TUCSON, Ariz. — In the murder trial for the man charged with killing 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, the teenager’s mother described the moment she knew her daughter was dead—-and jurors heard Christopher Clements ex-girlfriend testify the night the girl disappeared he wanted to be sure no one looked in his car trunk.
“I got home by myself….sad. I put the news on and they found a body and I see the tattoo and I didn’t want to believe it was her.” Stark says he left again, then returned close to dawn. Stark says he demanded that she immediately wash the clothes he was wearing, clean the shower he’d just used and scrub with bleach anyplace he’d walked.
Earlier a man named Thomas Keys testified about his friendship with the teenager. He was about 26 years old at the time and said he allowed her to spend the night at his apartment two or three times. Keys said Maribel told him she was 17 but her giggly demeanor made him suspect she was younger.