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Chilling surveillance videos depict final hours of women murdered in Farmington

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Surveillance video images displayed on a projection screen appear to show murder suspect Timothy Verrill walking toward a doorway into the house at 979 Meaderboro Road early in the morning hours of Jan. 27, the night he is alleged to have slain two women.

DOVER - When former Farmington Police Patrol Officer Evan Carey was headed to 979 Meaderboro Road early the morning of Jan. 29, 2017, he was responding to a "past tense homicide" called in by the homeowner, Dean Smoronk, several hours before the bodies were discovered under a porch later in the day.

Carey, who was working the 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., shift told jurors when he arrived he found Smoronk and his friend, Stephen Clough, who guided him through the two-story residence, where Carey found a large pool of blood on the mattress of an upstairs side bedroom, also noting the rug had just been cleaned and vacuumed.

That blood was likely that of Jenna Pellegrini, 32, of Barrington, who was slain along with her friend and Smoronk's longtime girlfriend, Christine Sullivan, 48, who lived at the residence.

Timothy Verrill, 37, of Dover, is charged with first-degree murder in their deaths and faces life in prison without parole if the jury finds him guilty.

Meanwhile, in the bedroom Carey also told the court he saw pieces of blue tarp and later more blue tarp jammed in the brush of a vacuum cleaner found in the kitchen.

He said they then went into the detached garage, where he found the windows had been spray painted and noticed a pungent smell of paint fumes. He said they then walked into a cellar workshop where more blue strands of tarp were found.

Carey said after the tour of the property he put Smoronk and Clough alone together in a cruiser, while he conducted more investigations with fellow officers. Carey said early on during their discourse that Smoronk said Verrill likely had something to do with it.

Earlier in the morning of Day 2 of this trial the jury watched a powerpoint presentation comprising footage from six surveillance cameras set up inside and outside the residence at 979 Meaderboro Road that appeared to show likenesses of Smoronk leaving early the morning of Jan. 25 and Verrill, Pellegrini and Sullivan alone at the house the night of the killings during the morning hours of Jan. 27.

Earlier testimony on Tuesday from a girlfriend Smoronk had in Florida noted he had been with her much of the time between Jan. 25 and Jan. 28, 2017, until he returned by plane to Farmington over concerns for Sullivan's welfare after he couldn't get hold of her by phone or text message.

Chillingly, and as Verrill looked on just a few feet from the screen, Senior Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley led the court through a series of surveillance videos and still shots that captured much of the goings-on in the last few hours before the women's grisly killings.

Members of both women's families openly wept at times during the hourlong powerpoint.

Among the images the overnight of Jan. 26-27, 2017, are many that appear to show Verrill walking in and out of the house, Pellegrini doing laundry and shadowy figures, likely Pellagrini or Sullivan, on the second floor behind windows.

The next to last surveillance was taken around 6 a.m. and showed activity in the upstairs and downstairs, while the last video ends at 6:58 a.m.

Defense attorney Julia M. Nye closely questioned the man who heads the company that produced the powerpoint, WIN Interactive, over what he had been asked by prosecutors to produce.

WIN President Brian Carney explained he was simply asked to correlate the various surveillance cameras with captured stills of the individuals seen on camera. He never mentioned any of the images of individuals by name.

Nye also drew attention that some of the time stamps were incorrect in that evening hours were not shown in military time.

Prior to Wednesday's testimony, Superior Court Judge Steven M. Houran told the court that one of the jurors had been dismissed for an undisclosed reason and had been replaced by an alternate.

The trial is expected to last about a month.

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