Two defense witnesses have

testified in court that they saw Beverley Watson at the Peachtree City

Kmart in the weeks after she was reported missing from her Fayette home

in January of 1997.

But the accounts of Arthur

Jafferies and Sherry Childress Newsome differed in several ways.

Both however, said they spoke

with a woman at the store and she asked them about coloring her hair when

she found out they were both hairdressers.

Jafferies said he saw Beverley

Watson's face on a missing poster at the Kmart on the same day and he

added that he told Newsome at the store that he thought that woman was

Beverley Watson.

Newsome said however, that

the two discussed the matter days later on the phone when he called her

after noticing Beverley Watson's picture on television.

"I have no doubt at all

the woman we saw was Beverley Watson," said Jafferies who is 51 and

admitted to having memory problems due to a medical condition.

Jafferies said Beverley Watson

"disappeared as quickly as she was there."

Newsome said "We didn't

realize it together he called me." She added that she wasn't absolutely

positive that the woman they saw was Beverley Watson.

Both Jafferies and Newsome

said the woman they spoke to appeared nervous and anxious when they encountered

her at the store.

Fulton County Prosecutor Sheila

Ross pointed out to the jury that Jafferies had been convicted of burglary

in 1990.

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