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Tapes from the Dark Side contains descriptions of violence and sexuality.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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But just after killing his mom and his dad, the
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evidence in this case will show that Chamler went on
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his phone. If you go on your phone, and if
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any of you ever taken a note, you can take
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notes on your phone.
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iPhone has an app called notes. We got some raw.
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Data and i'll put it up here in a second.
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I won't put the raw data because it's a bit
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challenging to see.
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But Chamdler creates a note about five to eleven that
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day on July first, probably minutes after killing his parents,
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and the note.
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Reads weekend shores two two Lemon.
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Is the chemical name for hydrogen peroxide. You'll hear from
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people in this case. It's essentially a household cleaner to
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clean up blood lemon. It deodorizes things mixed together. It's
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a pretty cheap cleaning product you can have at home.
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So Chandler writes a note after murdering his parents, H
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two O two lemon door handles, move your shit upstairs,
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get a job, and clean the floor.
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He then does just that.
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He spends the afternoon cleaning the house. Eventually jumps in
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the shower. We know he's in the shower because his
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girlfriend and him FaceTime when they're in the shower. No judgment,
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but that's what happened. And the girlfriend took a screenshot.
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We know he's in the shower. They say they're good nights,
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and Chandler says, I'm going to bed, but he doesn't.
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I'm not going to show many photographs for a little bit,
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just because I think you deserve to kind of be
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eased into some of the things you're going to see.
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That night, what appears to have happened with the evidence
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will show because mister Halderson took items from around the
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house and began cutting apart.
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His parents.
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Saw blades covered in Barton Christa's blood, an axe, Barton
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Christa's blood, hand saws, things of that sort covered and
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Barton Christa's blood. He cleaned the house as best he could,
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and you'll hear about that, but still a blood spatter
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found of Barton Christa's blood around the house. And he
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had a plan, wasn't a well thought out plan, but
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he had one, and that he was going to burn
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the remains in the family fireplace there in the house,
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and that night a neighbor who had a security camera
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behind the Halderson home way far away, was able to
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catch something.
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I think everyone has a bit of a fascination with
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the dark side.
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I myself, Wilways love the dark side as well.
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I think it's something that everyone secretly longs.
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For in moves.
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And if we look closer, there is a white object
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on that piece of wood. That white object is later
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determined to be a human bone.
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The dark side, the dark side of the dark Side.
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Let's do a quick recap. On the afternoon of July first,
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at two ten pm, Bart Holderson sent a text message
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to his son saying quote, I'm ready whenever you are.
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This was the last recorded text ever sent from Bart
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Holderson's phone. We don't know the exact time, but somewhere
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between two ten pm and three fifteen pm, Chandler Holderson
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murdered his father. He ambushed him in the family basement,
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shooting him in the back multiple times with an Acas
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model semi automatic rifle. At three nineteen pm, Chandler sent
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a text message to his mother Christa saying quote, Dad's
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phone died. Text or call me and get soda on
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your way home. I have an extra hour of work.
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When Christa arrived home, Chandler murdered her in much the
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same way that he murdered his father. To this day,
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we still don't know the exact details, but we do
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know he likely ambushed her in the family basement, just
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like he did his father. That's where they kept the soda,
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and it's also where all the bullet fragments were recovered
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by police. The cold blooded murder two human beings not
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to mention your own parents. This would surely be enough
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to mentally and emotionally break any normal human being to
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the point of being unable to function. But the mask
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that Chandler had been wearing for the entirety of his
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adult life was firmly in place, This hard shell Chandler
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had spent years fortifying so that nothing and no one
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could see inside, not even those who thought they were
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closest to him, not his girlfriend of two years, not
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his brother, not even his parents. The wall was built,
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and now there was a crucial task at hand. The
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events of the Night Ahead could have been ripped straight
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from the annals of the most horrific horror fiction book
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or film ever made, except this was no fictional story.
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Between the hours of four PM and seven forty nine pm,
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Chandler hastily used whatever tools he could fine to begin
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cutting his parents up into pieces small enough to fit
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inside the family fireplace. He used an axe to chop
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off their hands and feet. He used a number of
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different saws to sever their heads, their legs, and their arms,
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until their torsos were just rectangular stumps of flesh, barely
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resembling human beings. It's at seven forty nine PM that
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Chandler took what was likely a much needed shower. He
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called his girlfriend, Catherine Melender and video chatted with her
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through FaceTime. While in the shower, Chandler said that Kat
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didn't have to mute herself because his parents weren't home.
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This leads me to believe that their conversation likely at
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some point turned sexual. Chandler assured her that his parents
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were not home, that they had gone out to pick
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up some groceries, and while I guess in one sense
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Chandler's parents really weren't home, in another sense, they were,
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at least their lifeless bodies were. At some point, after
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a shower and video call, and perhaps sexual release, Chandler
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once again descended the steps to the family basement steps
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to Hell, and while Kat was fast asleep in her
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bed and her apartment across town, Chandler began methodically carrying
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out the next step of his plan. Piece by piece.
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He carried his parents' bodies up from the basement to
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one of their living room fireplaces.
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What I like to do in has worked for me
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over the years. I learned this from my predecessor that
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when we go into the crime scene, whether I'm with
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my partner Jim Plenty or with Eric Schneider, that we
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take everything in.
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We take our notes in with us. But I say
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we take everything is.
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We don't talk to each other because we don't want
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to taint each other's mind. Each person may see things
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a little bit differently, so I found its best that
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we walk through the scene, evaluate the scene, and then
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after we've done a complete walk through the scene and
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we've done on our evaluation, then we talk amongst each.
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Other and we're not only.
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Getting understanding as to what each other has seen, but
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we're also forming a game plan as to how we
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were going to process this scene and what additional resources
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we may need to call in. I've referred to it
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as like a golden hour. It takes a significant amount
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of time to go through a house as large as that.
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So, Deputy, just to begin with, how would you describe
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the Helderson home?
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Just in general, I.
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Would describe the overall condition of the house to be
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half finished, in state of repair. It appeared to be
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some renovations occurring withinside of the residence and they were
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still living within the house, so then there were areas
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that were completed with the renovations.
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Did that pose any challenges to you and your team
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during the search?
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Nothing? Significant? No?
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Okay? What is Exhibit one seventy eight?
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That is a photograph of the west wall of the
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same room. I'm sorry, that is the east wall of
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the same room that we were just in.
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We're just looking.
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At the fireplace. That is a gas sealed fireplace.
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And a fireplace becomes significant in this case, yes it does.
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Is this the fireplace that became of any significance?
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No, it is not.
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Just in general, did the.
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Living room have any significant significant evidentiary value?
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No it did not.
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This is actually exhibit nine, an exhibit that we've seen earlier.
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But what is exhibit nine display.
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There's a photograph of the dining room and now we're
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able to see a portion of the kitchen that is
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to the northwest of this room.
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And again, did the dining room have any significant evidentiary
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value to your investigation?
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No it did not.
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Right, Was there anything really of note in your investigation
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in the kitchen.
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No, there was not.
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This is the vacuum cleaner that I collected from the bathroom.
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And what was the vacuum cleaner collected.
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During the evaluation portion of the processing of the crime scene,
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I identified that there was blood on the side of
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the vacuum cleaner, and I had further tested that blood
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with pheno thailine, which gives us a resumptive positive for blood.
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Under the appearance, they appeared to be blood, but we
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need to confirm those stains, So we confirm those stains
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with phenol thaline. Then I use a subsequent test yet again,
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and it's called the hexagon Obti test.
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This test differentiates between human and non human blood. And
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that test was positive.
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For human blood or non human blood.
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For positive for human blood.
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Exhibit two eight. What is that a picture of There's.
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A photograph depicting two refused containers that are provided by
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municipality for picking of waste and.
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Did you test to perform any evidentiary test on any
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of these garbage cans?
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I did.
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On the handle of the garbage can, there is reddish
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brown stain. There's also a reddish brown stains on the
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inside of the container. The stain that was on the
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handle was tested with phenothalene, which was presumptive positive, and
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then followed up with the hexagon OBTI test which was
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also positive for human blood.
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Could you describe Exhibit two on nine for the jury?
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This is a photograph of the interior side of the
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west wall of the garage. In this image, there is
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a placard with the number seven that is indicating that
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the metal framed gray basket.
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That is hanging.
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And the items that are inside of that basket.
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And the seven was put there by police.
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Yes, I put that there.
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An exhibit two ten, What is two ten?
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Show?
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Exhibit two ten shows another photograph of the same bin. However,
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the first container that was on top of it has
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been removed to expose a couple lengths of rope. You
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see a length of rope that is black in color,
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and there's also a length of rope that is orange
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in color.
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And why did you note the rope.
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The black rope is consistent in appearance with a rope
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that was around the torso of the deceased that was
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located on the Earlin Road property.
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To eleven. Again, just a close up of that rope.
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It's showing the cut end of that rope.
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Thirteen is a photograph of the axe that I collected
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from the garage.
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And just to back up, this axe was kind of
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hidden behind some boards.
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It was something that you had to look to see.
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I wouldn't say it was hidden, it was. It was
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concealed by its placement, but if you had the right angle,
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you could see it was there. Exhibit two fourteen is
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a photograph showing staining that is on the area of
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where the axe head and the handle of the axe
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come together. This red staining is consistent in an appearance
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with that of blood. There's also some dark staining on
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the metal portion of the.
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Axe head itself.
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Exhi it is a yet another photograph of the axe
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with the axe head and again we can see staining
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in the area of where the axe head and handle intersect.
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Exhibit sixteen, it is a photograph of the same axe. However,
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is the opposite side of the axe head. Again we
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can see that there's some dark discoloration in the area
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where the sharp end of the axe would be, and
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there's not the same discoloration in the area of the
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blunt side of the axehead. Two seventeen is a photograph
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of the same axe, and here we're referencing the handle area,
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and we can see on the handle that there is
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dark red reddish brown staining.
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And there's various stickers. One of these stickers says biohazard.