Defendant: 'They'll Feed Me to the Hogs'

A man and woman accused of killing an Anza resident spun a twisted tale for an investigator of sexual harassment and jealous rage, a witness testified today.

The killing of Paul "Pete" Cline at his Anza home came after he "groped" Angela Shaver, one of the two defendants on trial for allegedly murdering the man, the other defendent stated in an interrogation tape played for a jury today.

"He was drunk and trying to molest her, or trying to get her to fool around," Duve said in the recording.

A third man who was allegedly involved in the crime -- though he is not a defendant in the trial -- stabbed Cline for groping Shaver, the woman told an investigator, who recalled the story she told him when he took the witness stand today.

A man named Vincent "Wolf" Valdez, who she said was selling her medical marijuana, stabbed Cline in the heart after he found out what he'd done to Shaver, Investigator Randall Thomas recalled her saying after the murder.

Then he told Shaver and her codefendant, Chris Duve, to stab the man as he lay lifeless in the dust. If they didn't, Valdez would kill them both, the investigator recalled her saying. "They'll feed me to the hogs," she said, according to Thomas.

Shaver told the investigator that Valdez declared her "his wife," and he owned her, so she had to obey him.

Cline was killed several days after discovering the defendants were stealing money from his bank account, a prosecutor told the jury during previous hearings.

They killed the man and stole several hundred dollars from his bank account. They then dumped his body off a road in Anza and left it there to rot, prosecutor Blaine Hopp told the jury previously.

The couple then moved into the man's home, and told several other people -- including the victim's brother -- that Cline moved away, and they were renting the house.

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