By Peter Hecht
phecht@sacbee.com
A friend of slaying suspect Steven Paul Colver testified today in El Dorado Superior Court that Colver showed him a bloody knife and told him he delivered fatal wounds to the mother of his then-14-year-old girlfriend.
Matthew Widman, 19, said Colver, now 21, and Tylar Marie Witt, now 16, described the killing of Joanne Witt in the early hours of June 12, 2009.
Widman said the trio were smoking marijuana and doing cocaine at Colver's father's house when Colver went to his car and retrieved a butcher knife in a shopping bag. He said Colver laid the bag and knife on a kitchen table and said he "killed Ty's mom."
Widman said Colver told him, "I stabbed her in her stomach and throat."
Joanne Witt, 47, died from at least 20 stab wounds - including to her chest, neck and shoulder - after she was attacked in the bedroom of her home in a gated community of El Dorado Hills.
She had earlier evicted Colver, a boarder in her house, and filed a statutory rape complaint against Colver.
Colver faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder.
Witt, who is due to testify in the case, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a plea bargain that could make her eligible for parole at 29.
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