Shortly before Molly Midyette met with an expert on battered woman syndrome to describe how her then-husband abused and controlled her, recording equipment at the Boulder County Jail captured a conversation between Alex and Molly Midyette in which they repeatedly say they love and miss each other.
“Is there anything I can do to make this easier or to help?,” Alex Midyette asks his wife during the jail visit. “I don’t know what to do.”
Molly Midyette, now using her maiden name of Bowers, would go on to tell forensic psychologist Lenore Walker that Alex Midyette threatened to withhold photos of their baby, Jason, during that conversation. Walker diagnosed Molly Midyette with battered woman syndrome.
In testimony Tuesday at her hearing to request a new trial in the baby’s death, Midyette described the threat as “devastating.”
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