July 21, 2008 - 9:14PM
Jeremy Roebuck, The McAllen Monitor

EDINBURG - Yrazema Placencia had grown increasingly unhappy with her life's prospects in the months before her husband killed her, witnesses in his murder trial testified Monday.

But the reasons the 25-year-old Alton woman decided to finally cut ties with the man she had lived with for more than a decade differed with who was telling the story.

Daniel Garcia, 32, stands accused of stabbing Placencia to death 58 times on Aug. 13, 2007, on the front lawn of their Alton home.

During the trial's fourth day Monday, jurors heard from Placencia's boss at the Wal-Mart in Palmhurst. He had started a romantic relationship with her shortly before her death, he said.

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