Charges were later reinstated.
Sonnenfeld clamied he was writing emails while his wife allegedly killed herself. His computer was siezed and indicated that it was not used during the time of the killing.
The alleged suicide note turned out to be a page ripped out from her diary. It was found stuffed behind a picture. Why would you write a suicide note, kill yourself with your husband in the house, and hide the note?
She bled in three places in the room- on the couch, on the floor next to the couch, and below the chais lounge. For a suicide victim, she sure moved around a lot after she shot herself.
The coronor's report said that the powder marks on the body indicated that the gun was held away from her head when it was fired. So she shot herself in the back of the head while holding the gun away from her head. Pretty difficult manouver.
Sonnenfeld did not have gunpowder residue on his hands but he did have it on his shirt and pants. He described to an inmate a show he saw on the Discovery Channel where a person wrapped their hand in saran wrap to avoid getting the residue on their hands. He had blood spray splatters on him. This is fine splatters- not the sort of blood pattern you get on yourself when you touch blood or a bleeding person.
Beveridge said Sonnenfeld had blood on his hands and a fine mist of blood spray on his face. The blood specks appeared to be high velocity spatter, indicating proximity to someone when they are shot. Sonnenfeld smelled of alcohol and had blood-shot eyes.
He had a black eye he could not explain. The room was a mess with clumps of long brown hair on the floor. Did the police pull, besides beating him up, pull out clumps of her hair too? Sonnefeld said he might have gotten in a fight while he was out drinking that night but could not remember. So much for the police giving him the black eye. The bedroom was a mess but the rest of the house was neat and clean. Or it was from banging his head in his cell. That story kept changing.
Sonnenfeld said he was bashing his head on a window in the jail cell because no one was telling him what was happening with his wife. Sonnenfeld would later claim he was beaten and tortured by Denver police. Gurule asked about a possible fight.
Sonnenfeld said he blacks out a lot when he drinks and may have forgotten about a fight. He later said the fight was likely related to him drinking that night.
He had a serious problem with drug and alcohol abuse and had been in rehab for that. Police noted that he was obviously intoxicated and he himself said he had been out and could not remember much. HER friends say she was tired of this and wanted to leave him.
By the time he and his wife Nancy went on a Thanksgiving vacation in 2001 to Thailand they had been “fighting” for a year, he told police. While in Bangkok, Nancy caught him with drugs and found him in bed with two prostitutes, according to the affidavit. She vowed to separate.
Nancy Sonnenberg’s cousin, Leslie Lindberg, in an interview following Nancy’s death, that the day after Nancy returned from Thailand she met Nancy for lunch. Nancy was very depressed and had lost a lot of weight. She told Nancy she caught Kurt using heroin and with two prostitutes. He had paid $600 to a massage parlor.
In Thailand, she moved into a different hotel and even left the country before he did. He had her passport so she had to get a duplicate from the US Ebmasy so she could leave. She filed for seperation shortly after she got back (November).
I give less credence to jailhouse stories, but two inmates said that Sonnenfeld described to them how he killed her and the stories appeared to match the evidence at the scene.
