MAYVILLE – A bloody footprint found inside the home of slain couple, Gordon and Joyce Skinner, matched the shoes worn by Davide Coggins.

The observation, made by Detective Floyd Kent with the Jamestown Police Department, was one of many revealed Friday in Chautauqua County Court as a host of evidence collectors took the witness stand.

Kent, in addition to the bloody footprint found at the top of the Skinners’ staircase, said he saw matching footprints outside the home as well, imprinted in the soil.

Public Defender Nathaniel Barone, who is representing Coggins, countered by saying that Kent did not have the footwear of Coggins’ alleged cohorts – Joshua McCormick, Steven Todd and Ricky Knickerbocker. Therefore, according to Barone, it is possible that the footprints belonged to somebody else.

David Foley, Chautauqua County district attorney, called four other witnesses to the stand, each a member of the Chautauqua County forensic investigation team.

Two members, David Arnone with the Ellicott Police Department and Noel Guttman with the Lakewood-Busti Police Department, found a zip tie on the second floor and what appeared to be blood spattered on the staircase wall, respectively.

Foley has previously asserted that the victims had their hands tied with zip ties.

Another member, Dennis Gould with the New York State Police in Fredonia, said he found a locked safe in the Skinners’ upstairs apartment, containing $18,000 in cash.

He also collected an empty, soot-covered gas can from the basement that still smelled of gasoline.

Barone emphasized to the jury that the safe, though containing a lot of money, was not stolen.

Another member, Martin Bova Jr., formerly of the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office, collected documentation for a Bose stereo system and an empty iPod box from underneath the television in the basement.

The trial will resume at 1:30 p.m.