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State v. Willis6/30/2003
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She said that Cecilia Delacey told her that the victim was with a man named "Hawaiian Brian" the last time she saw her. Ms. Austin's next-door neighbor told her that "Hawaiian Brian" was really the defendant and that was what led Ms. Austin to go to the defendant's apartment. She said he seemed polite at the time she went to his apartment . She said the defendant told her he had been with her daughter that Saturday night and had paid her way into Joe B's. She said he also told her he thought the victim went to the hospital with someone. Ms. Austin said she was aware of an incident that occurred that night at the Golden Jukebox, where her niece, Kelly Elliott, was hit in the head and had to go to the emergency room.
Ms. Austin testified that after talking with the defendant, she made some reward flyers seeking information about her daughter's killer. The initial reward offer was $1000. She said the reward grew over time, growing to $10,000 by September, 1992; to $25,000 in 1994; then to $26,500 in 1996 . Ms. Austin identified a reward poster from 1996, offering the $26,500 reward. Additionally, she identified one of the 1996 flyers as having the defendant's picture on it. She denied scattering any of those flyers in Kentucky, but admitted to distributing them in the Clarksville area. She said she was told some of the flyers were in Kentucky, although she said she did not take them there. She admitted to purchasing a billboard advertisement asking for information about the murder; to flying an airplane advertisement over Clarksville and Elkton, Kentucky; and to running a newspaper advertisement in the Elkton, Kentucky newspaper. She said she was aware of where the defendant was living at that time. Later, on redirect examination, when asked if she always suspected the defendant in this manner, she said she did not even know the defendant existed, only learning about him from what the police told her.
Ms. Austin testified that she was aware her daughter had a drug problem before her death and that she had received treatment at Vanderbilt.
Jeffery Miller was a doorman at Joe B's, a Clarksville club, on the night of September 8, 1990. He said the defendant was at the bar that night and he described him as a large man in a darker T-shirt that came in with the victim, who was wearing a white or lighter colored crop top shirt and a lightweight jacket. He said she had a pleasant, "happy go lucky" attitude. He described her as attractive with a nice figure. He said it was around twelve o'clock when they came in and that the defendant paid the cover charge for the both of them. He said they had been drinking and came from the "Jukebox," another bar located approximately five miles from Joe B's. He said that after arriving at his club, the defendant and the victim went out of his site for a while, then had conversations with each other and other people while near him. Specifically, he said the defendant had a conversation with a waitress form another club called "Texas East." Miller said he was talking to the victim when the defendant told her it was time to go. He said the victim then had the defendant finish her drink, and the couple left.
Miller said that the defendant came back to Joe B's at about 1:30 and asked him where the woman was who had been sitting behind him (behind Miller). Miller said he took that to mean the other girl that the defendant was talking to, not the girl he left with earlier. He said he told the defendant that she had left, and the defendant turned around and left.
On cross-examination, Mr. Miller said the girl did not have a purse with her and he did not recall any jewelry she was wearing. He said the victim's mot
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