Jurors see photos of children taken after the fire

CONCORD - Several jurors cried as prosecutors showed graphic photos of Daniel and Addison Macemore taken hours after the fire that took their lives.

Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Deputy Sgt. Tim Culp, who had taken the photos, testified Monday about evidence found at the crime scene in the capital murder case of Lisa Louise Greene.

Greene is charged with arson and the murder of her two children, Daniel, 10, and Addison, 8, in a Jan 10, 2006, Midland mobile home fire. Both children died of carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation. Greene could face the death penalty if found guilty.

Prosecutors introduced more than 40 photos taken by Culp the morning of the fire, including six that showed the children’s bodies and one that showed footprints on the wall.

Greene cried loudly as prosecutors showed an enlarged photo of the bodies to jurors.

Other photos shown to jurors were of two fire extinguishers that were inside the home at the time of the fire, two phones that were in Greene’s bedroom at the time of the fire and a large, mostly empty jewelry box in the master bedroom. First responders testified earlier in the trial that Greene was wearing a large amount of jewelry when they responded to the home.

Greene’s defense attorneys, Lisa Dubs and Robert Campbell, will begin cross-examination questioning of Culp today.

Jerry Macemore, Greene’s former brother-in-law, testified Monday that Greene got angry at the children and called Addison a “whore” when he saw them at a Cabarrus County Wal-Mart a few months before the fatal fire.

Darren Macemore, the children’s father, and Mary Beth Burr, one of Daniel’s former teachers, testified Monday about Greene’s treatment of the children.

Greene’s attorneys said in opening statements that Greene had a great deal of family support in caring for the children and that she was a loving, doting mother