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Glover then testified he saw Spader walk out of the bedroom with the machete in his hands that was now "covered in blood and hair.''
Spader said, according to Glover, "'We made enough noise because two people are dead.'''
Gribble is being tried separately for first-degree murder. Marks has pleaded guilty and may be called to testify against Spader.
David Cates, the husband of Kimberly and father of Jaimie, who were 42 and 11 at the time of the attack, came face to face Wednesday with Spader at the trial.
Cates, an engineer who had been away on business when his family was attacked, spoke in short, composed sentences as he recalled the close bonds that had united his family before the attack.
Before his testimony, Cates watched from the spectator gallery as the prosecution produced photographs of bloody footprints, fingerprints, and a bloodied pillow found at his home after the attack.
Later, on the stand, Cates calmly identified the jewelry boxes, allegedly stolen in the attack, that had belonged to his wife and daughter.
Mother and daughter had been extremely close, Cates said, in a household where he had averaged 26 business trips a year. ?They spent an awful lot of time together,?? said Cates, who had texted the pair from Maryland only hours before the attack.
?Did you ever give Steven Spader or anybody else permission to be in your home on the night of Oct. 4, 2009??? prosecutor Jeffery Strelzin asked as he strode to face the defendant.
?I did not,?? Cates replied in a steady voice.
?Did you ever give Steven Spader or anyone else with him on Oct. 4, 2009, permission to take any of those items I just showed you out of your home??? Strelzin asked.
?I did not,?? Cates said.
During the testimony, Spader leaned back in his chair and looked directly at Cates, who glared briefly at the defendant as he walked back to his seat.
Earlier Wednesday, Spader bent forward at the defense table to view crime scene photographs displayed on a large screen. Along with the nine women and seven men on the jury, Spader saw photos of bloody tracks in the master bedroom, blood on the walls near a light switch, and carpeting apparently soaked with blood where Jaimie Cates had pretended to be dead while Spader allegedly struck her with a machete.
Many of the blows to Jaimie?s body were so severe that they could have been inflicted only by a sharp, heavy weapon such as a machete, said Dr. David Mooney, director of pediatric trauma services at Children?s Hospital Boston, where Jaimie was treated.
?There were wounds that were right through the bone,?? Mooney testified. ?It?s almost cleaner than we could do in surgery.??
Defense attorney Andrew Winters, attempting to cast doubt on whether the machete shown to the jury had been used in the crime, asked Mooney whether a samurai sword or an ax could have caused the most severe wounds to Jaimie?s foot, head, face, elbow, and thighs.
Mooney reiterated that such injuries would have had to be delivered with a heavy, sharp weapon and with significant force. The doctor said he had never treated a child with so many wounds of that nature.
In his opening argument Tuesday, Winters told the jury that a samurai sword had been discovered under Quinn Glover?s mattress.
Glover also posed with an ax in a picture on the MySpace website, Winters said.
Another person charged in the case, William Marks, then 18, of Amherst, will admit that he was sitting on a vehicle near the Cates home, holding an ax, and said he ?wanted to plant it in somebody?s head,?? Winters said.
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