Gabriel Truitt Trial
Investigator Testimony:
Accelerant Under Door
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To ALLOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN – Just before the noon break, District Attorney John Muehl brought Bill Haynes, an origin and cause investigator with Sotera Investigative Group, to the witness stand in the case against Gabriel Truitt, the Oneonta man accused of setting the fire that killed John Heller at his 5 Walling Avenue apartment in December 2018.
“The way the burn and char pattern on the inside of the door,” – of Apartment C on the second floor of the building – “indicated a liquid was splashed there,” he said.
“What kind of liquid?” Muehl asked.
“An accelerant,” Haynes replied.