KEENE — Jurors heard grim details this week about the night of Sept. 19, 2020, when Armando Barron allegedly murdered Jonathan Amerault in Rindge before later forcing his wife, Britany Barron, to cut the head from the corpse in Coos County.
What they are unlikely to learn in Cheshire County Superior Court during his murder trial are details about Armando Barron’s alleged infidelities, his past physical abuse of his wife, and his arrest for desertion from the military. All that evidence has been sealed, but there are clues in the available records.
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