Horowitz rose to public prominence providing commentary last year during the trial of Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his pregnant wife. He hit headlines last week defending Susan Polk, accused of killing her therapist husband.

But the lens turned after Horowitz returned to his rural hilltop estate in Lafayette on Saturday evening and reported finding the body of his wife, Pamela Vitale, dead from a blow to the head.

On Tuesday, Horowitz said he was starting to accept that his wife was not coming back. "Until maybe today, I just couldn't accept that it was real," he told Nancy Grace, an anchor on CNN Headline News and Court TV who frequently sparred with Horowitz on other cases.

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