Prosecutors took their first steps Tuesday in an attempt to show that Margaret “Meg” Purk was not suicidal when she died in 1985. Her death, at age 24, originally was ruled a suicide by hanging, according to the findings of a doctor from what was then the Summit County Coroner’s Office. In the first day of prosecution testimony in the cold-case murder trial of Scott D. Purk, who was Meg Purk’s husband, her brother took the stand to describe her frame of mind 30 years ago. She was due to give birth to her first child within days, and she wrote a letter about it to her paternal grandmother in Allegany, N.Y. Noting those essential facts in a case that went unindicted...
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