Weeks later, John Gaumer would tell detectives that his date seemed to go quite well.

It was just before New Year?s Eve last year when Gaumer and the woman he met through MySpace.com hit the bars in Mount Vernon, bouncing between Red Maple and a pool hall. As he told police in a statement played Wednesday in court, Gaumer bought Josie Brown cigarettes and she kissed him. They drank red sangria and white wine.