Day three of the murder trial of Caleb Cannon involved testimony from an investigator who went through evidence collected at the victims home and a former cellmate. Cannon is accused of killing the mother of his child, 37-year-old Nikki Burgess, in Nashville in 2014. Burgess is a former resident of Cumberland County, Tennessee.

Officer Charles Linville testified that officers found presumptive blood on the floor at the foot of Burgess’ bed, on a fitted sheet in a laundry basket and on a towel in the hallway. Photographs were then shown showing brass knuckles and extension cords in the bedroom.

Brian Breuington, Cannon’s cell mate, testified that Cannon told him he killed Burgess. “He had showed up earlier that day, and when he arrived at the house, there was another kid. He sent them both outside, had the house to himself. He followed her to the bedroom, took out a pair of brass knuckles, struck here in the back of the head. He took a cord that he ripped off an appliance and wrapped it around her neck and strangled her to death,” Breuington said in court. “He took the body and put it in the bathroom. He retrieved a tarp, put her body in the trunk and took her back to Knoxville” Breuington said. “When he took her back to Knoxville, he took the body to a farm and put it in a machine that ground up her body that was meant for feeding pigs.” Cannon’s defense attorney Jim Todd said this is a matter of “he said, she said.” The trial will continue tomorrow in Nashville.