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Quoizel Wilson is led into court Thursday. He is on trial for first degree murder in the death of Trudie Hall in 2010.
BARNSTABLE – Blood and alibis were the focus of the second day of testimony in the trial of Quoizel L. Wilson at Barnstable Superior Court.
Wilson is charged with first degree murder in the July 2010 shooting death of 23-year-old Trudie Hall of Nantucket. Police say Hall was pregnant with Wilson’s child at the time of the murder.
Wilson lived on Great Marsh Road in Centerville, a street off Phinney’s Lane, at the time of the crime. He subsequently sold the home and moved off-Cape before being arrested for the crime.
Jurors will see his Great Marsh Road home in Centerville, in addition to other sites associated with the crime in a bus tour this morning. In addition to Wilson’s former home, the viewing will take jurors to the Bayside Resort in West Yarmouth; the commuter lot in West Barnstable, which is at exit 6 off Route 6, where Hall’s rental car was found; an area on the Service Road between Route 6 exits 5 and 6; and the wooded area off Hayway Road in East Falmouth where Hall’s body was found.
Testimony so far in the case has taken the jury through the hours up to and after Hall was reported missing by Hall’s mother, Vivienne Walker of Nantucket, and Hall’s husband, Ram Rimal of Kathmandu, Nepal.
Both have offered testimony this week.
Rimal was flown in from Nepal to testify with the assistance of a Nepalese interpreter.
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Duane Macedo of Nantucket testifies that he was a former boyfriend of Trudie Hall, who was murdered in 2010.
Rimal said he and Hall had traveled separately from Nantucket to Hyannis on July 27, 2010 because he had to work late. They were staying overnight at the Bayside Resort in West Yarmouth, so that they could leave the Cape early the next morning to be in Boston in time for a morning interview.
Rimal said he had initially reserved one room but when Hall arrived, she said they needed two rooms. After seeing a movie at the Cape Cod Mall, the two returned to the hotel.
Rimal said he was tired and went to bed in one of the rooms, while Hall said she had some copying of documents to do before going to bed in the other room.
But when Rimal work up early the next morning, Hall did not respond to his phone calls. He asked hotel front desk staff to check her room and they found that she was not there.
When questioned by First Assistant District Attorney Michael Trudeau about that morning, Rimal said he was extremely upset and telephoned Hall’s mother, Vivienne Walker, on Nantucket.
“I was very concerned. I was crying at that point,” Rimal said through the interpreter.
Rimal, as well as a former Nantucket boyfriend of Hall’s named Duane Macedo, were among those who agreed to give police DNA samples so that police could exclude them as suspects.
Walker said she was always in frequent contact with her daughter by phone or text message, so she was immediately concerned when Rimal said Hall was missing.
Walker took a flight to Hyannis and she and Rimal reported Hall missing at the Yarmouth Police Department.
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Mawande Senene of Maine testifies that Quoizel Wilson asked him to provide an alibi for him for the night of the murder.
While giving her statement to police, Walker told them about a phone call she had received a few weeks earlier from a woman she believed to be the wife of the man who was the father of her daughter’s unborn child.
During Wednesday’s testimony, Defense attorney Robert Galibois cross-examined Walker on her statement to police where she told them about “slander-ish” statements about her daughter made by the woman who called.
After receiving the missing persons report, police issued a “bolo,” or be on the lookout, notification for the rental car that Rimal had rented and that Hall was driving the night she disappeared.
On July 29, Barnstable Police Detective Sergeant John York found the car in the Route 6 commuter lot.
The interior and exterior had extensive blood stains, according to Sherri Menendez, a forensics chemist with the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab.
Menendez, who said she most recently testified in the Aaron Hernandez murder trial, was called in to take samples from the car.
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Ram Rimal, who was married to Trudie Hall at the time of her murder, testifies with the assistance of a Nepalese interpreter during the trial of Quoizel Wilson in Barnstable Superior Court.
Within hours of discovering the bloody rental vehicle, police arrived at Wilson’s home to question him and his wife Donna McKenzie Wilson.
Police returned with a search warrant and during that search of Wilson’s home, Menendez was also called in to take forensics samples on Wilson’s car, motorcycle and articles of his clothing.
When police questioned Quoizel Wilson at his home about his relationship with Trudie Hall, Wilson said they were just friends. But the next day he contacted police to tell them the two had been intimate and he may have been the father of her unborn child.
Wilson’s defense attorney Robert Galibois pointed out that it was natural that Wilson would initially lie to police about the relationship, since his wife was standing close by during the questioning.
But that was not the only changing story that police heard during the course of the investigation.
Mawande Senene, who now lives in Maine but at the time of the murder lived in West Yarmouth, said he was a friend of Quoizel Wilson’s from their common interest in riding motorcycles. Senene said Wilson asked him to provide an alibi for him during the evening of July 27.
Senene said he refused to do so. “I was angry. I said I’m not going to admit I was with you because I was not,” he said.
Another acquaintance of Wilson’s, Joseph Lang of Marstons Mills, said Wilson asked him to lie for him as well, to say that the two were together on the Service Road on the night of July 27.
Lang said he told the lie to police but as police continued to question him, he said, he decided to tell the truth, declining to provide the alibi for Wilson.
Less than a week after Hall was reported missing, police were back at Wilson’s house to question him further. A neighbor of Wilson’s on Great Neck Road, Carol Guinette, said that after seeing police at Wilson’s home on August 5, she decided to call them about something suspicious she had noticed a couple of days earlier.
Wilson said she had been in her home and noticed a terrible smell. “It was a smell like I didn’t think I had ever smelled before. It was rancid. The only way I can describe it is like a dead mouse between the walls of a house,” she said.
She said she saw Wilson and a woman outside the house putting something into a container and burning it.
At the time of the crime, Wilson worked for Allied Waste as a garbage collector. One of his routes to pick up recycling was in the area of Hayway Road in East Falmouth where Hall’s remains were found almost two years after she was reported missing.
Jurors will see that site off Hayway Road this morning.
By LAURA M. RECKFORD, CapeCod.com News Editor
