BUCYRUS—Dr. Jeffrey Hudson, a Deputy Coroner with the Lucas County Coroner’s Office, presented the autopsy report on the murder victim, Cynthia Jo Heath.

Robert Pinyerd is on trial for murder and aggravated murder in Heath’s February 2022 death.

Dr. Hudson told jurors that Heath died on February 24, 2022. She was pronounced dead at 9:05 pm.

The autopsy took place on February 26, 2022.

The cause of her death was multiple gunshot wounds. There was bruising around and below her eyelids. There was a defect in her bottom left ear due to a gunshot. The initial gunshot caused bruising to her right eye. A bullet was located and retrieved following an X-ray.

Heath suffered 7-8 rib fractures. She had defensive wounds that included a fractured finger on her left hand, cuts and lacerations on the back of her hands, and her right elbow.

Dr. Hudson noted blunt-force trauma to her nose consistent with her broken glasses.

There were a total of three gunshot wounds. Heath was shot on the left side of her head, back of her head, and a bullet was recovered from the right back soft tissue and the front of her brain.

Cotton batting or stuffing used in a blanket or quilt appeared in every entrance wound and two wound paths.

“There was some object in between the muzzle of the gun and her skin. The bullet was shot through something before it entered the skin,”Hudson said.

In other testimony, Stewart Watkins, a forensic specialist with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, examined three phones. He used Cell Bright software to provide in-depth data from the phones. Watkins showed the jury that content on the cell phone found in Robert Pinyerd’s possession was erased. A factory reset wiped the phone clean. He retrieved data from the other phone. It was last connected to the Wi-Fi router at Heath’s home at 11:14 am on the day of her death.

Former Crestline Police Chief Jeff Shook told the jury he created a social media post asking residents to help locate Pinyerd.

Tips led them to the Mansfield home of Pinyerd’s brother, Eugene “Jimmy” Flinder, and a laundromat. Pinyerd was arrested the next day with two cell phones in his possession. No gun was found.While Detective Kitzmiller searched Flinder’s home, Chief Shook interviewed Pinyerd.

“He was extremely high, extremely intoxicated… He was incapacitated by narcotics.” Shook testified. The jury saw clips from the interview that spanned over three hours.

Pinyerd repeatedly denied any involvement in Heath’s murder. Shook left him alone in the interview room, and footage showed Pinyerd stuffing something into his pants. When they returned to the interview, Shook and other officers found a stash of Suboxone in his pants.

Testimony continues in the Crawford County Common Pleas Court on Thursday.