The boyfriend of a woman shot and killed by a hunter in 2001 dourly recalled encountering her body, during testimony Thursday in the hunter's homicide trial.

"Her eyes glazed over and I just looked into her eyes," said Ronald Hazuga, who lived with the victim, Deborah Prasnicki.

Prasnicki, 47, was out walking her two dogs down a road when Michael Berseth, the defendant in this Chippewa County, Wis., trial, fired on her from the woods.

Berseth told investigators he mistook her white scarf for the tail of a deer.

"That was her favorite scarf," said Hazuga, who referred to Prasnicki as his "wife" and "best friend" and testified that the couple had lived together for many years.

Berseth, 44, is charged with second-degree reckless homicide for the Dec. 1, 2001, shooting, and could face 15 years in prison if convicted.

The jury has been instructed not to visit the scene of the crime, but a videotape   shot by investigators the day after the accident and played in court Thursday will put them in Berseth's footsteps, according to the prosecution. 

Investigators shot the tape from where Berseth was allegedly standing in the woods, about 58 yards away from the road and down a depression. While the tape rolls, another investigator walks along the road where Prasnicki was walking her dogs and, though obscured, appears visible. 

Berseth's view from the forest, according to prosecutors.

Berseth's defense attorney, Richard Wachowski, seemed to suggest that Prasnicki could have been on her knees or bent over when she was hit by his client, rendering her less visible.

On direct examination, forensic pathologist Susan Roe used Prasnicki's injuries to infer that she was walking from Berseth's left to his right. But Wachowski used his cross-examination to introduce some doubt about Prasnicki's position.

"All you can really tell from that is that her head was in a position oriented perpendicular from where the shot was coming from, right?" the lawyer asked.

"Somewhat perpendicular, yes," Roe replied.

Prosecutors brought their 16-witness, two-day case to a close Thursday afternoon.  Also testifying on Thursday was a firearms expert who matched the fatal bullet to Berseth's gun and a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warden and president of the International Hunter Education Association who told jurors that it was a cardinal rule of hunting to positively identify a target before pulling the trigger.

Berseth took and passed the Wisconsin hunter's education course at the age of 13.

The hunter told investigators in an audio tape played for jurors Thursday that he thought Prasnicki's scarf "looked just like the ass of a deer."

Court TV is broadcasting the trial.