Q. GOOD AFTERNOON AGAIN, DETECTIVE TOMSOVIC?
A. GOOD AFTERNOON.
Q. DID YOU, IN THE COURSE OF YOUR INVESTIGATION IN THIS CASE, GO TO THE DEHESA RECOVERY SCENE ON FEBRUARY 28TH?
A. YES, I DID.
Q. DID YOU GO THERE IN THE MORNING HOURS?
A. YES.
Q. AND WHEN YOU WERE THERE DID YOU NOTICE A SERPENTINE DRAG TRAIL THAT WAS ABOUT 45 FEET LONG THROUGH THE GRASS?
A. IT'S APPROXIMATELY 42 FEET I BELIEVE, BUT YES.
Q. WAS THAT LEADING FROM THE BODY?
A. IT WAS MAYBE 80 TO 90 FEET FROM THE BODY.
Q. AND DID THAT -- DID YOU NOTICE ANYTHING ALONG THAT5 TRAIL?
A. THERE WAS PIECES OF HAIR, APPEARED TO BE BLONDE HUMAN HAIR, AND THEN THE TRAIL ITSELF WAS KIND OF GREASY SMEAR ON THE GROUND, AND THE MEADOW GRASS HAD BEEN TRAMPLED DOWN SOMEWHAT.
Q. DID YOU NOTICE ANY ODOR CONNECTED WITH THIS TRAIL?
A. YES. THERE WAS AN ODOR OF DECOMPOSING FLESH.
Q. AND WAS THE TRAIL WIDE ENOUGH FOR A BODY OR WAS IT SMALLER THAN THAT?
A. I BELIEVE IT WAS -- IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SMALLER THAN THAT.
Q. SO IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BODY PART OR A PART OF THE FLESH FROM THE BODY?
A. THAT WAS MY GUESS AT THE TIME, YES.
Q. AND DID THE CADAVER DOGS REACT TO THAT TRAIL?
A. I DID NOT SEE THEM REACT TO IT. I DID NOT NOTICE IT.
Q. WITH THE -- WERE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE SEARCHERS WHO LOCATED THE BODY?
A. THE CIVILIAN SEARCHERS?
Q. YES.
A. NO. I DON'T RECALL IF I EVER EVEN SAW THEM.
MR. FELDMAN: I HAVE NOTHING FURTHER.
THE COURT: ALL RIGHT. CROSS-EXAMINATION.
I don't know what Feldman wanted with the witness. The drag marks are from parts of the body the Det. thinks and even with the odor of decompostion the cadaver dogs did not react.
If the dogs didn't hit ? Amazing.