Jackson County Torture Case Goes To Grand Jury

Friday, a Jackson County magistrate denied a defense motion to dismiss the case against 37 year old Peter Lizon who was arrested and changed with one count of malicious assault against his wife, 43 year old Stephanie Lizon. Stephanie Lizon took the stand and denied her husband ever intentionally hit, punched, burned, shackled or otherwise injured her. But, a worker at the Family Crisis Intervention Center in Parkersburg, where Mrs. Lizon took shelter June 18-20, testified that's not what Lizon told her when she was interviewed during her stay. The worker says Lizon contacted her mother in Virginia and arraigned for a bus ticket to take her there, but she never got on that bus, saying she had a one-year-old child that was still left with the abuser and she was going to get the baby, but she never returned to the shelter. After hearing of physical abuse and seeing photos of the alleged victim taken at a domestic violence shelter last month, Jackson County Magistrate Jackie Casto sent the case to the grand jury. Peter Lizon asked for a reduction in his  $300,000 bond, but that request will have to wait until his first appearance before a circuit judge.