((HT: KWWL-TV))
The defense's first day started by calling Joan Becker, Mark Becker's mother, as their first witness.
Joan Becker described her son's recent past, saying he had "become more inward, more depressed... It just kept going deeper and deeper."
She also said Mark ((pictured, in court, thanks KWWL-TV)) changed in September 2008, saying her son believed he was being turned into the family's dog.
Joan Becker says her son was committed to a hospital several times beginning in 2008. She says he would be given prescriptions when he was discharged, but did not always get them filled.
She would then describe what she called in her testimony "episodes" that Mark would have where he would become violent, and sometimes not even recognize his family. She said during Mark's first episode, he ripped down a poster of Ed Thomas and four former Aplington-Parkersburg High School ((IA)) players currently in the NFL hanging in his room.
The night before Thomas was killed, Becker called his parents, asking to stay at their home. The day of the murder, Mark woke his father up around 4:30 a.m. and wanted to have coffee.
"He seemed very happy, very at peace," Joan Becker said. She said there was no indication Mark was having an episode on the morning of the murder.
KWWL's Jamie Grey got to tape her report today...
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