The second day of testimony in the trial of a Keller woman accused of killing her husband and trying to cover it up continued on Wednesday.
Michele Williams is facing life for the murder of her husband Greg Williams in October 2011.
On Wednesday jurors experienced a marathon morning session in court, where they heard from Williams during an interview with Keller police just two hours after she called 911.
The interview lasted nearly five hours, and jurors heard all but about 15 minutes of it as Williams sat quietly alone in an interview room.
For the first few hours she stuck to her story, adamant that an intruder had broken into their home, knocked her unconscious outside the bedroom door and shot her husband while he lay in bed.
“I could see movement and then I heard, what I didn’t realize, was a gunshot,” Williams told Keller Police Sgt. John McGrew.
McGrew continued to probe Williams about the details, having her walk him through a crude diagram of the house. The problem, McGrew explained in the interview, is that her story wasn’t matching with what other detectives were finding at her home.
“You’re going to have to tell me what happened,” McGrew said. “There’s no way that would have occurred that way, no way on God’s green Earth it could have occurred that way.”
McGrew highlighted several inconsistencies, including the fact that there was no apparent forced entry, the television in the bedroom was so loud it would be impossible for Williams to hear someone in the house, blood patterns around the body were inconsistent and the physical placement of her husband’s body based on where she said the intruder was standing.
Another issue McGrew raised is that intruders who remove a gun from a residence usually don’t drop it at the back door. He said the only two possibilities were that he killed himself and Williams was trying to cover it up or that she killed him.
“I did not hurt my husband and he did not hurt himself,” Williams told McGrew. “There was a man in my house.”
But nearly three hours and 20 minutes into the interview, Williams finally changed her story. She said her husband killed himself and she tried to cover it up.
“I knew I had to make it look like a burglary,” she said.
While police believed her story then, physical evidence continued to show that Greg Williams did not kill himself and that he was murdered. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s office said that’s what happened and later Wednesday began having witnesses testify to the scientific evidence at the scene.
Connie Patton is a DNA analyst for the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. She testified that she found no traces of blood on the weapon, where in a shooting you could possibly see blood splatter based on how close the weapon was to the victim.
“The request was to find whether blood was present around the muzzle or the barrel to determine possible indication of a distance of a shooting,” Patton testified.
A fingerprint analyst testified that while he could see some latent prints, they weren’t usable enough to determine who they belonged to or even run a scan to determine that. Michele Williams told police she had wiped the gun down.
Prosecutors say Michele killed her husband because of money. A Keller Police detective testified that there were three policies on Greg Williams. Michele Williams told police they had $650,000 policies on each of their lives.
Testimony is set to resume on Thursday morning and the prosecution may rest as early as Thursday.
