SARASOTA, Fla. (Court TV) — A 24-year-old man on trial for murdering his adoptive parents delivered shocking testimony admitting to the brutal killings, describing in disturbing detail how he stabbed Jennifer and Robbie Tower to death in their North Port, Florida home.

Dima Tower testified in his murder trial on Nov. 13, 2025. (Court TV)

Dima Tower took the witness stand in his own defense, confessing to prosecutors that he planned and carried out the August 31, 2023, murders using kitchen knives. In chilling testimony, Tower admitted he first attacked his adoptive father Robbie while he slept, then pursued his adoptive mother Jennifer when she fled to a neighbor’s house for help.

Tower testified that he stabbed Robbie in the neck first during cross-examination by prosecutor Karen Frai

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