When Yuska was questioned by investigators that day, he says he told the officers on scene that there was a University of Kentucky poster covering Mockbee’s body when he discovered it. Yuska called 911 and said neither he, nor Dooley returned to the mezzanine that morning. He said he located Mockbee’s body soon after coming into the mezzanine level, saw Dooley nearby and told him that they needed to leave the area. He called downstairs to asked if anyone was injured that morning and when he found out they were not, he went back to work.Ī short time later, Yuska said Dooley appeared in his office and said the blood was not there when he cleaned that morning.Īt that time, Yuska testified that he and Dooley began to search the facility.
Yuska said he didn’t notice the blood when he came in because the lights were out. Dooley is charged with murder in the 2012 killing of Michelle Mockbee at Thermo Fischer Scientific (photo by Mark Hansel). Yuska said another employee first asked him early that morning about a significant amount of blood in the hallway, outside of the space where his office, and Mockbee’s, were located.ĭavid Dooley awaits the conclusion of Tuesday’s testimony in a Boone County courtroom. Yuska replied “no” to both questions and said he told the first officers to arrive on the scene that Mockbee’s legs were bound with tape. “Dave Dooley was with you, and he didn’t cut the tape off of her legs, did he?” “You didn’t cut the tape off of her legs did you?” Dennison asked. Investigators say the crime scene was not disturbed from the time the body was discovered until after the photos were taken.ĭennison asked Yuska if he could explain the discrepancy.
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Schrand, however, granted a new trial in May, 2017, after he determined evidence that might have aided in Dooley’s defense was withheld from his trial attorneys.ĭefense attorney Deanna Dennison Tuesday showed Yuska a photo taken by investigators a short time after the body was discovered that shows Mockbee’s arms bound behind her back with tape.
In 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.īoone Circuit Judge James R. Mockbee, a Fort Mitchell mother of two, was beaten to death early on the morning of shortly after she reported to work at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Boone County.ĭavid Dooley was employed as an outside contractor performing custodial duties at the facility.ĭooley was arrested later in 2012 and charged with murder in the killing.
“I walked up to her, got close enough to see her legs were bound, her hands were bound behind her back, there was a bag over her head and blood all over,” Yuska said. Yuska’s description of the crime scene differs from that shown in photos taken by law enforcement officers (photo by Mark Hansel).Įdward “Ed” Yuska, an operations manager at the facility at the time, said Mockbee’s legs were bound with tape when he came upon her in a mezzanine area at the facility. Ed Yuska, an operations manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific when Michelle Mockbee was killed there in 2012, prepares to testify in the David Dooley trial Tuesday.
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