BAY MINETTE, Ala. — A web-spinning spider inadvertently triggered a motion-sensing surveillance camera at Lake Forest Animal Clinic at 12:55 a.m. Nov. 12, 2008, recording what authorities believe to be Brianna Parish leaving Bay House Pub with Troy MacDonald on a ride which would end with her rape and murder.

The two met earlier at Jubilee Lounge and their eyes locked, despite the quarter-century age difference. He was attracted to the flirtatious, attractive blonde, while she saw him as a source for cocaine, according to court testimony Wednesday in MacDonald’s capital murder trial.

The unlikely attraction between MacDonald, 47, and Parish, 21, drew concern at Jubilee Lounge, where they met for the first time playing a friendly game of pool.

Christine Barrow was bartending that night at Jubilee Lounge.

“I knew Troy just from him coming into the bar,” she testified. “They were playing pool. Then they came to the bar and started kissing. His friends told her to stay away, and her friends told him to stay away.

“She asked him if he could get any cocaine or had any.”

Callie Robertson, a friend of Parish since junior high school, also met MacDonald for the first time at Jubilee Lounge. She described the couple’s actions as “awkward and weird, she being 21 and he being much older.”

Callie’s mother, Peggy Sullivan, arrived at the bar around 9:30 p.m. to give her daughter and Parish a ride to her residence where they planned to spend the night.

“I met Troy and saw him staring across the way at her,” Sullivan told the jury. “They went outside. Someone said Troy was bad news.

“She was outside about to get in the car with him. I grabbed her arm and took her back in.”

Sullivan left the bar with her daughter and Parish, drove home and went to bed.

Robertson and Parish later left the residence in Parish’s car and the two headed for Bay House Pub in Daphne. During the drive, Robertson testified that Parish was on the phone with her boyfriend and MacDonald.

Robertson said they arrived at the bar and MacDonald pulled up.

“She said she would be in in five minutes,” Robertson said. “She never came in and never said anything about leaving with him.”

Robertson said she went outside to look for Parish 10 minutes later, saw her car but could not find her friend.

She returned to the bar, told “everyone I knew” she could not find Parish and initiated numerous cell calls to Parish between 1:10 a.m. and 2:02 a.m., according to court documents.

“All the calls went to voice mail,” Robertson said. “But I knew she had a dead battery. I was assuming the best. Maybe she went home with someone.”

Robertson stayed at the bar until closing, then got a ride home. She called Daphne Police the next day to report Parish missing.

She also was part of the search team that found Parish’s lifeless body two days later near the Daphne Utilities sewage plant.

MacDonald returned to Jubilee Lounge Nov. 13 to retrieve his credit card, Barrow testified.

“When he came in I saw her photo on TV,” Barrow said. “He never looked. He said he went to Bay House Pub and she was on the phone and never got off, so he left.”