The jury watched Miller, accused of shooting her father Leon Wilson six times, as she and her attorneys reviewed the pictures, which were used to illustrate the medical examiner’s testimony.

Miller nodded her head agreeably with her attorneys, James and Robert Davis, as the three reviewed the photos among themselves.

Family and friends of Leon Wilson gasped as they caught glimpses of the photos being shown to jurors.

District Attorney Bill Kenerly and Medical Examiner Karen Chancellor used the photographs to describe how the bullets entered and wounded Leon Wilson.

“It is possible that these eight gunshot wounds are the product of six bullets,” Chancellor said in court Monday.

The prosecution contends that Miller shot her father with a .357 magnum revolver — a gun that holds six bullets — that she and her husband owned.

Investigators found the gun in Kathy and Kenneth Miller’s Old MocksvilleRoad home. State Bureau of Investigation Agent Wayne Bridgers testified that the gun had “powder on the end of the cylinder towards the barrel,” indicating it had been fired recently.

Bridgers also testified that on Oct. 22, 1998, the day Leon Wilson’s body was discovered in his home, Kenneth and Kathy Miller were at the Rowan County Sheriff’s Department to be interviewed.

Bridgers said he and two other investigators were going to follow the couple to their home from the Sheriff’s Department to inspect the Millers’ gun.As the cars left the courthouse on Liberty Street, Bridgers said Kenneth Miller pulled over in the county parking lot and walked back to the investigators vehicle.

“Kathy had not said a word to him about her father being murdered and (Kenneth Miller) asked if she had been informed of that,” Bridgers said. “I said ‘Yes’ and he got back in his car.”

Other witness testimony gave the same impression of Kathy Miller showing no reaction to her father’s death.

Her sister, Lee Ann Wilson, testified about learning of her father’s death and flying immediately here from Atlanta. She immediately went to Kathy Miller’s house. After the first five or 10 minutes, Kathy Miller “told me that my father had taken money out of his account to give to her because he was going to sue Joe Allen,” Lee Ann Wilson’s boyfriend and business partner.

Miller made no mention of the nature of their father’s death, Lee Ann Wilson testified.

On cross-examination, Lee Ann Wilson said, however, that the sisters talked about “how horrible it was that he (Leon Wilson) died” and the two cried together.

Lee Ann Wilson also testified that she attended a family reunion, where Kathy Miller says she lost her house and car keys, in a Statesville park.

But Special Agent Bridgers testified that Kenneth Miller, on the phone with his wife in jail, said, “Yeah, that’s when we were in Kannapolis two weeks ago,” when she lost her keys.

The defense questioned Lee Ann Wilson and her boyfriend/business partner Joe Allen Jr. about their involvement with a $33,000 investment Leon Wilson made with Allen’s Genesis Fund.

Allen said Wilson invested the money with the agreement that he couldn’t get it back for a year, around October 1998. Yet, in July, Wilson asked for a $3,000 “loan” early.

Allen gave Wilson $1,000 in July, August and September, and Wilson asked for another $3,000 in October.

When they said he would have to wait, Leon Wilson became enraged.

“He (Leon Wilson) told me he was going to come to Atlanta and kill me…and Lee Ann,” Allen testified.

Through his cross examination, James Davis tried to raise questions about Allen’s possible involvement in Leon Wilson’s death. The defense attorney questioned automated teller receipts from Allen’s bank account in Atlanta and two credit card receipts.