Prosecutors introduce DNA evidence they say links Curtis Vance to Anne Pressly's murder.
The state's strongest piece of evidence? A single hair found inside Pressly's bedroom.
Just three witnesses were called to the stand on day 3 of testimony. What it lacks in emotion, more than makes up for in evidence.
Jurors walking into the courtroom Friday morning, hearing firsthand detailed hair and DNA analysis the state says puts Curtis Vance inside Anne Pressly's house.
Melissa Myhand with the Arkansas State Crime Lab told jurors she got a strong DNA profile from a hair found on Pressly's bed on October 20, 2008.
But it didn't match any of the more than 7 million profiles in the FBI database. So the profile sat unidentified until four weeks later when DNA on the rape of a Marianna school teacher came back as a match.
Defense attorney Katherine Street challenged the evidence saying perhaps DNA from the Marianna rape got mixed up with Pressly's evidence at the crime lab.
But prosecutors told jurors the timeline doesn't add up. That DNA tests from Pressly's case were complete before testing on the Marianna rape case ever started.
There were other hairs found at Pressly's home that couldn't be tested for DNA. But after taking 20-25 hairs from Vance's head after his arrest, the crime lab said they look similar under a microscope.
