(August 28, 2008)—The prosecution is expected to rest their case Thursday when the sentencing re-trial of Billie Wayne Coble resumes.

On Wednesday, the court heard an emotional testimony from Coble's third wife, Karen Vicha, whose parents and brother were murdered by coble nearly 20 years ago.

Throughout the day, Vicha recounted the events of the murders, breaking down in tears several times.

Additional testimony came from a firearms expert, a medical examiner and a Waco Police investigator involved in the original murder case.

Vicha's three daughters and nephew, Bobby Vicha's son, testified Tuesday that Coble threatened them with a gun and locked them in a closet after he told them they would never see Karen Vicha again.

Pam Woolley, Coble’s first ex-wife, gave somewhat emotional testimony Monday about the abuse she suffered during their marriage. She and Coble were married for 10 years and divorced a decade before the triple killing.

When asked if she is still scared of Coble, Woolly said, “Yes he still scares me…he’s still a danger.”

Coble, 59, was convicted in 1990 in the shooting deaths of his ex-wife’s parents Robert and Zelda Vicha and her brother Bobby Vicha, who was a Waco Police Department sergeant.

Coble was waiting at the home of his estranged third wife, Karen Vicha, when her daughters returned from school on Aug. 29, 1989.

He handcuffed and tied up her three children and one of their cousins, cut the phone lines and then went down the street to the home of his brother-in-law, Waco police officer Bobby Vicha, whom Coble shot in the neck after a struggle.

Next, Coble went to the home of his estranged wife’s parents and shot both of them to death.

Then, when Karen Vicha arrived home, he handcuffed her, put her in her car, and drove off, assaulting her during the drive.

He was arrested that night after a major manhunt and a brief high-speed chase that ended when the car Coble was driving crashed into a parked vehicle in Bosque County.

The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Coble’s death sentence in August 2007.

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The court ruled that the jury that returned the death sentence wasn’t fully allowed to consider potentially mitigating evidence about Coble’s troubled childhood, the death of his father, his mother’s nervous breakdown, the years he spent in an orphanage and the trauma he suffered while serving in Vietnam.