When she asked for her money, Clewis-Green said he backhanded her in the face then continued to control and terrorize her before beating her to death with a lead pipe.
murder happened, Clewis-Green told police, after he killed his cat and liked the feeling.
In closing arguments, defense attorney Phelicia Kossie-Butler said Clewis-Green stepped in and out of reality throughout his life and he didn’t know that the movie in his head had come true until he saw Pardue dead on the floor of his apartment.
“I always start off the good guy and then I hurt them and then I kill them,” Clewis-Green told a detective during a tearful interview. “I always become the killer in the end.”
Kossie-Butler told jurors they can’t be sure Pardue was a prostitute or if that was just the way Clewis-Green cast her in his “movie.” There may have never been a dead cat, she said.

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