

"I don't know who George is anymore," Shellie Zimmerman said on Katie Couric's show, Katie. After his murder trial, he became unpredictable and "a pacing lion."

"I like to think I married a person who was a good person, and going through the past year and a half, I don't know how that changes a person, or how a person's spirit breaks, but it certainly seems that's what happened to him."

Later, she said: "He does seem like a ticking time bomb."

Shellie Zimmerman said she doesn't think her husband intended to kill the 17-year-old Trayvon in February 2012. He has said he fired in self-defense.


Zimmerman's public defender, Jeffery Dowdy, said he wouldn't comment on Shellie Zimmerman's statements or interviews.



No charges were ever filed against either one because of a lack of evidence and Shellie Zimmerman didn't want to file charges. The dispute occurred days after she filed divorce papers.

Shellie Zimmerman told Couric that she ultimately decided not to pursue charges because she feared it could jeopardize her probation. She pleaded guilty in August to a perjury charge for lying during a bail hearing after her husband's arrest. She was sentenced to a year's probation and 100 hours of community service.

Shellie Zimmerman wasn't home on the night Zimmerman shot Trayvon. She went to her father's house the night before because she said Zimmerman had humiliated her publicly after she complained about not feeling well when they were out.

"I do wish that the night before when I had left … that he had just let me go and didn't call me back into his life and that I didn't play the role I played as a supportive wife," she said. "Because my life would be very different now."

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