Trooper: Woman seen near trash bin where bullets found.

By Joe McDonald, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 3--Hours before Eleanor Nicolosi was scheduled to answer troopers' questions about the death of her husband, a Mount Pocono woman tipped off police that she had seen Nicolosi acting strangely near a trash bin behind a medical office off Route 611, a state trooper told a Monroe County jury Wednesday.

Using a weed cutter and metal detector, three troopers searched the area behind the Pocono Professional Care Building and found five .38-caliber bullets and a plastic ammunition tray, Trooper Peter Gutowski testified at Nicolosi's homicide trial.

The bullets were the same caliber as the four bullets that killed 75-year-old Francis …