Crimeatorium
Part 4: The State of Florida vs Laurie Shaver | The Murder of Michael Shaver
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000
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Part 4: Laurie Shaver was a Florida woman whose seemingly ordinary life unraveled when authorities uncovered the body of her husband, Michael Shaver, buried in their backyard beneath a concrete slab. Michael, born in New York and just 33 years old at the time, was a Disney employee who disappeared in 2015. For years, Laurie claimed he had simply walked away from their marriage. However, suspicions grew when family and friends reported him missing in 2018, leading investigators to uncover the truth. Laurie Shaver was charged with second-degree murder in connection with her husband's death. This episode presents a condensed version of her trial, edited for clarity and length.The prosecution opening statement begins at about 30 seconds in.Contact:[email protected] Blog for updates and insights:https://crimeatorium.com/blogSupport:Donations are appreciated, if you would like to help support the show, use the link below and buy me a burrito and a Diet Pepsi:http://Ko-fi.com/crimeatoriumFor $3 a month, you can support this show on Patreon, in return you will receive ad free, early, and bonus episodeshttps://www.patreon.com/crimeatoriumIf you like the podcast, please share it on social media and with friends, and take a minute to leave a review for Crimeatorium on Spotify, Podchaser or Apple Podcasts.Music:CO.AG Musichttps://www.youtube.com/@co.agmusic1823Thank you for listening!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/crimeatorium9009/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Please introduce yourself to the jury. Sure. Good afternoon. I'm Corporal Jared Strickland with the Lake County Sheriff's Office. And how long have you been with the Lake County Sheriff's Office? Since 2006. And what is your current position or assignment? Currently, I'm a corporal. I'm one of the supervisors within our criminal investigations unit. And how long have you been in that position?
Since 2021. Now, taking you back to February of 2017, what was your position then? In February 2017, I was one of our economic crimes detectives. When you say economic crimes detectives, what kind of crimes would you investigate? Different types of fraud, credit card fraud, identity theft, sometimes things that deal with computers and electronics.
How did you become involved in the investigation into the death? Sure. I was asked to start getting bank records, financials from the different people that are involved and to review those records as well as social media. When a homicide case in particular is being investigated by the Lake County Sheriff's Office, is it assigned to just one detective or a whole team working on this issue?
Sure. Typically, it's an entire team of detectives that are working on it because we all bring different things to the table. Was your background, training, experience with various forms of financial, social media records, things like that, from your economic background, useful in the investigation business? Yes, it was.
As part of the records that you looked into, did you seek out information and documents from Facebook? Yes, I did. And in order to obtain records from Facebook, how do you go about doing that? We have to get a search warrant. Did you prepare warrants to get information for a Facebook profile associated with a Michael Schaefer? Yes, I did.
I'm sure. already been entered into evidence in the state's exhibit number 10. Some drive in that envelope. Can you go ahead and take a look at that? And state's number 10 are those in Facebook records that you obtained from Facebook. Yes, they are. And when you obtain these types of records, are they sent to you, printed out in boxes, or how are they sent to you?
They're not. So Facebook has a law enforcement records request portal where they will upload all of that information to and we then download it in a zip folder because it's usually quite large. And do they assign it any special number? Yes, they do. Does that number appear in the records themselves? Yes, it does.
Does that number also appear on the business record certification that's included in that? Yes, it does. Records that we're dealing with there are on a thumb drive. Do we have over 3,000 ages on that thumb drive? Yes, correct.
As you've gone through, after you've initialed it, you have gone through all of those records, looked at the pictures, things of that nature. Yes, I have. And as you went through that, are there pieces of information that identify the potential owner of that profile? Yes, there is. What kind of information is there?
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