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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on May 11, 2025, 01:21:35 PM
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It's an absolute shit show. We're in the middle of the second trial. The first trial ended in a hung jury on 1 of 3 counts. The jury voted on full acquittal on 2 counts, but the judge declared a mistrial before defense could move to have those verdicts entered into the record. Along the way:
* Defense has hypothesized the deceased was attacked by a dog. The dog of the family where the deceased visited was re-homed and the new owners are - POOF! - unavailable.
* The deceased was found outside. The cops never went into the home of the property where the deceased was found even though he had been visiting there hours before.
* The home has since been sold.
* The lead investigator has been dishonorably discharged over his conduct in the investigation.
* Cell phones used by investigators and witnesses were disposed of/lost.
* Apparently all of the state's key witnesses were butt dialing each other in the hours leading up to and following the discovery of the deceased. Lots of calls to each other but apparently nobody talked about anything.
* Evidence was collected in red Solo cups. No, I'm not kidding. Stop looking at me like that.
* The snowy ground was sifted with leaf blowers. Why do you keep looking at me like that?
* Evidence - large fragments of a broken taillight - was not found on the open ground until days later.
* Video recordings from within the garage were image reversed. The state has mysteriously lost the original videos.
* One of state's key witnesses did a Google search for "hos [sic] long to die in cold" hours before she claims she was aware of the deceased being found.
* Objection rulings so favor the state, many law experts howl, calling the judge "Auntie Bev."
It goes on.
Here's an example:
https://youtu.be/v5b_UpNMBIA
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What is this about? I don’t think I know anything about this.
KC
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What is this about? I don’t think I know anything about this.
KC
With no offense to SSG Snuggle Bunny in the least, it is one of those murder stories that are usually dramatized on Dateline, 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, or Inside Edition, etc. Fox News has even been pushing it on their homepages, and I simply don't care. Other than this bitch killed her cop "boyfriend".
Just google Karen Reed and you'll stumble into more than you wanted to care about. It reminds me of the Drew Peterson case in my former stomping grounds of Chicago:
Drew Walter Peterson (born January 5, 1954) is an American convicted murderer and former Bolingbrook, Illinois, police sergeant who was found guilty in 2012 of the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, a few months after their 2003 divorce. Peterson first received national publicity in 2007 when his fourth wife, Stacy Ann Cales Peterson, disappeared. Although the police and Stacy Ann's family suspect foul play, she has never been found.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Peterson
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With no offense to SSG Snuggle Bunny in the least, it is one of those murder stories that are usually dramatized on Dateline, 20/20, Entertainment Tonight, or Inside Edition, etc. Fox News has even been pushing it on their homepages, and I simply don't care. Other than this bitch killed her cop "boyfriend".
That's the thing, though. The evidence just isn't there.
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I’ll have to look this up. Thanks.
KC
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https://youtu.be/19FZqcSLNx0
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The lead investigator was dishonorably discharged.
This is a review of the testimony by the lead investigator's supervisor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8wVJyacBTM
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Attorneys react to witness perjury:
https://youtu.be/oG1nOro6W48
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The government originally hired the forensic firm ARCCA to reconstruct the events of the government's stated theory of the deceased's alleged manner of death.
That went so well, the government dropped ARCCA entirely leading the defense to take assume the ARCCA report and witness as its own.
In order to rebut what was originally their own evidence - now assumed by the defense - the government hired a second forensics firm - Aperture.
This is an 8.5 minute video of the defense peeling the bark off of the Aperture witness.
https://youtu.be/5_9ShGVGsbY
The full length version is worse. You watch as the witness just has to sit there as the defense sets up each new line of attack. I'll be surprised if Aperture is still in business in 2 years. Their professional credibility is shot.
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Defense conducts cross-exam of time stamp analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3XIPLQB9R8
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The government originally hired the forensic firm ARCCA to reconstruct the events of the government's stated theory of the deceased's alleged manner of death.
That went so well, the government dropped ARCCA entirely leading the defense to take assume the ARCCA report and witness as its own.
In order to rebut what was originally their own evidence - now assumed by the defense - the government hired a second forensics firm - Aperture.
This is an 8.5 minute video of the defense peeling the bark off of the Aperture witness.
https://youtu.be/5_9ShGVGsbY
The full length version is worse. You watch as the witness just has to sit there as the defense sets up each new line of attack. I'll be surprised if Aperture is still in business in 2 years. Their professional credibility is shot.
This is the first of any of these videos I've been able to watch, but the guy on the witness stand looks and acts like what I imagine a DUmmie is like. Fake credentials, false bravado, full of himself. Claims things that aren't real and seems pretty smug while doing it.
KC
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Former medical examiner, witness for the defense, testifies injuries are inconsistent with the government's theory.
https://youtu.be/PfrrVpFpGR8
Government rested its case in chief a little over a week ago. It has been a slog. The only one I pity more than the defendant is the jury.
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Personally, I think it would be better to prosecute the investigators rather than Karen Reed. Also, it is ironic that her name is Karen.
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Personally, I think it would be better to prosecute the investigators rather than Karen Reed. Also, it is ironic that her name is Karen.
When this is over, she's definitely going to want to speak to the prosecutor's manager