"I suspected it to be blood", Jury in Warren case sees surveilance video from storage facility, hears testimony from EPD officer about blood and damage on abandoned KIA

This afternoon Undersheriff Billy Honsal, who was a Humboldt County DA investigator in 2012 and worked on the Jason Warren case testified about the surveilance video first shown this morning when Leslie Avila of Indianola storage testified.

The digital surveilance system is motion detected and Mr. Honsal took video between the hours of 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. on September 27, 2012. There were 8 vehicles that drove by. Times were 5:06, 5:13, 5:28, 5:31, 5:42, 5:43, 5:46 and 5:49. Only two cars were sedans going westbound and one was a light color at 5:28 a.m. The other cars were going eastbound and the last three appear to be emergency vehicles, two with flashing lights.

Other witnesses today included EPD Officer Wayne Rabang, who was the officer that responded to Debbi Zanotti's call about a "suspicious vehicle in the alley" at the Eureka Adult Day Care Center on California street; EPD Officer Ben Omey who took Dorothy Ulrich's wallet from Eureka Adult Day Care Center into custody and CHP Officer Mike Berry, who took a drive from Hoopa to Indianola cut-off  and he timed how long it takes to drive that distance.

Mr. Paul Sequeira who is prosecuting the case showed Officer Rabang photos of the damage to the KIA. In addition to the badly damaged vehicle, dents in the car, scrapes, when Officer Rabang testified, he mentioned a "reddish brown residue" on the left bottom side of the windshield. "I suspected it to be blood."

Officer Rabang also testified that the "front compartment was in disarray and there were shattered glass fragments on the seats." As Officer Rabang testified, the jury got to see photos on the projection screen of debris and trash bags in the KIA covered with broken glass fragments all over the seats and blood smears on the seat and seat handles of the KIA.