GOLSBY

Prosecutor Ron O’Brien asked her if she returned again. She said she did: “I wanted to know why, because we have a daughter together and that could happen to her.”

She said Golsby told her “He wanted money. He had a job. I didn’t understand it.”

The prosecution presented their last witnesses Monday in Golsby’s weeklong trial. Perhaps the most damning evidence against the 30-yearold is a variety of DNA evidence, GPS data from an ankle-bracelet monitor he wore from a previous crime, gunshot residue on Golsby’s clothing, and his partial confession to police putting him at the scenes of the crimes.

But the testimony from those loyal to him, followed by autopsy photos by a Franklin County deputy coroner, was the most emotional.

Brittney Stepp, a friend of Nickell, testified she’s known Golsby for nine years. She called him Bub. He called her Sis.

In a July visit to the jail, Stepp asked

Golsby about what she had confessed to Nickell.

“Tell us what he said,” urged Jimmy Lowe, Franklin County assistant prosecutor.

Pausing to take a breath, Stepp answered: “He said that he kidnapped her, he robbed her, he raped her, and he shot her ...” Then she broke down in tears.

Lowe asked her to continue: “He shot her and killed her,” she said weeping.

“Did he say where he killed her?” asked Lowe. “At the park,” she replied.

It was the last time the two spoke. Golsby tried to call her. She declined and eventually changed her number.

Both women testified that they had never before heard Golsby mention T.J.

Also testifying Monday were four forensic experts from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, each consecutively describing how gun, clothing, body fluids and DNA were used to connect Golsby — to within one-in-a-trillion certainty — to the crimes.

The last witness was Dr. Donald Pojman, Franklin County