Rachel Shannon

But when it comes to Stretch, after he was arrested, the shoes that Stretch was wearing when he was taken into the station also had spots of blood on them, which was later confirmed as belonging to Wukash.

Now let's talk about John Chapman.

There were witnesses who told the police that Joanna and Stretch were working hard to get John to leave the home at 38 Blyfield.

that Joanna told another witness that she would do anything to get John Chapman to leave.

Then in the days after the murder, she was talking to another poor woman who lived in the area, once again bragging about the murder.

Once again, this woman didn't tell police right away because she was afraid of Joanna hurting her.

Then police examined Leslie Layton's cell phone and they were actually able to recover that photo that Leslie took of John's body, which again, he deleted right after he took.

So, that said to police that Leslie was confirmed to be involved with John's death.

With Kevin Lee, the evidence that him and Joanna were involved was very obvious.

They had a close friendship, so close that Joanna felt comfortable telling Kevin about the murder of Lukasz that she committed and asking for money for a car to transport the body.

Police believed that she killed Kevin for the simple reason that she had a lust for blood.

i also mentioned earlier that she was frustrated with him that he hadn't paid her for her work of harassing tenants so that could have something to do with it but based on what we know about her at the end of the day it seemed to be that she just wanted to kill kevin for fun

Then, as I mentioned earlier, their cell phones did put them at the scene where the burning car was later found, so that connection was also easy to prove.

Basically, police were able to figure out what happened based on witness statements, cell phone evidence, including text messages and location data, as well as blood and DNA evidence that we also touched on earlier.

Because of this, police felt that they finally had enough information.

to take these three individuals to trial.

Gary Stretch and Leslie Layton's trial started in September of 2013, while Joanna's started in November of 2013.

Now, because of how all of this is connected and the evidence found and argued in this case that connects everything together, that each person was involved in these murders and disposing of the bodies, I won't sit here and make you listen to me repeat what they argued in each trial.

I believe Gary and Leslie were tried together and then Joanna had her own trial.

But instead of talking about each one, I'm going to sort of summarize what was argued against each person involved and talk about the evidence that got them to those conclusions.