Pima County Sheriff's Detective Charles Garcia was questioned extensively this morning about comments made by Gina Gonzalez on the stand in the Shawna Forde trial.
Garcia was the detective who showed Gonzalez a photo lineup a couple of days after her husband and daughter were shot to death by home invaders in Arivaca.
Garcia testified Gonzalez was ultimately unable to pick anyone, including Forde, out of the lineup.
Garcia told defense attorney Eric Larsen that he's correct when Larsen says a transcript of his meeting with Gonzalez does not include anything about Gonzalez wanting to see the women without make-up, the possibility the suspect was wearing a wig or that the suspect had changed clothes during the invasion.
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Gonzalez testified she realized late last fall that the Forde strongly resembles the woman who entered her home the morning of May 30, 2009.
She came to that realization, she said, because Forde wasn't wearing makeup the one time she came to a pre-trial hearing and her hair was fixed the same way as the invader. (The women in the photo lineup were wearing makeup and the home invader was not.)
Gonzalez told Larsen she is positive she told detectives she wanted to see the photo lineup women without makeup and there was a possibility the intruder was wearing a wig.
She also told Larsen she's pretty sure she told detectives that the woman was wearing camouflage the first time she came into her house and a green outfit similar to those worn by Border Patrol agents the second time.
Detectives Chris Hogan and Juan Carlos Navarro will be the last witnesses for the state. Larsen and co-counsel Jill Thorpe will begin their case immediately afterward.
