Attorneys for Donald Miralle of La Canada Flintridge, on trial on charges that he strangled his wife of 21 years and left her body burning in a remote part of San Bernardino County, said others had reason to kill Tessie Miralle.
A. Brent Carruth of Woodland Hills, head of a three-lawyer team, said that "evidence will show a number of people had reason to kill" the woman.
