The prosecution

Before she vanished after Aug. 24 2004, Tener lived in a suburban West Palm Beach trailer park near Barrow.

In the first trial, McGuire testified she went to her daughter’s home a few days after she went missing. The mom said she found Tener’s car parked in the driveway, and her driver’s license, money and jewelry inside the residence.

McGuire said her daughter never would have fled without any notice to her family, and it was also suspicious that Tener never picked up a paycheck from her job as a maid.

Prosecutors accuse Barrow of killing the woman in a drunken rage after a party he hosted at his Drexel Road trailer. They say Tener’s DNA was recovered from three blood stains in Barrow’s van: on the passenger door and seat, and on a cell phone found in the back.

The star witness in the case is Barrow’s live-in girlfriend, Peggy LaSalle, who wasn’t at the party because she spent the night at a drug rehabilitation facility.

But LaSalle, at the last trial, testified Barrow confessed to her that he killed Tener and disposed of the body.

In this account, Tener came to Barrow’s trailer after his guests left and made sexual advances toward him. Barrow, though, despised Tener because she offered LaSalle pills despite her drug abuse problem, court records show.

Angered, he grabbed Tener by the neck and threw the 4-foot-11, 100-pound woman out the door of his trailer. She hit her head on a railing and started bleeding, prosecutor Aleathea