SKOWHEGAN - Maine State Police Detective Jeffrey Love testified in court Wednesday that it was clear to him during his interview with accused killer Richard Reynolds that the shooting death of Reynolds' wife Rhonda Wakefield-Reynolds had been planned.

Love said a note left by Reynolds for his oldest son Robert Benner asking the man to look after his younger half-brothers, was evidence that something bad was about to happen.

"He must have left that note for a reason," the detective said. "When he made that note he had a plan."

And when he said he asked Reynolds if indeed there had been a plan to kill Wakefield-Reynolds, the defendant said: "I guess you could say that," Love said.

Testimony Wednesday came on the second day of the murder trial of Reynolds, 42, of Waterville.

He is accused of shooting his wife in the head at the home of her brother in Fairfield the morning of Jan. 12, 2007.

Wakefield-Reynolds, 37, died the following day at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.

The couple had been embroiled in a custody dispute over their two sons, ages 4 and 6 at the time, and Wakefield-Reynolds had served her husband with divorce papers the day before the shooting.

Reynolds suspected his wife of having extra-marital affairs and accused her of lying in court when she was awarded custody of the children.

He also claimed a family member had molested one of the boys and vowed to prevent his wife from getting permanent custody, according to testimony this week.

Fairfield police investigated the molestation claims and found them to be unsubstantiated.

Reynolds' defense attorney Peter Barnett has attempted to portray his client as a man whose life was crumbling around him; a man who would rather kill himself than kill his wife.