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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In August 2023, Robbie and Jennifer Tower were found stabbed to death in their own home. After a police chase on the highway, their adopted son, Dima Tower, was arrested and charged with their murders. This episode of the Court TV Podcast features the full opening statements as both sides lay out their cases and the defendant breaks down as his attorney addresses the jury.

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0:00.0

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are simply that.

0:04.8

Opinions.

0:05.7

All are presumed innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law.

0:09.7

Sensitive topics are discussed.

0:11.8

Discretion is advised.

0:14.4

May it please support?

0:16.4

Members of the jury.

0:18.7

Rage.

0:20.7

That was the defendant's answer.

0:23.7

In this case, the evidence will show that on the morning of September 1st of 2023,

0:31.6

the morning after the defendant stabbed his parents to death,

0:36.9

after he led the Northport Police Department on a high-speed

0:41.1

chase down and up I-75 after he ran through woods and swam through canals for almost eight hours

0:51.3

to avoid capture.

1:01.0

The morning after, he sat in an interview room with detectives, and they asked him a question.

1:04.0

What happened last night?

1:07.0

What happened? Help us understand.

1:10.0

And you'll hear that he answered with one word, rage.

1:16.6

A rage that he described had been boiling until it reached the point the previous night where he decided to do it.

1:34.7

As you've been instructed, Dima Tower, the defendant in this case, has been charged with three

1:40.7

criminal offenses for his conduct on the night of August 31st of

1:45.2

2023. Two counts of first degree premeditated murder for the murder of Robbie and Jennifer

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