Approaching five years since a heinous death, the verdict likely nears.
“There is no dispute that Joe Duncan ,” Houston County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Stanley told jurors during her closing remarks on Thursday.
She referred to a video recording from a nearby business that shows Duncan approaching Fowler’s side door on the day she died.That’s because he never went inside, defense attorney Arthur Medley claims. He told jurors during his closing that Duncan, who is 63 and homeless, visited Fowler with whom he recently became acquainted by doing some odd jobs for her.He accuses police of putting their marbles in single basket by exclusively pursuing Duncan and perhaps overlooking other potential suspects.
He pointed out that DNA from a cigarette paper found in Fowler’s yard could have tied another person to the murder scene.Medley told the nine-woman, five-man jury that police neglected to investigate that person as a possible suspect.She said that continuous running video clearly shows Fowler alive early on March 17, 2018 but she died that day.She claims after killing Fowler, the defendant walked 2.
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