Dieteman
Live from the courtroom: The courtroom is filling up this morning as spectators, journalists and survivors get ready to hear the most anticipated testimony of the trial. Samuel Dieteman, the confessed second half of the Serial Shooter duo, is expected to take the stand against his former friend and roommate, Dale Hausner, who on trial, suspected of some 87 crimes, including eight murders.
“Today is the day,” survivor Paul Patrick told me this morning before the day’s proceedings began. Patrick was someone I profiled back in November. He has been in the courtroom every day since the trial began in October and sees his spot in the in the viewing gallery as “his beautiful duty.”
“He’ll do the right thing,” Patrick said of the testimony, hinting at some doubt that Dieteman will fully come clean on the stand.
Authorities believe Dieteman was involved in two of the killings and several other shootings in the summer of the 2006, though Hausner is accused of beginning the killing spree alone as early as May 2005. Both men were arrested in August 2006 at the apartment they shared in Mesa.