Prosecutor

Combs allegedly planned and controlled the sex performances, which he called freak-offs, and he often electronically recorded them. The freak-offs sometimes lasted days at a time, involved multiple commercial sex workers, and often involved a variety of narcotics, such as ketamine, ecstasy, and GHB, which Combs distributed to the victims to keep them obedient and compliant.

The father didn't want us to seek the death penalty, and he's the victim. However, I don't represent the victims per se. I represent the state of Texas.

With Bart Whitaker, there's no reason why. He just wanted to, and that's what's scary about it. He didn't need their money. He didn't need their love. They had never done anything to him. He just wanted to do it.

And according to prosecutors, the way that he's going to eliminate that problem is by eliminating her.

In spite of the fact that they were 12, these were two girls that made an extreme, serious effort to try to kill Peyton.

The evidence will show.

She knew what she was doing was wrong.

All the psychiatrists were saying the same thing, which is they had this shared delusion, and that compulsion was, if we don't kill Peyton, then Slenderman's going to either kill us or our families. And what we argued repeatedly was Anissa, by her own words, said she didn't even know that Slenderman was a threat until after the act was over.

Because I went to trial with him for a lot of tickets.

Abraham Shakespeare was your prey and your victim. Money was the root of the evil that you brought to Abraham.

It was a lot of fun.

This was wealth that he had not experienced before, so he wanted to take advantage of it. Some of the things that Michael Cochran purchased in this period were recreational vehicles, an airplane hangar. He had ambitions and endeavors to open up an aviation branch to this business.

No, absolutely not.

The Cochran's and their business, Tactical Solutions Group, put themselves out to be legitimate government contractors who were bidding on legitimate government contracts.

The problem is there never was any legitimate income flowing from government contracts. All the money and cash flow is coming from investors. There were no contracts.

They existed on paper. It was clear that it was a Ponzi scheme.

Michael Cochran was asking her questions very similar to the questions being asked by the investors who were trying to get their money back.

She had negotiated to sell that business with a buyer offering to buy a 49% interest of her business. So this buyer had wired her $50,000 as an earnest deposit on his buy-in to this business.

I received a phone call from a trooper who had spoke with a local business person who had purchased some firearms from the Cochrans. And he had a problem with getting his firearms delivered or the money returned. And he was looking for help in resolving that matter. He had been solicited to be an investor in contracts.

He never did it because the information he was receiving from Natalie Cochran on these investment solicitations didn't make sense to him.

The problem that he was encountering was he kept getting excuse after excuse after excuse with getting his money returned.

The Shady Spring Little League bank account is one of the many accounts she used to facilitate her Ponzi scheme.

When she created these, we saw that as an attempt to dispel rumors. Rumors were circulating that her business was being looked at, that she didn't have this wealth or this money.

There was no medical examiner involvement.

She introduces insulin in the discussion as part of Michael Cochran's weightlifting regimen.

We anticipated finding additional evidence regarding this Ponzi scheme.

When he's finally taken to the emergency room, he presented with a blood sugar level of 21. He's not diabetic.

Michael was about to discover he didn't have millions, perhaps a billion dollars of legitimately earned income inbound from the federal government. And that was a problem for Natalie.

He believed that they had obtained contracts and that they would be receiving money for these contracts.

I'm not telling the jury that. I said that he knew about the contracts that he was led to believe were bid on by their business.

MomTalk is turning on each other left and right. The police are here. I can't see this going any other way but a pure bloodbath. This is so toxic.

There is no reason that Alex Cox came over to this defendant's house with a loaded gun. That is conspiracy. That is planning. That is premeditated.

Are you related to Mary Catherine Edwards?

And you got married to a person by the name of Clayton Ford?

Were they friends of yours in high school?

You had found a briefcase in the trunk of the defendant's car. Is that correct?

All right. What was inside the briefcase?

OK. Regarding the gun, was there any reason for him to have a gun that you knew of at that time?

I mean... Is there any reason that you knew of that he would have a pair of handcuffs in the back of his trunk?

Did you ever talk to him about that?

Was that very upsetting to you?

When you told him, how did he react?

Did he do something with your hands?

He took your hands, put them behind you, and then secured them with an object. Do you believe that object may have been a belt?

Did he threaten to cut your throat if you didn't do what he wanted?

Did he say something that you found concerning what he'd just done to you?

What was that?

You came here today to tell the story of what happened to you 42, 43 years ago, right?

Who did you do that for?

As a mother, I know him. And I have no doubt that Zach had any part of this.

Her scores on the post-traumatic stress disorder scale confirm the presence of PTSD, right? Yes.

You confirmed the presence of PTSD, even though you've just now told us that this is based on a lie.

You did grant interviews to people from 48 Hours, didn't you?

There were two interviews, right?

In that letter, you actually tell the family that the people that did it were this male and this female, right?

So you lied to them, didn't you?

Nowhere in that recitation or in any of the interviews that you gave with 48 Hours did you ever indicate that you had memory loss, correct?

You say that you have memory problems, but it depends on the circumstance, right?

What factors influence your having a memory problem?

Ma'am, were you crying when you were shooting him? I don't remember. Were you crying when you were stabbing him?

How about when you cut his throat? Were you crying then?

You saw him do that. That's a lie, isn't it, ma'am?

It is a hateful allegation with nothing to support it. It's so easy for her to make these allegations. It's so easy for her to get on the witness stand, as you've seen, and lie. And this is really... The pinnacle.

You actually are biased in favor of the defendant, aren't you?

Mr. Martinez, are you angry at me? Ma'am, is that relevant to you? Is that important to you? Does that make any difference to your evaluation, whether or not the prosecutor is angry? Yes or no?

Would you agree that you're the person who actually slit Mr. Alexander's throat from ear to ear?

She couldn't let him go. Even from Wairika, she couldn't let him go.

And you're the one that did this, right?

And you would acknowledge that a lot of the stab wounds were to the back of the head and to the back of the torso, correct?

I'll just take your word for it.

She's lying. She's making it all up. And she staged her defense by lies.

She premeditated it. You now have a duty. You are to reach a decision as to whether or not the defendant committed first-degree murder.

The last thing that Mr. Alexander felt was this knife coming towards him.

Travis Victor Alexander, an individual that was one of the greatest blessings in her life. Well, she knocked the blessings out of him by putting a bullet in his head.

Is that the bullet?

Did you have occasion to conduct a medical examination on the body of Travis Alexander? Yes.

Ma'am, there's a number of stories that you gave in this particular case involving the killing. There was one that you gave to Detective Flores, right?

But then you still gave another view of what happened to 48 hours, right?

So let's take a look at what you may have said, 48 hours.

And that's another version of the events that occurred on June 4th of 2008, correct?

And they're not true.

These are accidental photographs. These are photographs that the killer did not want taken.

This individual's here. You see her foot. You see Mr. Alexander's head. You see his arm. You see him bleeding profusely.

The stake rests.

the object, if you will, of his hostility. He went after the two people he had a motive to kill. He went after Charla Mack, with whom he was having a bitter divorce and a custody battle, and he went after Judge Weller, someone, at least in Darren Mack's mind, who was treating him unfairly.

Did you ever have a conversation with your brother about paying $35,000 to shut somebody up?

Can you cue that up, please?

Did the authorities clue you in to his movements, how he was conducting himself, the lifestyle he led? We knew nothing.

So it sounds like he was on vacation. He was on vacation. Is he dating women? Is he seeing women? Yeah, he was dating. So you thought you had a future with him?

And what floor was he?

The first one.

You believe Yazeed Issa killed Rosemary? I know it for a fact.

And what did he tell you about the death of his wife in Sinai?

What does Jamal Khalifa get in return for sharing his story? He doesn't get prosecuted for helping us eat.

Good afternoon, Mr. Issa. You're here today to testify and to give complete and truthful testimony, is that correct? Yes.

So as you sit here today before this jury, before Rosie's family in the back of the courtroom, Did the defendant tell you who put the cyanide into the calcium pills?

When you found out that information, what did you say to your brother?

Have you told your brother?

One day, these children are going to come and try to find out what happened to their mother.

Maybe there'll be less nights that my wife cries herself to sleep.

Do you think you'll ever understand?

Could this have been a perfect crime?

Skilled physician.

And that person was Rosemary?

What we're going to do is present to you a picture of a narcissistic sociopath who calculated an evil plan to kill his wife.

Did the defendant describe to you then what was wrong with his relationship with Rosie?

A manna. What does that mean?

When you go into a trial where so much evidence has been taken away from you, it's frightening.

It defies logic. No thug is going to commit that level of crime without a promise of something of benefit.

The idea that they would manufacture evidence to convict an innocent person is sort of repugnant.

The right thing happened the first time. All rise. We want the right thing to happen for the second time.

Did I do enough? Did I do my best?

That's the day that you went out and you started deliberating. While they are working hard, trying to make a decision about his future.

He's unfazed. Doesn't that show you who he is?

The way that he is wired is just so different than the rest of us.

Jeffrey Croteen is kind of like your typical suburban male. We firmly believe that he killed his wife.

I don't think that we have direct evidence and people or juries have this expectation that you have to have direct evidence to make a case.

There is a CSI effect. Juries do have that expectation that science will provide the answer to every question.

I'm confident that this jury is going to be able to reach an answer. And I wouldn't be trying the case unless I thought that Mr. Croteen killed his wife. Thirty years of marriage, he made no effort to find his wife.

The defendant starts to chop up the headboard and he burns it in the fireplace.

Briefly tell the ladies and gentlemen of the jury how much work is involved in doing this, what you do.

The small, little, tiny speck of blood, the size of the head of a needle of a pin, is gonna be what is going to make Jeffrey Croteen guilty in this case.

This is the third trial that we've had.

Prior to trials, we got pretty close. This time, we'll get a good verdict. He's the man who killed Ramona Croteen.

It's a pretty close call for what was left of that of that murder bullet.

I heard a bang. So this noise that you heard, you thought it was a gunshot, is that correct?

Were you intoxicated?

Did there come a time that you listened to cell phone messages on Sue Ziegler's telephone?

Would you tell us about that?

Do you recall what you heard on the voicemail message?

And how did you react to listening to this voicemail? I was shocked. You were shocked? Shocked. Okay.

Through the course of the night, did you awake at any time?

Did you get up to use the bathroom?

Were you startled in any way?

At any time through the course of that sleep, did you hear anything?

We've done sound testing, fired about 38 shots into a test tank inside of that car and measured what type of sound reading you would get in Jennifer's bedroom and you would not hear it.

Shoes are significant because shoes telegraphed that Ramona made her way home that night.

And despite your best efforts, you weren't able to find your mom, were you?

Jeff Protein's got a problem, and he's got a problem with you folks, ladies and gentlemen. How do you resolve, how do you disregard all of that evidence as to the crime scene? Evidence of cleanup, evidence of removal of carpet. How do you get around, ladies and gentlemen, this crime scene? And that is the dilemma that Jeff Protein has in this particular case.

Justice was not served with that verdict.

I apologize to the family. We gave it our best effort, but the jury had some reasonable doubt.

There's no question in your mind that your mother did not come home that night?

He has to live with what the truth is. I firmly believe that Jeffrey Croteen killed his wife.

How could you be so cold to conduct business as usual when your wife is missing?

But when it came to circumstantial evidence... Dr. Hammond wasn't standing next to the body the morning that she was killed. Dr. Hammond didn't then go to work and not call the authorities. Dr. Hammonds briefcase wasn't opened up in a picture of a person being dragged with blood coming from their back and heels on the ground, much like the victim was dragged.

Dr. Hammond, wenn Sie zurück nach seinem Haus gehen, finden Sie keine gruseligen Schriften von Menschen, die getötet und geschlagen wurden.

The day after Tracy Frame met with police detectives, she was arrested and charged with the murder of David Nixon.

And your car was still there. Someday at 9, maybe. No, that's not true.

Things have just turned real serious. Do you understand where I'm coming from? Yes, sir.

Alonso ist unsophistiziert. Er hat nicht viele Orte gelebt, er hat nicht viele Dinge gemacht. Also war er reif, glaube ich, um Schuyler als Konfederant in diesem ganzen Ding zu entlassen.

Tom, smart und witzig, liebte es nicht, was er sah. Thomas Hawkes hatte 20 Jahre lang einen Bewerbungsarzt.

Das erste, was Skyler machte, als sie aus dem Boot kamen, war, dass er seine Telefonnummer aufgenommen hat und Jennifer in Long Beach angerufen hat. Und er sagte, du musst hierher kommen und Hailey bringen und diese Leute in Ruhe bringen.

Tom Hawks, his dream was always to sail off into the sunset. And he bought this boat. It's the well-deserved. It was well-deserved. They worked very hard for that.

Es hat angefangen als Missing Person Case.

Skyler Daly zu nennen, ein Soziopath, ist wahrscheinlich eine Entschuldigung für Soziopathen.

Thomas und Jackie Hawks waren nicht nur wirklich gute Leute, sie waren auch völlig ungewaltig.

Er ist ein Charakter. Er hat auf Booten gelebt, für fast sein ganzes Leben.

Jennifer DeLeon ist manipulativ. Sie ist bossig. Die beiden, die sich treffen, waren wie Feuer gegen Gasoline.

Sicher genug, wie Gary gesagt hat, gab es einen Angriff, der auf dem Boot sein sollte, der nicht da war.

Thomas und Jackie Hawks wurden lebendig auf der Bühne und begten um ihre Leben.

Es ist so schmerzhaft, so schmerzhaft und so kaltblutig wie jeder Mörder, der von einem anderen Menschen verurteilt werden kann. diesen sehr gut überlegten diabolischen Plot zu machen. Sie dachten, sie würden damit wegkommen, weil die Körper niemals und niemals zurückgekehrt werden. Die drei Befragten wurden mit zwei Kanzlermördern verurteilt.

Wir bieten ihr Immunität.

We offered her a complete walk initially in the investigation.

And she said no.

Er hat John Jarvie mit 50.000 Dollar auf seinem Konto verabschiedet. Er hat ihm eine Art Geschichte erzählt, die John Jarvie dazu gekauft hat, um John Jarvie in Mexiko zu beitragen. Und er hat ihn in eine Ravine verlassen. Und da hat Skyler DeLeon seinen Mund gesperrt.

This is Captain Tom Hawks. Tom Hawks was a good guy. He surfed, he scuba dove. He was kind of a guy's guy.

She wasn't really doing a whole lot with her life until she met Skyler.

He was basically a manipulator and somebody who was a complete con man. And she was a spoiled brat, basically. So the two of them getting together was the perfect combination.

There were $87,000 in debt. Skyler had no job. She was pregnant again.

In Bezug auf seine Effekte auf andere Menschen? Ich habe nie etwas wie Skyler gesehen.

I think that the evidence is strong to show that this was a calculated, premeditated, deliberate murder.

There's plenty of blood in that bedroom, and it's all the victim's blood. So it's obvious that that is where the crime occurred.

There's blood spatter on the ceiling, on the headboard, on the nightstand, on a potbelly stove, on tile, on comforters, sheets.

When the detectives lifted the mattress, there was blood there.

He was struck on the bed at least two times. He was also struck in the vicinity of the potbelly stove.

Without question. And there were three different tires on that truck. What are the chances of another truck having the same three different tires?

It appears that Jane Doretic disposed of the weapon and any bloody clothes, shoes.

There's nothing back there but a number of dumpsters.

The defendant is a very dangerous person. This was a vicious attack.

It shows a troubled relationship between a father and daughter, not motive to kill. When you first heard the defense was going to point the finger at Claire, did you have a moment of doubt? No. The thought did cross my mind that Claire might be involved somehow, along with her mother.

There's no evidence to connect Claire Dora to the crime. I went to my aunt's house.

Even today, no one has actually checked out Claire's alibi. As best they could, they attempted to, but they couldn't verify. No, they could not verify that she was there.

Do you know Jane Dorotek?

How is it that you know her?

Robert Doretic was a victim of a cold, calculated, and brutal slaying.

Something similar to this hammer was used to strike Mr. Dortig on the head.

When you look at all the evidence, it will point to one thing. Jane Dorotek chose murder over divorce.

Did you say anything specifically about the syringe?

And what was your mother's response?

All I could think about was that justice was served for those boys.

Yes, he believes that his mother is responsible for the death of his father.

But at the same time, those poor kids, they have lost both, their mother and father, knowing that their mother is responsible for killing their father in a very brutal fashion.

There's plenty of blood in that bedroom.

Coming up... There's blood spatter on the ceiling, on the headboard, on the nightstand, tile, comforters, sheets.

Considering Mr. Altinger's blood wasn't just all over the garage, it was on Mr. Twitchell's clothes when he was arrested three weeks later. That's a lot of evidence.

One of the most important aspects was his ability to confirm the truth to the document that Mr. Twitchell had crafted.

When we actually were in front of the jury presenting that very graphic, gruesome, horrific evidence, it was a full courtroom and you could hear a pin drop.

At times, Mr. Altinger's family was present in the courtroom and you could hear them. could hear them crying.

That was the first time Mr. Twitchell had seen her since the time he was arrested over two years earlier.

They took Rose. I couldn't find Rosie, and I panicked. I don't know where my daughter is. They must have taken her. Where's Rose? Where's Rose?

I kept thinking maybe she passed out or they knocked her out.

Did you think Chuck Weller was fair to Darren Mack? Yes, without question. And I don't think you just have to take our word for it. I mean, if you watch the videos yourself, particularly the last time those two are in court.

Doesn't happen every day. A bit surreal.

This is Breaking News.

Darren Mack had buyer's remorse. That's the bottom line. Buyer's remorse. Buyer's remorse. Whenever you have somebody who basically signs up for spending just about the rest of their life in prison, it's not unusual for them to start having second thoughts about that.

She obviously died a very slow, painful, and tortured death. It was absolutely premeditated, and we know that from the note that was left. Well, ending the problem was eliminating her, was killing her.

yes and i also had discovery that he had solicited somebody to kill her there were actually police reports where darren had solicited an individual in clark county to kill charla mack and a family court judge murder for hire yes this was a incredibly difficult case to defend the damning revelations from chesnoff kept on coming darren

You have this very first meeting with Mr. Freeman and Mr. Chesnoff, and you never mention a gun, correct?

You never mention a dumpster, correct?

No. No. None at all. Nothing other than his word.

But you never told your lawyers you were sleep deprived, did you?

I think what is abundantly clear from the testimony of Mr. Chesnoff and Mr. Freeman is that they cared about this defendant. They zealously represented him from the very, very beginning.

Kind of almost as though a light went off.

It's not every day that you have a script basically laying out what's going to happen in a murder case.

Charlie was murdered in a very brutal way. She clearly suffered defensive wounds on her arms and on her legs. She was clearly drug from one area to another. We see blood spatter on the walls of the garage and on the floor of the garage.

The fact that her pantyhose had been taken down, her jumper had been pulled up so that her genitals were exposed. I think that it's fair to conclude that the motive was sexual assault.

We had missing evidence. We had lost evidence. People's memories fade. We didn't have the murder weapon.

He was four and a half at the time.

Four and a half years old. Four and a half year old, didn't put a gun to Jane Mixer's head and pull the trigger, put it to her head again and pull the trigger. Not a stocking around her neck and drag her body into the cemetery and arrange her clothes around her.

Unlike John Ruelas, Gary Leiderman was perfectly capable of having committed this murder.

I think that Gary Leiterman called Jane Mixer in response to her ad for a ride to Muskegon and represented himself as David Johnson.

Ultimately that night he put a gun to her head twice, pulled the trigger.

Do you recall the morning of March 21st, 1969?

It was in places where it would not have resulted from casual contact. There is no innocent explanation for Jane Mixer's pantyhose to have Gary Leiterman's DNA on them.

Certainly we had to consider how to handle John Rulis' blood.

His blood was on her. His blood was on her.

Not in my mind.

We, the jury, find the defendant guilty. Signed by the jury.

Have a seat, sir.

Gary Lighterman deserves to pay the price for what he's done. And he'll do that.

And so we would respectfully ask that the court grant this motion

Steven Stanko is highly intelligent. He has an IQ recently tested at 143.

It may have been that he was just closing up shop, and he's not going back to prison, and he's not going to leave any witnesses around. So here's what I've got to do. I've got to get money in the car. I've got to take care of these people that are going to be coming after me.

He's smart. He's manipulative. He's beguiling. And he's dangerous.

Just because your ability to control your impulses is less than mine, That's no defense.

Now, we know that defendant Stanko, she does bad stuff and he doesn't feel too bad about it. There was no bizarre behavior. There was no madness going on here.

It's junk science. Junk science. Junk science.

So we send him home and I just disagree.

I've seen the images and I'm not persuaded. But I'm not persuaded not because of what I can see but because of what other experts look at and tell me.

Did you find in this defendant any mental disease?

Did you find any mental defect?

You're testifying that this defendant has a birth defect.

Okay, neurological okay.

Isn't that good news?

That's great news. Yes. And the baby was released from the hospital two days later, wasn't he? Yes.

This defendant has no mental illness in your opinion?

His brain made him do it. It's on its own. He just goes and does things. And while I'm over here, my brain's out running around murdering and raping people.

I now call the case of the state of South Carolina versus Steven see stanko count one murder. Count two, assault and battery with intent to kill. Count three, criminal sexual conduct.

Justice is the last thing defendant Stanko wants because justice in this case is the sentence of death.

Well, we have already won. I mean, Stephen Stanko is never going to be a free man. He'll never be, you know, he may victimize someone in the prison system, but he'll never victimize another free citizen walking about.

Count five, kidnapping. Count six, armed robbery.

I can say this, Stephen Stanko is a remarkable liar.

County Prosecutor Greg Hembree. He is a cold-blooded killer. He has no remorse. He doesn't care about anybody but Stephen Stanko.

At some point, he turns her over on her stomach, puts his left knee on her back, reaches over, and chokes Laura Ling to death.

He wakes Henry Turner up and tells him that his father's died. He just wants to come in and just wants to talk. Turner consoled Stanko and gave him something to eat. And what happened after they ate breakfast? It's our belief that Stanko came up behind him and fired one shot into the back of Henry Turner. Turner then spun around, and Stanko fired another shot into the chest of Henry Turner.

He heads to Columbia, South Carolina, where he has happy hour. Happy hour. Happy hour.

The next day, he ends up in Augusta, Georgia, and it happened to be the weekend of the Masters.

I said, did Matt ever tell you anything about Carrie's death? And she said, yes. He said, I killed her for you. My jaw probably dropped down on my chest.

He told her that he had smothered her.

Nearly four years after claiming he found his wife dead. Carrie's last day of life was on Friday, April 7, 2006. Matt Baker is now on trial. for murder. You'll hear Matt Baker say his wife has just committed suicide, that he's found a note. But Matt has a variety of stories about what happened that night.

You've got a man who's extremely concerned about his public persona, and it's very important to him to be viewed as the perfect father, the perfect husband, the perfect Christian, the perfect preacher. but in reality, he lives his day-to-day life very differently.

He looked like he's going to get away with this. You'll hear him repeatedly and consistently say, he never had an affair with Vanessa Bowles. You're gonna hear from Vanessa Bowles. You're gonna see her. Assistant District Attorney Susan Schaefer promises the jury that they will meet the other woman. She's gonna tell you how Matt brought her into their marital bed while Carrie was still alive.

Was it a suicide? Was it a murder? I'd describe it as the most difficult case I've ever prosecuted.

You did not feel that she was suicidal, is that right?

The state will call Linda Doolin.

Do you need to take a minute?

Were you able to make any determination that it was reported?

He actually drew a diagram of how he claimed her body to be.

It said that that arm was lower than the rest of her body. Blood sinks to the lowest point. So either her head was on the other side of the bed with her left arm hanging off, or her head had to be at the foot of the bed with her left arm hanging off, neither of which was what he described and diagrammed. And then there are those computer searches.

I was raised strict, Southern Baptist.

Now, you're not saying that at that time you were pure as the driven snow, right? Oh, no.

We were very aware of that problem going in.

There was a lot available for attack by the defense. Did you tell the truth about the affair?

They know that. I don't believe she committed suicide. There's too much about the staged crime scene to believe that.

But you were willing to go with this? We believed that this was, in fact, the true story.

The jury started deliberating this afternoon. I felt we had proven our case. Right now we're waiting for the jury to return a verdict. I was concerned how the jury would feel about Vanessa.

It was frightening.

You're always nervous until they come back in. There's no such thing as a slam dunk.

There's a reason that the term dead weight is used. I'm going to need your help. And all this is happening in what period of time? Oh, I measured it at a little less than 90 seconds.

I don't know that Houdini could have done that, and I didn't think he could either.

Incredibly close.

If the Doolins hadn't pursued him, he certainly would have.

The evidence was too speculative. Couldn't get beyond a reasonable doubt with that. It's not was it a crime and who committed it, but was it a crime at all?

The problem was proving it. You get one bite at that apple, and if you get an acquittal, it's over.

We didn't have anything to lose.

It got to the point that we all believed he did it. The question was, did we have enough evidence to go forward?

I was looking for just that extra piece, and we finally got it.

She saw a police car there, and it reminded her that she'd seen a police car in Tammy's driveway the evening of the murder.

Not at all. Not at all.

I really can't say. My best guess is something happened between the two of them and he went into a rage.

Yeah.

Prosecutor Levko also was worried. I'd heard from a lot of our deputies that he was a very good witness.

This was a huge problem.

Finest thought we were trying to pin the murder on him, and we weren't. And at one point he was going to plead the fifth, which would have been devastating to us.

Had he come across suspiciously or anything like that, it might have created a problem for us, but he was very credible.

We could figure out from where they were and how fast they were running what time that was.

It could have made a difference in the sense that it could have been a more difficult case for a jury and theoretically, theoretically could have made a difference in the outcome, but it wouldn't have made a difference in the fact that Patrick Bradford is guilty of this murder and setting a fire.

You really have to have something extraordinary, and I think it's pretty unlikely that they'll get that.

Yeah, well, you know, that may be true. You're very emotional. Yeah, I do. I get involved in the game just thinking about it now.

I lived with this case for almost a year, and I felt the burden of the mother and father.

Are you talking about the board game clue? The board game clue. Who did you go as?

Okay. Was the defendant in character?

Who was he?

What about his restroom?

Who supported your family financially after you got married?

Who controlled the finances?

He'd conned so many people for so many years. You always worry that, okay, this might be his one last con and he's going to escape justice.

Somebody who's fooled me for years. Exactly 28 years ago, Linda's family reported Linda and John missing.

What projects was he working on when you met him?

Essentially what he's doing is he's bringing in the clients.

And he's selling to them a product. And I'm not talking about a stereo here. The product that he's selling them is that I have, that being Nisa Melman, I have Judge Garson in my pocket. And if you come on board with me, you give me a certain amount of cash, I'll get it done for you.

She saw such a difference of how people treated her from top down.

He's pouring over a lot of the transcripts.

Szymanowski and Ellman have a very tight relationship. Szymanowski also has a very tight relationship with the judge.

I'm talking about an attorney who would bring the judge out to lunch, to drinks, to dinners. Not once, but we're talking several hundred times. Paul Sibonowski would pick up the tip. It was a given.

He spent over 10 grand on Judge Garson's stomach. Everybody knew they were buddies.

Here you have this attorney, Simonovsky, getting inappropriately cozy with the judge, who he's appearing before, that he has cases with.

The case was on trial. On trial that very week, that very day.

Argue A, argue B. You're going to win. The wife's not going to get anything. Don't worry about her. And says some pretty disturbing things about her on this videotape.

The way he spoke about women was really just beyond sexist. I think it borders on disturbing.

You see, Szymanowski's assignment numbers almost triple.

So here you have the judge getting filled at lunch with booze and food, and, hey, thanks, Szymanowski, here's a guardianship for you.

When we cracked open these file cabinets, now mind you, this is an electronic salesman in the middle of Brooklyn. When these drawers are opened, you feel like you're in a satellite file room for the matrimonial court.

It's a conspiracy first off and foremost.

Certainly does.

We're not talking about a traffic ticket here or someone jumping a turnstile. We're talking about corruption in the court system and the pawns that are being played with here are children.

We're talking about corruption in the court system and the pawns that are being played with here are children.

The confession tells us that two people went into the room and one stayed out, and two people cooperated to commit this murder.

The shirt is heavily stained. It's a transient shirt. It has stains everywhere. These are small stains of blood.

It is a nightmare.

That's excellent. That's exactly, I think that is the primary thing that we have to do.

This is a true mystery right now, and I want to look at it that way, and I don't want to make up my mind. I don't want to say they did it, he did it. I want to find out what the truth is.

People will show beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant murdered Stephanie Crow.

He walked out a door and probably into the hallway of the courthouse and out. Our number one priority right now is finding Richard Tuitt.

Pointing towards this idea of innocence are these ten main points. There's no way that these kids could have done it at the time.

Please raise your right hand as best you can.

The most likely means of delivery was from blood which was wet at the time that it was applied.

has seen what he told police when he was 14. Why this is going on? What's going through your mind?

Nothing further. Thank you.

That's Stephanie's blood on this shirt. No question about it.

There are only two possibilities on the planet Earth for the cause of Stephanie Crow's death. One would be the three boys, the other is Richard Tewitt.

Finally, the community has seen this case, understands this case, realized that Mr. Tewitt is the guilty person, and the boys had no involvement at all. And they're finally, the cloud is finally lifted from them.

The evidence we're going to present to show you that Mr. Tuitt, this gentleman, has a weapon of choice, and his weapon of choice is a knife.

He does what we call a blitz attack on Stephanie. It only takes a matter of seconds, literally. And then he exits. There's not a lot of planning. It's essentially a straight shot.

Luck plays a big part in a lot of murder investigations. Record reflect the presence of the jurors, the attorneys and Mr. Toot.

She was like an angel.

The behavior of the brother seemed to be in contrast to the behavior of the rest of the family.

He was playing with some handheld game while the rest of the family was grieving.

And then he walked back from the kitchen, walked back into his room.

The evidence shows her door was open because her body blocked the doorway.

The motive started out as this hate, but then it turned into a sort of a game of let's plan this out. Let's see if it can be pulled off.

No, actually he was the only one that did not have an alibi.

He lied about things he didn't even need to lie about. It's just his character. I swear to you on my mama's life.

It was something to the effect of, were you holding a shotgun when your parents were killed, I believe.

Yeah.

It was laughable. Not only was it laughable, it was scientifically and physically impossible.

He is living in his dead brother's house, sleeping in his dead brother's bed next to his dead brother's wife, is taking his dead brother's children to school, and he's driving his dead brother's truck. He has become, for all practical purposes, Cary Hite.

I think she was the catalyst that caused all of this to happen.

When you sit down and dispassionately look at the evidence, it couldn't be anybody but him.

The only way I'm going to have Robin Height and have peace is Mama, Daddy and Carrie have to be eliminated from the equation. He wanted the big house. He wanted the kids that adored him. He wanted to drive around in the nice truck to live the life of leisure of a southern gentleman, so to speak.

To have happened like that is truly impossible. Most people that saw it literally laughed at this reenactment he did.

They laughed. It was silly.

It's not really a matter of what I believe he did. It's what I know he did.

He knew something that very few people knew, and that is the location and presence of another key, an outside key, which people commonly have.

He knew where that key would have been located. He took that key, opened the door, went in.

This man desperately wanted his son to start behaving correctly.

I'm sure at the time he wrote the letter, he hoped that this might somehow resolve itself so the family had torn apart.

I have to go by the evidence. And based upon her testimony she gave against him, it did not appear at the time that she was participating in any plan.

I didn't say that. I said we have to go by the evidence.

Whoever went in this house, they went in there with one motive, to execute the people that were inside.

The security cameras, how important were the security cameras and the evidence? I think they were very important. On the surveillance, you clearly hear the three gunshots. One. Two, three. The prosecution's theory is that he shot her and then shot himself to cover it up.

There's a lot of controversy about how many times she was actually shot.

Was the autopsy consistent with an accidental shooting? Well, ultimately, I guess that's the million dollar question.

Their theory was that that sound, that fourth sound, was a gunshot in a different part of the house, and that was him shooting himself.

Who was the aggressor? She was threatening him with a gun. If he is the aggressor, then this is a murder. If she is the aggressor, this was either self-defense or an accident. This is the 9-millimeter gun.

It's like he can't bring himself to say what he's done. For him not to reveal that information with two decades of law enforcement training, to me that was consciousness of guilt.

I felt this was also significant. I have no doubt he is trained in how to give CPR, perform it.

Typically, when you're performing CPR, you don't take breaks.

There was no single piece of physical evidence that really conclusively pointed towards a particular verdict.

The prosecution's theory is that almost like he snapped. He was angry. They were arguing. He was being accused of things by her.

There just wasn't enough evidence to disprove his story.

The multiple shots is definitely what gives everyone a lot of pause as to why it's not an accident. The medical examiner ruled it a homicide, which is an intentional killing.

We believed that Mr. Pritchard planned this all out, and very meticulously, for that matter.

We believe that that was sort of the snapping point for the defendant. He became more and more obsessed with the situation and not letting her go.

We believe his next appearance is around 4 a.m. on October 8th at the dog kennels in which the dogs start to go crazy.

Correct.

when you hear his statement standing over her dying body on that 911 call using profanity.

First, what I want to kind of show you is, you know, the knife that was found in Katie's neck. And so what you can see here is this X-ray that the actual knife blade broke off inside of Katie.

Exactly. Matches exactly right there. That's what was found and lodged in her neck. And that's how she died.

And you can actually see through the collar of the shirt where that knife blade entered. And you can see it right there. Yeah, right into her neck.

They would throw their bottles, their empty beer cans, and that's exactly where he discarded Katie's body.

Yeah, absolutely.

As for Hannah Thompson... You heard she has five pending charges for the information she ultimately provided to law enforcement.

She is facing 55 years in jail. upon conviction for those crimes. And she got up here with no deal. State didn't offer her a single thing. No agreement to dismiss her charges, no cooperation agreement, no nudge, nudge, wink, wink, none of it. She got up here and testified, and she told you because she thought it was the right thing to do.

And what she told the police was that she threw him to the floor.

Zero. We would never take someone to trial with just a confession. This child had a fractured skull. There was extensive injuries to this child internally. It's clear that she killed Benjamin.

The pediatrician actually examined Benjamin's head, had felt around, said there was no issues, that mom should just keep an eye on him. Ben never had an issue after that.

This child did not explode or implode on his own.

She became frustrated holding Ben. She threw him to the floor.

Today I'm announcing the unsealing of a three-count indictment. charging Sean Combs with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, interstate transportation for prostitution.

Combs allegedly planned and controlled the sex performances, which he called freak-offs, and he often electronically recorded them. The freak-offs sometimes lasted days at a time, involved multiple commercial sex workers, and often involved a variety of narcotics, such as ketamine, ecstasy, and GHB, which Combs distributed to the victims to keep them obedient and compliant.

Thirty blows? That's not from a stranger. That is a mad, mad domestic abuser.

It's very emotional to have family members there who you've been working with for five and a half years. And they finally have justice, you know.

This case is not based on DNA. This case is not based on hair. This case is not based on fingerprints. This case is based on jealousy, rage, and obsession.

That this defendant was obsessed with Mike and Karen. That she hated Mike and Karen. That she told Haley that she had thought about killing Mike.

Chandler, it is a yes or no.

So she looked at this lineup of six photographs for about 10 seconds?

And what did she say?

Chandler, is it fair to say you don't like the rules when they apply to you? No, that's not true at all. The rule is when you're asked a question, answer that question and then wait for the next question. Do you understand that?

But you're not capable of doing that?

So what you told Detective Oley is not consistent with what you told Jeff Bailey, is it?

Tim Sisko and Kathy Boots were wrong about saying Mike saw you in his breezeway in May, approximately six weeks before the homicide. Is that correct? Yes, they are absolutely wrong. Kathy was mistaken or wrong on her testimony about seeing you jump on Mike's trampoline?

Haley and Dustin were wrong when they said that you used them as your little spies. Yes or no?

This case is based on rage and obsession.

We are confident that you are going to find Nicole Thomas Rice guilty.

That really is why that was important.

You're going to hear whispers from the past across the void of time that led to these charges. Silent no more.

The state intends to show you evidence. There was bad blood between these two girls. And their living situation was highly toxic. The state intends to show you evidence that on the early morning hours of June 3rd, 2007, Nicole Thomas Rice stabbed Anita Knutson twice in the chest, killing her.

How often did you speak with Anita?

What was the next thing you heard about where your daughter was?

And what was that?

What did you see when you were at the window?

Where was Anita?

Now, Sergeant, I know there's been a lot of talk about Cold Justice. Yes. You were assigned to this case before Cold Justice came on. Is that correct? Correct. Correct. Was Cole Justice calling the shots?

What did you find that was inconsistent?

Okay. Specifically fighting about what?

What did she specifically state to you?

In the early morning hours of June 3rd, 2007... Nicole Rice took this knife and plunged it into the chest of this girl and killed her.

You're right. We didn't have him at the George Washington Bridge. We didn't.

One of the things that you think you'll find in every case is that people make mistakes.

What Mr. Tong was doing less than three hours after the murder was obliterating data. He was doing the digital equivalent of lighting it on fire.

There was spyware that was installed on Sophie Manu's laptop computer by Mr. Tong. And he was able to unlock every single email and found out that, in fact, she was having an affair.

He would say, you know, I saw you walking around the Upper West Side. She's French, no? So I imagine that Rob was getting these emails being quite troubled that somebody knew where he was at a particular time, you know, who he was with.

Yes, Your Honor. Your verdict is?

You could see some indication that this wasn't just somebody that was smoking in his bed in the bedlit fire.

The first thought was, well, whoever did this act lit the crime scene in an effort to frustrate law enforcement because DNA evidence is always important.

It wasn't just a shooting. It was an execution. Shot him from behind. Execution style.

Yeah, despicable, despicable.

There was certainly a discussion and deliberation on the topic, certainly within the first few weeks of the Cantor murder.

Meanwhile, Detective Cecilia Love intensified her focus on Rob's world.

I am representing a voice that has been snuffed out and taken away.

When he was killed and when his body was moved, when things were going on, the only person that's going to be at that house, the only person, is her. The defendant murdered and desecrated her own husband.

And it's fair to say that you're biased in favor of your mom?

How were you feeling when you called that number?

How much did you tear your house up and things in the house looking for it? I looked everywhere.

We were going to ask the court to hold him without bail.

He has a history of harassing and threatening his victims in the past, so this would be a legitimate fear. I do have young children at home, and this would cause me and my husband to worry for their safety while causing our family unnecessary stress.

What would giving their names, how would that give a mouse cheese?

Did you think that going on public television was a good way to keep your identity quiet? Objection.

For somebody who has faked their own death, who denied that they were who they were for three years in a foreign country, and then just have him come in here and say, well, yeah, I am that person, but I was hiding from two people who were threatened to kill me. He is a flight risk. And so the state would ask that the court move his bail to no bond.

The one person who can truthfully tell us what happened isn't with us. There's no live eyewitnesses? There's no witness, so that allows the defendant and the defense to tell any type of fantastical story they can come up with.

We have them on great surveillance, getting into the elevator at the Millennium, walking through the lobby, walking out to Nima Momeni's car.

Correct. He quite possibly was very furious.

Nima Momeni is driving home in his nice BMW and hoping to go on with his life like nothing ever happened.

We eventually found the car about a month later at a BMW dealership where his family was attempting to sell it on his behalf. You think this is the family trying to help him dispose of evidence? I feel confident this is one of many ways in which the family was trying to help him.

I've never had a piece of evidence where a suspect is reenacting his or her crime.

You see two figures, and we are able to make out who those two figures are given the color of the clothing Bob and Nima Momeni are wearing in the elevator.

That's an understatement.

I'm confident, given that the car that we see the two of them get into is perfectly tracked to that exact location of the incident.

99% of the DNA from that handle comes back to Nima Momeni. From the blade of that knife, it comes back to Bob Lee.

He's interrogating Bob. He's questioning him about what was happening at Jeremy Boyvin's place.

That's a great question. I don't know what he planned to do with Jeremy at some point. What happened in Jeremy Boivin's apartment is not important. What Nima Momeni thinks happened in that apartment, that's what is important.

Prosecutors knew a lot hung on Nima's performance on the stand. We had great evidence, like the DNA, but ultimately, if Nima Momeni is believable, credible, sympathetic, If he tells a good story... We lose. He walks away. I think so.

I thought he gave a pathetically comical story that made no sense. Then, Prosecutor Talai cross-examined Nima. You know, I had a strategy coming into the cross-examination. I am trying to provoke him, and within about five, 10 minutes, I could tell he wasn't gonna be able to control himself.

This is not some TV legal show. You knew this was coming. We watched a video from the battery. We've watched hundreds of hours of video. You could watch that video a thousand times and you will never see a knife. No matter how many times you get in a jury's face and yell, that's the knife.

That's correct. That's not Bob Lee with the knife. That just happens to be a Joseph Joseph knife that Kazarma Manny had in her place.

Correct.

You know, around the fifth, sixth day, which was the deadline that the judge had previously given the jury for when their service would be done, it's at that point in time that I'm a little concerned. Six days went by. Still no verdict.

The hallway was packed as prosecutors and Bob's family made their way into the tense courtroom. I find myself getting the most nervous. You know, you're powerless. You're sitting there and you're waiting. And you've done all you can do. I've done everything I can do.

Shannon, do you remember where you live? Um,

Thank you. Do people call Christopher Austin? No.

Mm-hmm.

Did you have a term that you referred to him as?

What is that?

And is Rob older than you then?

How much older?

Can you please identify where she's sitting and what she's wearing?

What did Baker tell you about it?

Did the agent say to you, to me it sounded like it's the bitch who planned everything? Do you remember him saying that to you?

What did you say?

Haley, Dustin, and Tim were mistaken when they testified you showed up at soccer games yesterday. shouting at Mike and Karen.

The 1996 case, now the subject of renewed interest on social media. You still have hope that this can be solved.

Still trying to get to the police chief today.

Well, again, that's evidence, so I can't discuss that. Okay.

Is there anything we can do to speed this up? Because I don't know what's happening up in the next week to week here, day to day. So is there anything we can do, please?

He told the judge he'd received new records in the case and asked to withdraw as Craig's attorney. Barely 24 hours after that, prosecutors accused Craig of plotting murder and false testimony.

He made her call up her parents and admit that she was having an affair, correct?

In your previous testimony, you said you wanted her to own up to it, right? Yeah. I'm not sure. If you could please turn to Exhibit 402, page 155. Let me know when your memory is refreshed. Yes, I did see that.

They want to, in essence, have a jury rely on this, which is not trustworthy, it's not reliable, it's not scientific, and it shouldn't be utilized in a court.

Okay.

He didn't do it with premeditation.

As many deceptions and lies as were told to her victims of the Ponzi scheme, Michael Cochran was told just as many. He did not know what was going on, but he was determined to find out.

This defendant is a pharmacist. She knows about medications and drugs. She knew the impact insulin would make.

So, Sergeant Buchanek, you don't want to answer my question, correct?

Let me just ask you this. Do you believe that Michael Proctor, his involvement in this case, tainted the investigation?

Not at all?

You do know that he touched or had input in nearly every part of this case, obviously, as the case officer, correct?

So he had some input or had some connection to nearly every part of the case, be it the physical evidence, the search warrants, the interviews, things of that nature.

He didn't take a minor role in this case. He had a major role in this case. Would you at least agree with that?

Combs abused, threatened, and coerced victims.

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Today I'm announcing the unsealing of a three-count indictment. charging Sean Combs with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, interstate transportation for prostitution.

Combs abused, threatened, and coerced victims to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct.

Do you recall telling her at the end of the day, all you care about is seeing my girls? Remember that?

And things have to happen, but I mean, do I need to testify? What do you need? What can you do for me? What do you need from me so I can go see my girls? That's all that matters to me. Did you say that to her?

And was that the truth?

And the truth is, now that you have testified to what they need, you're going to go home and see your girls long before you would have had you been found guilty of this murder.

Everyone in America is watching.

And during that period of time, Robert Baker, who you had every reason to believe was a cold-blooded killer, was left on the street, correct?

The focus was on Monica Cimentilli at that time.

Against Monica Cimentilli.

There was one that was shot dead and the other had three bullets.

He told the judge he'd received new records in the case and asked to withdraw as Craig's attorney. Barely 24 hours after that, prosecutors accused Craig of plotting murder and false testimony.

All right. Good morning, counsel. Good morning, Ms. Reed. Good morning, jurors. Good morning. Good morning.

Bye, everybody.

There was a sense of relief because this individual was off the streets. He wasn't going to rape and terrorize anybody else, but we were also very focused on trying to make sure that we had our victims.

There are certain cases that are just so abhorrent in their nature, no one should give a plea offer. And that was this particular case. To do anything less than have him plead guilty would be to diminish the seriousness of the offense.

We're asking this court to fashion a sentence that ensures that this defendant never, ever gets out of prison.

He was taking detailed notes of what he was observing from the golden victim. He took extensive notes.

Who she was, who she hung out with, notes, for example, when her boyfriend would come over, what she would do late at night. He was aware that she would watch TV late into the morning.

and would look at her personal information, driver's license, and that type of information.

My firm belief is there are other victims out there. They're fearful of just coming forward that they won't be believed. I don't think there's any better way to describe the case, the overall circumstances of the case, and what Mark O'Leary is other than pure evil.

It is one of the scariest cases ever to come before this judicial district. What was done to these women is absolutely unconscionable. This is an individual who led, in essence, a double life, who had a lot going for him. Apparently, he had a loving family. He served time in the military, was given the opportunity to go to school, but he sought out evil like a wolf. He was a predator.

And so she would engage him in conversations.

We were advised that there may be a linkage between sexual assault in Golan and potentially other sexual assaults in surrounding jurisdictions.

It was that camera that was described by the victim in the Golden case that we were able to definitively link those together.

He would come in with gloves, and he wasn't able to perform sexual acts with gloves, and so he would remove the gloves. It was the Westminster one, where he told her to shower off. She had to stay in the shower for a certain amount of time. The victim in that particular case indicated, well, how would I know when I can leave? There was a timer that he used, a kitchen timer,

He was a sexually violent predator. He preyed upon these women at the most vulnerable time, and that is when they were sleeping in their home.

In Aurora, there was a teddy bear that was on a TV that got knocked down. He touched the teddy bear. He had removed the gloves and probably didn't think that a teddy bear would leave DNA, but in fact it did.

She began to scream for a spiritual leader in a way that he believed there was someone else in the house. He went to check the house in fear that maybe there was someone else in there. At that point, she saw the opportunity and dove out of a window and was severely injured. Broken ribs and some back injuries.

There wasn't any DNA found in the house. As I recall, there was some foot impressions that were outside the house where he had fled.

The DNA came from the male lineage of the family and we knew he had a brother. So one of the things that we had to do was to make sure that he wasn't, in fact, the individual who was responsible for these crimes.

We determined that the birthmark was in fact the same birthmark as described by the victim in Golden.

We found the materials that we did, and one was hidden in a speaker, the rape kit, and the camera, then there was no question.

You were emotional, would you agree, when you took the stand?

You told the jury that you were crying. Because you grew up with Fabian and you loved him.

Remember saying that?

Shouldn't you be mad at Fabian for causing or permitting Victoria's death?

Did you ever think about crying for Victoria? And what happened to her? Blew me a cry all the time. Victoria was the innocent child, wasn't she? Not Fabian.

We are here to announce that Luigi Mangione, the defendant, is charged with one count of murder in the first degree and two counts of murder in the second degree, including one count of murder in the second degree as an act of terrorism. For the brazen, targeted, and premeditated shooting of Brian Thompson... who, as you know, was the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

This was a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation. It occurred in one of the most bustling parts of our city threatening the safety of local residents and tourists alike, commuters and business people just starting out on their day.

The maximum penalty possible for murder in the first degree and murder in the second degree as an act of terrorism is life without parole. The maximum penalty for murder in the second degree is 25 years to life. There are additional counts as well. a number of criminal possession of weapon charges.

¿Hablas español? ¿Hablas español?

Did you want Sean to urinate on you? Cassie, I didn't want anyone to urinate on me. Prosecutor, how often did it happen? Answer, often enough.

against evidence that is not substantiated. I have a closed mind against statements that are made about other people in general.

You go on a radio show and you say, now some drunken Indians want to come down here and open a reservation.

Excuse me, Mr. Imus. Excuse me, Mr. Imus.

Combs allegedly planned and controlled the sex performances, which he called freak-offs, and he often electronically recorded them. The freak-offs sometimes lasted days at a time, involved multiple commercial sex workers, and often involved a variety of narcotics, such as ketamine, ecstasy, and GHB, which Combs distributed to the victims to keep them obedient and compliant.

The suffering that she went through, not for a minute, not for an hour, not for a day, but for weeks. Ladies and gentlemen, that's not malice. I don't know what it is. Malice is malice. It's ill will. It's just total disregard. And I had that little girl in that situation where she can't escape. She's totally dependent on them.

en Auburndale, Florida. Y fue en ese momento que el defensor, de forma feroz y válida, lanzó su pura furia y odio hacia su madre en ella. Cuando la atoró con tanta fuerza que el cuchillo salió disparando por su nariz, por sus músculos de nariz, a través de su esófago, a través de su tráquea, a través de su cartilaje de la cirugía y le disparó a la otra parte de su nariz.

Verán que, como esto sucedió, comenzó a huir profusamente a través de la enorme grasa en su nariz. Mientras se murió, el defendiente estaba allí y observó como el sangre salió del gran hole en su nariz. Vas a oír que él estaba allí mientras observaba el sangre y la vida drenar de su cuerpo hasta que tomó su última respiración y fue oficialmente muerto. También vas a oír

que esto era exactamente lo que el defendiente quería hacer. Y que esto es exactamente lo que el defendiente había pensado en hacer y había querido hacer durante bastante tiempo.

Sí. Sí. Sí.

¿Estás preocupado que si usas las palabras exactas que el defendiente dijo que quería decirle a su mamá que eso podría afectar negativamente la relación de su madre y su hijo? Lo haría, y tenía miedo de que realmente tuviera maldiciones. ¿Puedes decirle una versión limpia o una versión más vanilla, por si acaso? Sí, lo hice.

To this day, it's clear to me that he feels no genuine remorse. No doubt he's sorry for himself, sorry he's here, sorry for what's coming, perhaps sorry for his family. But I don't believe he feels genuine remorse for slaughtering Neue Graber.

I believe Willard J. Miller should be sentenced to life in prison for the crime that he actually served no less than 35 years before becoming eligible to be considered for the possibility of parole.

None of his testimony is backed up by any evidence. All of the evidence actually points the other direction towards his guilt.

What was his motive? If I had to explain why a child molester molests children... because they're sick? I couldn't answer that. But the beautiful part is I don't have to answer that. I don't have to tell you why he did it. On May of 1990, he murdered them in Cape Coral. What was his motive? I don't care. Thank you.

Defense attorneys don't generally like their clients to testify. The risk that they'll be forced to reveal damaging information is way too high.

I don't know that it's damaging nobody ever argued that Mrs. Boyle wasn't dead or they didn't find her body in Erie, Pennsylvania, in the basement of the house.

Were you in love with the defendant?

Are you still in love with the defendant?

Sherry, have you recently had a baby?

And who is the father of that baby?

Never had any doubts?

In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well, because the reader can't distinguish whether you just invented this or just reposted it. That's the same for us.

Let's talk about what was in the system and the toxicology report. And you heard from Dr. Eisen Schmid, right? And what he testified was that George Floyd's fentanyl to norfentanyl ratio, that metabolite norfentanyl, that was well below the ratio of people who die from a fentanyl overdose. It was even below the median. And George Floyd's methamphetamine level

That was 94% lower than the population for driving under the influence. And Dr. Rich and Dr. Smock, they've treated patients who are under the influence of both fentanyl and methamphetamine, and they testified these drugs did not kill George Floyd. It didn't. We know that he had a tolerance because he used drugs in the past.

On February the 5th of 2019, Michael Cochran was a 200-pound, healthy 38-year-old man. By midday of February 6th of 2019, he had lost consciousness and he would never regain consciousness. He died in hospice care five days later, February 11th of 2019. How could this happen? Why did it happen? For an answer to that, there's no further than this defendant's conduct.

As you were told, the state has no direct evidence, the kind of stuff that makes TV shows exciting, the kind of stuff prosecutors love, jurors love. There is no DNA. There is no evidence of fingerprints. There are no videos of what happened. And Judge Kirkpatrick will instruct you at the end of this, circumstantial evidence is just as valid as that type of direct and scientific evidence.

And there is a ton of evidence on this defendant's guilt. Why? Why would this happen? And why would it happen when it happened? Well, as the defense counsel informed you during questioning, the defendant had run a Ponzi scheme, a big one. where millions of dollars were taken from friends, relatives, local professionals.

As many deceptions and lies as were told to her victims of the Ponzi scheme, Michael Cochran was told just as many. He did not know what was going on. But he was determined to find out, because people were saying, hey, We invested in your company in this plan and we're not getting our money back. And he was frustrated. He was very frustrated.

But the same excuses provided by the defendant to all of her victims in the Ponzi scheme were being provided to Michael Cochran too. It's everybody's fault under the sun. They've got hundreds of millions of dollars in their money stuck in a bank. in Virginia, Bank of America. That's what she told Michael Cochran. That's what he believed. So Michael Cochran is going to straighten this out.

They charter a flight from Beckley to the Bank of America branch in Lynchburg, Virginia for the 6th of February, 2019. Mysteriously, the defendant cancels that trip in early morning hours. Why was that trip so important? Because Michael Cochran and everybody else would know at that point. There is no money in the Bank of America in Virginia.

There's never been any money in the Bank of America in Virginia. There are no government contracts, which is what she was selling to the most of Raleigh County, it seems like. Those were fictitious things that she made up and built millions of dollars out of her victims.

Did she accept your offer of help? Yes, she did.

You miss him? I do.

Do you believe that this defendant deserves mercy in this matter?

Can you tell the jury why you believe she doesn't deserve mercy?

She knew what was happening, she understood what the defendant was doing, and she fought to live. And the defendant repaid Lulu's resistance with almost 30 different stab and slash wounds to her body and her neck.

At the end of the day, this, and I'm speaking right now to Mr. Acosta, is a refusal to investigate. I therefore find you guilty of neglecting and endangering the welfare of a child counts one and two.

And so you were there, you were one of the people who inexplicably, I'd love to know the answer to this, I don't expect you to answer it, but I'd love to know the answer to how dad takes kids home from hospital, where mom may or may not be overdosing, and have unexplained injuries, and somehow nobody bothers to go talk to the kids, or Andrew, or anybody else who could say, well, how often is mom, you know, she's got track marks up and down her arms, how long has that been going on?

It's inexplicable to me, and apparently you signed off on it. And everything else that I've just discussed here, I don't understand it. I really don't. I have no idea in any way. You clearly weren't doing any critical thinking, except to the extent that you said what will, for me, be an immortal statement in the history of childcare. Well, if that's what the kid said happened,

As if that's definitively reliable. And you did nothing else at all. Is there anything you wish to say?

didn't have time to investigate this case. It's ordered by this court that the defendant shall immediately remand to the custody of the McHenry County Sheriff to serve a sentence of six months in the McHenry County Jail.

In the case of reposting, it is a crime as well, because the reader can't distinguish whether you just invented this or just reposted it. That's the same for us.