PARIS – One day after a judge granted her immunity in the matter, the wife of a 33-year-old Sumner man took the stand as a state witness.

Duane Christopher Waterman’s wife, Naomi Waterman, said Wednesday that Duane visited her at the Oxford County Jail on July 26 and asked her to tell investigators that she had sold a .380-caliber handgun the couple had previously purchased.

Duane Waterman is charged with the murders of 50-year-old Timothy Mayberry of West Paris and 43-year-old Todd Smith of Paris.

Naomi Waterman also said Duane told her Mayberry would be on the news that night, though the bodies of the two men were not discovered until later in that evening.

Naomi said she lied about selling the gun when she was called before a grand jury and began cooperating with police in February. She also testified that she and her husband owed about $1,500 of a $3,000 debt to Mayberry over a failed Oxycontin sale when she was arrested for theft on July 11.

Defense attorney John Jenness Jr. said that in a phone call to Naomi about two hours before the men are believed to have been murdered, Duane did not make threats against Mayberry but rather said he would tell police about a false accident report that Mayberry had filed.