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cleaned and closed up the shop and headed to Zumot’s Addison Avenue home. When they arrived, Chaalan noticed the smell of cigarette smoke in the house, which he found strange because he knew Schipsi generally didn’t smoke cigarettes. Zumot allegedly told him that Schipsi sometimes smoked and that he didn’t like her smoking in the house. Chaalan stayed inside the house for about 15 minutes and mediated a discussion between Zumot and Schipsi. He left at about 2:45 a.m.

Prosecutor Chuck Gillingham said he believes that Zumot is the only person who saw or heard from Schipsi between that morning and the time her body was discovered that evening. She did not go to work on Oct. 15 and did not give a friend a ride to a post-doctoral appointment, as previously scheduled. At about 6:40 p.m., less than an hour after Zumot left his courtmandated class in San Jose for domestic-violence offenders, the cottage at 969 Addison Ave. was in flames. Geragos maintained his client’s innocence this week and pointed to Chaalan’s characterization of the

Oct. 14 argument between Zumot and Schipsi as a “small disagreement.� Chaalan also allegedly told police that Zumot loved Schipsi and that he was planning to take a trip with her on an upcoming weekend, Geragos noted. After Chaalan left the cottage on the morning of Oct. 15, he and Zumot swapped a few text messages. At about 3:42 a.m., Zumot allegedly sent Chaalan the message, “She is Kool now and honestly she has a clean heart. I shouldn’t drink and act the fool. I love her.� Chaalan also reportedly told police that he thought Zumot was “an honest man.�

Geragos also dismissed evidence from the arson investigation indicating that several items of Zumot’s clothing had traces of accelerant after the fire. Geragos pointed to an analysis from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which tested the same items of clothing that the accelerant-sniffing dog, Rosie, smelled but did not find evidence of gasoline on them. Gillingham said the clothing had some substance on them, but not enough for the ATF test to find them “positive.� Geragos said the analysis essentially disproved Rosie’s findings.

“You now have absolute proof that either the dog was hungry or there was something else going on,� Geragos said. But Gillingham said all evidence points to Zumot, who has a history of domestic violence, who argued with Schipsi the night before her death and who police believe was the last person to see Schipsi alive. “Unfortunately, it’s an all-toocommon scenario,� Gillingham said. N Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner can be e-mailed at gsheyner@ paweekly.com.

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