"It wasn't accidental blood," Galasso told jurors. When crime-scene detectives sprayed Luminol - a chemical that detects trace-blood evidence - in the couple's home, they found a trail of blood that appeared to be recently wiped clean, according to Assistant State Attorney Jean-Paul Galasso. Moringiello is charged with the second-degree murder of his wife, Hattie "Fern" Bergeler. In opening statements delivered Wednesday, prosecutors accused retired aeronautical engineer Donald Moringiello, 64, of shooting his wife four times in the chest, wrapping her in a white king-size sheet, tying her neck and head to heavy cinder blocks, and dumping her body in a bay near their affluent Fort Myers Beach community. FORT MYERS, Florida (Court TV) - A trail of blood found in the home of a murdered Florida woman is just one of the many clues implicating her husband in her killing, prosecutors say.
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