4:15 p.m. The first day of the trial ended almost an hour earlier than expected.

Det. Brandon Cole with the Springfield Police Department was the last witness of the day.

Cole testified about collecting Craig Wood's clothing and a reverse rape kit performed on Wood on Feb. 18, 2014.

Cole said Wood had blood on his shirt and hands and bleach stains on his hat when police picked him up at his home that evening.

3:40 p.m. Craig Wood sat in the interview room of the Springfield Police Department, bouncing his right leg as a detective questioned him about the abduction of Hailey Owens hours earlier.

Footage of the interview — which took place the night of Feb. 18, 2014 — was played for jurors.

For more than 15 minutes, Det. Kevin Shipley prodded Wood, first asking him about his day, then pressing him for details on Hailey's whereabouts.

Wood told him he had a normal day. He said he went to work at Pleasant View Middle School, then came back and had been doing laundry.

Wood said he went to Walmart to pick up cleaning supplies. His dog, Wood said, had "crapped" in his basement so he used bleach to clean it up. The basement drain had gotten clogged, though, so Wood said he got some drain cleaner.

That's when Shipley told Wood that there are multiple witnesses who saw him grab Hailey. Hailey's family is distressed, Shipley said, and her mother is hysterical.

“I know you can tell me where the little girl’s at,” Shipley told Wood.

Wood, sitting with his arms crossed and his legs spread wide, shook his head no.

In the courtroom, Wood watched the video footage of the interview, bouncing his right leg.

3:10 p.m. Sgt. Allen Neal described finding Hailey Owens' body inside Craig Wood's basement.

After police obtained a search warrant for Wood's home on East Stanford Street, Neal and Det. Chris Barb went down to the basement where they had smelled bleach earlier.

Neal said he saw two blue plastic tubs, one resting on top of the other.

Inside the top tub, Neal said he found mail and other documents.

When Neal opened the lower tub, he said he saw a plastic trash bag with what appeared to be a small human body inside.

Neal said he felt around with his gloved hand and confirmed that he was feeling the body of a child, at which point he and Barb got out of the residence so the crime scene processing could begin.

Prosecutors showed the jury pictures of what Neal saw inside the tub.

Hailey's mother Stacey Barfield left the courtroom during Neal's testimony.

2:30 p.m. Sgt. Allen Neal recalled smelling a strong odor of bleach when Craig Wood exited his truck outside his home.

While Wood was being driven to the headquarters of the Springfield Police Department to be questioned about the disappearance of Hailey Owens, Neal and other officers prepared to do an emergency sweep of Wood's home at 1538 E. Stanford St.

Neal took the stand and said he walked to the front of the door and announced he was there.

“Springfield police, is there anybody inside?” Neal asked.

Neal said no one answered and that the only sound he heard was Wood's black dog barking and growling.

Officers went to the back of the house, Neal said, and found the screen door was closed and the back door was open.

They announced themselves again, Neal said, and received no response but barking.

According to Neal, he and the officers entered the home, hoping to find Hailey.

Neal remembered walking down the concrete steps into the small, unfinished basement.

There was water on the floor, Neal said, and a strong odor of bleach.

A box fan was running and there two blue plastic bins stacked atop each other in the corner, Neal said, but no sign of Hailey.

The officers exited the home, put crime scene around the house and waited for a search warrant, Neal said.

1:30 p.m. On the day she was abducted, Hailey Owens took several pictures using her cell phone.

When the prosecutors moved to admit those photos into evidence, Craig Wood's attorney objected.

The attorneys went into a side room to debate with the judge about whether the photos should be admitted. After about 7 minutes, the attorneys came out of the side room and the judge allowed the photos to be shown.

The photos were predominantly selfies that Hailey took that day along with a couple of photos of her friend and some photos of seemingly random things around the house.

It was not said in open court exactly why the defense attorneys objected.

Sgt. Steve Schwind also testified about how he obtained video surveillance from Wood's two trips to Walmart on the evening Hailey was abducted.

Schwind said Wood bought bleach and Liquid Plumr.

12:30 p.m. Sgt. Steve Schwind of the Springfield Police Department was the first witness called after lunch. He described briefly speaking with Craig Wood hours after police say Wood abducted 10-year-old Hailey Owens.

Schwind said he and other police had gone to Wood’s home at 1538 E. Stanford St. at about 8 p.m. on Feb. 18, 2014.

No one was there, Schwind said, so they parked away from the home and waited for Wood to return home.

When Wood pulled into his driveway, a police car pulled up behind Wood’s pickup truck, Schwind said.

As Wood got out of his pickup truck, Schwind said he exited the passenger side of the police car and identified himself.

Wood looked around, Schwind said, then walked toward the back of the truck and tossed a role of duct tape in the truck bed.

Another sergeant asked Wood if he knew why the police had come, Schwind said, and Wood nodded his head up and down.

Wood was wearing a T-shirt, athletic shorts and athletic shoes, Schwind said, so he asked Wood to sit on the ground to make it more difficult for Wood to flee.

According to Schwind, Wood was “nervous, breathing hard — heavy.”

Wood agreed to come police headquarters for an interview, Scwhind said, and rode in a police car.

A detective drove, Wood sat in the front passenger seat and Schwind sat in the seat behind Wood, Schwind said.

According to Schwind, the drive took about 10 minutes, during which time the detective and Wood made small talk.

Wood did not appear to be impaired, Schwind said.

11:25 a.m. An hour-long lunch break began.

11:15 a.m. The next two witnesses dealt with Hailey's cell phone, and admitting that into evidence.

The phone was found in the front yard of Jeremiah Paddock's home on Lombard Street, a few houses down from where Hailey was abducted.

The phone was collected at the scene by Springfield Police officer Kelly Castaneda.

11:05 a.m. Carlos Edwards takes the stand and described seeing the abduction and chasing after a tan Ford Ranger.

Edwards said he and his wife had just gotten home.

"It was a nice day for February so I raked leaves," Edwards said.

While raking, he said he saw a tan Ford Ranger drive past his home four or five times.

Edwards said he saw a girl -- later identified as Hailey Owens -- walking down the sidewalk and looking at what appeared to be a cell phone.

The tan pickup truck returned, Edwards said, and pulled up next to Hailey, who was standing in Edwards' driveway.

Edwards said the driver had his window rolled down and asked the girl where Springfield Street was.

The girl said she didn't know and started walking away, Edwards recalled, and then the driver said: "Hey, come here for a minute."

According to Edwards, as soon as she got close enough, the driver opened his door, grabbed Hailey and drove off.

Edwards said he took off running but a drainage ditch at the edge of his yard stopped him from getting to the truck.

He ran after the truck and yelled, Edwards said, but the truck sped off.

The driver, Edwards said, had a maroon baseball cap on and had gray hair and a beard.

When asked if he saw the driver in the courtroom, Edwards pointed out Craig Wood.

10:20 a.m. The first recess of the day.

9:55 a.m. Michelle Edwards, an eyewitness to the abduction, was the state's next witness.

Edwards testified that she was sitting in her garage on West Lombart Street on Feb. 18, 2014, on hold with the IRS when she saw Hailey walk in front of her house.

Edwards said she did not know Hailey but had seen the girl in the neighborhood before.

Edwards said Craig Wood pulled up in a Ford Ranger pickup truck, asked Hailey where Springfield Street was and then pulled the girl into the truck before speeding away.

With tears running down her face, Edwards said her husband, Carlos, sprinted after Wood and was feet away from reaching the truck before it sped away.

Prosecutors played Edwards' frantic 911 call from moments after the abduction. Edwards provided police with Wood's license plate number, a key piece of evidence that helped investigators track down Wood.

9:48 a.m. The state's first witness was Rick Christmas from Springfield-Greene County 911 Emergency Communications.

The only reason Christmas was called to the stand was so that prosecutors could introduce the 911 call from the abduction into evidence.

9:45 a.m. Inside the drawers of Craig Wood's bedroom dresser, police found a purple folder with disturbing stories and pictures, Wood's defense attorney said.

"And in this purple folder they find handwritten stories," attorney Patrick Berrigan said. "There's stories about sexual fantasies -- two of them about having sex with 13-year-old girls."

Police also find four pictures of young girls, Berrigan said, and all four girls attended the school were Wood worked as an in-school suspension supervisor.

According to Berrigan, two of those girls had the same names as girls in the sexual fantasy stories written by Wood.

Berrigan made these remarks as part of his opening arguments in Wood's trial.

Berrigan agreed with the basic facts outline by Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson in his opening statements: Wood kidnapped, raped and killed Owens in February 2014.

Here's what they disagreed on: Did Wood deliberate before committing those acts?

Berrigan argued no.

According to Berrigan, kidnapping Hailey while she walking home from a friend's home was an impulsive action driven not by conscious thought -- but by long suppressed urges and meth.

If this had been a deliberate action, Berrigan argued, he would not have grabbed Hailey in daylight, in front of witnesses and in a car with a license plate that points back to him.

“He has no disguise whatsoever,” Berrigan said. “There’s no marks or nylon stalking over his head. He doesn’t even have dark sunglasses.”

Patterson used his opening arguments to break down the alleged crime and cover-up: How Wood grabbed Owens, took her home, then went to a laundromat to clean his clothes and to a Walmart to buy bleach.

According to Patterson, it was an unseasonably warm February day on which Hailey felt sick and stayed home from school. She felt better throughout the day and later went over to a friend’s home.

She walking home down the sidewalk, looking at her cell phone, when Wood pulled his truck up next to her, Patterson said.

According to Patterson, Wood asked her a question and she backed away. Then, Patterson said, Wood asked to her come close, he grabbed her, threw her in the passenger seat and took off.

A witness called 911, Patterson said, and gave the dispatcher a license plate number that later leads investigators to Wood's home on East Stanford Street, where they waited for Wood to return.

When Wood parked his truck and got out, officers approached, Patterson said, and Wood tossed a roll of duct tape in the back of his truck.

Wood denies having knowledge about Hailey's abduction, Patterson said, and comes with officers to be questioned at the police department.

According to Patterson, officers conduct a safety sweep of the home, calling out her name. There was no answer.

Surveillance footage and evidence would later show what happened between Hailey's abduction and Wood's interview with police.

Police found a girl's pink shirt and blue jeans shorts in a dumpster by a strip mall near Wood's home, Patterson said.

Surveillance footage showed Wood buying bleach and drain cleaner at a Walmart, Patterson said, and his clothes and bedding were found at a laundromat near Missouri State University.

When police obtained a search warrant, they went back inside Wood's home, Patterson said, and into the basement where the smell of bleach was the strongest.

Two blue plastic bins were stacked atop each other, Patterson said, and in the bottom was Hailey's body wrapped in plastic.

“She is folded up and stuffed in this tub,” Patterson said.

There's a bullet wound to the back of her skull, Patterson said, and there's a contact wound, meaning Wood fired from close range.

There are several guns located in Wood's home, Patterson said, but it was a .22-caliber rifle located in a safe that Wood used to kill Hailey.

9:05 a.m. Before opening arguments began, Judge Thomas Mountjoy heard a motion filed by Wood’s attorneys about images of potential child pornography found in Wood’s bedroom.

Wood’s lawyer, Pat Berrigan, argued that the photographs don’t have any bearing on this case and could unfairly prejudice the jury.

According to Berrigan, the photographs showed young women, some appearing to be prepubescent – one showing a girl involved in a sexual act. Berrigan said these photographs were from more than a decade ago and are easily available on the internet.

Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson said print-outs of the photographs were found in a gray folder in the bedroom of Wood. Patterson said the photographs could show motive for Wood.

Mountjoy granted the motion filed by the defense, preventing the photographs from being introduced at trial.

8:30 a.m. After more than three and a half years of court proceedings, opening arguments are scheduled to begin this morning in the Craig Wood trial.

If you want to get caught up on the case, this page has a summary of the events with links to our past coverage.

Wood, 49, is accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering Springfield 10-year-old Hailey Owens in February 2014.

Since prosecutors are going after the death penalty in this case there are two separate proceedings that have been planned.

First up is the guilt phase, which is expected to last all week.

If prosecutors can convince the jury that Wood is guilty of first-degree murder — meaning he deliberated before killing Hailey — then we will move on to the sentencing phase.

The sentencing phase is expected to last another week. During that phase, if we get there, attorneys will present evidence for and against the death penalty.

The same jury will make both decisions — whether Wood is guilty of first-degree murder and whether he should be put to death.

Wood, his attorneys and a few Greene County prosecutors spent last week in Platte County picking the jury.

The jury was then driven down to Springfield, where all 16 members will be sequestered in a hotel until the end of the proceedings.

Prosecutors need unanimous decisions from the jury to find Wood guilty of murder and to sentence him to death.

We will update this page throughout the day with the goings-on from the first day of the trial.