Second district D.C. police officer Robert Fennell, Jr., was on duty on the night of the fire. He testified today in court about responding to a report of the blaze. After he arrived on the scene, he says, he spoke to officers who were at the club before going behind back and seeing Djordjevic. “He wasn’t responding to any of my questions,” Fennell says. “He had that thousand-mile stare. He was like something out of a Roadrunner cartoon, where Wyle E. Coyote was just blown up by the Roadrunner, with dynamite.”

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Two Good Guys waitresses were called to the stand today in the trial of Romanian citizen Vasile Graure, the man accused of setting the club on fire last November. Valerie Kremer, 29, who left her job at the club in September, was working the night shift at the club on the evening of Nov. 3, 2007. When she arrived, a customer she didn’t recognize asked her for a drink and complimented her on her clothes. “You look Scottish,” she recalls him telling her. She asked where he was from. He told her he was from Romania. Kremer says that one year later, she wouldn’t recognize the man if she saw him again.

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Kathleen Lazorchack, 39, has been working at Good Guys for 16 years. She had just started her shift— waiting tables—on the evening of Nov. 4 3, 2007 when the place burst into flames. She took the stand today in the trial of Vasile Graure, the man accused of igniting the fire last year.

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Vasile Graure is accused of lighting a fire in Glover Park strip club Good Guys in November of last year. The trial, which began on Monday, continued this morning with the testimony of Gloria Anez, a witness called by the prosecution.

Anez, 37, is married to Vladimir Djordjevic, a manager bartender of the club. Djordjevic suffered second and third degree burns in the blaze. Anez had been married to Djordjevic just three months before the incident. Through tears, Anez described what happened to her on the night of November 4 3, 2007.

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On Nov. 4, 2007, a man was kicked out of Glover Park’s Good Guys strip club for taking photos of the strippers with his cell phone. He left, but returned with a lighter and gasoline and set the club’s manager on fire. Two days later, police and U.S. Marshalls found their suspect, Vasile Graure, in a hotel room at Alexandria’s Days Inn. He was charged with assault with intent to kill eight people—the manager, who suffered second and third degree burns, and seven others inside the club.

One year later, the 38-year-old Romanian citizen, a Phoenix resident, is being tried in D.C. Superior Court. Opening statements in the case began on Monday; I’ll be at the trial all day today, posting updates of the proceedings as they happen.