Prosecutors in the case against the accused killer of Phylicia Barnes will show a video at trial depicting the teenage victim “intoxicated and engaging in sexual relations” with her accused killer and others, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Barnes, a 16-year-old from North Carolina, went missing from Baltimore, near Pikesville, three days after Christmas 2010, while she was in Baltimore visiting her half-sister. Barnes’s body was found in the Susquehanna River in April 2011.
The search for Barnes spread out across Maryland, reaching Howard County in the spring of 2011.
During a Maryland State Police-led search of the Patapsco Valley State Park on April 9, .
Hagegeorge died from natural causes and exposure, according to police.
Less than two weeks later, workers on the Conowingo Dam reported to police that they thought they saw a body in the Susquehanna River. . The State Medical Examiner’s office ruled her death a homicide.
Barnes’s half-sister’s boyfriend, Michael Maurice Johnson, 28, faces first-degree murder charges in Barnes’s death. His trial is scheduled to begin in late January.
Prosecutors say Johnson suffocated Barnes, and then moved her body in a 35-gallon plastic tub, the Sun reported.
