San Diego

Jurors in the Craig Peyer retrial asked Thursday that testimony from four prosecution witnesses be reread to them. In their second full day of deliberations, the six-man, six-woman jury listened again to testimony from Traci and Scott Koenig and Traci’s parents, Richard and Therese Reichner.

The Koenigs testified that they saw a California Highway Patrol car stop a light-colored Volkswagen Beetle at the Mercy Road exit on Interstate 15 the night Cara Knott was killed. Prosecutors argued during the trial that the couple witnessed Peyer, a former CHP officer, pulling Knott over just moments before the young college student was killed. Defense attorney Robert Grimes, meanwhile, pointed out inconsistencies in the Koenigs’ testimony and argued that they may have fabricated the episode.

Peyer, 38, is accused of strangling Knott and throwing her body from an abandoned highway bridge near the Mercy Road off-ramp. Knott’s body was found Dec. 28, 1986, in a dry creek bed 65 feet below the Old U.S. 395 bridge. Her Volkswagen was parked nearby with the keys in the ignition and the driver’s window partly rolled down.

In February, jurors in Peyer’s first trial deadlocked 7 to 5 in favor of conviction.