Overview

• DeAndre Booker has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and additional charges including tampering, disinterment and concealing a death.
• Roseville Detective Chris Moran testified that security footage shows a man believed to be Booker pushing a cart with a white-sheeted object and what appeared to be an arm into a dumpster.
• Michigan State Police forensic scientist Toni Grusser reported multiple areas in Booker’s residence tested positive for blood but the lab could not identify the source or its age.
• Despite searches at locations such as Pine Tree Acres Landfill, Ashley Elkins’ body remains missing, intensifying reliance on circumstantial and forensic evidence.
• The court will reconvene on Aug. 22 as prosecutors work to more definitively link the video and blood findings to Elkins’ disappearance.