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Phone calls examined, testimony slows in Brossard trial

ELKHORN -- Lawyers used phone records this morning to try to trace Dawn Brossard’s final steps.

Attorneys went through a minute-by-minute account of calls made Oct. 24, 1997, the day Dawn Brossard disappeared, and Oct. 25, 1997, the day her car was found outside the Burlington bank where she worked.

The calls included numbers dialed from Dawn’s cell phone and the bank to party and rental stores, as well as two former lovers, her own home and her husband’s cell phone, among other numbers. Records did not indicate who made the calls, but investigators believe they were placed by Dawn

The color-coded timeline prepared by Walworth County Sheriff’s Detective John Ennis also includes calls to and from Dawn Brossard’s home with her husband, David Brossard, who is accused of her murder.

Calls also were cataloged to and from Action Marine, where David Brossard worked.

Lawyers used the timeline to lay foundation in the trial of David Brossard, which is being held in Walworth County. But, as of mid-morning, attorneys on either side had done little to connect dots on how the calls could support or undermine the idea that David Brossard killed his wife, who was missing for nearly six years.

Defense attorney Charles Blumenfield acknowledged the painstaking pace.

“I know this is testimonial drudgery. I’m sorry to have it seem so boring,” he joked to Ennis and the jury.

Testimony is expected to continue this afternoon. Prosecutor Phillip Koss could be done with his case by Wednesday, when Blumenfield is expected to call witnesses.

The trial, which began last week, could conclude this week.

Editor’s note: The Kenosha News, Racine Journal-Times and Janesville Gazette are teaming up in a cooperative effort to cover the trial of David Brossard in Elkhorn. Each day, each newspaper will carry shared coverage of the trial, and information also will be available at the papers’ Web sites.