Lake Superior Court jurors saw photographs of a Chicago man buying items that included a padlock found on a boarded-up garage where the battered body of his pregnant girlfriend was found in a plastic storage tote.

A detective who assisted in the investigation identified Isiah Barker, 32, on a still photograph taken from video surveillance at the Halsted True Value Hardware in Chicago as one of two men making about $60 in purchases that included the padlock. Former Highland police Detective Douglas Shaginaw, now a Hobart police detective, pointed to Barker in court Thursday as the person in the photographs.

Barker is on trial on charges of murder and feticide. He has pleaded not guilty.

The padlock was found on a garage at 10038 S. Normal Ave., Chicago, where the owner discovered it June 22, 2011, on the garage side door. Inside the garage, police found the body of Cynthia Funches, 26, who was about 20 weeks pregnant with Barker's child.

Also included in the items purchased at the hardware store and recovered by police in a car that Barker was driving were a 60-pound bag of Quikrete, a drain cleaner called Liquid Fire that contains acid, a bucket and scrub brush. The purchases were made the morning of June 22, 2011.

Jurors also heard testimony that Barker's childhood friend, Octavius Barlow, purchased a 49-gallon plastic storage tote at about 10 p.m. June 21, 2011, from the Wal-Mart in Schererville. Barlow, who is charged in the case with assisting a criminal, has pleaded not guilty.

Police had been to Funches' apartment in Highland on June 21, 2011, after her family had asked for a welfare check. Inside the apartment, police found carpeting and padding pulled up, the mattress and box spring gone from the bedroom, and blood stains inside.

Funches died of multiple blunt force trauma, court records state.

Testimony is expected to resume Friday.

Ruth Ann Krause is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune.