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The forensic pathologist who performed Anderson-Jordet’s autopsy testified that he measured the puncture wound, which penetrated the heart, to a depth of 3.5 inches. He did not recall seeing blood on it before he tossed it away in the early morning dark, he told the court. Rees asked Ferrer to estimate the length of his knife, but he could only provide an estimate of, say, five or six inches. He and his two companions that night, Sophie Rocheleau and Nicholas Stoiber, were retreating from the scene of the confrontation just north of 11th and H streets in Arcata. In contrast to that case, Ferrer freely admitted on the witness stand across three days of testimony that he threw the knife over his shoulder into bushes somewhere on 12th Street. The uncertainties and ambiguities that Rees foretold and the jury must grapple with include the fact that Ferrer’s knife was never found.Īlmost always, the murder weapon is a crucial piece of evidence, although convictions are obtained without one, as occurred in the double murder trial last year of Bodhi Tree, whose gun was never recovered despite intensive searches.
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