Daughter denies involvement in fatal NY poisonings

SYRACUSE -- A 21-year-old woman on Wednesday denied trying to kill herself or writing the suicide note that has become a key piece of evidence in the murder trial of her mother.

Wiping away tears with a tissue, Ashley Wallace told an Onondaga County Court jury that she did not fatally poison her father or stepfather as defense lawyers have tried to suggest.

"Did you, when you were 12 years old, poison your father with antifreeze and rat poison?" District Attorney William Fitzpatrick asked bluntly.