The murder trial of a woman accused of killing her ex-husband’s new wife continues in Cherokee County Alabama Circuit Court today.

In testimony from yesterday Alabama Bureau of Investigation Agent Brent Thomas took the stand and testified to the confession that was made by Barbara Ann Roberts when agents talked to her in Rockdale County, Georgia after the slaying.

Barbara Ann Roberts faces the death penalty or life in prison if convicted of the 2006 homicide that took the life of Martha Darlene Roberts.  Martha Roberts was working as personell dirctor at Inland in Rome, Georgia at the time of the murder.