Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis cold case murder trial: Opening statements begin Tuesday
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Opening statements within the trial of a person charged in a 1993 homicide in Minneapolis started Tuesday morning, with the sufferer’s mother anticipated to be referred to as as the primary witness.
Jerry Westrom, an Isanti hockey dad and businessman, is charged with first-degree homicide within the slaying of Jeanne Childs, who was stabbed to loss of life inside an upper-floor house of Horn Towers on Pillsbury Avenue in South Minneapolis in June 1993.
Westrom was arrested 25 years after Childs, a identified intercourse owrker, was discovered useless in her house.
Jeanne Childs was discovered stabbed to loss of life at a bloody crime scene inside an house at Horn Towers off Pillsbury Avenue in south Minneapolis.
Prosecutors say DNA proof on the crime scene matched DNA that investigators swabbed from a serviette that Westrom used and discarded at a hockey sport. Nonetheless, protection attorneys for Westrom say authorities have the fallacious man and that different proof factors to a different suspect.
A jury was seated on Monday, with opening statements beginning at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.