Donald Fredres’s DNA was on the gun linked to the murders of 62-year olds Brenda and Gregory Barnes. The forensic analyst who testified about that this morning said she couldn’t determine when the DNA got there. Fredres could have handled the gun hours, weeks, or months before the crime.
Someone using the Sandwich man’s cell phone looked up his ex-wife’s name and address on Google. The investigator who testified about that said there’s no way to be sure if Fredres did.
Also this morning, jurors heard from a crime lab analyst who studies bullets. He concluded the shell casings found at the crime scenes came from the gun used to kill the Barnses. So did two of the bullets. Seven bullets were deformed too much to be sure about, leaving the analyst unable to say whether any of them came from the same gun.
Fredres is accused of killing the Barnses last March and then trying to kill their daughter, from whom he’d divorced.
Don Fredres, 38, Sandwich, accused of killing his former in-laws in their Sheridan home walks into the courtroom with his Assistant Public Defender attorney Ryan Hamer at the La Salle County Government Complex on Thursday, April 28, 2022 in Ottawa. Shaw Media photo for LaSalle County courts media pool