DEVILS LAKE (AP) - Jurors heard Wednesday from authorities who said they found a hand-drawn map and directions to the farm of a slain Wells County couple when they searched the home and vehicles of Aron Nichols and Tamara Sorenson.

Nichols and Sorenson are on trial in the deaths of 70-year-old Donald Willey and his 67-year-old wife, Alice. The couple were found dead in their burned home near Sykeston last April.

Nichols is charged with murder and Sorenson is charged with being an accomplice.

Fargo Police Detective Paul Lies testified that he found directions and a diagram in Nichols' pickup.

"It looks like it might say 'sink, path, counter.' It says I-94 west, U.S. highway 281 north," Lies said.

Prosecutors allege Nichols shot the Willeys with a .45-caliber handgun last April, then set the home on fire to hide the evidence. Sorenson was involved in a dispute with them over visitation rights to her daughter, whose father was the Willeys' late son.

Authorities said a search of Nichols' and Sorenson's home turned up handguns near their bed, other weapons and ammunition, and two glass jars filled with what appeared to be gasoline and moth balls in the garage.

Sorenson's attorney, David Ogren, asked Lies if having guns in a house is legal.

"It's completely unsafe but it is not unlawful," Lies replied.

Authorities seized the trash from outside the Fargo pair's residence a week after the Willeys were found dead. State crime bureau Agent Arnie Rummel testified that search turned up .45-caliber ammunition packaging and a receipt for a magnifying scope and its packaging.

The scope, which could be used on a handgun, was purchased the night before the Willeys were killed, Rummel said.

A note was also found in the trash saying, "Mom says God is coming down to take his wrath out on Don and Alice," Rummel testified. Sorenson's mother testified last week that she told her daughter she had a dream involving that message.

Prosecutors also showed security camera video of Nichols buying duct tape at a Jamestown truck stop.

Nichols' attorney, Robert Martin, objected to the video evidence and repeatedly objected to evidence collected in the search of the trash. The objections were overruled.

Sorenson appeared uninterested during the April 18 search until the .45-caliber ammunition was found, officers testified.

Prosecutors also said phone records for April 6 show calls made from Nichols' cell phone that used one of two towers near Carrington, about 12 miles from the Willey residence.

At 2:20 p.m., a call was made from Nichols' cell phone to Sorenson's cell phone using the tower closer to the Willey residence in rural Sykeston, BCI Agent Craig Zachmeier testified.

At 7:11 p.m., a call was made from Sorenson's home to Nichols' cell phone, which used a tower in Carrington, he testified.

Nichols' phone used the same tower when a call to Sorenson's cell phone ended at 8:55 p.m. and again when a six-minute call was made to her home at 11:41 p.m., Zachmeier testified.

Prosecutors allege the Willeys were killed around 11:30 p.m.

Martin, Nichols' attorney, said repeatedly that there was no way to prove who made the calls or what they were about.