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Prosecutor: OC man propped up body of dead wife on sofa as kids opened Christmas gifts in front of her
ANAHEIM, Calif. - A Southern California man who killed his wife propped up her body on a sofa, told their children she was drunk and had them open Christmas presents in front of her body, a prosecutor told jurors at his murder trial."This Christmas story does not have a happy ending, and unfortunately this is not just a story, it is real life," Heather Brown, senior deputy district attorney in Orange County, said Monday as trial began for William Wallace of Anaheim, the Orange County Register reported.Za’Zell Preston, 26, was taking college classes in hopes of becoming a domestic violence counselor when she was killed in 2011 by a man who already had served jail time for beating her, the paper said.The couple had gone to a neighbor’s