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nrtr Blj. BA YORK DAILY RECORD SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1996 Clue Both sides focus on bite marks as arguments in Krone trial begin mission. He was denied food and water for five or six days at a time. Finally, Good was beaten, strangled and left to rot, according to the medical examiners report. Freeman believed he was the chosen one and he decided it was time, Lemon said.

The medical examiner concluded that the nearly mummified body had lain in the basement for almost a year before its discovery. Up until three weeks before the burglar found the body, the Freeman family also occupied the home. The investigation trailed off with a lead from a witness who took the family to Silver Spring, Md. For a while, Lemon said, they thought they had found him in the Washington, D.C., area. We sifted through garbage for months, Lemon said.

Freeman has been known to use eight aliases. But the producer of the trash turned out not to be Freeman. Whats more, the diaries hinted to other possible murders. The diary alludes to other people and other occasions, Lemon said. We dont know where.

Freeman is described as a well-spoken black man, about 37 years old. He is 6-feet-tall and weighs about 250 pounds. He is super-social, willing to talk to people, Lemon said. He has religious conversations with people, mostly of his beliefs. Family reacts: For Goods parents, Friday was the first warm ray after a 15-month cold spell.

The couple in Chanceford Township expressed relief at hearing police issued the warrant for Freeman, whom they describe as a religious fanatic. The Freemans lived for a time with Timothy Good on his dairy farm, Harold Good said. Freeman Continued from 1A the end of a U-shaped valley, on a 175-acre property. They posted the property and made it known that they didnt want people up there, Lemon said. Lemon said police began with a set of diaries found locked in a gun safe in the basement.

The diaries, possibly kept by Freeman, detail the life of Good and Freeman, from their meeting in Air-ville to Goods incarceration in the basement of his own home. The 1991 sale of Goods southeastern York County dairy farm yielded an estimated $1.3 million, Lemon said. Good and Freeman took the money to West Virginia to set up a commune or church based on Freemans religious teachings, Lemon said. Freeman was accompanied by his wife, Eliza, and a child. Later the Freemans would have a second child.

Once there, Freeman confined Good to the basement while he used up the proceeds of the farm sale, Lemon said. It is thought that Good. agreed to the living arrangement. It was a very nice basement, Lemon said. You could live there quite comfortably.

I would say Good was spiritually confined there. But the conditions were less than utopian, according to the diaries. Freeman punished Good for leaving the basement without per- Saliva traces on the (victims) tank top, the bra and the shirt have Ms. Anconas DNA and another persons DNA, who could not be Mr. Krone, Plourd said.

Mr. Krone is absolutely excluded. That unknown person must be the real killer, Plourd said. The jury listened closely to the opening arguments, many of them nodding their heads and taking notes at certain points. Plourd quickly disputed many of Levys other pieces of circumstantial evidence, but spent the bulk of his time tearing down the only evidence that really matters the bite.

Youll see a videotape where theyre actually pinching the breast, making the teeth fit, he said. The prosecution experts came up with the two-bite theory only after they couldnt account for all of the marks on the breast with one, he said. After both lawyers had made one-hour speeches, Levy called his first witness Chris Allen, an FBI hair analyst. He had little interesting to say. Most of the pubic and head hairs found at the crime scene belonged to Ancona.

Three were from an American Indian. None belonged to Krone. On cross examination, Plourd moved Allen, who also holds a degree in dentistry, over to questions about the bite marks, asking him to compare their use in cases to the use of fingerprints. Is bite mark evidence better than fingerprint evidence? No, it is not, Allen said. Krone washed his clothes between the time he was first questioned and two days later, when police obtained a search warrant for his house.

Krones Corvette always had a cover on it, except the night of the murder. Shoe prints in the kitchen didnt match any of the shoes seized from Krones house, but he wore the same general size. Some of the biological evidence on Anconas breast could be a mixture of Ancona and Krones DNA. Then, of course, there is Krones bite mark. Levy said his experts believe teeth are very unique, something along the lines of fingerprints.

The defenses case in a nutshell is that the bite mark doesnt fit, Plourd said, echoing that now-famous line from the O.J. Simpson trail: If it doesnt fit, you must acquit. As in the O.J. trial, DNA will play a big part in this case. This time, however, it will be the defense that has the weight of scientific evidence behind it.

DNA and blood evidence excludes Krone, Plourd told the jury. The defense will argue that the evidence doesnt fit. By SCOTT DODD Daily Record staff PHOENIX From the beginning, Ray Krones case has clearly been about the bite marks. Someone brutally bit bartender Kim Anconas left breast at the same time she was stabbed to death in the CBS Lounge on Dec. 29, 1991.

No one disputes that. But which direction that clue points to or from Krone, formerly of Dover is what the lawyers will argue about for the next six weeks. Were here today because of a controversy, and that controversy is about bite marks and bite mark evidence, defense lawyer Chris Plourd told the jury during opening statements Friday in Arizona. Prosecutor Noel Levy has based his entire case on the bite mark which two of his witnesses will testify is actually two bite marks, consistent with the very unique dentition of Ray Krone. Levy outlined the key points of his case to the jury using an easel and chart.

He summed up his case for the jury like this: Ancona expected Krone to help her close the bar the night of her murder. Krone changed his story to police about his relationship with her. They had been dating since November. DAILY RECORD DAVID HUTH claimed to be a minister, but was not, he said. He was a very handsome man, an attractive, big man, Rachel Good said.

The only time I saw him was jogging past our house. He was a very smart man, Harold Good added. He could fix tractors. The Goods regretted that their son sold the family farm to move to West Virginia, but Timothy was of age. He had also changed.

They blamed Freeman. I think he had him under his spell, Rachel Good said. They last spoke with Timothy in August 1993. Within a couple of months, he was dead. The Goods were surprised when they went to West Virginia to claim their sons belongings.

We expected to find a lot of junk, Rachel Good said. Everything was just as clean as could be. We found out that it was part of their daily routine to keep things clean. Everything was so well organized. They found plans for enlarging the log house, Harold Good said.

And there were lots of televisions and kitchen equipment, such as four toasters. It looked like they expected many visitors, he said. They said the situation seemed cult-like. Goods family is suing to regain ownership of the West Virginia property, Lemon said. It was seized in a sheriffs sale for unpaid taxes.

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His best description is the feeling that a child gets when something in the house breaks by accident, and the child is afraid the adults wont believe that he didnt do it. Its like that kind of feeling, only its much worse, 24 hours a day for four years, he said. Not everyone believes he is innocent, of course. The Maricopa County prosecutor, Noel Levy, and Anconas family and friends are convinced he is the killer. As fervently as Krones family wants him free, they want him back on death row.

I dont take it personally, Krone said about some of their statements. Theyre talking about the person who killed her. He hopes that after sitting through a second trial, however, they will see things differently. I believe the evidence is there, he said. I 'believe the truth is there, and all I ever ask is that they look at it.

Thats what he hopes the jury will do this time. Krone has a more dedicated lawyer, piles of evidence and a group of top dental experts ready to testify that the prosecutions conclusions are wrong. But he doesnt have much more confidence. Im starting to wonder if jurors think reasonable doubt means theres no way you could have done it, Krone said. As far as I can tell, its a 50-50 chance.

Thats scary. And this time, if hes convicted, he doesnt see any way that he will get another chance. I know what guilty means this time, he said. Thats when his frustration with the police shows. For years, he said, he worried that they would lose or destroy evidence that could free him.

He thinks they never really looked at clues that would have led away from him. Instead they focused on his teeth, broken 20 years ago in a car accident. I To police the teeth looked like the perfect fit for the bite mark on the victim. They never looked anywhere else, Krone said. We have to solve the crime for -Almost as much as he wants to prove his own innocence, he would like to find out who is guilty, he said.

1 Im doing time for this person. Im serving time, he said. I hope to God its not some stranger who was hiding in the bathroom who will never be caught. Krone doesnt stay upset of worried for long, however. He quickly smiles again, and when hfe does his left front tooth juts out.

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