A lone hiking sandal, blood and urine near the sidewalk and glasses; Anderson-Jordet died alone on the streets of Arcata less than 2 blocks away from making it home

APD Detective Ortega who arrived at the crime scene about a hour later after the first responding officer found Douglas Anderson-Jordet on the sidewalk near 12th and H said that by the time he had arrived, the body had been transported to the hospital. What he saw was the crime scene area cordoned off and lights from patrol cars flashing in the dark of the night as they secured the area.

Detective Ortega testified that there was no body when he arrived at 2:40 a.m. There were "wrappers from medical devices", he saw blood and "what he speculated" was urine near the sidewalk, he also saw a hiking sandal and glasses in the crosswalk. The other hiking sandal was "located on Mr. Jordet later," said Detective Ortega. There were "droplets of blood" near 12th and H streets. Later as he examined the sandal he found at the crime scene, he saw "blood spots on top and blood underneath the tread".

DDA Roger Rees asked the detective, while he was processing the crime scene, "Did anyone come up to you and tell you they saw what happened? Did anyone come up to you and tell you they were involved?"

"No," replied Detective Ortega.

At 3:19 a.m. that morning, Detective Ortega, his supervisor, Detective Sgt. Todd Dokweiler, and evidence technician, Leah Christian went to Mad River Hospital. They met with Officer Eric Losey who had "stayed with the body. Mr. jordet was laying face up on a hospital gurney, he was nude, clothing had been cut off by hospital staff, clothes were under him and his upper torso had a blodd puncture wound on his chest."

The clothes were a hoodie, blue jeans, a t shirt and a black trench coat. Law enforcement found a Minnesota driver's license, a cell-phone and the other sandal. At the crime scene, a passport had been collected belonging to Anderson-Jordet. Ms. Christian took photos of the body and Detective Ortega observed "dried blood streaming from his head and nose.There were no lacerations or bruises on Mr. Jordet's hands," said Detective Ortega. The latter would be found if someone had engaged in a fist fight.

On the cell-phone, Detective Ortega found several text messages from a contact labelled "Virg". This person was trying to locate Anderson-Jordet. The first text message was at 1:21 a.m., 9 minutes before the audio where it was stated that Anderson-Jordet stopped breathing. At 4:30 a.m. there was another text message, "Where u be?"

Detective Dokweiler and Detective Ortega went back and "canvassed the crime scene" in the dark and again, later after the sun came up. They knocked on doors. Later that day, Detective Ortega left a message for "Virg." When she called back, they found out that she was the victim's former girlfriend, Virginia Jimenez. She will testify at the trial. She arrived at 8:52 a.m. She had been a "person of interest" but after talking to her, she was eliminated as a suspect.

There was no local address in "Doug's wallet?" This was a question posed by Mr. Rees to Detective Ortega. Mr. Rees use of "Doug" when referring to the victim is very effective because it personalizes the tragedy. Detective Ortega said there wasn't but after talking with Jimenez, they found out that Anderson-Jordet lived at the Crew House in Arcata, which is near 13th and I.

Detective Ortega described "Doug's" room as being a small room, 10 x 20, with a single bed, a few kitchen items, two electric guitars, sound mixing equipment. There were no weapons, no meth or heroin, no syringes or needles and no pay and owe sheet." Detective Orega said there was "user quantity of marijuana, less than an ounce and a glass pipe to smoke that marijuana.

The rest of Detective Ortega's testimony was a very detailed description on how they identified Ferrer and his two friends, how they obtained the two videos from Humboldt Clothing and ReMax, how they tracked the timeline of the events leading up to the parties path's crossing. At the end of his direct testimony, Mr. Rees had Detective Ortega mark all the significant spots mentioned in his testimony: where the body was found, the bars were located, the businesesses that gave the video surveilance and the location of the Crew house. Visually, you trace where Anderson-Jordet started walking home, where he encountered the Ferrer, Sophie Rocheleau and Nicholas Stoiber and that he was less than two blocks away from home when he died alone on the streets of Arcata.

Previous coverage of this case with links on watchpaul:

http://watchpaul.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-evolving-story.html?m=1