Mezzaluna’s weekend bar manager, Karen Crawford, was up next. She testified that Nicole and her party left the restaurant between 8:30 and nine. Shortly afterward, she’d gotten a call from “the older woman in the party”—obviously Juditha Brown—saying she’d lost her glasses. Karen found them lying by the curb outside the restaurant and sealed them in an envelope. “About five minutes later, there was another phone call,” she said. This one from Nicole.
