Schuster trial: Testimony claims chloroform found
By Chris Collins / The Fresno Bee
10/31/07 14:09:35
2:51 p.m.: VAN NUYS -- Megan Boatwright, a former employee at Larissa Schuster's research lab in Fresno, testified this afternoon in Schuster's murder trial that it was unusual when bottles of chloroform were found in the lab shortly after Schuster's husband disappeared in July 2003. Boatwright said the substance was never used in any of the tests conducted at the lab.Prosecutors have said that Schuster used chloroform to knock out her estranged husband, Timothy Schuster, before placing him in a barrel and filling it with acid.
1:18 p.m.: A former employee at Larissa Schuster's agriculture research lab in Fresno testified in Schuster’s murder trial this morning that in April 2003 he saw a blue, 55-gallon barrel in the lab -- the same kind of barrel that police discovered three months later containing the remains of Schuster’s estranged husband.
Joseph Boatwright, the employee, said he didn’t know why the barrel was at the lab, because it was unlike the barrels commonly used in the lab to dispose waste. He said Schuster told him the barrel was needed for yard clippings.
Schuster, a 47-year-old former Clovis biochemist, is accused of killing her husband, Timothy Schuster, putting his body in a barrel and filling it with acid. Her trial is being held in Los Angeles County because a judge ruled that local media attention made it too difficult to find an impartial jury in Fresno County.
Check FresnoBee.com for updates and The Fresno Bee tomorrow for the full story.
This is us testifying against our former boss in her muder trial today....
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