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State v. Willis6/30/2003
said that at night, if the lights were turned off, you would be unable to see a vehicle parked where he found the body. He said that on Sunday, there was brush and timber in the area and that a person at a nearby intersection would not be able to see a vehicle parked in that area, but that the road had been graded and mowed that Monday and Tuesday.
On cross-examination, Mr. Alley testified that it is possible there are more visitors in the park area in the summertime and that more people come on to his property. He said he keeps an eye out for that and to see if people are driving on his property. He said that in September (1990), he was bringing in his tobacco crop, making about twenty trips along the road he lives on, and that he smelled the odor on Tuesday. He said the tracks in question that he saw were near the bridge, but the body was found closer to a barn across the street, probably 200 to 250 yards away. Mr. Alley said there was other equipment near the tracks, namely a low boy, a roller, a grader, maybe a one-ton truck and a Greenfield Supply tanker that he said was brought in on Monday. He said he did not see the vehicle that made the tracks in question. Additionally, he admitted he did not have the knowledge to determine whether tire tracks came from a Dodge truck or a Ford truck, but he knew the tracks in question were not from a Volkswagen.
Regina Austin, the victim's mother, testified that she last saw her daughter on the morning of September 8, 1990, and last spoke with her that night. She said the victim was living with her at the time. Ms. Austin identified two photographs, one taken in the summer of 1989, in which the victim was wearing a black onyx ring. Ms. Austin identified the ring as the one her mother gave to her daughter and that her daughter wore it "all the time." Subsequently, on redirect examination, she said the ring in question was never recovered. On recross-examination, she said she was aware of her daughter pawning jewelry one time.
Ms. Austin testified that her daughter did not come home that Sunday morning, that she became worried by that evening, and that she called the Clarksville police on Monday. She said she then went out to different places with a picture of her daughter, asking people if they had seen her. She said she went to the defendant's apartment on that Tuesday evening . Upon telling the defendant that her daughter had not been seen since Saturday night, she said the defendant acted very calm, nonchalant, and unemotional, whereas everybody else had acted very concerned. She said the defendant told her that the last time he saw the victim was at Joe B's and she left with two men.
On cross-examination, Ms. Austin testified that she talked to several people after her daughter did not come home, but she did not talk to her daughter's boyfriend, Dwayne Clawson, because he was in jail. She said they (Clawson and her daughter) had a decent relationship, but they did argue, although she did not remember them fighting. She said she was aware of Raven "Snake" Frazier through his relationship with Clawson, and that, due to (Snake's) reputation, she demanded he never set foot on her property. She said he was an "undesirable" person. She further testified she knew who Brenda Huggins was, knew that Huggins and "Snake" Frazier were supposed to be boyfriend and girlfriend, but that her daughter did not hang around with Huggins. She said her daughter and Brian Johnson were good friends and that she (Ms. Austin) had never heard of the defendant until her daughter was missing. Furthermore, Ms. Austin testified that after her daughter's death, Brian Johnson was in possession of her daughter's purse and returned it to her on Sunday, Septembe
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