When Cynthia was taken to Bellevue's Overlake Hospital Medical Center, Roth simply motioned to the children to follow him and had them carry heavy bags of wet towels and clothes to the car, Rylie testified. Roth, Rylie testified, looked as if nothing was unusual and told Rylie and Tyson to get help without making a scene. Meanwhile, Rylie Baumgartner told the jury yesterday that as he approached the raft that Randy Roth slowly brought to the beach at Lake Sammamish's Idylwood Park last July 23, he saw his mother, unconscious and her skin blue-tinted, lying face up in the raft. The jury has already heard testimony that casts doubt on Roth's version of how Janis Roth died. She died about eight months after their marriage when she fell off Beacon Rock in Skamania County while hiking with Roth.

As did prosecutors, the defense will begin with events surrounding the death of Roth's second wife, Janis Miranda Roth, in 1981. The courtroom was packed, mainly with Cynthia Roth's family and friends.Īfter three weeks of prosecution testimony, Roth's defense attorneys were to begin presenting their case today. Roth, as usual, sat motionless and stoic yesterday, scribbling notes. The cards are now valued at about $70 apiece and are expected to continue to appreciate. rookie baseball cards they kept on a shelf in their room. Roth did not allow them to take their Nintendo games, he testified, and they could not find the Ken Griffey Jr.

About a week after his mother's death, Rylie and his brother unsuccessfully tried to retrieve some of their belongings from Roth's Woodinville home. Rylie yesterday described his former stepfather much the same way as scores of other witnesses had - cold, calculating and uncaring. She was Roth's fourth wife and heavily insured.īoth Rylie and 12-year-old Tyson Baumgartner took the stand. The last of the prosecution's 116 witnesses were its youngest and potentially most damaging to Roth, who is being tried for first-degree murder in connection with Cynthia Baumgartner Roth's drowning last July. ' `There's no need to cry it's over with,' ' the 10-year-old Rylie said Roth told him.

That is, until stepfather Randy Roth told him to stop crying, he testified. Rylie Baumgartner sobbed as he rode home from the hospital where his mother, a drowning victim, had just been pronounced dead.

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