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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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.
S1, EP5 "Follow The Money"
Follow the money was the theme in the police's investigation into Jennifer Fulford's death. On the stand was a bank representative who confirmed based on surveillance footage that Scott Nelson was the one who forced $400 of total withdrawals from Fulford's bank account. Prosecutors then brought in digital records of the victim's cell phone. They wanted to show jurors her movement when she was kidnapped and later found dead.
S1, EP4 "Bank Surveillance"
Prosecutors went deep into the security system of the home where he was alleged to have kidnapped Jennifer Fulford, a nanny in the home. The State alleged the defendant was a homeless guy loitering the neighborhood when he targeted Fulford in order to rob and kill her. Bank surveillance linked Nelson to the ATM machine where he allegedly forced Fulford to withdraw $300 from her account and give it to him while she was all tied up.
S1, EP3 "Missing Person To Homicide"
A missing person's case was how the detective on the stand told jurors about Jennifer Fulford's disappearance. She went missing from the home where she was working as a caretaker of two kids only to be found dead three days later in a wooded ditch just miles from the home. By the time Scott Nelson forced his way into the home where Fulford was working as a nanny, he was a drifter in Winter Park, Florida. He was homeless currently on federal probation for armed robbery.
