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Nanny Abduction Murder Trial
Cross-examination continued on the Defense's first witness during the penalty phase. James Nelson, Scott's older, brother explained what he went through as child and young teenager. Next, more of the defendant's family members came to his defense. After the long testimony from his older brother the jury listened to Scott's first cousin. The aim was to show how mitigating factors was serious enough for jurors not to send him to death row for killing Jennifer Fulford, an innocent nanny.
S1, EP10 "Skipping Town"
Jurors watched plenty of surveillance footage pinpointing Scott Nelson's movements out of town just hours after Jennifer Fulford disappeared. The State alleged that he broke his federal probation by skipping town at the time he was arrested for murder. The condition of Nelson's body after he was taken into custody was brought to the jury's attention. Was he on the run after he allegedly killed Jennifer Fulford? Or was he plotting his next crime in another city?
S1, EP11 "Buying The Murder Weapon"
A Walmart employee took the stand. Prosecutors wanted to confirm the items Scott Nelson brought before he allegedly killed Jennifer Fulford. Among the items were the knife he allegedly used in the fatal stabbing. If being stabbed multiple times in a vacant parking lot wasn't bad enough, the defendant was accused of suffocating Fulford using duct tape over her nose and Mouth, all while stabbing her to death.
S1, EP12 "Examining The Crime Scene"
The State brought in another Crime Scene investigator to testify to the jury. Investigators examined the crime scene where Jennifer Fulford's body was found and thoroughly processed key evidence looking for important clues to her Murder. Scott Nelson apparently left important clues behind including the blood-soaked Knife used in the stabbing. It was enough for police to link him to the crimes.
S1, EP13 "Locating The Murder Weapon"
More physical evidence found inside Jennifer Fulford's car was shown to jurors. Three months to the exact date that she went missing crime scene investigators found the murder weapon used in her killing. Investigators found the bloody knife 75 feet away from where the body was found. With enough direct evidence linking Scott Nelson to Fulford's kidnapping and then murder, prosecutors pushed for the death penalty.
S1, EP9 "On The Run"
The State was completing the bus route of the Scott Nelson just hours after he allegedly kidnapped Jennifer Fulford. Two city bus operators confirmed to the jury that the defendant rode their buses on his way out of town. Jurors learned of the defendant's movements after he allegedly kidnapped, carjacked, robbed, and killed Jennifer Fulford. These crimes happened in Winter Park, Florida. But just days later Nelson was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida--140 miles away.
S1, EP8 "Stab Wounds And Suffocation"
The forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy of Jennifer Fulford testified. Jurors learned the brutal fashion she lost her life by multiple stab wounds and suffocation. Multiple fatal stab wounds and suffocation by duct tape was the way Jennifer Fulford lost her life. Dr. Joshua Stephany explained to the jury that while asphyxiation cannot be medically proven in an autopsy there was plenty of physical evidence to show Fulford died of suffocation.
S1, EP7 "Tracking The Killer"
Jurors got more intricate details to the crime scene where the remains of Jennifer Fulford were found in a grassy, wooded area. This was just miles away from where she was abducted in the home she was working as a nanny. The State pointed the jury to Scott Nelson's movements the days Fulford went missing. On the stand was a city bus driver who confirmed that the defendant rode her bus just hours after Fulford was kidnapped.
S1, EP6 "Cell Phone Data"
The GPS system of Jennifer Fulford's SUV pointed police to where her abandoned car was. A cell phone examination showed her movements after she went missing. It was just three days from the moment of her abduction to where her remains would later be found. Jurors listened to testimony of cell phone data Records. Prosecutors wanted to present to the jury a track of her cell phone activity at the very moment she was allegedly kidnapped by Scott Nelson and then found dead.
