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Tire tracks about 5 feet from where a woman’s stabbed body found was in a Kern County almond orchard in 1980 indicate the victim had been dumped there, a detective testified Thursday.
Victim's body found bloody in almond orchard, jurors learn during murder trial Tire tracks about 5 feet from where a woman’s stabbed body found was in a Kern County almond orchard in 1980 indicate the victim had been dumped there, a detective testified Thursday. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/conejo-valley/2018/05/17/murder-victim-details-emerge-second-death-victim-double-homicide-wilson-chouest-trial/620904002/
Megan Diskin, megan.diskin@vcstar.com, 805-437-0258 Published 2:13 p.m. PT May 17, 2018 | Updated 6:49 p.m. PT May 17, 2018
Senior Criminal Investigator Chas Wiggins, of the Ventura County Public Defender's Office, from left, Wilson Chouest and Chief Deputy Public Defender Andre Nintcheff, wait for the jury to come into Ventura County Superior Court Wednesday morning. Chouest is on trial in the 1980 murder and rape of a pregnant woman found dead in Ventura County and another woman found dead in Kern County.(Photo: JUAN CARLO/THE STAR)Buy Photo
Tire tracks about 5 feet from where a woman’s stabbed body found was in a Kern County almond orchard in 1980 indicate the victim had been dumped there, a detective testified Thursday in the trial of the man accused in the slaying.
Garry Davis was a sergeant assigned to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office detective unit when he was sent to investigate the body found in the orchard at Merced Avenue and Zerker Road on July 15, 1980.
Louisiana native Wilson Chouest, 66, is accused of killing the victim as well as a pregnant woman found dead three days later in the upper parking lot of Westlake High School in Thousand Oaks. He has been charged with three counts of murder in the deaths of the two women and male fetus. It is further alleged that the crimes were committed during the commission of a rape and robbery.
Chouest has pleaded not guilty to the charges. If convicted, he could face three consecutive sentences of life without the possibility of parole.
Senior Criminal Investigator Chas Wiggins, of the Ventura County Public Defender's Office, from left, Wilson Chouest, and Chief Deputy Public Defender Andre Nintcheff, wait for the jury to come into Ventura County Superior Court Wednesday morning. Chouest is on trial in the 1980 murder and rape of a pregnant woman found dead in Ventura County and another woman found dead in Kern County. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Wilson Chouest, left, and Chief Deputy Public Defender Andre Nintcheff talk for a few minutes after a 20-minute break at the Ventura County Superior Court Wednesday morning. Chouest is on trial in the 1980 murder and rape of a pregnant woman found dead in Ventura County and another woman found dead in Kern County. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Wilson Chouest walks into his holding cell after Ventura County Superior Court Judge Ryan Wright announces a 20-minute break Wednesday. Chouest is on trial in the 1980 murder and rape of a pregnant woman found dead in Ventura County and another woman found dead in Kern County. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Senior Criminal Investigator Chas Wiggins, of the Ventura County Public Defender's Office, from left, Wilson Chouest and Chief Deputy Public Defender Andre Nintcheff, wait for the jury to come into Ventura County Superior Court Wednesday morning. Chouest is on trial in the 1980 murder and rape of a pregnant woman found dead in Ventura County and another woman found dead in Kern County. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Ventura County Superior Court Judge Ryan Wright greets the jurors at the start of the day three of the murder trial of Wilson Chouest. He is on trial in the 1980 murder and rape of a pregnant woman found dead in Ventura County and another woman found dead in Kern County. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Senior Criminal Investigator Chas Wiggins, of the Ventura County Public Defender's Office, from left, Chief Deputy Public Defender Andre Nintcheff and Wilson Chouest wait for the jury to come into Ventura County Superior Court Wednesday morning. Chouest is on trial in the 1980 murder and rape of a pregnant woman found dead in Ventura County and another woman found dead in Kern County. JUAN CARLO/THE STAR
Senior Deputy District Attorney John Barrick argues that the defendant drove his vehicle from where he was living in Kings County, then raped and fatally stabbed the two women. Their bodies were then “discarded like trash,” Barrick said. He told jurors in his opening statement this week the alleged acts were consistent with Chouest’s previous crimes and that his DNA matches the DNA left on the women’s bodies, clothing and a Michelob beer bottle found on the ground next to the Kern County victim.
Forensic toxicologist Ronald Smith testified Thursday that her blood alcohol level was 0.30 percent when she died.
The defendant was released from prison in June 1980 after serving a sentence for the robbery and kidnapping of a woman a few years earlier. Currently, Chouest is also serving a life sentence for two similar crimes he committed in 1980 in which one of the female victims had been raped, Barrick said.
Chouest’s defense attorney, Chief Deputy Public Defender Andre Nintcheff, argues that although Chouest’s DNA matches the genetic material found on the bodies, it does not put him at the crime scenes. It “allows for different stories,” Nintcheff said. In his opening statement this week, he called the evidence presented in support of the rape allegations “circumstantial” and told jurors there was a lack of injuries typically seen from a sexual assault.
Through a Spanish interpreter, a man who irrigated the almond orchard in 1980 and first discovered the body testified Thursday about being scared when he saw the woman and said he immediately notified his supervisor, Felipe Aleman.
Aleman told jurors he worked as the foreman of citrus and almond orchards owned by a ranching family. He checked the irrigation system about 9:30 p.m. the night before the body was found in a pathway at the middle of the orchard, which led to a water reservoir. He drove his work pickup to the outer edge of the path, shining the vehicle’s light onto it, but Aleman said he did not see a body or tire tracks.
Although the names of the women have remained unknown for nearly 40 years, Davis testified Thursday that there were extensive efforts to identify the victim known as Kern County Jane Doe. The pregnant woman is referred to as Ventura County Jane Done.
The Kern County victim has two tattoos, one of which says “Mother I Love You” around a red rose. The other says “I Love You Shirley” with “Seattle” tattooed underneath, Davis testified. With a possible lead, he sent out 527 requests to law enforcement agencies in an attempt to identify her, with a concentration on the Seattle area, he said.
He also gave his investigative assessment of what it meant to him that there was evidence of tire tracks from a four-wheel vehicle near the body of Kern County Jane Doe but there seemed to be no other evidence of a struggle. He said it was likely that the body was just left there. No footprints were found in the area, which Davis said may be in part because of the hard-packed dirt there.
James Brammer was also involved in the investigative effort. He was a civilian crime scene investigator for the Kern County Sheriff’s Office in 1980. He testified Thursday that he took photos of the crime scene, put evidence into bags and had similar duties when an autopsy was performed on the victim.
Barrick asked about whether Brammer wore gloves when he collected evidence. Brammer said no, he didn’t because that was not the practice at the time. DNA was not used in criminal investigations back then.
During cross-examination, Nintcheff asked about how Brammer collected evidence during the autopsy. Brammer said he held open a bag and the medical examiner would put clothing or other items into a bag that he would then seal.
Under the public defender’s questioning, Brammer also said he would be careful of items that may have fingerprints on them because those techniques were being used in investigations. He said when he picked up the Michelob beer bottle, he put a pen or pencil into the neck of bottle and retrieved it from the ground that way.