Xinhua, 13 May 2013Todd's girlfriend Shirley Sarmiento, a Philippino who is working as a nurse at a local hospital, was the first finding Todd hanged in his apartment. His neighbor Michael Goodwin, alerted by the woman screaming, asked their neighbors to call the police.
Sarmiento, Goodwin and two other witnesses who took the stand on Monday morning said that Todd had been stressed over his work, especially after he had transferred to a new research group within the Institute of Microelectronics in March 2011.
Sarmiento, who came to know Todd through an online dating website in December 2010, said that Todd told her sometime between April and June last year that "he had been depressed since October 2011." Full story
