Judge Visits House Where 7 Killed

INDIANAPOLIS -- The seventh day of the trial of Desmond Turner in the slayings of seven people in an Indianapolis home in 2006 ended with the judge visiting the house where the killings took place.

Judge Bob Altice toured 560 N. Hamilton Ave. with prosecutors and defense attorneys in visit that lasted less than 15 minutes, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.

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Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said the experience will give the judge better perspective in the case.

"You can listen to accounts from detectives, crime scene specialists, etc. of what happened that night and where the victims lay when they were found, but to actually go to the house to get a real perspective of the layout, and where the victims were found will certainly help him put all the pieces together," he said.

The full day in court began with testimony from a detective and several evidence technicians who were involved in the investigation in the days following the deaths.

Mark Wallace, a crime scene specialist, testified that he went through the home of Michelle Clifton, Turner's friend, in search of evidence the day after the June 1, 2006, killings.

Wallace said he found a bullet and live cartridges in the home's kitchen, along with blue jeans and a T-shirt, accompanied by one bottle each of rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide.

Wallace testified that the jeans were wet and that the tub was half-full of water.

Investigators tried to get fingerprints from the items, but were unable to recover any, Wallace said.

"Either he was able to commit these crimes and not get any of the matter on him, or he successfully removed what was on him before police were able to recover the clothes," Brizzi said. "Whether or not there is actually DNA on those clothes is not the issue. The issue is, he thought that there was. If you didn't commit these crimes, why would you use hydrogen peroxide? Why would you use alcohol? Why would you submerge perfectly dry clothes in a tub of water?"

Tuesday's testimony followed gruesome details in testimony Monday in which information about how members of the Covarrubias and Valdez families were killed was spelled out.

The prosecution expects to finish calling witnesses on Wednesday, after which the defense will begin presenting its case.

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