Murder At Morses Pond by Linda Rosencrance

Author:Linda Rosencrance [Rosencrance, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2014-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

June 14 was a tough day for the defense.

The first witness Grundy called to the stand was Michael French, a latent-fingerprint examiner with the Keane County Sheriff’s Office in Seattle. French told the jury that he tested Greineder’s windbreaker with amido black—a process that can identify protein, a substance found in blood—and it tested positive.

Lieutenant Kenneth Martin of the Massachusetts State Police Crime Scene Services Section was up next. Martin began his testimony by telling the jurors that the bloodstains on Greineder’s white Reebok sneakers seemed to be caused by “impact-type” spatter. Martin said the stains were consistent with someone being within inches or feet of a victim who was hit in the head with a blunt object, like a bat or a hammer. Using a laser pointer, the lieutenant, dressed in a black suit and red-checked tie, pointed out the bloodstains on a photograph on the screen in the front of the courtroom. Martin explained that he looked for the “directionality” of a drop of blood as it hit a surface to determine how it actually left the body.

Using a series of photographs, Martin described how the crime scene looked when he first arrived at Morses Pond. He said there was a large pool of blood in the middle of the pathway that had drag marks going through it, suggesting May’s body had been lugged through the blood.

“Looking at the victim at the scene, she was off to the side of the path, her head directed into the brush area, feet directed toward the path area,” Martin said. “The area along the side of May Greineder’s body on the leaves, and the ground cover about her, there were some bloodstained areas. In particular, there was actually some impact spatter that was noted on the ground beside her. The glove of the victim, one of the gloves of the victim, had come off her hand; on the palm area of the hand and also on the finger area, there was some impact spatter noted in that area as well. On the abdominal area of the victim, the victim’s pants had been cut or torn open; they were slightly down above the pubic area exposing her lower abdominal area. In that area, at the scene, were observed impact spatter on the victim’s abdomen.... As I previously mentioned, [the victim’s pants] had been either cut or torn; on the edge of one of the cuts or tears, you could see some blood, as if, for example, an implement which had been bloody was used to tear them.”

Martin said there was also a large bloodstain on May’s shirt, as well as some impact spatter on her jacket. Some of the bloodstains on the sleeves of Greineder’s yellow windbreaker were transfer stains, which could have been caused by the defendant picking up his wife and dragging her backward. Martin also said there was a “hair-type swipe” on one of the sleeves of Greineder’s jacket.

“If I were to take some blood and put it

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