Trial begins for Christopher M. Clement, charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder in Tucson girl's 2012 abduction and killing.
Pima County prosecutors echoed Sergio Celis' words from the days following his 6-year-old daughter's 2012 disappearance during opening statements Tuesday in the trial of the man accused in Isabel Celis' death.
People are also reading… The family began to search for the little girl, with Sergio Miguel running into the backyard to discover Isabel's window"wide open" with the screen bent, leaning up against the house. Clements called his girlfriend, asking her to dig up a small bag buried in the front yard and call the FBI to tell them he had information in another case.
After several hours with nothing found, Clements told agents to look in an area by a tree and some dense brush. His phone also revealed that he'd called the Celis' home phone number multiple times in October and November 2021 and his iPad revealed hundreds of photos of"scantily-clad little girls," the prosecutor said.
"The defense expects to elicit testimony that somebody other than Mr. Clements is responsible for Isabel's disappearance," Kessler said."Frankly, that person is Sergio."The defense attorney told jurors the property included a courtyard with"very high walls," the only entrance being a large wooden gate that locked from the outside.
Kessler said there was no evidence of any kind of struggle and no evidence that anybody forcibly took Isabel from the home. Kessler admitted that Clements was able to lead authorities to Isabel’s remains, but told jurors there is no evidence of any kind that would connect him to her death.
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