LAS VEGAS (Court TV) — Deviere Willette, the victim’s son and the defendant’s husband, testified that he did not kill his father and was not involved in mutilating his body and concealing that he was beheaded.

Willette testified he was 19 when he started an intimate relationship with the defendant while she was still dating his father. After Devyn Michaels and his father split, Deviere moved in with the defendant and married her in November of 2021.

Deviere Willette testifies in Devyn Michaels’ murder trial on Nov. 6, 2025. (Court TV)

On the night that Johnathan was murdered, Willette said he was at home and had texted Michaels to tell her that he had put her two daughters to sleep and was going to bed. He said he never left the house again after he went to bed about 10:30 pm that night

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