SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — The trial started Monday for a Winter Springs woman accused of trying to kill her husband. Prosecutors say she first tried to kill him in a fire and then, they say, she shot him, but she denied it during a 911 call.
Lawyers seated a jury in the case against Kimberly Boone late Monday afternoon and testimony could start Tuesday after opening arguments in the morning.
It took attorneys all day to find suitable jurors for the strange attempted murder case. It's a case that will also dredge up other allegations of a previous murder attempt by Boone just months earlier.
In her first appearance in trial court, Boone looked like a professional, working mother nearly a year and a half after, prosecutors say, she became an attempted murderer for the second time, trying twice to kill her husband.
"Somebody just broke in my house and my husband was shot," Boone said during an early morning 911 call on March 29, 2009.
Investigators rushed to the Winters Springs home after Boone called 911 claiming an intruder shot her husband in the garage as she hid with her two sons.
"No, no, we're not going to let you die Rob," Boone is heard on the 911 call.
But the story never added up and that's why she's on trial.
Robert Boone was shot with the family's own .357 revolver. Even the original 911 call raised questions.
"I thought it was her. I thought she shot me," Robert Boone says on the 911 call.
"Rob, I did not shoot you, sweetheart. I was in with the boys," Kimberley says.
Attorneys spent most of Monday picking jurors who will hear evidence about a bizarre twist in the case. Just three months before the shooting, the Boone's other house burned down with only Robert inside. Prosecutors now believe that was Kimberly's first failed murder attempt on her husband.
WFTV found out Kimberly had offered to repay hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing funds to her former employer and Robert had a $200,000 life insurance policy.
Robert Boone was not killed in that shooting. He and his two sons now live in North Carolina.
Kimberly has been in jail leading up to the trial and, so far, it seems that she will not testify in her own defense.