“The testimony of Eva Chirumbolo, the key prosecution witness in the case against Karen Severson and Laura Doyle, was designed to divert attention from her own involvement in the death, defense attorney Charles Lloyd said during his closing arguments in the 2-week Pasadena Superior Court murder trial. Severson and Doyle, both 22 and from Arleta, are accused of drowning Michele Avila in a creek in the Big Tujunga Canyon area of Angeles National Forest on Oct. 1, 1985, after claiming she slept with their boyfriends, authorities said. Chirumbolo did not tell Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators about the events surrounding [See More…]