Judge Unlikely To Allow Jurors To See Pregnant, Howard Co. Teacher's Grave
ROCKVILLE, Md. (WJZ) -- A Montgomery County circuit court judge said it's unlikely he will allow jurors to see the grave of a pregnant, Howard County teacher that was murdered in Damascus a year ago.
The judge said it would be a "a logistical nightmare." However, he'll make his final decision during the trial of Tyler Tessier.
On Friday morning, prosecutors in the case against a Montgomery County man charged with killing his pregnant girlfriend asked Circuit Court Judge Michael Mason if he would allow jurors to go see where 31-year-old Laura Wallen was killed.
Tessier, 33, is accused of killing Wallen, who was his girlfriend at the time. His 10-day trial is expected to begin Sept. 4.
The defense attorneys also made requests -- to suppress Wallen's sonogram, medical evidence of her pregnancy and photos of her after her death.
Prosecutors decided not to show the sonogram photos. The other decisions will be made at trial.
It's almost a year to the day when Wallen was murdered -- shot in the back of the head and buried on farmland in Damascus.
Wallen, who lived in Olney, went missing the weekend of Sept. 2, 2017. Tessier was the last person to see her alive. She had texted a friend to show her where Tessier had taken her to show her where he was allegedly planning on building them a home. Instead, he's charged with killing her there.
Wallen was a social studies teacher at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia. She didn't show up for her first day of classes after weeks of preparing, signaling co-workers and friends to her missing.
This story is developing.
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