A brutal. emotional day. 90 minutes of crimescene photos, 42, shown to the jurors. Jurors and family visibly uncomfortable.
Two witnesses took to the stand this morning. DeputyDarren Giancola, a detective for Carroll CountySheriff's Dept.He was the first LEO on scene.Emotional testimony when describing seeing Libby andAbby's bodies.
Giancola: "One was nude, the other was clothed. Bothhad large lacerations to their throats. They both had asubstantial amount of blood on their person andunderneath.”
Prosecutor McLeland asked if life saving measureswere performed on either of the girls, Giancola said."No. It was apparent they were both deceased."
Giancola was crossed by defense attornev Andrew Baldwin. He was asked to clarify the typography of thearea at the end of the bridge, and where the blood was.He testified to Abby's pants appearing wet.
State calls Jason Page- an ISP CSI.Page was responsible for photographing the crimescene. 42 images were shown of the girl's bodies andthe crime scene.
Page testified to the topography of the area of the crimescene and explained in detail all of the images he tookthat day.His testimony was calm, a bit mechanical and veryexplanatory.
Page cross examined by Brad Rozzi. Rozzi's questions were heated when asking about the integrity of the bullet at the crime scene. Rozzi asked about "the lack" of photos of the bullet itself or any photos/videos of it being removed from the ground.
Page testified to suggesting the state hire a blood spatter expert after the defense became interested in a tree at the crime scene with blood, they said was "placed there."They named it, "F Tree." The defense has argued before they believe the blood was a symbol of sorts.
Page was questioned by Rozzi about DNA and how long it takes to test it from a crime scene. He testified, it depends. "It could take days or weeks to test, but it could be rushed.”
Rozzi began asking questions about why the bullet wasn't photographed once out of the ground by itself. "Wouldn't it be helpful to know that the same cartridge plucked out of the ground was the same to be used in this courtroom?”
Page responded "Yes."He also said, "How this [a bullet] affects this case is not my interest. Anything we see that could be evidence we take a picture of it in place.”
Page testified that his main responsibility was to photograph the crime scene. He was not responsible for moving bodies, deciding what/if DNA should be tested, etc.
State calls Duane Datzman to testify. He was an ISP CSI at the time of the murders. His testimony centered around photos he took at the crime scene from an aerial view in a helicopter and from on the ground.
Datzman testified to finding the bullet at the crime scene between Abby and Libby's bodies.
