Keith Morrison

So rather than slow things down or distract with images and so forth, I'd just like to take a moment to tell you what I believe the evidence in this case will prove.

And it will reveal in conclusion that Michelle O'Keefe was murdered that night by Raymond Lee Jennings, a security guard working at the Park and Ride lot.

Raymond Jennings, head cleanly shaven, goatee stubble, was seated at the short end of the defense table,

He was wearing a long-sleeved blue Oxford cloth shirt and dark tie.

Yes, please.

Jenny's defense attorney, David Houchen, took off his reading glasses and gathered his notes.

He too wore a goatee.

His a salt-and-pepper version.

And now he rose and turned his big frame toward the jury and began to speak.

Good morning.

There exists no blood evidence, of which there was plenty previously.

but none of which connects Mr. Jennings to this crime.

She put up a fight.

It was brutal.

And she has DNA recovered from her left hand, fourth finger nail.

It is a mix of a male, not Raymond Jennings.

And when this case is concluded, there's only one

Direction, the evidence points, and it points away from Mr. Jennings.

Michelle's friend Jennifer Peterson was the first person called to testify.

She kept it together when she was shown several frames of blurry footage zoomed into an extreme close-up of herself and Michelle.