ageless. >> alex fazzino murdered emily fazzino on january 29. >> reporter: as prosecutors painted alexnster who brutally killed his wife in a fit of rage. >> i gotta ask you this straight out. did you play any role in killing your wife? >> physically, no. i mean i, i'll always feel a little responsible that i couldn't get through to anybody to get her help. and i'll carry that with me for all of my life. >> reporter: defense lawyers, bill kutmus and trever hook insisted that there was no murder here, or any crime at all. >> this case should have never been prosecuted. >> that was where you came down right, was from the beginning, was that the case shouldn't have been brought? >> absolutely not. i took that position because of the lack of evidence. alex fazzino was totally innocent. >> there's no more pressure than when you -- if you have an innocent person that you're trying to defend on this kind of a charge, first-degree murder. >> reporter: kutmus says that from the beginning, prosecutors targeted alex and refused to consider anything else. >> they reviewed all the information, the