The night of the killing, Cave had taken a handful of his mother's anxiety medication in an attempt to kill himself after a particularly nasty argument in which Howard told him that he was an unfit father and that was why "God took your son away," he said.
He passed out for a few hours and woke up to the sound of Howard beating on his bedroom door, insulting him and yelling at him for stealing her meds, he said.
He told the jury he must have "snapped." He said he remembers the killing only in flashes and "nightmares."
But prosecutors noted that Cave hid the body; disposed of the weapon, which has not been found or identified; moved to Florida for several months; and lied to friends, family and police about Howard's whereabouts.
"Even if you say you can't remember what you did, everything that you did made sense under the circumstances, didn't it? To conceal, to hide, to run, to lie?" Red Corn asked.
Cave agreed but said his actions weren't what they seemed.
"To me, it looks like I freaked out," he said. "It wasn't something that was planned — wasn't something I wanted to happen."
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I don't think its suspicious at all 
