Olathe ? Attorneys for John E. Robinson Sr. found nothing funny Wednesday about “roll out the barrel” T-shirts being handed out on the courthouse lawn and renewed their motion to move the trial out of Johnson County.

The prank, linked to a Kansas City radio personality, occurred before 8 a.m., while people began reporting to the courthouse. A sheriff’s deputy asked the young man handing out the shirts to leave, which he did.

However, one of the shirts wound up in the hands of Jason Billam, a member of Robinson’s defense team. It was presented as another defense exhibit supporting their claim that Robinson could not get a fair trial.

“This is a very tasteless thing to do,” said defense attorney Sean O’Brien of the prank.

Judge John Anderson III denied the motion to change the venue but voiced his displeasure.

“If I said what I really felt, it would probably not be a good thing,” Anderson said.

Robinson, 58, of Olathe is charged with capital murder for the deaths of Suzette Trouten, 27, of Newport, Mich., and Izabela Lewicka, 21, a former Purdue University student, whose bodies were found in barrels on Robinson’s property in Linn County, about 60 miles south of Kansas City, Mo.

Because jurors came through another entrance, Anderson didn’t feel the jury was aware of the incident.

Robinson is charged with first-degree murder for the death of the third woman, Lisa Stasi, 19, who disappeared in 1985. He also faces three other murder charges in Missouri.

Wednesday morning’s testimony focused on Trouten’s family and Robinson’s scheme to hide her disappearance.

Marshella Chidester, Trouten’s aunt, identified several personal belongings, including Trouten’s desk lamp.

Chidester testified that she grew suspicious when the family did not hear from Trouten, who had called daily once she was in Kansas. She also identified cards and letters signed by Trouten the family received after her disappearance.

Contents of the letters piqued their suspicions that something had happened to Trouten, including reference in a typewritten letter sent from Mexico.

“It didn’t sound like her,” Chidester said.

Carlos Ibarra, a former employee of the Santa Barbara Estates Mobile Home Park managed by Robinson’s wife, Nancy, testified that Robinson had asked him to have his mother mail letters for him from her home in Veracruz, Mexico.

Ibarra said the defendant gave him several letters and $10 for postage. Ibarra said the letters were supposedly from Robinson’s friend who owed money to a bank and was hiding from authorities.