The Undertaker's Widow by Phillip Margolin

Author:Phillip Margolin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780553580884
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1998-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18.

"Officer Yoshida, how are you employed?" Cedric Riker asked.

"I'm a criminalist with the Oregon State Police Forensic Laboratory in Portland."

"Please give Judge Quinn your academic background."

Yoshida turned toward Quinn. He had testified in his court on a few occasions and was perfectly relaxed on the witness stand.

"I graduated from Portland State University with a B. S. in chemistry in 1989 and returned to PSU for courses in genetic biology and forensic DNA analysis. From 1989 to 1990, I worked as an analytical chemist. Then, in 1990, I became an Oregon State Police officer assigned to the crime lab."

"Over the years, have you had training in crime scene investigation and, more specifically, in the analysis of bloodstain patterns?"

"Yes, sir. I attended the Oregon State Medical Examiners' death investigation class in 1990, a blood pattern analysis training program at the Police Academy in 1991, an advanced crime scene training program in 1992, and I completed a basic, intermediate and advanced serology training program in 1992. Over the years, I have read numerous articles in the area and attended many seminars where these subjects were discussed."

"As part of your duties, do you go to crime scenes and collect evidence?"

"Yes."

"How many crime scenes have you investigated?"

Yoshida laughed. "Gosh, I don't know. I never kept a count. It's a lot, though. I investigate several homicides each year. Then, there are other scenes."

"Okay. Now, were you one of the criminalists who went to the Hoyt estate on the evening that Lamar Hoyt and Martin Jablonski were shot to death?"

"I was."

"Please describe the scene forjudge Quinn."

Yoshida left the witness box and walked over to a large diagram of the murder scene that he had prepared. The diagram was resting on an easel.

"The crime scene we are interested in is the master bedroom on the second floor of Mr. Hoyt's mansion. To get to that room, you climb a set of stairs to the second floor, then go down a long corridor in a westerly direction."

Yoshida picked up a wooden pointer and placed its tip on a section of the drawing that represented the door to the hall.

"The master bedroom itself is a rectangle. The door between the bedroom and the hall is in the east wall at the southeast corner of the bedroom."

Yoshida moved his pointer to the bathroom doorway.

"The northern wall in the hall is also the south wall of the bathroom. When you enter the bedroom, you can see the bathroom door if you look to your right."

Yoshida moved the pointer again.

"If you are standing in the doorway and you look directly across the room, you'll see the west wall. A good portion of that wall is a large window with a view of the pool and part of the yard. Halfway between the west and east walls is a king-size bed. The headboard touches the north wall. Directly across from the foot of the bed is an armoire approximately seven feet high. It contains a television and its back touches the south wall.

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