Joe's article for yesterday's testimony:
http://www.thedailystar.com/news/local_news/article_f8ce3607-2f32-50cd-a6bf-f7880d4a7b5d.html
From Houston's (gamer friend) testimony: "He also said that, earlier, she had advised him that she planned later that day to go to a local Western Union office to pick up $150 he had wired to her. She had also expressed concern with the mechanical condition of her van, and pointed out that when she would go Christmas shopping later in the week with Eileen Sayles, they would go in Sayles’ vehicle, Houston added."
video: Jurors spent more than an hour watching the security tapes made by a Valero convenience store, the NBT bank and a Rite Aid store (with four different cameras aimed at different directions). None of the videos showed Ramsaran, according to staffers from those establishments who furnished the tapes to police.
McBride has contended the cameras would have picked up Ramsaran running had he approached the Y from the north, as he had advised police. Another camera, located at the Y, did capture his image, McBride has said.
That video, expected to be entered into evidence today, shows Ramsaran approaching the Y from the west, the direction he would have been traveling from had he just ditched his wife’s van at Plank Road Manor Apartments in Norwich, the district attorney told the jury in his opening statement last week.
another lead? During Wednesday’s testimony by Detective Powell, Garcia, who has been trying to show that police failed to exhaust all leads while concentrating on Ganesh Ramsaran, inquired as to whether the investigator followed through on information supplied in September 2013 by a Chenango County Jail inmate named John Hunt regarding the suspected homicide. Ramsaran was also an inmate at that time, as he is now.
According to information released by police in September 2013, a man identified as John Hunt, 26, of Norwich was arrested that month for stealing a John Deere tractor from Norwich Meadows Farms.
The district attorney’s office reported in November 2013 that Hunt was sentenced to two to four years in state prison in connection with the theft.
Garcia, in a brief interview, declined to elaborate on what information Hunt had about the investigation. He said it has not been decided whether Hunt will be called as a defense witness.
Powell testified he did meet with Hunt during the investigation.
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