Attorney: Foster mother not home when Marcus died
Thursday, February 15, 2007
BATAVIA — Liz Carroll, the foster mother charged with killing 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel, was not at her Union Twp. home when the death allegedly occurred, the woman's attorney said Thursday.
Opening statements from defense and prosecution attorneys have been completed and the rest of the day will include testimony from a lengthy list of witnesses.
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Liz Carroll's attorney, Gregory A. Cohen, said the woman was at the store on the afternoon of Aug. 4. When she came home she was told by her husband, David Carroll, that Marcus was dead.
Investigators say the Carrolls bound the developmentally disabled Middletown boy in a blanket and stuck him in a closet while they went to Kentucky for a family reunion last August. When they returned he was dead.
David Carroll and Amy Baker, the couple's live-in girl friend who is expected to be the prosecution's star witness, later took the boy's body to a chimney in Brown County and burned his remains.
Liz Carroll's trial is expected to last 10 days to two weeks. Her husband David Carroll is scheduled to stand trial next month.
