Emma Cooley, the mother of Michael Edgington’s slain wife Sydney Palmer, who was shot to death by him last year in Kansas during a domestic dispute, ripped into her disgraced son-in-law at his sentencing on Monday, telling him “she loved you” and detailing how he tormented Palmer’s family with disturbing acts and statements after her murder.
“The first thing you asked me is for the PlayStation,” Cooley said of her first conversation with Edgington following Palmer’s death, according to Sumner News Cow.
“Well, here’s your PlayStation,” she told Edgington, placing one of the gaming consoles on a bench near where he was sitting.
Palmer, 25, was fighting with Edgington on July 3 before her death and allegedly threw a 4.04-ounce concrete figurine at his head, police said.
“I could see he had a bump on his forehead,” a responding officer wrote in the incident report, according to the Sumner News Cow.
Edgington responded by gunning her down with a 9mm pistol.
“I understand I did something wrong,” he said Monday during his sentencing for second-degree murder, which resulted in 61 months in prison, or roughly five years.
“But I don’t feel I am a threat to society,” Edgington told Sumner County District Court Judge William Mott, who imposed the maximum sentence and 36 months of probation. Edgington will also be prohibited from possessing firearms going forward.
In addition to requesting his PlayStation, Edgington disgusted Palmer’s family by allegedly deciding to remarry at the house he shared with Palmer, with the wedding ceremony taking place inside.
“This is the place where you killed your ex-wife and my daughter,” Cooley told him on Monday. “And you have a wedding there as if she hadn’t existed.”
In addition, Edgington repeatedly told Palmer’s family members that he was acting in self-defense and that Palmer was ultimately responsible for her death, according to Cooley.
In police interviews, Edgington stated that Sydney experienced manic episodes. A doctor recently took her off her medication (Vraylar), and she became enraged at him for not taking out the trash.
She then started breaking things inside the house, and [Edgington] told her to stop. She then grabbed a concrete figurine and threatened to throw it at me. I told her to stop. “She threw it at me, hitting me in the head.”
According to Cooley, Edgington allegedly littered and threw cigarettes at her grave.
“She loved you,” Cooley told him on Monday. “Even in her last breath to law enforcement, she refused to admit you killed her. She was constantly trying to protect you.”
