OAKLAND — A jury will soon decide the fate of a Pleasanton man accused of murdering his fiancée inside their apartment, dismembering her with power tools and dumping her body before simply continuing on with his life.
Clark’s lengthy argument painted a picture of an abusive relationship with escalating violence that ended with a homicide she admits she can’t fully describe. Clark saved some of her harshest words for the Pleasanton Police Department, who were called to the home numerous times by neighbors, reporting loud screams, bangs, thumps and other. The officers who responded regularly failed to act, letting Roberts get away with obvious lies, and allowed themselves to be “charmed” by a “master manipulator,” Clark said.
The pathway to a murder verdict, according to Clark, requires delving into the grotesque evidence that Roberts dismembered her body in their Pleasanton apartment and dumped her torso in Alameda. A bone fragment containing Buckner’s DNA was found in their bath drain, near large bottles of cleaning chemicals and the body itself contained partial cuts from “false starts” where Roberts’ saw snagged on a bone, Clark said.
“We are not on TV, this is not sensationalism. This is about what facts have to be proven to you,” said Beles, Roberts’ attorney. “This is a wholesale attempt to create a motive, to create a narrative that is salacious and sensational.” The area where her body was discovered was busy with passerby — raising questions about how someone could dump a body there. In fact, Beles emphasized, all of the evidence was circumstantial, as no one came forward with eyewitness testimony of him killing Buckner or disposing of her body.
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