The state is getting close to wrapping up its case against a woman accused of killing her daughter -in-law outside the Target shopping center in Snellville.
WSB's Sandra Parrish reports among the final witnesses have been detectives who worked the case the night of April 26, 2009.
Snellville Police Investigator Dean Boone testified he interviewed defendant Joanna Hayes at her Lilburn home within days of Heather Strube's murder.
"She said that she didn't think Heather was a good parent morally and wasn't good enough to raise her grandchild," he says.
But the defense claims police began focusing on Hayes within 24 hours of the murder after they received a phone call from one of Strube's friends implicating the young woman's mother-in-law.
"Before you left the early AM hours of Monday morning, Joanna Hayes was being looked at by Snellville," defense attorney Bruce Morriss asked Boone. "I don't believed she was identified as a suspect at that point in time," he replied.
It was another six months before Hayes would be arrested and charged with the crime.
The state is expected to call other witnesses involved in the investigation today. The defense could begin its case on Thursday.