Testimony Continues In Body Dumping Case

The Lake Elsinore man and Meadowbrook woman accused of fatally stabbing an Anza man and dumping his body in a field apparently moved into his house afterward, witnesses testified Monday.

Paul "Pete" Cline was killed sometime between Feb. 14 and March 5, 2006 at his home at 36990 Old Cary Road. Chris Darrel Duve, 31, of Lake Elsinore, and Angela May Shaver, 48, of Meadowbrook, were charged with his murder.

The victim's brother, Michael Cline, was the first family member to notice something was wrong, he testified Monday.

He called the victim on March 8., his birthday, but nobody picked up, and the answering machine's message changed.

"It was a female voice that said, 'Please leave a message,'" the brother testified.

Michael Cline called several times in the following week and left numerous messages, but he never got a call back. He decided to call the fire department to go check on his brother.

When Fire Captain Mort Allen arrived and honked the horn on the fire engine, a woman walked out of Cline's single-wide trailer, the captain testified.

Allen asked the woman where Cline was, and she told him he moved in with a friend, Allen testified.

"She said he moved, and she did not know where he moved to," Allen said.

The captain let Cline talk to the woman on his cell phone, and she said she was renting the home. She did not know where Paul Cline lived, and she was making payments to a PO box, Cline testified.

"(Michael Cline) said, 'That's not normal, something's wrong,'" Allen testified.

Cline then called the sheriff's department and filed a missing person's report.

Attorneys made opening statements for the second time Monday at the in French Valley because one of the two juries needed for the trial was excused.

Each defendant needs a separate jury, but members of Shaver's jury said they made up their minds before testimony began, one defense attorney said.

Duve's jury remains the same. Testimony is expected to progress through the week.