Two years ago, a man accused of killing a homeless woman at Huntington beach, cut off her and strangled her before he buried her body, and Orange County Prosecutors argued in court on Wednesday.
But Antonio Bodhila's security lawyer said the woman was sick and that the cause of her death was never confirmed. Daniel Kim Bodhila tried to raise suspicion on other suspects during the initial reports of the public guardian Daniel Kim Bodhila.
Batilla faces a murder in connection with the death of Gina Mary Lockhard. On July 17, 2022, his body was discovered by detective people in the yard of his parents' mobile house in Slater Avenue's 7800 constituencies.
“The lasting question is that … how did Mrs Lockhard die?” Said Kim.
The woman was homeless at the time of his death, and occasionally stayed in a shed on the back of the property, senior lawyer of the Orange County District Advocate's Office, John Madera told the Arbitration Tribunal. 15 days before Lockhard's body was discovered, his relatives began to stink at home. In the following days, he was able to hear loud noises from the shed, and the defendant's sister announced that he had seen something buried in her brother's yard.
At one point, Patilla's mother saw that the blood was stained and crawled by the magos, and Madera said. He refused to show her what she was inside and fled when she decided to call the police.
The officers responded on July 11, although they noticed a strong smell at home, did not immediately doubt a crime, Madera said. They thought that a dead animal may have been on the premises, and the residents suggested that the area be deeply cleaned.
When the defendant's mother tried to tidy up the barn, she saw a hair attached to the scalp, the clothing of her unidentified women and a dirty pair of vans shoes that disappeared. On July 16, he called the police again and showed him what he had discovered.
Investigators began to excavate a lot, and found Lockhard's head and body buried together in a temporary tomb. She got used to a pair of shulees.
A Kettar dog searched the area and pointed out to the authorities that the victim may have been killed in the shed. The DNA of the Lockhert was placed in a toolbox on its floor and a large knife plate.
There was no signs of a struggle in the victim's body, sexual harassment or injury, which led to the decision to decide that forensic investigators had already taken place after the death of. Madhera suggested that she strangled her neck, and it was difficult to firmly identify any physical symptoms after its head was removed.
“This is a clean cut, no hesitation,” Madera said.
The safety lawyer of Patila stressed the lack of broken bones or other injuries before the victim died. Kim said that Lockhart was a man of obvious health, which increased life on the street.
Lockhard was 60 years old at the time of his death and was hospitalized with seizures that last up to two minutes in August 2021, Kim said. A week before he was last alive, he was admitted to a hospital for poisoning on June 24, 2022.
In general, Morgan Lane and Slater Avenue may have been the last person to be in contact with a employee in a Taco truck parked in Emily Martinez. Two years ago, on June 30, he witnessed Lockhard in a nearby courtyard, apparently caught up with his stomach pain and was lying in a womb.
Martinez recalled that the victim had often seen Lockhard with a homeless man identified as his boyfriend Rick Burnhard. One of the last people who had been in contact with Lockhard and the suspect in his death tried to paint Kim Barnhard.
However, the prosecutor pointed out that the victim was missing and stayed at a work site at Burnhard Long Beach at the time of the disappearance. The male dogs who searched for his van seem to find anything suspicious.
The security lawyer told Juras that Antonio Bodhila's father, Mario Bodhila, had been rumored to the shed and around it as he inquired about their property. He said the shed was actually the “man cave” of the latter and his son will crash into the mobile house instead of the shed. Kim also said that his customer's father had planted tomatoes on the location of Lockhard, and he tried to hide the tomb.
Although the defendant and the victim were homeless and the same part, they did not seem to have any previous connection between them, Madhera said. Lockhard has lived on the street for about two years, and her mother, Donna Ashbak, said from the witness on Wednesday. They were able to stay in touch with each other, talking on the phone at least once a week.
Ashbak described his daughter's behavior as “some sort of exciting.” She will always call me at the beginning to assure me that she is right. ”
Ligas writes to the Daily Pilot