Evidence continues to build against Jason Warren with Department of Justice's senior criminalist's testimony

The afternoon session in the Warren case had testimony from Dr. John Van Speybroeck, a general surgeon at St. Joseph's hospital who examined both the joggers that survived, Terri Vroman Little and Jessica Hunt. Both of them testified after opening statements to their injuries.

After a strong morning of testimony by forensic pathologist, Ikechi Ogan, with details of autopsies he did on Dorothy Ulrich and Suzanne Seemann, today's session ended with Kay Belschner, a senior criminalist with the Department of Justice testifying about evidence she collected from the Hoopa and Myrtle Avenue crime scenes, testing she conducted and results.

Ms. Belschner testified about "apparent blood stains" she collected and swabbed from the driver's and passenger's seat of the KIA. She tested that with a hemastix. There was also an "apparent blood stain" on the lower windshield of the KIA that she tested. She tested items in the KIA such as "two cigarette butts and a cigarette package" and did a "DNA swab" on the soda can and eyeglasses in the KIA. There was a "reddish brown stain" on the center of the windshield that was tested. She took tape lifts and swabs from various parts of the KIA, both from inside and outside. She tested the chrome piece from the crime scene and the chrome part from the front of the KIA. Some evidence such as the chrome parts were sent to the Chico lab for testing and analysis.

She collected a lot of evidence because "she did not know what would be significant," said Ms. Belschner.

She collected "possible animal hair" which was on the bumper of the KIA and then went to the Humboldt County animal shelter to get hair from Hunt's dog, Maggie, who was killed in the hit and run on Myrtle.

Ms. Belschner collected evidence from three different pedals in the car: the brake pedal, the accelerator pedal and the doormat on the driver's side because she had been told that there was blood on the suspect's shoes. She tested these swabs for blood and the test was positive.

A lock of hair that was taken from the passenger's seat of the car was "inch and a half long and was on the passenger's side coated with apparent blood chips," said Ms. Belschner. She said this lock of hair had "no root or tip and was from some place from the middle length of the hair." She had to examine it under a microscope to see the blood chips. While you cannot conclusively say what person it came from, you could exclude people.  She compared this lock of hair to the hair found near Ulrich's body and said both were coated with blood chips and were of similar size.

The fibers in the KIA were matched to the fibers in Jason Warren's jacket. Glass pieces found on Warren's clothing and shoes were matched with the windshield glass and again, Ms. Belschner said that while she could not conclusively say that jacket, that windshield, there were similar characteristics. She said the same about the animal hair samples.