When the state rested its case without calling what everyone assumed would be its star witness Friday afternoon, onlookers gathered in small circles to trade whispered commentary as they shuffled out of the 139-year-old Brewster County Courthouse...
Bloom was originally indicted for murder herself, a charge that was later dropped, fueling speculation that she had cut a deal to testify on behalf of prosecutors at McWilliams’ and Morrow’s trials.
Observers who have sat through more than four days of meandering testimony so far in McWilliams’ trial had hoped Bloom would be the one to tie it all together, to give shape to a senseless story...
