Overview
- With only the state's rebuttal left, the jury is expected to begin deliberations soon.
- Ian Mitcham is on trial for first-degree murder, sexual assault and burglary in the 2015 killing of Allison Feldman in her Scottsdale home.
- Prosecutors say he assaulted Feldman, tried to clean the scene with bleach, and left DNA that matched his profile.
- The defense calls the DNA a misdirection and points to pharmacist James Katsilometes as an alternative suspect who lived nearby and knew Feldman through work.
- Investigators got a break in 2018 using familial DNA, a search for relatives in databases, which led from inmate Mark Mitcham to his brother Ian, and courts later let the DUI-derived DNA stand for trial after finding it would have been discovered lawfully.