But at trial, Wilson testified that he had only had sex with her and that he didn’t shoot her.
Assistant District Attorney Margaret Parker presented DNA evidence – Wilson’s semen found on the victim’s dead body – and the defendant’s own incriminating statements to police.
Police found a blood-stained piece of a mattress cover in a garbage can outside Wilson’s trailer. At trial, he said he had cut it off because he was cold and needed a blanket. In 2007, Wilson told police he had thrown it away because it was dirty.
Parker argued that the victim’s bruises and a prior phone call she had made to a friend in Nebraska were proof that Wilson had raped her. Reese had told her best friend about an “ugly” man named Trave who was trying to pressure her into prostitution, the judge heard.

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