Dec 22, 2007 7:15 am US/Eastern
Perez-Olivo To CBS 2 HD: I Didn't Murder My Wife
Disbarred Lawyer Speaks Out, Vehemently Denies Allegations
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBS) ―
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Carlos Perez-Olivo, 60, is accused of murdering his wife Peggy Perez-Olivo on Nov. 18, 2006.
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The disbarred attorney accused of shooting his wife to death on a dark suburban road last year and then concocting a story that an unidentified gunman who accosted the couple was behind the murder told CBS 2 that he is completely innocent.
Carlos Perez-Olivo, 60, is accused of murdering his wife Peggy Perez-Olivo in the Nov. 18, 2006 incident. He's currently being held on $1 million bail. He spoke with CBS 2's Tony Aiello on Friday afternoon from behind bars.
Perez-Olivo told Aiello he's being railroaded by police, who were desperate to make an arrest. He adamantly denied playing any role in the death of his wife of 30 years, whom he called the love of his life.
"I only regret, this whole situation, I didn't protect her. I tried, I failed," Perez-Olivo said. "The idea that I would hurt her is, to anybody that really knows us, is inconceivable."
Perez-Olivo stuck by his story that three men stopped him and his wife late on the night of the shooting. He said the trio shot him and his wife with a Walther PPK that was discovered a few days later in the nearby Echo Lake.
But police and prosecutors said that his story is an elaborate cover-up.
"Mr Perez-Olivo pulled the car over to the side of the road and he shot his wife once in the back of the head," said Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore.
That night, instead of waiting for police, Perez-Olivo drove several miles to a hospital. He insisted there was nothing nefarious about that decision.
"As long as I could drive I was going to get her to the hospital as soon as I could," he said. "The sooner I get there, whatever it is, maybe she has a chance."
The disabarred attorney said he was the real target of the alleged attackers -- that he has many enemies, including violent former clients that he had cheated out of money -- and he's wracked with guilt that he lived and Peggy died.
He says the love of his three children is the only thing keeping him going.
"They're stronger than I am, they've rebounded a lot better than I have. And they love me very much," he said.
Perez-Olivo is being held on $1 million bail and is charged with second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. A court conference was scheduled for Jan. 4.
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