Kansas- from www.kansas.com – Sedgwick County Coroner Jaime Oeberst said Emily Sander [Zoey Zane] suffered extensive injuries to her face and bruising from her head to her legs.

Oeberst testified that some of the bruising on the body of the 18-year-old were “pattern injuries” consistent with being struck by a beer bottle.

The pathologist described a muscle near the temple.

“You can feel it when you clench your jaw,” Oeberst said.

Oeberst said Sander’s muscle was pulverized.

Sander was stabbed twice in the chest and strangled.

Oeberst said Sander’s autopsy showed “deep, penetrating wounds” to her vagina and buttocks.

Any one of the wounds could have been lethal, the doctor said.

After calling more than a dozen witnesses today, the trial will resume at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, when prosecutors expect to wrap up their case.

4 p.m.

Victoria Martens said she didn’t know Israel Mireles as a violent person.

“He was always nice to me,” she said. “He never hurt me.”

Martens had been Mireles’ girlfriend for seven months when she followed him from Hays to El Dorado.

She testified this afternoon at Mireles’ murder trial.

Martens said she’d gone with her mother to her grandmother’s house in Baxter Springs for Thanksgiving. She and Mireles had been planning on moving back to Texas, where his family lived.

He was to pick her up that weekend, Martens said.

About 4 a.m. that Saturday, Martens said Mireles called her. He told her he’d been in a fight with a man.

According to Martens, Mireles told her:

A man and a woman had come back to the El Dorado Motel with him. He and the man got in a fight, drawing blood.

When Mireles arrived at Baxter Springs, his fists were cut.

“He had blood on his wife-beater and his arm,” Martens said, describing Mireles’ tank top.

Mireles took some items out of his car.

“He got something to eat and went to sleep,” Martens said.

Later that night, the couple drove to Vernon, Texas. They left the rental car there and drove a truck belonging to Mireles’ parents to the Mexican border.

They drove over the border in a cab, then caught a bus.

Martens heard about the death of Emily Sander on the news. Mireles told her that was the woman he met at the bar in El Dorado.

“But he assured me he was innocent and didn’t know what happened to her,” Martens said.

Mireles was later arrested in Mexico.

11:30 a.m.

After Emily Sander disappeared and investigators found the bloody motel room where Israel Mireles had stayed, authorities learned he had a girlfriend in Baxter Springs.

KBI agent Frank Papish received a call at his office in Pittsburg, and a supervisor asked him to check on the teenage girl.

Papish contacted local police and drove to the 1000 block of Cleveland Street in Baxter Springs, where he contacted Loretta Sue Martens and Sandra Martens. Loretta Sue was the grandmother and Sandra the mother of Victoria Martens, Mireles’ girlfriend.

The women said Mireles had been by the house, and Victoria had left with him. She was pregnant with Mireles’ child.

Papish also learned that Mireles had taken some items out of his car.

With other officers, Papish examined a trash dumpster near the house.

Inside, they found a white shirt spotted with blood, a set of car keys and a plastic bag filled with clothes.

Papish also found a large knife.

10 a.m.

It was “black light night” at the Retreat Bar, the night Misty Walton and her friends went there on Nov. 23, 2007.

Walton testified this morning in the capital murder trial of Israel Mireles in Butler County District Court. She was among a group of friends, including Emily Sander, who went out that night.

They met at the Beijing Restaurant for dinner, Walton testified. There, they met a man they didn’t know. It was Mireles, Walton said.

Walton said she was there with four other women and one man. Mireles began buying them drinks. Then the group decided to pile into three cars and head to the Retreat. All the women were under 21. The Retreat has since closed.

Walton rode in a blue Ford Taurus with Mireles.

During the night, Walton said Mireles kissed her and asked her to come back to his hotel room.

After Walton said she wouldn’t leave with him, Mireles turned his attention to Emily Sander, whose white t-shirt reading “Everything Is Bigger in Texas” glowed under the black lights, according to Walton.

The rest of the group left, but Walton, Sander and Mireles stayed at the bar, playing pool, dancing, drinking beer and taking Jello shots.

Everyone had a lot to drink that night, Walton said.

Walton said she never saw Sander again after that night. She had decided to leave with Mireles.

9 a.m.

A woman that Israel Mireles tried to pick up at a bar and his girlfriend are scheduled to testify today at his capital murder trial.

Mireles is charged with killing, raping and sodomizing Emily Sander, 18, just after Thanksgiving in 2007.

Sander did leave the Retreat Bar outside El Dorado with Mireles. She didn’t return.

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