[PA] Officer Dennis murder-of-wife-Carli trial Day 4

About October 18th, 2007
Pennsylvania

Jury sees animation of Dennis shooting
Prosecution shows re-enactment depicting how man might have shot wife.
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA
By David Weiss dweiss@timesleader.com
Court Reporter
...The image was a computer animation re-enactment of how police and prosecution experts believe Jeff Dennis used a 9mm pistol to kill his wife. The animation, produced by 21st Century Forensics Animation in Texas, was done by prosecutors to rebut Jeff Dennis' claim that Carli killed herself inside their home Feb. 27, 2006. But its producer, Randy Matzkanin of 21st Century, came under fire from defense attorney Al Flora Jr...
---Alfred Schwoeble, of the RJ Lee Group, an expert organization group, testified he analyzed the clothing Jeff and Carli Dennis wore when Carli died. Both of their clothes had gunshot residue on them, he said. But Jeff Dennis' jeans had the highest amount... Jeff Dennis nor Carli can be positively identified or ruled out as the shooter based solely on the residue evidence. But he did say he would expect Carli to have a higher amount of residue on her hands if she fired the gun. Carli had 16 particles of gunshot residue on her hands. Jeff Dennis had 95 particles on his hands. A 9mm, Schwoeble said, would leave a lot of residue when fired, more than what was found on Carli's hands...
--- After Carli's death, Jeff Dennis began telling people different stories as to his whereabouts when he claimed Carli killed herself. He told friend Raymond Westphal he was standing in the hallway... He told Carli's friend Rebecca Smith that Carli "died because of what she did to me." Smith testified Jeff Dennis told her Carli killed herself, and he initially said he was in the hallway when it happened. Then, he later told Smith he came home and found Carli, Smith testified. He told Carli's stepmother, Sue Bitterman, he was sitting next to Carli when she shot herself, Bitterman testified... Jeff Dennis told Carli's father, William Bitterman, he was out in the hallway when Carli fired, William Bitterman testified. And he told Jill Bitterman, Carli's biological mother, he was sitting at the foot of the bed when he heard the shot and turned around...
---AND WHEN JEFF DENNIS FOUND OUT AN AUTOPSY WAS PERFORMED, HE FUMED, SHE SAID. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE WAS A FULL AUTOPSY?" DENNIS ASKED, ACCORDING TO BITTERMAN...
http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071019_19dennis_main_dw_ART.html

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