Jennifer C. Warren
Good morning court watchers,
This is John Ensslin, legal affairs reporter for the Gazette.
This morning, I’ll be live blogging from the first-degree murder trial of Marc Thomas Sylvester.
So far today’s testimony is centered on the crime scene investigation of a field in eastern El Paso County east of Schreiver Air Force Base.
That’s where authorities found the body of Jennifer C. Warren on Feb. 9, 2009.
Pete Quick, a technician with the Metro Crime Lab, and former homicide detective, is the first witness today.
He’s describing some of the challenges investigators faced at the scene, particularly from the weather.
“It was very difficult,” Quick said. “It was very windy.”
“We couldn’t use the crime scene placards that you see on television,” he added. “The wind was so powerful that it would just blow away our placards.”
Later in the investigation when the wind died down, they were able to return to the scene and used placards to document it.
Quick described how metal detectors were used to search for the bullet that killed Warren.
Previous testimony indicated the shot was fired from a high-powered rifle.
Warren died of a gunshot to the head.
Investigators found a couple of gold hoop style earrings that appeared to belong to the victim, Quick said.
But they were never able to recover the bullet. At the time, they had no way to know the angle of how the rifle was pointed when fired. Besides the metal detectors, investigators also dug holes and sifted through the dirt, to no avail.
Prosecutor Jack Roth, left, uses a pointer to question crime scene technician Peter Quick about bullet trajectories this morning during the first-degree murder trial of Marc Thomas Sylvester. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette.
“You could use the needle in a haystack analogy because that’s similar to what it would be,” Quick he said. “The projectile could have gone anywhere in that field within several hundred yards.”
Quick also described a search that investigators conducted five days later in a motorcycle repair shop called the Chop Shop in the 2300 block of East Platte Avenue of Colorado Springs. He showed photos of several blood spots found on the floor of the garage.
According to previous testimony, the shop was the scene of an assault on Warren prior to her murder.
Under cross examination by Deputy Public Defender Cindy Hyatt, quick also described strands of blood-stained hair found on the floor of the garage as well as six 9mm bullets that were recovered from elsewhere in the shop.
I’ll be taking a break here and resuming this blog later today.
It was Beth Angel who shot Jennifer Warren, in the head with high powered rifle. because she was jealous of Jennifer andjason Angel (Beths husband) relationship. Why are the police covering up for Tattoo artist’s “Snake’s” daughter beth? There was more then two witnesses in the “Chop Shop” . Jennifer was lead to believe that “Beth” (Jasons wife) was going to help her gather money to bond out Jason Angel. Beth was jealous of Jennifer and envious of Jason and jennifers relationship. Beth had stated openly to all that she hated Jennifer and did not want her “around”.
Why are the police leading people to believe that this “Sylvester” did this because he heard she was a “Narc”!
WELL RON NO IT WAS NOT ELIZABETH WHO DID THIS JUST BECAUSE SHE DID NOT LIKE JENNIFER DOSE NOT MEAN SHE WOULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO DIS LIKE OTHER PEOPLE AND THEY DONT KILL THEM AS A MATTER OF FACT YOU ARE A FRIEND OF ELIZABETHS HUSBAND AND YOU DONT EVEN KNOW ELIZABETH DO YOU? AND WHY IS THAT BECAUSE SHE KEPTED AWAY FROM YOU LOW LIFES
ELIZABETH IS A VERY SWEET PERSON WHO WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HER DAD SO THE POLICE ARE NOT COVERING ANYTHING UP IF SHE DID WOULDN’T SHE BE THE ONE BEHIND BARS?AND YES THERE WERE MORE THEN TWO WITNESSES IN THE CHOP SHOP AND THEY ALL KNEW THAT JENNIFER LEFT THAT SHOP WITH MARC AND THERE ARE WITNESSES THAT CAN SAY ELIZABETH WAS NOWERE AROUND WHEN HE “MARC” KILLED JENNIFER OVER DRUGS NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS A “NARC “
I really am just shocked how anyone can take their half assed theories and try to pass them off as fact! The bottom line is this man admitted 3 times to killing her and Elizabeth who has never been called Beth didn’t like her but the last time I checked not liking someone is not a crime and does not make her a murderer! Really if you don’t know what you are talking about and especially with something serious don’t say anything!
to shut everyone up really did you forget she beat the brakes off jenn with a lead pipe and a tazer, omg…..y dont you go tell jenns mother elizabeth is not a murderer….if you really dont know what your talking about then stay out of it….oh yeah liz is really sweet, give me a break…she should go down for murder right along with marc. then she robs her of all her jewelry wow she has no morals and jason is being dragged down by her lying and manipulation. how is she going to be upset that jenn could have slept with jason when she has been with at least six that i know of. she set that girl up and its sad she is to chicken to give someone a fair fight.jenn was dying already when liz was done with her
well truthbetold i do know what i’m talking about elizabeth is a VERY SWEET person and it was a fair fight no lead pipes or tazers were used you should know what your talking about before you say anything jennifer walked out of that shop so how was she dying already? and how are you gonna say jason is being dragged down by elizabeth i think its the other way elizabeth has NEVER been with anyone besides jason sent’s they got together trust me i know this for a fact so you should stop running other peoples names in the dirt when you don’t know what your talking about
ok wow do you have your beliefs twisted i can name three guys that have been with her and will tell you that they have it doesnt matter though. a ho is a ho, and i do know what im talking about she wont ever admit to you, i have seen the pictures and saw the tazer marks so maybe you should seriously ask her, or go to the defense and ask they have proof…..sorry u have blinders on but the truth will finally come out….granted she did not act alone!!! she had people who covered for her like dumbasses because of fear, but not anymore. get your facts straight
haha wow so first you say elizabeth has been with 6 people and now its 3 sure sounds like you don’t know the truth but it doesn’t matter because the people who REALLY know her knows the truth. And if you really knew anything it was marc who had the tazer it even said so in this report , and of corse the defense is gonna say she had something to do with it thats there job duh!! But we all pray this will be over soon for her so she will never have to deal with all you low life tweaker’s that i’m sure you run in that circle. and move on with her life .
ELIZABETH OUR PRAYERS AND THOUGHT ARE WITH YOU STAY STRONG GIRL! !
are you sick…..she beat her face in with a bar and apparently had done this to some other girl before….and i was saying i know three of the men personally…..and trust me i know more than i would like to know….but hey thats good that she has a friend like you who believes in her….. even that lew guy said that elizabeth is the only one who touched her and he was there…
Ya all need to get the facts straight. e angel is not a nice person. this women is not the first women she has beaten. Ya all should contact a girl named tiffany and ask her about duck tape and gettin beat by e angel. issac is e angel. get ya all facts straight. e angel was going to bonding school. where did the cuffs come from and the taser. what motive woul marc have. none if you ask me, but who is asking. E angel couldn’t stand jen because of j’s and her relationship, that was a friendship. OH AND BY THE WAY I AM NOT A TWEAKER……….just someone who knows of them all. happens to know the other girl who was beaten and jen. people don’t kill other people over a 40 sac of that crap. if that was the case then all the tweakers would be on trial and or be dead. you morons. who had reason to kill.