DALLY CALLED BUBBLY WHEN WIFE WAS GONE.Byline: Don Holland Daily News Staff Writer Shortly after his wife disappeared from a Ventura shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into , accused killer Michael Dally appeared elated and asked a co-worker whether he objected to working with a murder suspect, a witness testified Thursday. After taking several days off work following the May 1996 disappearance of his wife, Michael Dally appeared ``all bubbly and happy,'' said Jason County, a former Vons stock clerk who worked closely with Dally. At one point - even before Sherri Dally's remains were found - Michael Dally asked his co-worker, ``You don't mind working with somebody who supposedly killed his wife?'' recalled County. But during a private conversation, Dally said he missed his wife and wanted her to return home, County said. The testimony came in the third week of Dally's trial on murder, kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. and conspiracy charges. Prosecutors accuse him of masterminding his wife's slaying, which was carried out by his longtime lover, Diana Haun. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty if Dally is convicted. County described Dally as a ``take-charge kind of guy'' who liked his women to be obedient. And Haun, who is now serving a life sentence in prison for kidnapping and killing Sherri Dally, was like a puppy who would follow Dally's every command, he said. ``She was like Mike's alter ego A doctrine used by the courts to ignore the corporate status of a group of stockholders, officers, and directors of a corporation in reference to their limited liability so that they may be held personally liable for their actions when they have acted fraudulently or unjustly or when ,'' said County, who once joked that the couple's relationship was akin to the film ``Fatal Attraction Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer. It was directed by Adrian Lyne. ,'' in which a woman becomes obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with her lover. On another occasion, Dally told County that while he loved his wife, he no longer wanted to be with her. At times, Dally would rattle off the phrase, ``It's cheaper to keep her.'' County also testified that although Haun telephoned Dally like clockwork clock·work n. A mechanism of geared wheels driven by a wound spring, as in a mechanical clock. Idiom: like clockwork With machinelike regularity and precision; perfectly: , the pair rarely met while Dally worked the early morning shift. But in the week before Sherri Dally was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point , Michael Dally and Haun met three or four times in the wee hours of the morning, County said. |
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