Vance trial focus on earlier attack
Victim, key in DNA link, testifies
Friday, November 6, 2009
Kristen Edwards (left), a Marianna rape victim, and Little Rock Police Crime Scene investigator Megan Sawchuk, witnesses in Curtis Lavelle Vance’s trial, leave the courtroom Thursday.
Photo by Steve Keesee
The DNA that led to Curtis Lavelle Vance being charged in Anne Pressly’s slaying came from an attack on a Marianna schoolteacher who told a Pulaski County jury Thursday that she was raped by a burly intruder who had a distinctive voice.
Kristen Edwards took the witness stand on the second day of testimony in the capital-murder trial of the Marianna man accused of killing Little Rock TV news anchor Pressly.
The six men and six women on the jury also heard Vance’s voice for the first time as prosecutors played a statement he gave denying that he was in Little Rock on the October 2008 weekend that Pressly was attacked, and they heard testimony from a state ...
Anne Pressly
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