SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) _ A man testified that a former friend accused of causing a house explosion that killed an Indianapolis couple told him several days before that he was looking to buy a Ferrari after his house blew up.
Mark Duckworth testified Monday in St. Joseph Superior Court in South Bend that Mark Leonard told him tsunami winds destroyed his fireplace causing an explosion. He said he would be receiving $300,000 in insurance money.
Duckworth testified he called Leonard two days later and Leonard told him he made up the story about the explosion. Duckworth said he hasn't had any contact with Leonard since texting him after the explosion that heavily damaged a neighborhood saying he saw he had made the news, but said police told him Leonard planned to have him killed.
