Prosecutors present evidence from landfill in slaying case

GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO - Prosecutors on Monday presented crime-scene evidence from the home of a man accused of killing his wife and dumping her body in a landfill. <br> <br> Michael Blagg appeared in court for a preliminary hearing, which was to resume on Dec. 24. He is accused of shooting his wife, Jennifer, in the head while she slept on Nov. 13, 2001, and dumping her body in a trash bin. <br> <br> He had reported his wife and their 6-year-old daughter, Abby, missing seven months before Jennifer Blagg&#39;s body was found in the Mesa County landfill June 4. <br> <br> Abby remains missing and is presumed dead. No charges have been filed in her disappearance. <br> <br> Prosecutors also presented evidence found at the landfill and at Blagg&#39;s former workplace. <br> <br> Defense attorneys said no blood from Michael Blagg has been found at the crime scenes. They said much of the evidence was circumstantial. <br> <br> Michael Blagg was arrested on June 5 at his mother&#39;s house in Warner Robins, Ga., and extradited to Colorado. He has been held in the Mesa County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail since then. <br> <br> Public defenders David Eisner and Ken Singer filed court documents claiming prosecutors had unreliable witnesses, conflicting statements from law enforcement officers and evidence that is either unsubstantiated or inadmissible. <br> <br> The documents were in support of a request to reduce Blagg&#39;s bail. Mesa County District Judge David Bottger said he will not rule on the request until the preliminary hearing is complete.

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