Spector's phone messages

Just before the lunch break, prosecutors played recordings of six answering machine message left by Phil Spector on or shortly after the July 4 weekend of 1993, when Melvin said Spector threatened her with a gun at his Pasadena home.

Five of the messages were apparently left after the incident, in which Melvin testifed Spector brandished a revolver at her then followed her down his driveway with a shotgun. "I know it's hard to deal with a loony," an apologetic Spector says in one of them.

Then, in the last two of the six messages, Spector becomes belligerent. "I expect a return call, but be careful what you say to me. Nothing you say to me is worth your life." The last message played was packed with profanity, and implies a lawsuit, concluding, "you will see papers Monday morning."

-Peter Y. Hong