11.   Overweight and often unkempt, Yarmila did not seem to care about her appearance, one friend testified.

12.   Silva held onto to her mother and sobbed while her friend testified.

13.   The Moses Lake assailant used to play at home with his family guns as if they were toys, friends testified in court.

14.   A British teacher being tried for having sex with boys opened his defense Monday with a friend testifying that he treated the youngsters like members of his family.

15.   A friend testified Tuesday she offered murdered German backpacker Simone Schmidl money for a bus ticket so she would not hitchhike on the day she disappeared.

16.   Friends testified that he often dressed like a cowboy and had a macabre fascination with guns and knives.

17.   The day after his ex-wife was slashed to death, O.J. Simpson told a friend he had dreams of killing her, the friend testified Wednesday.

18.   When the friends testified against him, Roberson plea-bargained his future and ended up in Mansfield.