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Windsor trial continues PDF Print E-mail
Written by Gina Lindsey (O-N-E Staff Reporter)   
Thursday, 21 February 2008

Christina Hall told the jury on Thursday how Robert Windsor made repeated trips to a drug dealer’s house to buy crack cocaine to smoke at her apartment in August of 2005.  She told them about the high-powered rifle she found in the back of her car and a trip she made with Windsor to an ATM machine.

They are events which the prosecuting attorneys believe immediately followed the disappearance of Stephany Jo White.  Windsor is charged with her murder.

Hall remembered the day Windsor first showed up at her duplex-style apartment off Lee Cline Road on Aug. 18, 2005.  She said he showed up with her brother Charles Anthony Hall wanting to smoke crack cocaine at her place.  When Charles Hall told her he knew Windsor from work, she agreed.

Her story corroborated much of what Charles Hall told the jury the day before.  Hall said she, her brother, her boyfriend “Milkbone” and Windsor smoked crack cocaine from the time Windsor showed up about 5 p.m. until late into the evening.  She said her brother and Windsor were constantly leaving to go to ATMs and buy more crack cocaine.

At some point in the night, Hall said she noticed a pornographic magazine Windsor had brought in with him.  She said it had an article in it titled, “Ten ways to kill a person without them feeling it.”  Hall also found jewelry on the table, which she took to a pawn shop to get money to buy more drugs.

She said when Windsor was at her apartment, constantly hovering around the windows.

“He was wigging out, because he was high on crack,” Hall said.

She said “wigging out” or “geeking out” refers to someone in an extreme state of paranoia as a result of smoking crack cocaine.

The highs would last only 10 to 15 minutes, she said, so Windsor and her brother were constantly going to ATMs to get cash to buy more crack cocaine from their drug dealer “Bones.”

At one point, Hall said her brother left by himself, and Windsor asked her to go with him to an ATM machine.  She said they took the Ford Taurus he was driving to Propst gas station off Swinging Bridge Road near N.C. 16.

She said Windsor went inside and came out with money in hand, a pornographic magazine and two energy drinks in his hands.

Hall said the next stop was Bones’ house where she walked in and bought $80 worth of crack cocaine with money Windsor handed her.  She said they went back and smoked that crack.

Later in the night, she said her brother and Windsor left.  She told the jury they spent all night in the red Honda Civic she shared with Charles Hall.  She said she remembered calling and cussing her brother out because she needed the car to go to court.  Hall said they returned with the car about 8 a.m. and when she got back from court, they were gone.

She and Milkbone went to Bones’ apartment to look for Charles Hall and Windsor, but she didn’t find them.  While she was there, she opened the back of her car where Hall said she found a high-powered rifle with a knife strapped to the end.

“I was sort of freaked out, because I was on probation,” Hall told the jury.

She said she was concerned about what would happen to her, Milkbone and her brother if law enforcement found the rifle, so she and Milkbone drove to a river access point along the Catawba River and tossed it in.

Hall said she later showed sheriff’s deputies where she threw the gun into the river after she gave a statement to police.

Milkbone, whose real name is James Jernigan, also testified on Thursday and corroborated Hall’s testimony.

The trial continues on today.

Last Updated ( Friday, 21 March 2008 )
 
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