Perry March made a surprise appearance on the stand Tuesday in his murder trial, but not to defend himself against allegations that he killed his wife who has been missing since 1996. The former Nashville lawyer stepped up to the witness box out of the jury's presence to inform the court he did not want his teenage son testifying.

Testifying as the final witness for the state in the trial of lawyer Perry March, a Nashville detective told jurors that soon after being arrested for his missing wife's murder, March said he would be willing to serve between five and seven years in prison. But lawyers for March claim the 45-year-old defendant only raised the possibility of a plea to avoid the maximum sentence.

Jurors in the murder trial of accused wife-killer Perry March heard an audiotaped conversation with a fellow jail inmate, in which the accused Nashville lawyer said if his in-laws were dead his chances of beating a murder rap for his wife's death would go from 40 to 90 percent.

The father of Nashville attorney Perry March, on trial for killing his wife who vanished in 1996, claims he reburied his murdered daughter-in-law and disposed of evidence relating to her killing. The jury watched a videotaped deposition of Col. Arthur Wayne March recounting removing Janet March's remains from a plastic bag and burying them off the side of a road.