Danielle Redlick spent hours on a dating website before she eventually called police about her husband’s death, a prosecutor said at her murder trial Thursday.
Now, jurors at Danielle Redlick’s trial have been asked to decide: Was the stabbing of Michael Redlick— a former NBA executive turned university employee—an act of murder or self defense?
Soon after, Michael asked Danielle, who was 20, to move in with him to help him care for her 16-year-old sister that still lived with him. Danielle didn’t immediately oblige but the two became close, with Michael visiting her at work and the two attending concerts together, Conlon said. This alleged aggression prompted Danielle to file for divorce in 2018, but a judge rejected her request because Michael was not properly served with divorce papers, court records said. Then 44, she stayed with her husband despite “repeated” attacks, Conlon said.
The confidant said he called Michael that month and jokingly asked if he was still hiding the knives. “Oh yeah,’’ Michael replied, according to the friend. But prosecutors don’t buy that story—largely because it wasn’t the original explanation given by Danielle. Instead, she originally told a 911 operator she believed her husband had a heart attack. She then claimed that Michael stabbed himself with a knife and bled out while she took cover in a bathroom the entire night.