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BLACK-ON-WHITE: Testimony begins following opening statements in Watkins double murder trial The Shreveport couple had been shot to death, their bodies left in the car to burn. On the stand, a ShrevepoKelly-and-HeatherJosert police crime scene investigator explained what the image showed, because the bodies were nearly unrecognizable to the untrained eye. Prosecutors say Watkins, 37, shot the Joses after they gave him a ride from Mall St. Vincent and withdrew money from an ATM for him on the night of the slayings before burning their bodies inside a vehicle in the carport of a vacant home in the Queensborough neighborhood in an attempt to destroy evidence. Caddo Parish Assistant District Attorney Bill Edwards told the jury during opening statements that the State believes Watkins dumped the .22 caliber gun used to kill the couple into a bucket of water inside a home down the street from where the Joses’ charred bodies were found. In the defense’s opening statement, attorney Mariah Holder of New Orleans emphasized Watkins’ innocence, claiming although the Joses did give Watkins a ride, they were alive and well when they dropped him off at a home on Penick Street about a block and a half from where their charred bodies were later found. OBITUARY for WHITE COUPLE, KIDNAPPED, MURDERED - BODIES BURNED - Nov 13, 2018 (Black-on-White) |