Testimony ended today in the trial of James McDaniel, the 48-year-old ex-con accused of supplying the drugs that caused Southern Methodist University student Meaghan Bosch’s 2007 fatal overdose.

Closing arguments are to take place Friday.

Defense attorney Tom Mills wrapped up his case quickly, calling just two witnesses: An immigration official who said that a person Bosch bought drugs from had been deported, and a woman who lived near the construction site where Bosch's body was found in 2007. The woman testified that she saw someone who looked like the SMU student walking around alive, but admitted under questioning from prosecutors that she could not identify her as Bosch.

The prosecution called the last of its witnesses - a much lengthier list - this morning.

Defense attorney Tom Mills contended during opening statements last Wednesday that McDaniel’s neighbor, a Dallas schools athletic trainer, was the one who disposed of the 21-year-old’s body in Hewitt, Texas.

The neighbor, Bradley Hullum, testified that he had never been to Hewitt and did not transport Bosch’s body anywhere. So far, the government’s evidence, including records and testimony, suggests that McDaniel was the one who drove her body to Hewitt.

On May 14, 2007, a construction worker in Hewitt, a suburb of Waco, found Bosch’s body in a portable toilet. An autopsy revealed that she died from toxic levels of cocaine, methamphetamine and the depressant oxycodone.

In the past five days of testimony, government witnesses have described seeing Bosch snorting cocaine from a platter on McDaniel’s bed and smoking methamphetamine from a pipe he gave her around the time her family and friends lost track of her on May 10, 2007.

The next morning, Hullum testified, he saw Bosch barely breathing on a bed at McDaniel’s poker room on Winton Street across Central Expressway from the SMU campus. Hullum said he didn’t call 911 because McDaniel told him he would handle it.

According to the government, Bosch was last seen alive about 2 p.m. on Friday, May 11, 2007.

Two men told jurors that was when they saw Bosch passed out and barely breathing on McDaniel’s bathroom floor.

When one of the men, Kenneth Davis, tried to take Bosch to the emergency room, McDaniel prevented it, saying they had to have a “story” first. Davis, who had worked security in McDaniel’s poker room, testified that McDaniel was armed during part of this conversation.

Davis and his friend left Bosch with McDaniel, and never called 911.

Later, after news outlets reported that Bosch’s body had been found, Davis confronted McDaniel. Davis testified that McDaniel confessed to taking Bosch “down south” after she overdosed and died.

Testimony revealed that McDaniel told several people to lie to police about what they knew about him and Bosch.

Prosecutors contend that McDaniel targeted SMU students with his gambling and cocaine operation. In pretrial court documents, they said he drugged and raped as many as a dozen women.

Three women testified that McDaniel drugged them, and one, a former SMU student, said he did it to her on several occasions.

None testified, however, that she was sexually assaulted. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay has barred all references to sexual assault from the trial, on the ground that such references would be prejudicial.

Jurors also haven’t been told that McDaniel served two decades in prison for killing a former Dallas police officer. The gun charge that would have opened the door for that information was cut by the judge from this trial. It will be the subject of a later trial.

Analysts testified that McDaniel’s DNA was found at the Hewitt crime scene, and that Bosch’s blood was found on McDaniel’s shorts in his duplex.

Hair from McDaniel’s white pit bull puppy was found on a blanket that was partially wrapped around Bosch’s body in the portable toilet.

Cellphone records showed that McDaniel’s mobile phone was turned off for a six-hour period beginning the evening of May 11, 2007, which is when prosecutors believe he dumped her body in Hewitt.