[brief] (4T 14-7 to 19-25, 142-17 to 174-7)  [...] paid in cash and used a false name on her ticket.  (4T 19-10)  [...] met a woman named [...] on the bus to Houston.  (6T 73-7)  [...] told Murillo that she was fleeing domestic violence at the hands of her husband and was afraid to use her phone because she believed he could track her.  (6T 74-7 to 75-14)  Murillo invited her to stay at the home of Murillo’s friend, [...].  (6T 74-12)  Fernandez-Nataren allowed [...] to stay at her home for a few days.  Fernandez-Nataren testified that on the third day, [...] told Fernandez-Nataren that she needed to speak with her alone.  (6T 97-20)  Fernandez-Nataren testified that [...] told her that she was a lesbian and that she killed her wife.  (6T 99-8 to 103-15)  Fernandez-Nataren testified that [...] said that her relationship with [...] was not going well, but she managed to convince [...] to come over so [...] could cook her favorite food.  (6T 100-7 to 24)  [...] told her she would pick up some poison for cockroaches on her way home.  (6T 101-6 to 8)  When [...] got home, she asked [...] what would she would do if [...] died.  (6T 101-18 to 20)  [...] and [...] went upstairs together and [...] fell into a deep sleep.  (6T 102-1 to 7)  According to Fernandez-Nataren, [...] told her she went downstairs, saw the cockroach poison next to food she was planning to prepare for her wife and herself, and [...] “thought [[...]] had done something bad because she was really tired, she was very sleepy. ”  (6T 102-6)  Fernandez-Nataren claimed that [...] told her that she started hitting [...] and then felt “a spirit that told her not to stop and that she could not stop. ”  (6T 103-6)  Fernandez-Nataren claimed that [...] had not changed her clothes or showered in the three days she had stayed with her and that after this confession she went to take a bath and asked Fernandez-Nataren to stay with her.  (6T 105-16 to 106-6)  According to Fernandez-Nataren she took the clothing that [...] was wearing, including her bra, put them all together in a black bag, and later gave the bag to the police with [...]’s other possessions.  (6T 108-4 to 7, 119-12)  This was the bra that [...] analyzed for DNA.  The chain of custody from Texas to New Jersey was not clarified.  Nor was there any evidence that the bra had been stored by Fernandez-Nataren in a manner to avoid contamination or transfer among [...]’s other belongings.  Fernandez-Nataren testified that [...] insisted on not sleeping alone that night, so Fernandez-Nataren slept with her in the laundry room.  (6T 109-24 to 110-6)  Fernandez-Nataren said that at “one point she got up and she started pushing on me, pushing on my throat, close to my neck. ”  (6T 110-16 to 23)  This other-bad-act testimony is the subject of Point III, supra.  At the time she met [...], Fernandez-Nataren was an FBI and DEA informant.  (6T 87-3 to 13)  She called her contact at the FBI, and officers came to arrest [...].  (6T 112-11, 130-17 to 141-2)  At the time of trial, Fernandez- Nataren was facing federal charges for conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it.  (6T 84-19 to 25)  She claimed that she did not expect any leniency in that case in exchange for her cooperation with the State in the case against [...].  (6T 85-9 to 17)