Theopulus Gordon could have prevented the death of Eric Robinson last September, but he didn’t.On the third day of Michael McClellan’s stalking trial, his ex-wife testified he harassed her after their divorce in the late 1990s.
His ex-wife, now remarried, told the Allen Superior Court jury that when she left McClellan, he poured bleach on all her clothes and then proceeded to engage in a telephone-calling and physically following campaign reminiscent of the behavior that led to his arrest.
“I left, and he followed me, calling and harassing me,” she said, tearfully. She was reluctant to even look at McClellan when asked to identify him for the jury.
In January 2011, Allen County prosecutors charged McClellan, 42, of Waterloo, of three counts of stalking.
Two are Class C felonies punishable by up to eight years in prison that accuse the former Allen County resident of putting his ex-girlfriend in fear of being seriously injured, sexually assaulted or killed, as well as violating a protective order. The third charge, a Class D felony punishable by up to three years, accuses McClellan of stalking his ex-girlfriend’s now-husband, stemming from repeated threatening emails McClellan sent him, according to court documents.
McClellan’s ex-wife’s testimony Thursday ended a day that focused largely on forensic evidence of the telephone calls and the emails prosecutors say he sent the victim in the stalking case.
A representative from Sprint testified that their records showed his telephone called the victim’s telephone 225 times in October 2006 – with 115 of those calls coming between 9 a.m. and 11:04 a.m. on Oct. 15, 2006.
On another day, call records showed someone using McClellan’s phone number called nine times, beginning at 3:19 a.m., according to testimony.
McClellan also allegedly called his own phone repeatedly – making calls to himself that lasted 25 minutes and 12 minutes, according to testimony.
The trial is expected to continue through today.
