PIERRE, S.D. – A man charged with killing his wife in a frenzied knife attack testified Monday that it was his 12-year-old daughter who committed the crime, but he said he tried to cover it up.
Brad Reay, 47, took the stand Monday at his trial in the slaying of his wife, Tami. Their daughter, Haylee, testified last week and denied killing her mother.
Tami Reay’s nude body was found near Lake Oahe two days after she disappeared last February.
Reay said he did not know before his wife was killed in the family home that she was having an affair, but they had discussed splitting up. He said his daughter was extremely upset after they told her about the possibility of divorce.
Reay said he woke in the night to find his daughter standing over her mother with a knife in her hand, he said.
Haylee was “catatonic or in shock” and didn’t respond when he asked her what she’d done, he said.
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