As the prosecution lays out the case against Pierre Haobsh in the 2016 triple murder of local herbalist Dr. Henry Han and his wife and daughter, a key piece of evidence for Judge Brian Hill to consider in his decision is a four-hour interrogation video which shows an increasingly agitated Haobsh switch from cool and collected to frantic denial in Detective Jeff McDonald’s interview room.
Picking up where they left off earlier this week, prosecutors Hilary Dozer and Benjamin Ladinig brought Detective McDonald back on the witness stand in Judge Hill’s Department 2 courtroom at Santa Barbara Superior Court.
Much of the conversation in the first portion of the recorded interview between Haobsh and McDonald was small talk, with the feeling of two acquaintances chit-chatting over a beer. Haobsh answered benign questions confidently, smiling and cooperating without hesitation to the detectives’ inquiries.