MARTINEZ, Calif. — Pamela Vitale's family pored through old photos and kept vigil at the courthouse Friday as they waited for a verdict in the trial of the teen accused of murdering the 52-year-old former high-tech executive.

"It's been stressful, the waiting," Vitale's younger sister Tamara Hill told Courttvnews.com shortly before the panel left the courthouse Friday afternoon.

Jurors have yet to reach a verdict after three days of deliberating and examining key pieces of evidence that prosecutors say link 17-year-old Scott Dyleski to the brutal bludgeoning death of his neighbor.

"It's unbelievable," said Vitale's mother Carol Ludtke. "It's very tiring, and it's hollow. We're missing Pamela."

Jurors will return Monday morning to continue deliberations.

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Dyleski, a former Boy Scout, is charged with viciously attacking Vitale with a rock after he entered her home on Oct. 15, 2005.

Dyleski has maintained his innocence since his arrest Oct. 19, 2005, and a housemate testified the boy was home when the murder occurred.

Vitale was a mother of two and wife of prominent California defense attorney Daniel Horowitz.

The six men and six women deciding the teen's fate have requested several pieces of evidence since beginning deliberations Wednesday — items that may indicate they are carefully weighing whether Dyleski was at the scene of the crime.

Delivered to the deliberation room Friday morning were Dyleski's Lands' End shoes and a plastic lid found at the crime scene that was marred by a bloody shoe print.

Analysts say the sole of Dyleski's shoes match the print on the lid. The defense says Dyleski wasn't wearing the shoes the day of Vitale's murder, and hadn't worn them for some time.

Jurors also requested the photos of the teen's bedroom, crime scene photos and autopsy pictures of the H-shaped symbol on Vitale's back. A pathologist testified the mark was likely carved on her body she lay dying. Investigators found similar-shaped symbols in the boy's bedroom.

Dyleski's housemate Fred Curiel said he saw the boy come home from a nature walk at 9:26 a.m., about 45 minutes before Vitale was murdered. He did not notice any wounds on the boy's face.

But when jurors asked for a readback of testimony this week, it wasn't Fred Curiel's they wanted, it was his wife's.

Kim Curiel's testimony was markedly different from her husband's. She confirmed the prosecution's theory that Dyleski walked in the house closer to 10:45 a.m, and she said she saw bleeding scratches on the boy's face, which she treated with ointment. Dyleski says he fell down an embankment during his nature walk and tussled with brush.

The panel also examined the slips of paper that Curiel's brother, David Curiel, found in the teen's dresser in January, several months after police searched his room.

Among the papers was a sinister to-do list said to be in Dyleski's handwriting, which read: "Knock-out/kidnap; Question; Keep captive to confirm PINs; Dirty work; Dispose of evidence; Cut up and bury."

Vitale was in the process of building her dream home, an Italian hilltop villa with a vineyard, when she was killed.

Dyleski, who is being tried as an adult, is charged with first-degree murder, the special circumstance of murder committed during the commission of a burglary, and the allegation of using a bludgeon.

He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the chance of parole if jurors find him guilty of first-degree murder and the burglary special circumstance.

Hill says the family will be disappointed if the jury finds the boy guilty of anything less than first-degree murder and the special allegation, a verdict that would guarantee he spends the rest of his life in prison.

"The moment he took Pamela's life, he sentenced not only her to death, but our family to a lifetime without her," Hill said. "And we believe he deserves nothing less."

When Dyleski's trial began in late July, Vitale's entire family, including her children, Mario, 31, and Marisa, 29, temporarily relocated from their homes in Minneapolis and Los Angeles.

"We've been in the courtroom every day, but now we don't have a pulse on what's happening. We're out of the information loop," Hill said Friday as she sat outside the courtroom with her parents. "I just hope that they do the right thing."

Dyleski's parents, Ken Dyleski and Esther Fielding, attended trial but did not talk to the press.

The verdict will be streamed live on Court TV Extra.