PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Prosecution witnesses in the murder trial of a Corbett, Ore., woman accused of killing her husband and burning his remains have undercut Hazelynn Stomps’ account of what happened the day her husband Jerry disappeared.
Prosecutors contend she invented an elaborate story about how the two were attacked on Feb. 6, 2009, to cover up her husband’s murder.
James Poag testified Wednesday in Circuit Court that he saw the defendant lying face down on the side of a road shortly after the alleged attack. He said the ground was not disturbed and there was no blood at the site where Stomps claimed she landed after an assailant threw her off a bridge.
Michael Fort says Stomps told him that her husband’s attacker chased her husband down a path, so Fort and a neighbor went looking. He says he found no footprints and no sign of anyone running down the trail.
