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Vanessa Pham's bloodied t-shirt presented during murder trial

Wednesday - 8/21/2013, 7:34am  ET

Pham shirt (Pool cam)
Fairfax County Crime scene detective Derek Hardy shows the jury Vanessa Pham's slashed t-shirt she was wearing the day of her murder. (Pool cam)
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FAIRFAX, Va. - Prosecutors presented bloody evidence during the second day of trial against the man accused of murdering college student Vanessa Pham.



The jury Tuesday heard from the medical examiner who described Pham's wounds.

As Dr. Wayne Williams began to describe the autopsy report, Pham's family got emotional. They wrapped their arms around each other, crying. The court deputy brought the family a box of tissues to dry their tears.


NBC Washington reports that the medical examiner said he "noticed numerous sharp, force injuries," which were both stab wounds and incise wounds. A single-edged knife caused the stab wounds that killed Pham.



Also, jurors saw the weapon, a bloodied knife blade.

Pham had a 'gaping hole' in her larynx (Video courtesy ABC 7)



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