Nicollette Sheridan Trial: ABC Employee Claims Hard Drives Wiped, Emails Erased

"I’m an employee of Desperate Housewives. I received an email soon after Nicollette filed suit; I think it was meant for a much narrower distribution, but it regarded having IT come in and wipe clean the hard drives of the producers in response to the correspondence that they’ve had email wise about firing Nicollette," the caller said.

"Um, I think I got it by mistake; I believe they were going to have the Disney IT person come in to do the sweeping of the hard drive...that’s about all I know; you obviously can check this number and figure out who I am but I really don’t want to get involved."

Mark and his partner Patrick Maloney want to have the employee called in as a witness, but the ABC lawyers contended this was "the first we'd heard of this," to Judge Elizabeth Allen White and Tuesday is supposed to be the last day in the trial.

"I’m a real low level employee there and I shouldn’t have got that email, I’m on the general email list," the staffer continued on the voicemail.

"But there was definitely a conspiracy to cover up the correspondence on email wise in regards to Nicollette."

It was revealed in testimony earlier last week that Marc had planned on killing Nicollette's character off the show four months before the alleged assault occurred because costs needed to be cut on the show as it wasn't doing as well in the ratings.

The voicemail and possible testimony from the Desperate Housewives staffer claiming that email correspondence about firing Nicollette was purposely erased from company hard drives, may put a kink in the defense's game plan.