Belts tested in Baby Grace trial

FBI DNA analyst testifies in the "Baby Grace" trial this morning....

 

Rhonda Craig tells the jury that no blood was found on three belts turned over to the sheriff's department that might have been used in the fatal "discipline session" on two-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers.

 

However, Craig said re-testing this year revealed skin cells on the belts. All 3 showed the presence of stepfather Royce Zeigler's skin cell DNA on the belts. Two other people's DNA was also detected, probably, in one case, that of the child and her mother. The other 2 belts were inconclusive for their DNA.

 

In earlier testimony, tracings from a notebook found on the bed of mother Kimberly Trenor and her husband, revealed a missing page and a disturbing message. According to a prosecutor, it read in part, "my heart is black dead... I can't live with myself. There is nothing left."