Tears in court after photos shown in murder trial

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- The defense now has the case in a double murder trial in Montgomery County involving a baby and her grandmother. The accused is representing himself after recanting a confession.

28-year-old Raghu Yandamuri is accused of kidnapping and killing 10-month-old Saanvi Venna and her grandmother.

It happened in the Marquis Apartments in King of Prussia in October of 2012.

He eventually confessed, demonstrating on video how he killed the grandmother and snatched the baby.

Yandamuri has since recanted the confession and is now representing himself in the trial. He faces an uphill battle given the volume of evidence and the confession itself.

He is being assisted by a court appointed lawyer, but it is Yandamuri who's doing all the talking.

He began his defense by grilling two detectives on minor discrepancies.

Defense attorney Stephen Heckman, who is assisting Yandamuri, explains, "Sometimes he might overdo it. But he is proving little inconsistencies along the way. So, he's trying to make his point on issues involving credibility."

But, it won't be easy.

It was Yandamuri who eventually led detectives to the body of baby Saanvi. It had been hidden under a bench in an unused sauna in the basement of one of the buildings in the apartment complex.

And the prosecution ended its case by pointing out that Yandamuri confessed to stealing jewelry from the grandmother. They found it behind a vending machine on the fourth floor of his office building, right where he said it would be in his statement.

Yandamuri now claims he was forced to take part in a kidnap-for-ransom scheme by two strangers.

When asked what Yandamuri's defense theory is, Heckman says, "That he was not involved with the killing, to the extent that he did not do them, but that he was coerced into doing it with two other people."

We asked about the identities of the two other people allegedly involved, to which Heckman said, "I don't know. All we know is the names of Matt and Josh."

Yandamuri is expected to explain where he met Matt and Josh and how they forced him to participate when he begins his direct testimony here Monday.