Testimony continues in Jackson kidnapping, arson trial - KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & Sports

Testimony continues in the trial of the man accused of kidnapping an Oil City woman and setting fire to her car.

On the stand Thursday morning, a cell phone signals analyst testified that calls from Eddie Jackson were tracked in the same area where Tracy Winslow's car was found burning.

John B. Minor told the jury that Jackson's cell phone activity from 1:52 to 2:24 on the morning of Tracy Winslow's disappearance put him within a mile of where her car was found burning. Minor says it would have been impossible for the cell phone to have been in Vivian or Oil City at that time.

Jackson is charged with second degree kidnapping and simple arson in connection with the 30-year-old's disappearance in January 2011. She was taken from outside an Oil City apartment where she lived with her mother and has not been seen since.

Minor's testimony also confirmed investigators belief that Winslow was headed back from Shreveport to Oil City around 11 p.m. on the night before her disappearance.

The prosecution also showed a taped interview that Jackson gave to detectives the day after Winslow's disappearance.  In it he could not explain to investigators why the cell phone records showed he was in the area near where they found Winslow's car burning.  Several times he asserted his innocence saying, "I did not hurt Tracy.  I did not set her car on fire.  I love Tracy."

The state rested its case Thursday evening.  The defense will start to present its case on Friday morning at 8:45 a.m.