Nat'l DV Awareness Month | Case 01 | Ceaira Sedia Nequay Ford

A Dallas man who confessed to killing his wife last year because she wouldn’t stop talking called the woman a “loudmouth” at his trial today.
Jonathan Edelen, 34, took the stand Wednesday afternoon in his own defense. He is being tried on a murder charge in the June 2015 death of Ceaira Ford.
“She was a loudmouth. Happy or not, you were going to hear about it,” Edelen testified Wednesday. “She got aggressive and territorial towards other women.”
Ford, 28, had been dead for a while when police were called to the couple’s apartment at the Primrose Oaks apartments on Perryton Drive near Kiest Park in west Oak Cliff.
“Put the cuffs on me and take me to jail,” Edelen told officers, according to a police report. “I killed my wife.”
Authorities initially thought Ford might have died of an overdose because they found a bottle of her prescription medication.
But Edelen told investigators that he and his wife were arguing that night when he threw a blanket on Ford, jumped on top of her and held a pillow across her head until she stopped breathing, according to his arrest warrant affidavit.
Two days later he called police.
“If she wanted to tell you something, was there any way to stop it?” defense attorney Jennifer Balido asked her client. Edelen said no.
According to the defense, Ford suffered from depression, mood swings and schizoaffective disorder, diagnosed after the birth of their son, Jonathan Jr. Edelen said his wife was “cool, calm and collected” when she took her medicine, but that was rare.
Even so, he said, they had patched things up after he was jailed for a domestic violence charge.
“We were settling in,” he said.