In 2014, an Ohio county Judge Lance Mason punched his wife 20 times, repeatedly slamming her head against his car’s dashboard and breaking a bone in her skull — all of it in front of their children.
Mason served nine months in prison for beating Aisha Fraser and was hired by the Cleveland mayor’s office after his release. On Saturday, Mason was arrested again, this time after his wife was found fatally stabbed in her home in the Shaker Heights suburb of Cleveland, with her children nearby.
In a 911 call on Saturday, as reported by member station WCPN ideastream, Mason’s sister reported the killing and told the dispatcher that her brother did it.
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