The jury in Jose Morales' murder trial is expected to get the case Monday following closing arguments at Milford Superior Court. Prosecutors took just over seven days to present evidence that Morales allegedly killed his girlfriend in her Ansonia home over five years ago. The defense rested after only two witnesses, including Morales, on the ninth day of the trial. Here’s a look at what the jury saw and heard during that period:

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The prosecution’s first witness was Holloway's former boss, who requested Ansonia police do a welfare check after Holloway failed to show up at the Bridgeport daycare where she worked and her daughter with Morales, 1-year-old Vanessa, was enrolled. This was Dec. 2, 2019, the Monday after Thanksgiving weekend.

“I was concerned because it wasn't like her. She was always consistent—always on time or before time. I was just hoping nothing had happened to her,” said Rosie Jones-Clarke, who called Holloway “an excellent employee.”

But the jury later saw police body camera footage of officers forcing their way into Holloway's home that night.

“When I walked into the bathroom, I noticed in the tub, a pale, naked female body laying in there,” Lt. Alex Berreira, of the Ansonia Police Department, told the jury.

Police also found no sign of Vanessa, who remains missing. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children recently put out a new age-progression picture of what she might look like at age six.

The trial's second day focused on blood-stained evidence the prosecution believes Morales tossed into clothing donation bins as he cleaned up the crime. Kiducation employees testified about the discovery in the nonprofit’s bins in a Derby church parking lot. The items included a Diaper Genie, a bloody towel and a letter for Holloway. Mary Ann Tettlebach said she Googled Holloway’s name and learned of the investigation into Holloway’s death and her daughter’s disappearance. Tettlebach testified she immediately called police.

“I told them that I had a letter on top of some stuff that we had collected at a clothing bin, and it had matter on it, and I was very concerned,” Tettlebach stated.

The jury also saw graphic photos of Holloway's beaten body with a massive head wound, blood on her face and circular bruises and marks on her back.

Testimony about the gruesome crime scene continued on the third day of the trial with the investigator who processed the crime scene.

“In the tub, there was the decedent’s body, there was leaf and other debris down near the drain portion of the tub, and there were fragments of what appeared to be skull-like material in the tub,” Sgt. Kevin Duggan, of Connecticut State Police, told the jury.

Duggan also testified about blood-like stains found throughout the home on Myrtle Avenue, including on the rug, the crib, a dresser, a bin filled with toys and wet rags in a cleaning bucket. He said all tested positive for the presence of blood.

Duggan then went through his examination of Morales' car, in which he found a black garbage bag with red stains in the trunk. He said that was positive for blood, too.

The jury also saw more items recovered from the Kiducation bins including children’s books, a puzzle, a toddler Croc shoe, XXXL T-shirts, a pair of sneakers and multiple pieces of mail addressed to Holloway.

A DNA expert from the state crime lab took the stand on the fourth day and testified the blood stains on nearly every item police collected from Holloway’s home, Morales’ car and the donation bins matched Holloway’s DNA.

Kristen Madel said Morales' DNA wasn't on the blood stains she examined, but it was on the unstained areas of several items. That included the collar of a blood-stained T-shirt, a puzzle and the opening of a garbage bag found in the trunk of Morales’ car.

Special Agent David Carney, with the FBI, testified next about tracking Holloway’s and Morales’ cellphones from the morning of Friday, Nov. 29 through the evening of Monday, Dec. 2. Carney said Morales’ phone, along with Holloway’s, was in the vicinity of her home all weekend, despite Morales telling police he wasn’t in Ansonia and hadn’t seen his girlfriend and daughter in days.

Jurors began the fifth day of the trial hearing the 911 call made by Morales to Ansonia police in the early morning hours of Sunday, Dec. 1, just before the prosecution believes he killed Holloway. In it, a slurred male voice says “Myrtle Ave” three times but doesn’t respond to repeated requests for a house number.

“After that, the male voice kind of stopped, and then I heard a female voice in the background that stated something like, ‘Hang up. Stop. Who are you talking to?’ said Officer Jacquelyn Troesser, who answered the call.

A patrol car was sent to the street, but that officer testified all was quiet as he crawled through the neighborhood with his windows open and lights on.

The jury also heard from witnesses who put Morales at the crime scene that weekend despite what he told police.

A montage of surveillance footage showed Morales’ car driving to and from Holloway’s home throughout Dec. 1, when Morales is accused of cleaning up and disposing of evidence. The video included the area by the Kiducation bins.

The second week of Morales' murder trial began with the jury watching video of Morales’ first interview with police. It was from Tuesday, Dec. 3—two days after the prosecution believes Morales killed his girlfriend.

During the interview, Morales said even though he and Holloway had a baby, they weren’t close, adding that she wasn’t his “girlfriend girlfriend.” He maintained that he last spoke with Holloway on the morning of Monday, Dec. 2 . But when police asked for his phone to check the call log, they pointed out there wasn’t a call to her then. Morales also continued to say he last saw Holloway and Vanessa on Friday, Nov. 29, when they left his home in New Haven after spending Thanksgiving with his family. In the video, police told Morales that his stepfather contradicted that.

A former Ansonia officer later testified that Morales’ phone, iPad and Facebook records showed activity through the router in Holloway’s home over the weekend.

The seventh day of the trial featured body camera footage of Morales' emotionless reaction as investigators told him, his mother and his stepfather they located Holloway but not alive. The conversation occurred after the police interview with Morales when investigators brought him back to his parents’ home in New Haven.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!” Morales’ mother, Lydia DeJesus, sobbed. “What happened to her? What happened to her?”

Morales was silent, then put his head in his hands.

When his mother began to question him, Morales appeared to get agitated, yelling “I don’t know!” and again denying he was with Holloway over the weekend.

The jury then heard from the medical examiner who testified Holloway died from blunt force injuries to her head and torso. Dr. Michael Hays said Holloway had five broken ribs, circular bruises and abrasions all over her body and massive head trauma. Hays also said that off-white fragments that police recovered from Holloway’s garbage disposal were pieces of skull.

The prosecution rested its case that morning after calling one last witness—a forensic anthropologist who reconstructed Holloway's skull. Dr. Kristen Hartnett-McCann testified Holloway was hit in the head at least eight times.

Then it was the defense’s turn. A forensic psychologist testified first that PCP causes delusions and hallucinations and can lead to amnesia of the intoxication period. The drug was a focus of Morales’ testimony when he took the stand next.

Morales told the jury he was high in the early morning hours of Dec. 1 when two unknown men got into Holloway’s home through the front door, which he’d left open after smoking PCP outside. Morales said he was hit in the face and chest and was incapacitated on the floor while one of the intruders kidnapped Vanessa and the other fought with Holloway. Morales said the man hit Holloway in the head with a crowbar three times.

“He's angry, and he's cussing out.” Morales testified. “When he's pulling back, stuff is just pouring out of Christine's head and splashing all over the place. I tried to do something, but I can’t because I’m stuck. I’m PCP’d. I’m stuck.”

Morales said all he could do was scream, which is when the man threatened him.

“He said that if I called police, the same thing that happened to Christine would happen to my daughter,” Morales claimed, adding that it terrified him. “I was afraid to call the police.”

Morales returned to the stand on the ninth day of his trial, where he continued his account of Holloway’s death and the hours after. Morales admitted to cleaning up the crime scene, disposing of evidence and moving Holloway's body to the tub.

But he denied being the murderer when questioned by the prosecution.

"I did not kill Christine Holloway,” Morales stated.

“I just want to be sure, right?" Supervisory Assistant State’s Attorney Howard Stein asked.

Stein pointed out several inconsistencies between Morales' direct testimony and the evidence, including Morales’ claim that Holloway was hit three times in the head by the intruder.

"You heard Dr. Hartnett-McCann testify that she counted at least eight separate impact points minimum?" Stein questioned.

“Well, he did hit her pretty hard,” Morales responded, adding that he might’ve hit her earlier in the struggle, which he didn’t see.

There were also times Morales' answers on cross-examination didn't match what he'd said on the stand earlier.

The prosecution went through text messages between Morales and Holloway from the days before her murder. In them, Morales accused Holloway of being unfaithful, called her names and swore at her—even pronouncing the relationship “done,” just three days before Thanksgiving.

Stein asked Morales if he was controlling and emotionally abusive to Holloway, which he denied.

The defense rested after Morales’ time on the stand, and the prosecution had no rebuttal witnesses. Closing arguments are set for April 21.

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