SARA CARLIN - Jack Daniels six to eight shots in a 30-minute period

Blain talked about how Sara deeply missed Brendan and wrote this in a letter found after her death.

He also referred to a passage in the letter in which she talked about need to make herself numb to the pain she was feeling.

Blain said she had been trying to do this with drugs and alcohol and to drive this point home Blain called Hayleigh Smith-Nevins to testify.

Nevins, a friend of the family, who Sara had often confided in following her brother's death, talked about an encounter she had with Sara in 2006.

During this encounter Nevins said Sara came to her home where she did between six to eight shots of Jack Daniels in a 30-minute period.

On another occasion, Nevins said Sara tried to do cocaine in Nevins' home, but before she could a horrified Nevins took the drugs from her and flushed them down the toilet.

Nevins said she searched Sara's purse later that night and discovered a handful of what appeared to be ecstasy tablets.

"Sara said these weren't hers and that she would be on the hook for them if I flushed them, too," said Nevins. "So I returned them."

Nevins also talked about a conversation she had with Sara that year in which Sara expressed a desire to be with Brendan.