POTTSVILLE (AP) – The daughter of a woman killed in eastern Pennsylvania a year ago says she returned home from school to find her mother lying dead in their bathroom with her throat cut.

The testimony came as the trial opened Monday in Schuylkill County in the case of 42-year-old Luis Nunez-Calderon, who is charged in the April 2014 death of Wendy Contreras-Hernandez.The (Pottsville) Republican-Herald reports that District Attorney Christine Holman called the slaying “a willful, deliberate, premeditated, malicious killing.”As the jurors studied the photos and took notes, accused killer Nunez-Calderon tilted his head toward one of two women who took turns translating the testimony of state troopers and a deputy coroner.Through color photos projected onto a screen, jurors followed a trail of drops and smears of blood from the front door of a tidy half-double house at 518 W. Centre St. in Shenandoah, to the small second-floor bathroom where the slender body of Contreras-Hernandez lay in a pool of blood.Witnesses said they saw the two arguing and the woman tried to flee, but Nunez-Calderon dragged her back inside.Upon cross-examination by his public defender, one said she didn’t know what the two were saying because they were speaking Spanish.According to testimony translated from Spanish, Calderone went to a bar across the strees from the murder scene, drank beer and asked for a cab.The cab never came so a patron drove him to Hazleton to a van transport company. Calderone took a van to Hazleton.The defendant has said the evidence will prove his innocence.

Chris Parker contributed to this report.