Husband Killer Donna Yaklich

<p>In December 1985 a narcotics detective was shot and killed in the driveway of his farm in Pueblo Colorado where he lived with his five children and his wife Donna Yaklich. Initially authorities suspected Dennis' death was linked to his work in law enforcement but a tip led them to two teenage shooters - and eventually back to Dennis' wife Donna. <br><br>However attorneys for Donna Yaklich argued that Dennis had been beating his wife. The murder they claimed was a battered woman's desperate attempt to escape a lifetime of abuse - or potentially becoming a murder victim herself like Dennis' first wife who is thought to have died of a diet drug overdose in 1977. </p>