Richard Hamlin
This case is one of the more rare types of cases that I do in the fact that this did not involve a murder. However, let us be clear in the fact that while a murder did not occur it, that may have only been by luck for the victim. Richard Hamlin threatened it seems to kill his wife, Susan, by holding a gun to her and beat her several times throughout their marriage to the point in which caused many injuries. Richard never pulled the trigger when the gun was on his wife but the reason for that may never be known. Richard Hamlin was a prominent El Dorado Hills California attorney. In 2004 he walked into the county sheriff's department with his wife, Susan. The couple sat down with investigators as Susan began telling them a story. It did not take long before investigators became suspicious not just of Susan's story, but why she would be telling it. It also seems apparent that Richard was interjecting and adding additional information while the story was being told. The ...