Joyce and Robert Bonk conduct investigations for local lawyers out of their home on Oregon's Cape Arago Highway, highly visible to motorists with its metal gate and `Bonk & Bonk Investigations" sign near the road.
Judge Richard Barron said 'no' to a new murder trial for Nick McGuffin, who was convicted in July 2011 of recklessly causing the death of his girlfriend, Leah Freeman, back in 2000.
Because the body of Leah Freeman was so badly decomposed, the medical examiners and forensic scientists who examined her remains, are still inconclusive about her cause of death.
A retired Oregon State Police criminologist testified Wednesday that while investigating Leah Freeman's murder more than a decade ago, she found nothing in the trunk of Nick McGuffin's car - and that struck her as strange.
A witness who claimed to hear a man accused of murdering his high school girlfriend in 2000 telling someone to "watch her mouth and not talk to the cops" broke down in court Tuesday, saying she tried to go to police a decade ago but no one would listen.
Witnesses continued to paint a picture of the events before and after Leah Freeman disappeared on June 28, 2000, as prosecutors continued to whittle away at the clean-cut image of the man accused of killing his high school girlfriend more than a decade ago.
Prosecutors say Nick McGuffin was upset Leah Freeman was not spending time with him on the night she dissappeared. Attorneys defending him against the teen's 2000 murder say the timeline doesn't match up.
Jury selection may have taken just a little longer than anticipated for the trial of the man accused of killing Leah Freeman, but it was an incident outside the courthouse that created a bigger stir Wednesday