Testimony within the homicide trial of Waynesfield resident Brent Williams ran the gamut Wednesday, starting from a Tiffin man who had a one-night stand with the alleged sufferer simply days earlier than her dying to a Cridersville lady who testified the defendant despatched her images of his penis a mere three weeks after his estranged spouse's was discovered deceased.
Additionally taking the witness stand, amongst others, had been Auglaize County Coroner Dr. Thomas Freytag, who dominated the 2017 dying of Erin Mulcahy to be a murder by strangulation, and a Lima man who known as himself a "good pal" of the sufferer and testified to paying for an abortion after getting Mulcahy pregnant some 4 or 5 years earlier.
Mulcahy's physique was discovered inside a operating bathe in a Waynesfield residence on July eight, 2017. Her husband, who had moved out of the residence shortly earlier than her dying, is charged along with her homicide.
The net courting app Loads of Fish figured prominently in testimony Wednesday in Auglaize County Widespread Pleas Courtroom.
Tiffin resident Chris Sexton testified that he met Erin Mulcahy on the web courting website on July three, 2017, and later that day drove to Waynesfield to fulfill the lady face-to-face. Sexton stated Mulcahy, who was described in courtroom Tuesday as an alcoholic, invited him to go to and requested him to select up some liquor. Sexton testified he introduced two 20-ounce cans of beer to Mulcahy's residence, however stated the lady drank solely a small portion of 1 can.
The 2 then had consensual intercourse and Sexton left the residence. He stated he by no means noticed Mulcahy once more.
Taking the stand later within the morning was Tiffany Reynolds, who stated she met Brent Williams via the Loads of Fish courting app roughly three weeks after Erin Mulcahy's dying. She met Williams in individual at a park in Shawnee after the 2 had communicated via texts. Reynolds stated Williams had despatched "provocative" footage to her previous to that assembly. Upon questioning by Assistant Prosecuting Legal professional Ben Elder the Cridersville lady stated the images in query had been of Williams' penis and that she had despatched him a photograph of her bare breasts in return.
Once they met face-to-face, Reynolds testified, Williams instructed her in regards to the latest dying of his spouse and stated he had taken out a $25,000 life insurance coverage police on Erin Mulcahy earlier than her dying.
Reynolds stated she discovered it "creepy" that Williams was making sexual advances in direction of her simply three weeks after his spouse's dying.
"He stated (Mulcahy) drank herself to dying, but it surely did not appear to be her dying bothered him a lot," Reynolds testified.
Upon cross-examination by Protection Legal professional Invoice Kluge, Reynolds stated she requested Williams if he had killed his spouse.
"He stated he didn't," Reynolds stated.
Two different girls testified that they had met Williams on the Loads of Fish website and had intercourse with him on prior events.
Ruth Oelke, of Defiance, stated she ended her conversations with Williams when she discovered he was married.
When the Waynesfield man contacted her on July 7, 2017 -- in the future earlier than his spouse was discovered lifeless -- Oelke stated she wouldn't see him once more as a result of he was married.
She testified that Williams replied, "Ha, no I am not. Not any extra."
Two days later Oelke stated Williams knowledgeable her of the dying of his spouse.
Zanesfield resident Sandra Ball testified that Williams got here to her house on the evening of July 7, 2017, however that the 2 didn't have intercourse, as that they had on earlier events.
Ball stated Williams was "not his regular self" on that night.
Lima resident Kurt Simpson, who described himself as a "good pal for a number of years of Erin Mulcahy," testified that he bought a phone name from the lady on July 5, 2017, saying that she was about to be evicted from the Waynesfield residence.
Simpson stated Mulcahy appeared "very annoyed ... panicked" and that he tried to calm her down.
Investigators imagine Simpson was the final individual to speak to Mulcahy earlier than she died.
Upon cross examination, Simpson admitted a previous sexual relationship with Mulcahy, together with that proven fact that he bought her pregnant previous to her marriage to Williams and had paid for a subsequent abortion.
Lieutenant Doug Burke of the Auglaize County Sheriff's Workplace testified that Williams grew to become the first suspect within the case after the coroner dominated Mulcahy's dying was the results of strangulation or asphyxiation.
"No one else's DNA was discovered on her physique or within the residence apart from Brent Williams' sperm, which was discovered inside her."
Retired Native County Decide Mark O'Connor is listening to the case by appointment of the Ohio Supreme Courtroom. Williams waived his proper to a jury trial moments earlier than the trial began on Monday.
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