Hook Tabloid Edition!
The man who donned a vampire mask one Halloween night and attacked his estranged wife as she slept has been set free after more than six years behind bars. In an exclusive interview with the Hook, Kurt Kroboth acknowledges "shameful and humiliating" behavior, but remains defiant about what he calls an "overreaching prosecution" that led to his 2006 conviction for attempted murder.
"It was criminal behavior," says Kroboth, reached in Green Valley, Arizona, where he relocated after his February 1 release.
However, the now-55-year-old former financier says the idea that he intended to kill his wife, Jane, is wrong.
"There was an assault," says Kroboth. "If you think about it, there was no weapon. I came upon a sleeping person. Had I intended to kill someone, it would have been easy to do."
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Full Stories List for February 24th, 2011 issue #1008
4Better Or Worse
On Architecture
Art Features
Black and White
The Dish
News
Corrections
DR. HooK
Movie Reviews
Music Reviews
Ghost stories: Local metalheads now stronger but more paranoid
Interview: Picking away at the hard questions with the Carolina Chocolate Drops
Essays
Real Estate Property auctions
Real Estate - $old
Real Estate - On the Block
Real Estate - Update
Sports Doctor
Strange But True
The Brazen Careerist
