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UPDATE: SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) Megan Boswell’s murder trial began on Wednesday, Feb. 5 in Sullivan County.

Boswell is accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter, Evelyn Boswell, in December 2019. She was reported missing in February 2020 and found dead the following month.

Day Six

Day six of Megan Boswell’s trial was like a ping pong in the courtroom that featured the prosecution scoring some apparent wins with digital conversations between Boswell and Hunter Wood before and during the investigation.

Megan wanted Hunter to think Evelyn was safe with another person, but then when it was clear she was missing, messages from Hunter seemed to concern about the baby and her safety.

Forensic scientists testified to DNA testing and fingerprints on Megan and Evelyn’s things and the items around Evelyn’s body when she was found, including one who testified that Megan’s fingerprint was found on the foil taken from Evelyn’s face and that prints were also found on the black trash bag she was in.

Jurors also heard from the medical examiner and forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy and examination into what happened to Evelyn, but things got heated during cross-examination with forensic pathologist Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polschan.

“Ma’am, yes or no, can you say conclusively this child was alive or dead when it was placed in the blanket and the tin foil?” Megan’s attorner, Gene Scott, asked.

“The blanket, the tin foil, the trash can? Which one? OK, the answer is no,” Dr. Mileusnic-Polchan said. “She could have been murdered a different way.”

Judge Jim Goodwin told her to answer questions from Scott in a yes or no answer or she would be held in contempt of court.

Day seven will get underway at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) – Megan Boswell’s murder trial began on Wednesday in Sullivan County.

Boswell is accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter, Evelyn Boswell, in December 2019. She was reported missing in February 2020 and found dead the following month.

Day Five

Prosecutors spent much of Monday continuing to lay out their case against Megan Boswell.

This included more details about discovering Evelyn hidden in Boswell’s childhood playhouse.

The jury saw a videotaped police interview, in which Boswell claimed her mother had taken Evelyn, which was not true.

Boswell told police she did not report Evelyn missing because she did not want to look like a bad mother.

Day Four

Much of day four of Megan Boswell’s trial featured more video of Boswell being interviewed by officers who are now retired from the SCSO.

Much of day four of Megan Boswell’s trial featured more video of Boswell being interviewed by officers who are now retired from the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office. At first, she told Steve Williams, the former lieutenant over the Criminal Investigations Division, that Evelyn was with her father, Ethan Perry, and that she needed a break.

“And honestly, like I was telling them, like I had Evelyn for like over a year and he never checked on her, and I had to support her by myself. So when he got up here, I was like, ‘You can take care of your daughter for a little bit.’ Not that I don’t love my daughter and want to be with her. You know what I’m saying? But I was like, ‘You don’t help me at all.’ Like, I want you to see how it feels to have no help,” Boswell said.

However, we now know that Perry is not her biological father. Other videos that played on Saturday were with Joey Strickler, who was the captain over the Criminal Investigations Division at the time. At first, Boswell also told him that Perry had the baby, but she later said her dad, Tommy Boswell, talked with her mom, Angela Boswell.

“All this started going on because he called her the night before and he called you all. He told her what he was going to do, and she said, ‘Well, you can’t do that.’ This is what he told me. Like, ‘I’ll have to disappear. I can’t come back’,” Boswell said. “I hope she didn’t do anything to her.”

Former FBI Agent Jeff Blanton and former TBI Agent David Gratz also took the stand. Gratz recalled searching the trailer Megan and Evelyn had lived in the night she was reported missing.

“Did you find Evelyn?” Assistant District Attorney Amber Massengill asked Gratz, but he said that they did not.

Massengill then asked, “Did you find anything else that was significant to the investigation regarding anything associated with Evelyn?” Gratz said,” We did inside of the shed that was next to the trailer.” He added that a stroller that had been left behind was inside the shed.

Several other items of Evelyn’s were also introduced as exhibits, including a customized Baby Shark blanket and a long-sleeve shirt. An apartment application for Megan and Hunter Wood was also presented as evidence. Three people were listed to be occupants, but Gratz said Megan told them she was pregnant and the third person was her unborn baby.

When Massengill asked Gratz if he asked Megan why Evelyn was not listed on the application, he said, “She told us that it was not Evelyn because Hunter would not or did not want Evelyn to live with him.”

Megan’s attorney, Gene Scott, later spoke about the application.

“They teach you in law school; they say ‘a brick doesn’t make a wall’. I don’t think that really has anything to do with what happened in this case,” Scott said.

It’s expected that former TBI Special Agent David Gratz will take the stand again on Monday to finish up his testimony. Court resumes at 9 a.m.

Day Three

Day three of Megan Boswell’s trial featured a name that has popped up consistently since opening statements: Hunter Wood.

Wood was Megan’s boyfriend at the time Evelyn was believed to have died. She worked with him at Hunter T’s Chicken Shack, owned by his father, Randy Wood.

Randy took to the stand on Friday. He was hesitant to say Hunter and Megan were dating but said neither he nor Hunter ever saw Evelyn. He also said Hunter could not take the stand because he’s been in a mental hospital for about two months.

“He talks about things that sometimes you don’t even know what he’s talking about,” Randy said about his son. “It’s sad. This young man was a 4.0 student in school, but now I don’t know if he’s ever going to function in life again.”

Randy also testified that Hunter is schizophrenic and hallucinating.

During cross-examination by defense Attorney Gene Scott, he reiterated that Hunter is in no mental state, adding that Hunter never talks about Evelyn.

While Randy owned the restaurant, he said Hunter was more of an employee there as opposed to a manager, but he also said Megan offered to work a lot of hours there when she applied for a job.

Day Two

Boswell is accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter, Evelyn Boswell, in December 2019.During the trial’s second day, there were some disturbing details that came from the prosecution.

Day two of Megan Boswell’s trial featured testimony that revealed new details in the investigation leading up to the discovery of 15-month-old Evelyn Boswell’s body in March of 2020.

Investigators said they found the body wrapped in bags inside a trashcan. One notable figure who took the stand was Megan Boswell’s father, Tommy Boswell. He said he called the Department of Children’s Services after not seeing his granddaughter for an extended amount of time.

It wasn’t long before law enforcement met up with him.

He spoke about his daughter’s living situation, saying she stayed with him for a time but he asked her to leave, since she did not keep her room clean.

From there, Tommy Boswell said, his daughter lived in a trailer at a park owned by the family. Once she moved out, instead deciding to live with a boyfriend, he said he had to have it deep cleaned. The man who cleaned the trailer, Austin Feller, said he had to wear a respirator because of the odor.

“There were dirty diapers stuck to the floor of the carpet,” Feller said. “I couldn’t even open the fridge it was so bad. [There was] food on the ground, feces on the ground. Very nasty, just not clean at all.”

Next on the stand was James Lewis with DCS. He testified that he went to Megan Boswell’s latest home, that of her boyfriend, to check in on Evelyn. He said there were no children’s items at the home.

“I asked her to show me of course, evidence that a child had been with her,” he said. “I asked to see a crib or a pack and play, and she said those items were elsewhere; she didn’t have any of those items.”

Lewis also said Megan Boswell wasn’t overly concerned about the status of her child.

“It wasn’t much affect,” he said. “When I say that, I would say there wasn’t much emotion as concern. I didn’t see concern in speaking with Megan.”

It marked the start of the search for Evelyn.

In a taping of Megan Boswell’s police interview, she said the baby was with her father, something investigators found was not true. She also said she had not seen Evelyn in weeks.

Several other witnesses spoke on Thursday. Among them were Evelyn’s doctors, who said she had missed appointments in December of 2019. Friends of Megan Boswell also spoke, detailing the last times they saw Evelyn.

Day Three is expected to include testimony from another of Megan Boswell’s friends.

Day One

The day began with the court dismissing one of 11 false report charges against Boswell.

During the trial’s first day, there were some disturbing details that came from the prosecution.

They said the last time Evelyn was seen alive was shortly after her first birthday and that several months passed without anyone seeing her.

The continued by saying Megan put Evelyn’s body in a kitchen trash can before hiding it in her own childhood playhouse on her family’s property. They added that Boswell spent months lying about where her daughter was while building a new life.

“31 days. Where’s Evelyn? There’s no Evelyn,” Sullivan County Prosecutor Amber Massengill said. “People are really starting to get concerned, and Megan Boswell continues to concoct stories.“

The defense argued that while Evelyn’s death is tragic, the state does not have the evidence to convict Boswell of first-degree murder and other charges.

They said it’s possible Boswell or her boyfriend rolled over on Evelyn in bed and were too scared to call 911.

The jury is expected to return to the courtroom on Thursday at 9 a.m.