Edward 
Halverson
Elizabeth Halverson
Here are pertinent parts of the call you might be interested in reading:
Wife: Are you going to help me because I'm bleeding a lot.
Husband: Where?
Wife: From my head.
Husband: Oh.
Wife: I'm bleeding a lot from my eye. I can't see. I think you broke my jaw and my hand, definitely.
Dispatcher: Hello?
Wife: I can't see from this eye. There's going to be a big mess from all the blood.
Wife: He is beating me with a frying pan.
Dispatcher: Beating you with a what?
Wife: I am bleeding to death. Please help me. Please help me. I can't see out of this eye.
Husband: Fix that.: I was thinking ice, maybe.
Wife: Please hurry. I won't be able to go to the door. He's going to kill me. Please hurry.
Dispatcher: Does he still have the frying pan?
Wife: I don't think so. Did you get ice? Did you see the eye? It is this one.
Husband: Oh yeah, the right eye. Put it on your eye. Oh, man, that's terrible.
Wife: He's going to come after me again.
Wife: Did you bring ice?
Husband: Ice?
Wife: Yeah. (gasping)
Husband: Here you go.
Wife: Ice for my eye. You might want to clean the floor, too.
Husband: You've got a washcloth. Use it.
Wife: Well, you tried to murder me. Why did you do that? Why did you do that?
A friend of the Judge (apparently the only one she still has) has offered up a more colorful description of what went on that night. This same friend also believes the Judge was driven out of office as a result of some conspiracy theory. Anyway she said the Judge threatened to kick unemployed Ed out of the house after he ignored her requests to do some chore that night. She even called her sister and asked her to call 911 for her which is when he reached for the frying pan. But while the Judge sat telling the operator she about bleeding to death in what was described as a "whispered and panicked voice" she turns to Ed and tells him calmly where to clean up the blood and to bring her an ice pack.
Now, a more elaborate look at the evening's turn of events came from Halverson's Grand Jry testimony some three weeks after the incident. While you are reading this keep in mind he's still naked except for camo boxers and she just might be as well.
According to the Grand Jury transcript, Judge Halverson said she was just sitting in her bedroom cleaning and snapping off the edges of green beans at approximately 10:00pm the evening of September 4th, 2008. I know I have spent many a night snapping beans in bed but I usually insist they are thoroughly strung as well.
She called her husband into the bedroom where she said she preparing dinner for the following day. She asked her husband to bring in some steaks they were also preparing so they could decide on what type of marinade to put on them.
While she was talking to her sister, he brought in a couple of salad dressings which clearly were not what she wanted. She asked him to go get the marinade and he eventually came back with 3 or 4 packets. ( soy sauce?)
She said that at about 7:30pm Ed hadn't cooked dinner, and told her he didn't want to do it. She told him there was a couple of ears of corn he could boil that she could eat. And she wanted to eat.
According to her testimony the corn still wasn't cooked by 10:30 pm so she said, "Hey, dude, I mean it's been three hours, where's the corn? It's just two ears of corn, how long can it take?"
She said they were "discussing" that, as in "Where's the corn, and then, you know, where's the marinade?" She said Ed started acting weird so she asked him to sleep in another room.
"I can't deal with you now, you're being very weird," she said. So she asked Ed to leave the room.
Ed didn't leave the room because he was still talking to her sister on the phone. Seems she called her other sister and asked her to call 911 on her behalf as well. Neither would do her bidding.
She claimed Ed said something like "How are you going to make me leave the room?" and she replied," I'll get the police to make you." You have to wonder how many times she threw that threat in his face to get him to toe her line.
Ed left the room momentarily and came back with a big frying pan. She said her first thought was "What are we going to cook now?" The frying pan was in his hands and coming down on her head when she realized they weren't cooking anything'.
There are so many things that are just not right with that picture.
So Ed gets hauled off to jail, charged with attempted murder, battery with substantial bodily harm and battery with a deadly weapon (a Calphanon skillet) with bond set at $113,000 (which he can't make.) If he should get out, he is banned from going closer than half a mile from his wife *insert your own remark here*. He has been appointed a public defender to represent him. Remember his wife has continued to collect her $130,000/year even though she is suspended, but I take it she didn't care much for sharing. In the meanwhile he sits in jail awaiting his next hearing which is scheduled for December 1.
He's not unfamiliar with sitting in jail. Loving wife Liz made a point to reveal to the 911 operator hubby Ed is an ex-con. He has been arrested ten times in three different states on charges ranging from drugs to theft. He served four years in prison before they were married in 1998.
Now remember what thrust her into the limelight in the first place-that pesky disciplinary action which had something to do with her being an ineffective judge? She managed to spin it into being some kind of a huge conspiracy by the seated judiciary to get rid of her. Seems this near beating to death by her husband may have worked to cast a new light on her and these charges she is facing, almost turning public opinion into an apology.
The attorney representing her in the as-yet-undecided disciplinary action said this current situation should help everyone step back and look at her complete situation. Part of that situation is the fact that the Judge has pretty much involved/implicated/subpoenaed most every judge in the circuit in her own case making it difficult to find a judge to hear her husband's case.
Was she asking for it? Those who are not sympathetic in the least for her argue that her heinous treatment of her husband, who tended to her every need, brought about this bit of karma in the form of a flying skillet. It's common knowledge there in the community she was cruel to him and berated him in public, calling him an idiot and worse. One court filing reveals she had a court clerk swear him in "to answer questions about matters related to certain duties she expected him to perform in the course of their marital relationship." Her former bailiff has alleged the judge told him to shoot her husband. She called him bad names. The night of the attack neighbors gave the guy credit for putting up with her as long as he did. They called him a saint, a sweet man around the neighborhood who waited on his wife hand and foot while they described the Judge as "a nasty."
There are even rumors that somehow she did this to herself. How she describes what happened is perhaps a bit fantastic. She somehow got knocked off the bed to the floor, barraging herself with filing cabinet & garbage can; pulls herself up on bed, gets blood-soaked gown off; realizes land-line phone is on bedside table and while she can't see to reach and dial, she "somehow does". All while that "nasty, sneering, convict" husband cleans up the floor per her demand, getting her a washcloth & ice per her demand but managing to push them into her eye and "hurting me and that's not helping."
Things don't fit when you remember this is a woman that has very limited mobility due both to her size and her health problems. Really this fight boiled down to a food if you look at the way it is described. It sounds like some kind of food orgy going on there in the bedroom: those snapping green beans, the raw steaks carried in to the bedroom to select the ideal marinade, and the fresh ears of corn she wanted cooked for supper. She wanted more, and she wanted it right then.Is there nothing worse than an unsatisfied, unfulfilled woman?
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