Dejah-Thoris Waite in her victim impact statement<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSue-Ellen loved Ian. In the last text on her phone, she and Ian said \u2018I love you\u2019 to each other. I can\u2019t imagine the betrayal that she must have felt when he was killing her the same afternoon that he texted that he loved her. \u2013 Sue-Ellen Anselmo\u2019s mother, Cindy Miller in her victim impact statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n