BELTON, Texas — Week two of the emotional Cedric Marks trial began with testimony from multiple law enforcement agents involved in the case.
Marks is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Jenna Scott and her friend Michael Swearingin, who were both reported missing from Temple on Jan. 4, 2019. Their bodies were found days later in Oklahoma.
The trial resumed on Monday, April 24 with Temple PD crime scene technician, Kelsey Kemp, going over photos she took of Swearingin's home and Marks' girlfriend Rebecca Adney's home.
According to Kemp, two blood swabs were found in Swearingin's house; one on the garage floor and one in the hallway. Over 100 photos were taken of Swearingin's home.
From Adney's house, 86 photos were presented to the jury. Investigators found a white Toyota RAV4 with dirt on the tires and a damaged license plate frame. They also swabbed multiple drains throughout the house.
Idaho Police Officer and former Under Sheriff of Hughes County in Oklahoma Collin Bryan Fowler took the stand next to explain his role in uncovering the missing bodies.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation asked for him to help in the missing person's case. Fowler narrowed the search down to four potential locations after investigators said to look for an abandoned home near a camper and garage with a broken roof.
He eventually found the location in a rural forested area in Okfusee County, Oklahoma next to the Northfork cemetery. At the back of the site, he saw an area where the earth had been disturbed due to open patches of mud with multiple pieces of broken branches covering it.
In addition to the mud and branches, a pet carrier, board and a camper shell were on top of the site, Fowler says.
The next witness to take the stand was Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Kent Titsworth. He aided with the discovery of the bodies underneath the deliberately placed debris when he was on the site from Jan. 14 to 15, 2019.
Aerial footage of a square head shovel on the southside of the road was shown to the courtroom during Titsworth's testimony. This is where Michael and Jenna's bodies would later be discovered.
Law enforcement didn't recognize the shovel back in 2019 because the shovel was placed behind lots of shrub. In cross examination, Marks asked about the shovel evidence and Titsworth said just last week they visited the site to try and find it. However, they could not find the actually piece of evidence.
They confirmed the shovel resembled a similar shovel to one that was purchased by Marks at a Walmart minutes away in Henryetta, Oklahoma.
After hearing from these law enforcement officers, Angela Berg, who is a forensic anthropologist in Oklahoma, walked the jury through pictures she took of the removal of Swearingin's and Scott's body remains from the site.
During the viewing of these photos, members of Scott's and Swearingin's families elected to leave the courtroom.
Berg says that law enforcement could tell there was a point of disturbance at the site in Oklahoma because of the red soil color. Excess soil placed around the area caused a halo effect where the bodies would later be discovered.
According to Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents and Berg, it took two days for them to uncover both bodies as the hole was nearly two-feet deep.
The female body was found face down and underneath was a male's body laying upwards. While the photos were shown in the courtroom, family and friends were crying. There were also many looks of shock throughout the room.
Examiners on site later confirmed and identified the two bodies as Scott and Swearingin using the victims' fingerprints.
The trial is expected to end in the second week of May.
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