Nevada prosecutors called the final witnesses in their case-in-chief Friday afternoon in the trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and shooting the judge in his divorce case.

Jurors in the trial of Darren Mack heard more evidence linking the once-wealthy pawnbroker to the stabbing death of his wife, Charla, whose body was found in the garage of his Reno townhouse on June 12, 2006.

When Mack was arrested June 23, 2006, in a hotel in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, he was carrying a suitcase containing $36,201 in cash, calling cards, bank cards and a Nevada driver's license in his name. (VIDEO)

Among the personal items in the suitcase, including anti-gas medicine, sleep aids and condoms, authorities also found bloodstained jeans and shoes that bore mixtures of DNA from Mack and his wife.

The DNA evidence revealed little, however, because Mack admits killing his wife and shooting Washoe County Judge Chuck Weller in his office from a parking garage across the street.

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Mack claims he defended himself from Charla Mack when she came after him with a knife. For shooting Weller, the presiding judge in the couple's acrimonious divorce and child custody case, he has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The judge recovered from the shooting and testified earlier in the week.

But prosecutors contend that Mack planned his wife's death, even authoring a to-do list that included "end problem." They claim Weller's shooting was also premeditated and carried out in a way that would avoid detection.

On Friday, experts in gunshot residue and firearms also linked Mack's Ford Explorer to Weller's shooting.

Trace evidence analyst Patricia Eddings testified that she found a heavy concentration of the common chemical components of gunshot residue in the rear cargo area of the Explorer.

The presence of the chemicals led her to believe that a firearm had been discharged either from inside or near the back of the vehicle.

After prosecutors formally rest their case Monday morning, defense lawyers are expected to begin calling witnesses to support their claim that Mack acted in self-defense when he killed his wife.

On Friday, defense lawyer David Chesnoff indicated that he wished to call a psychologist to testify about Charla Mack's mental state at the time of her death. In divorce papers, Mack alleged that she suffered from mental and emotional disorders marked by mood swings and emotional outbursts.

Defense lawyers hinted at this strategy by drawing attention to a bizarre message written on a mirror in the Macks' abandoned marital home. Charla Mack was killed in another house where her husband was living at the time.

"So long and good ridence" was scribbled on a mirror in the master bedroom of the Macks' former home.

The phrase "So long and good ridence" [sic] was scribbled in large blue letters on a mirror in the master bathroom, according to Washoe County Forensic Investigator Toni Leal-Olsen. Under questioning from the defense, Olsen testified, no one in her department had done anything to investigate its origin.

On Friday, defense lawyer David Chesnoff indicated that he wished to call two witnesses who, like Mack, claim they had negative experiences with Weller in their own divorce proceedings.

Chesnoff said the witnesses would bolster the defense claim that Weller displayed a pattern of "disingenuous" behavior toward litigants in his courtroom that pushed Mack into a delusional state.

"Their purpose is to show the stressors existed," said Chesnoff, adding that his office received calls from dozens of unhappy litigants offering to share their negative experiences with Weller. "Ultimately, the delusion is the belief, at the time, that it's OK to shoot him. He's on a mission."

Judge Douglas Herndon said he would allow limited questioning of the witnesses as long as it pertained to issues Weller raised during testimony earlier this week.

On Wednesday, Weller said that many of his rulings favored Mack, particularly when it came to custody of their daughter, who was 7 when her mother died.

A main issue of contention for Mack was the $1 million that Weller ordered him to pay his wife, in addition to monthly child support payments of $900.

After Mack was arrested, FBI field agent Stephen Kling testified, Mack's first words concerned the substantial amount of $100 bills in his suitcase.

"He asked me who was going to remain with that suitcase during that evening," testified Kling.

Prosecutors opted not to present e-mails Mack wrote to Washoe County District Attorney Richard Gammick while on the lam in Mexico. In the e-mails, Mack said he wanted to be put to death. He maintained, however, that he killed his wife in self-defense and that he shot Weller in such a way that he would survive.