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YOUNGSTOWN -- Additional witnesses testified Wednesday afternoon on the second day of testimony in the Robert L. Moore murder trial.
Moore, 53, of the Alliance area, is charged with killing Glenna J. White, 16, after he drove her from a home on Alden Avenue in Smith Township June 2, 2009, allegedly to take her home, but Glenna was never seen again.
The trial in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court is expected to last into the middle of next week because of the amount of witnesses who will testify. The trial resumes this morning before Judge Maureen Sweeney.
In opening statements Tuesday, Pat Fening, assistant county prosecutor, told jurors that prosecutors will be presenting evidence regarding Moore having been previously convicted of killing a female in 1993.
Fening said prosecutors can use that information to try to establish a "behavioral fingerprint" to show that the 1993 killing is similar enough to the allegations in the disappearance and presumed murder of Glenna to "to suggest that the prior act and the current crime were committed by the same person."
Defense attorney Lou DeFabio said in his opening statement that because Glenna was never found, the prosecution is never going to have "evidence of a cause of death, place of death, manner of death, they don't have a stitch of clothing, they have absolutely no scientific evidence to substantiate what they are saying."