Hansen said that she was picked up by a white SUV and driven away and that he never again saw or heard from her. Hansen said he had no idea how Daniels' corpse came to be buried in a shallow grave in the Pine Barrens.
"He said he'd never been to a state forest in New Jersey," Hoar testified.
So Hoar said he asked Hansen if he could explain a traffic accident he had had in Burlington County in October 2005.
"He remained quiet and started looking down and did not respond," Hoar said. "The interview was terminated by his attorney."
The accident, corroborated in videotaped testimony by Medford Township Police officer Robert Carbone, occurred at 10:19 a.m. Oct. 22, 2005, on Route 70 on the border of Medford and Woodland Townships.
It was a short distance from the entrance to the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, where Daniels' body was discovered April 24, 2006. And the date corresponded to one of two dates that Hansen's sister, Kelly, testified that she accompanied her brother to Daniels' secret grave.
Hoar's testimony ended the first week of Hansen's trial on charges of murder and abuse of corpse. The trial resumes Monday before Common Pleas Court Judge Shelley Robins New, when Assistant District Attorney Gail Fairman is expected to finish her case.
Kelly Hansen testified Thursday that her brother confided in her that he had smothered Daniels on May 12, 2005, to prevent her from testifying against him at an impending domestic-abuse trial.
Hansen's attorneys, Timothy J. Tarpey and Michael P. Parkinson, have argued that Kelly Hansen, who has been granted immunity from prosecution, is lying because she feared being charged as an accomplice.
The defense cited Kelly Hansen's first statement to detectives in which she said Hansen told her that Daniels had died of a drug overdose and that he had panicked and buried her.
