Emotions high as defense confronts ex-lover over Chisholm killing

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Alternate suspect denies responsibility for 1986 Chisholm killing

VIRGINIA — Returning to the witness stand more than two years later, the man blamed by defense attorneys for a decades-old killing told jurors he loved the victim and did not commit the crime. “Did you kill Nancy Daugherty?” St. Louis County prosecutor Chris Florey asked Brian Evenson after more than two hours of questioning. “No,” Evenson responded emphatically. Evenson, of Climax, Minnesota, is without doubt the most central witness in the cas…