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Here's another article from Wed.
www.startribune.com
August 24, 2022
Jurors on Wednesday watched the interrogation room interview of accused cold case killer Jerry Westrom during which he denied knowing the victim or being in her south Minneapolis apartment despite his DNA found throughout the scene where she was brutally stabbed to death.
There's gotta be an explanation why scientifically you're there. It can't be a coincidence," Minneapolis police Sgt. Chris Karakostas said to Westrom in the February 2019 interview after showing him photos of a bloodied bed comforter, towel, T-shirt and washcloth left on a bloodied toilet seat, sink and bloody footprints.
"Your DNA is on every one of these locations. I'm just kind of wondering, do you have any idea why that would be?" asked Karakostas, who died late last year.
Westrom said no.
[.....]
On Wednesday, the seventh day of testimony, Westrom's attorney Steven Meshbesher called only two witnesses to the stand before the defense rested its case. Prosecutors called dozens of witnesses the past week, namely forensic experts and law enforcement officials
Retired FBI special agent Chris Boeckers testified how he got Westrom's discarded hot dog napkin at the Wisconsin hockey arena that they used for forensic testing. The DNA was consistent with the previously unknown sample from Childs' apartment.
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Meshbesher called on retired Minneapolis police Sgt. Barbara Moe, who revealed that some pieces of evidence in the Childs case were inadvertently placed in with a different case file. She made it right by placing them in the correct file.
Jury to begin deliberations Thursday in cold case murder trial
Prosecutors and defense rested their cases Wednesday and will provide closing arguments Thursday morning.
www.startribune.com
August 24, 2022
Jurors on Wednesday watched the interrogation room interview of accused cold case killer Jerry Westrom during which he denied knowing the victim or being in her south Minneapolis apartment despite his DNA found throughout the scene where she was brutally stabbed to death.
There's gotta be an explanation why scientifically you're there. It can't be a coincidence," Minneapolis police Sgt. Chris Karakostas said to Westrom in the February 2019 interview after showing him photos of a bloodied bed comforter, towel, T-shirt and washcloth left on a bloodied toilet seat, sink and bloody footprints.
"Your DNA is on every one of these locations. I'm just kind of wondering, do you have any idea why that would be?" asked Karakostas, who died late last year.
Westrom said no.
[.....]
On Wednesday, the seventh day of testimony, Westrom's attorney Steven Meshbesher called only two witnesses to the stand before the defense rested its case. Prosecutors called dozens of witnesses the past week, namely forensic experts and law enforcement officials
Retired FBI special agent Chris Boeckers testified how he got Westrom's discarded hot dog napkin at the Wisconsin hockey arena that they used for forensic testing. The DNA was consistent with the previously unknown sample from Childs' apartment.
[.....]
Meshbesher called on retired Minneapolis police Sgt. Barbara Moe, who revealed that some pieces of evidence in the Childs case were inadvertently placed in with a different case file. She made it right by placing them in the correct file.
