Tense Cross-Exam In Trial Over Calif Mom Stabbing
PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- Prosecutors are challenging a Northern California man who says he arrived at the scene of the gruesome stabbing of his underage girlfriend's mother only after the victim was dead.
Steven Paul Colver is accused of stabbing Joanne Witt 20 times at her El Dorado Hills home after she accused him of statutory rape over his relationship with her 14-year-old daughter, Tylar.
The Sacramento Bee reports El Dorado County Deputy District Attorney Lisette Suder challenged Colver's testimony Friday during a tense cross-examination.
Colver testified male DNA found on Joanne Witt's leg came from him touching her after she was dead. He says he arrived following the June 2009 attack to discover Tylar, then 14, holding a bloody knife.
Prosecutors claim the DNA shows Joanne Witt was fighting off the then-19-year-old man.
