graphic evidence in d'avolio trial

graphic evidence in d'avolio trial

I'm kristen copelandthe mt tragictestimony s murder trial today, as a rome police investigator navigates the sad trek to victim kerrilee d'avolio's body, which started in a dumpster near her belmont street home, in rome.....and ended at the ava landfill.

Newschannel 2's joleen ferris has your top story from oneida county court.

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None today, perhaps the most difficult day of testimony.

The prosecution showed crime scene photos of the ava landfill, where kerrilee d'avolio's remains were discovered ((( pkg (((( jurors in jason d'avolio's murder trial today saw security camera video of him walking through the parking lot and then the door of price chopper in rome around 3:30 am, hours after his estranged wife, kerrilee d'avolio died of a gunshot wound in their home.

One he claims is self inflicted but police and prosecutors say he caused.

One of roughly 120 cameras in the store, record him chosing items from the cleaning aisle 4:52 "the fbrz is febreeze, the clorx is clorox.

Clorox.

Bleach?

Yes" a price chopper employee testified that d'avolio paid cash.

Only the fact that he used an advantage discount card tied him to the purchase.

A bit later this morning, the most difficult and graphic photo evidence of the trial, with words of caution from the judge, to thejy find some of these photographs or images graphic and unpleasant.

When you view these images, please do your best to do so calmly and without emotion" kerrilee's parents left the courtroom.

A rome police investigator talked about tracking victim kerrilee d'avolio's body from the dumpster where her estranged husband told police he put her...to the trailerthats contents....to the oneida herkimer solid waste transfer station 34:02 "the director from the oneida herkimer wastese had learned may have indicated that the trailer which the body may have been pled in during processing thatamay have already gone up to the ava landfill" so up to the landfill they went, in late july..

Prosecutors highlighting the unpleasantness of the duty 41:50 "so this is july?

Yes.

You're attired in police clothing?

Yes.

And you're literally digging through garbage in a landfil?

Yes" they sifted through garbage offloaded from the first trailer.

Nothing.

But within minutes, the 2nd trailer revealed the heartbreaking subject of their search 43:35 "we began offloading the contents the secondrailer.

And i would say within the first five minutes, a body came out of the trailer" 47:52 "the red bedding that the defendant described to us, portions of it were still with the victim" officers were able to identify kerrilee d'avolio by a unique wrist tattoo.

They noticed severe head trauma they called the onondaga county medical examiner and waited an hour and a half for them to arrive and secure the body for autopsy.

Testimony resumes tomorrow morning.

Jf, nc2.

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