The Lagoon Park murder trial took a sober turn yesterday as the sister of one of the defendants testified on her role as a Police scene of crime investigator.

Polocewoman Patrice Hollis was sent to the scene of where the body of Mr. Stanley Lee was found on August 9, 2003 and collected some of the items that would become evidence in the case against her brother Terranz Sidney (Monster) Smith, James Alan (Spooks) Dill and Robert Blair Tucker.

Once she took the stand, P.c. Hollis quickly gave the oath and gave her name, rank and Police attachment without being prompted.

Crown counsel Juan Wolffe halted P.c. Hollis and said: ?Let me get this out of the way first. P.c. Hollis do you know any of the defendants??

?Yes,? the plainclothes officer said. ?Terranz Smith.?

?And how do you know him?,? Mr. Wolffe asked. ?He?s my brother,? P.c. Hollis replied as several jurors shifted their gaze back and forth between the two.

P.c. Hollis explained that it was she who collected a cigarette butt, a partially smoked cigarette, a sneaker and other items found in Lagoon Park on the afternoon of August 9.

She also accepted three containers of ?insects? from former Government Pathologist John Obafunwa. Dr. Obafunwa has testified that he invited forensic entomologist John Haglund to Bermuda to examine maggots on the body to determine the time of death.

Smith?s lawyer Ed Bailey declined to cross-examine P.c. Hollis.

And the policewoman explained to Dill?s lawyer, Liz Christopher, that while she did attend many of the briefings held by the Police Major Incident unit, she did not know who was in charge of the investigation because ?there were so many different entities? involved. Smith, Dill and Tucker deny killing the mysterious Mr. Lee. The Crown alleges he died after a drug deal turned sour.

Prosecutors believe the burly American ex-con was the facilitator in the importation of cocaine which was found to be of poor quality.

Relations deteriorated when he demanded the return of the remaining drugs and money for him to return to the US.

Mr. Lee ? known to the US Federal Bureau of Prisons by that name, ?Eddie Montalvo? to New York State Corrections and Sean Russells in Bermuda ? was found in an advanced state of decay after Smith told Police while in custody for another matter.

Yonkers, New York, Police Detective Frank Pellegrino took the stand and told the court that after he was told ?there was a homicide that occurred in Bermuda? he was sent to Apt. 8S, at 679 Warburton Avenue in Yonkers where he met a Shawanna Lee.

No further details was given on that meeting or who Ms Lee is or her connection to Stanley Lee. Det. Pellegrino was also the Bermuda Police Service?s main contact in the US for collecting information on Mr. Lee and held prison medical and dental records for Mr. Lee ? either under that name or one of his aliases ? for local detectives to collect.

And it was he who went to the New York State Bureau of Vital Statistics where he obtained birth certificate J343455 for Edward Stanley Lee, born in New York City on April 11, 1964.

The jury also saw a Bermuda Immigration Arrivals Card in the name of Sean Russells ? giving his birth date as April 11, 1964 ? of Pleasantville, New Jersey.

He arrived in Bermuda on July 6, 2001 and intended to stay for six nights at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess for a vacation.

Det. Con. Deon Burrows said she was sent to the Government computer department to retrieve the record ?in the name of Sean Russells? and would later return to seek information on another person ? whom she did not name.

When Tucker?s lawyer, Larry Scott, asked Det. Con. Burrows ?in the regular police briefings that you attended, did other names related to this investigation arise that might have been eliminated??, she replied that she ?does not recall?.

Det. Con. Burrows gave the same answer when Mr. Scott asked: ?Did you ever hear discussion among your colleagues about angels coming into Bermuda?? and ?In those briefings did you ever hear discussions that these matters might have been the result of a hit ? an assassination from outside, a hit job??

The case resumes this morning before Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller.