ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands — Jurors who will decide the fate of the four Americans charged with killing Lois McMillen got a firsthand view of the rocky shoreline where the 34-year-old artist drowned last year.

As reporters were kept far afield, the jury of seven women and two men toured more than a dozen locations that have surfaced in testimony during the three-week-old trial here.

A small cross marks where Lois McMillen's body was found (CourtTV.com photo).

The woman's parents, Russell and Josephine McMillen, the defendants — Michael Spicer, a law student from Charlottesville, Va., Evan George, a construction worker from Washington, D.C., William Labrador, a businessman from New York, and their friend Alexander Benedetto — and their lawyers, quietly accompanied the jury. The prosecution is expected to rest its case on Tuesday morning.

McMillen, an aspiring artist and actress and the daughter of affluent parents from Middlebury, Conn., left her the family's villa for a night out on the evening of Jan. 14, 2000. Her battered body was discovered lying face up on shoreline the next morning. Though her body was bruised, authorities believe she drowned.

Tortola police quickly focused on the four American men, who were staying in a villa near the McMillens and were acquaintances of Lois McMillen. Prosecutors have offered a vague motive— a prison informant who said Labrador confessed to drowning McMillen after an argument over money.

Jurors visited Jolly Roger Inn, where McMillen was last seen alive (CourtTV.com photo).

On Monday afternoon, after the last of about 20 prosecution witnesses testified, a caravan of about 15 vehicles, including police cars and white vans carrying jurors and the defendants, embarked on their tour.

The entourage, including the McMillens, stopped near the home of Buelah Romney, the taxi cab driver who testified she heard a car screech to a halt and someone screaming about 11:45 p.m. on the night McMillen was killed.

The jurors next travelled to the crime scene on the rocky shoreline. The spot were McMillen's body was found is marked by a small white cross.

The jury was then taken to about a dozen other places, including the ATM machine the defendants visited, the bar where McMillen was last seen alive and a beach front bar on the opposite side of the island where three of the defendants were seen. Labrador, Benedetto, Spicer and George were permitted to walk on that beach after the jury and judge got back in their van.

The road trip was the first in 14 months for the defendants, who, with the exception of traveling back and forth to the courthouse, have not left their confines at Her Majesty's Prison at Balsam Ghut.

Earlier Monday, Constable Jocelyn Rhymer, a prosecution witness, was called back to the stand to testify that she placed a sheet on McMillen's body; Rhymer testified April 4 that she did not know how the sheet got there.

In correcting her testimony, Rhymer explained Monday that she confused two cases, the other involving a woman from the island of St. Vincent found dead. In response to questions from jurors, Rhymer said that she does not know what happened to the sheet she placed on McMillen's body.

ATM the defendants visited the night of McMillen's murder (CourtTV.com photo)

Also Monday, Chief Inspector Anderson Blackman said he was aware that a woman named Winsome Manning had reported finding McMillen's body more than an hour before police went to the shoreline. The defense is expected to argue that the failure of police to locate McMillen's body until a second person walked into the West End Police Station is just more evidence of sloppy investigative work by the police.

Defense lawyer Joseph Archibald did not object to the request for the crime scene visit and indicated that he will call no witnesses or present any additional evidence in defense of his clients, Michael Spicer and Evan George.

"We are relying on the Crown's case," Archibald said.

Defendant William Labrador's lawyer, Richard Hector, is expected to call witnesses to further attack the credibility of prison informant Jeffrey Plante, who testified that Labrador confessed to killing McMillen during an argument over money.