Investigators detail their searches at James Worley's properties | Trial day 3
Channel: WTOL11
Date: 01/09/2020

This story aired on March 14, 2018. This was described as a full-fledged search. Thirty to 40 investigators arrived at Worley's home and searched every area, collecting hundreds of pieces of evidence investigators felt could prove James Worley's guilt in the kidnapping of Sierah Joughin.
Jurors viewed items found inside one of Worley's barns, specifically kept inside a green bin. Investigators testified Worley became upset when agents found the bin and viewed the bondage items inside along with adult diapers, white tube socks, and a lacy tube top - all items similar to what Sierah Jougin was wearing when investigators found her body.
Jurors also learned a large deep freezer found under the floorboards of the barn - an investigator testified to testing for DNA inside.
The same investigators collecting evidence on Worley's farm were the same team to assist in removing Sierah's body from a shallow grave in a cornfield. Dave Hammond with BCI explained the measures taken to preserve all evidence.
"We started with sporks and were taking off one layer of dirt at a time to recover one layer of dirt at a time and all the evidence and at the time we were using out gloved hands to scrape dirt because that was the least invasive destructive way we could use to discover," Dave Hammond with the BCI said.
Also to take the witness stand today, a long time friend of James Worley who testified to hanging out with Worley at his home and barns. He explained that Worley was his elderly mother's caretaker and also watched out for his brother on the farm. The friend also told the jury he and Worley would smoke marijuana together and watch porn and was questioned about Worley's interest in starting a porn studio in his barn.
"When you said Mr. Worley talked about producing pornography he didn't want to star in it," Worley's attorney, Merle Dech, asked. 
And throughout the testimonies, this week, including today's - Sierah's mother and other family members were sitting front row at the trial. Others scattered throughout the courtroom. Some were seen getting emotional. Many wearing purple in support of Sierah, which I am told was her favorite color.
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