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Second trial begins for ex-Husker announcer accused of defrauding elderly woman

Patrick Combs, the former public address announcer at Memorial Stadium facing fraud charges in 2015, doesn't deny he bought three cars on an 88-year-old Lincoln widow's checking account while her health was failing.

Or that he paid for new carpet at his family's lake house and put $44,000 in his son's college savings account with her money.

"In the end, you wonder why we're here," attorney Bob Creager said in opening statements. "You wonder why we spent so much time, so much energy ... when all that happened in this case was that the estate that Harold Mosher and Beverly Mosher saved up for passed to its intended beneficiary.