Absolutely Perfect: Miss Mensa's Theory on the Case of Convicted Murderer Todd Kendhammer: 6 (Miss Mensa's Theory on True Crime Cases)

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At trial, both sides argued about what caused Barbara's injuries — a tragic accident, or a brutal fight. The windshield was as hotly disputed as the medical evidence. Dueling experts had different theories of what caused the glass fracture patterns.

Jordan Kendhammer: If he wanted to kill ma, why the hell would he go through all the work and trouble to find a pipe, drive all the way out to the middle of a busy road —If you look these up, these are not one in a trillion events, this happens...this is not an uncommon occurrence,” Jason said while showcasing other instances of pipes crashing through windshields across the country. A defendant accused of killing his wife in western Wisconsin and of disguising the crime as a freak pipe-through-the-windshield car accident has taken the stand in his own defense and has partially changed his version of events the day his wife died. The defendant, Todd Kendhammer, is accused of first-degree intentional homicide in relation to the death of his 46-year-old wife, Barbara Kendhammer. As dawn broke over the Mississippi, Barbara Kendhammer — wife, mother, grandmother — took her last breath. Tim Gruenke: As a woman who has never been later for work, who always calls her mom … when you look at, that's an obvious change of the pattern.

TIM GRUENKE (trial opening): What started out looking like a tragic car accident would soon become more complicated. Defense attorney Stephen Hurley told jurors that the pipe could not account for all of Barbara Kendhammer’s injuries, but it accounted for most of them. (The rest could have been caused during her extraction from the car or during subsequent medical treatment.) He also told jurors that it is not the defendant’s job to prove his innocence and that it was improper for them to hold Kendhammer accountable for not knowing how everything occurred during the purported emergency event of the pipe striking the windshield. Hours" reached out to Gerianne and she denies Jessica's claims that she was estranged from Barbara. But her testimony wasn't the only surprise that day. Gruenke had some harsh words for the Kendhammer family, who had to sell Todd and Barbara's home and Jessica's house to pay Todd's legal bills. year-old Todd Kendhammer was convicted in December 2017 of 1st-Degree Intentional Homicide following the death of his wife Barbara. Gruenke believes Todd Kendhammer killed Barbara and staged the scene to look like an accident. Kendhammer was arrested three months later and went on trial a year after that. "Every day I was in a constant state of anxiety and couldn't eat and couldn't sleep," says Jessica. Evidence in the Barbara Kendhammer case 15 photosGruenke accused Kendhammer of lying to the police about when his wife was scheduled to begin work. He originally told the police his wife was supposed to start work at 8:30 a.m. Her work schedule was to report at 8:00 a.m., and if she was going to be late, she’d have to call in, the state asked the defendant. The defendant admitted she needed to be at work at 8:00 a.m., that five minutes before that, he was driving away from where she worked with her in the car, and that she never called in to work. DR. SHAKU TEAS: I don't see any injuries on Barbara that I would say are suggestive or consistent with strangulation. TODD KENDHAMMER [in interrogation room, opening pill container]: Is it OK if I take that? I didn't take my medicine this morning. Watch live coverage of the trial on the Law & Crime Network, with in-studio legal analysis, in the player above when court begins. For a raw feed of the trial, watch in the player below this article.] The pipe may have been “something of a convenience at the time to put through the windshield and make it look like it was a crash,” said Siegel. Moreover, there was no blood on the pipe.