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Monday, April 9, 2018

// Fascinating that Trump’s actual attorney’s office is raided for “evidence” // While Cheryl Mills, Hillary’s “Lawyer” (and potential co-conspirator) was allowed to act as Hillary’s Lawyer so she could sit in on an interview and so she could later TAKE CUSTODY of Real Evidence //


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Fascinating that Trump’s actual attorney’s office is raided for “evidence” while Cheryl Mills, Hillary’s “lawyer” (and potential co-conspirator) was allowed to act as Hillary’s lawyer so she could sit in on an interview and so she could later TAKE CUSTODY of real evidence.

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// Looking more and more like a Murder - Suicide // Hart Family // So Sad // Drove 100' Feet off a Cliff in Ca. // 90 MPH and No Skid Marks //

 Police now believe it was no accident. 90 on the Dash Speed Meter. No Skid Marks ..

The SUV was driven off a Cliff in Ca. 100' foot drop to the sea.

Child services had been called about this family several times

From Washington, St. to Ca.

https://www.insideedition.com/hart-familys-100-foot-plunge-california-cliff-was-likely-intentional-authorities-say-42054










// 89 % Conviction Rate for No Body Murder Cases // Since the early 1800s, about 480 No Body Cases have Gone to Trial // Of those Cases, about 89 percent Resulted in Convictions // Murder Cases without the Victim’s Body are difficult, prosecutors say, but Winnable //


 Someone please pass this information along to John Barnett and Timothy Da'shaun Taylor's Mom. 89 % Conviction Rate for No Body Cases ...  Not a Witch Hunt ... Called Justice ...  






Thelma Butler’s daughter Pamela, 47, went missing in February 2009. Police arrested Pamela Butler’s then-boyfriend in April 2017 and charged him with murder. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/murder-cases-without-the-victims-body-are-difficult-prosecutors-say-but-winnable/2017

 


When the man charged with killing Pamela Butler appeared in D.C. Superior Court for the first time after his arrest this month, his defense attorney questioned whether prosecutors could even prove a crime occurred.
Butler, a 47-year-old computer analyst from Northwest Washington, disappeared shortly before Valentine’s Day 2009. Authorities insist that Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, Butler’s then-boyfriend, killed her in a jealous rage. But because Butler’s body has never been found, Rodriguez-Cruz’s attorney argued, there is no evidence of a murder — let alone evidence that proves her client is a killer.
“There is insufficient evidence that Ms. Butler is deceased or, if deceased, that her death is the result of a murder or that Mr. Cruz is the perpetrator,” Judith Pipe, of the District’s Public Defender Service, argued at an April 10 hearing.
It was an argument judges in the District have heard before in those rare murder cases in which the victim’s body has never been found. In the nation’s capital, there have been four such cases that have gone to trial, the first dating to 1984, according to prosecutors who track them.
Pamela Butler (Butler family)
But no-body cases, as they are called, are not that uncommon. In Maryland, Montgomery County prosecutors secured convictions in two high-profile no-body murder cases — the killings of Lisa Tu, 42, in 1988 and Michele Dorr, 6, in 1986. In a no-body case in Northern Virginia, a federal jury in Alexandria convicted a former naval intelligence officer in 2006 in the death of his wife, Doris Lentz.
Montgomery detectives also have alleged that two sisters missing from Wheaton since 1975 — Sheila Lyon, 12, and Katherine Lyon, 10 — were killed, even though their bodies have never been found. A suspect in that case, Lloyd Welch, faces trial this year on murder charges in Bedford County, Va., where the girls’ bodies were believed to have been taken and possibly burned.
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In the District, authorities believe that 8-year-old Relisha Rudd is dead after she vanished in 2014. But that case is unlikely to ever end up in court, as the suspect in her disappearance, a janitor at the homeless shelter where Relisha stayed, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Without a body, prosecutors lack a key witness during trial, the medical examiner. The medical examiner often gives the narrative of the person’s death, detailing the cause, time and specifics.
“They are difficult. With a no-body case, you don’t have the essential piece of evidence,” said former D.C. prosecutor Tad DiBiase, author of the book “No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim is Missing.”
When prosecutors do decide to file charges in such cases, DiBiase said, it often means they have collected a significant amount of evidence. That can include witness statements, DNA or statements from other defendants.
Since the early 1800s, about 480 no-body cases have gone to trial. Of those cases, about 89 percent resulted in convictions, DiBiase said.
Of the four cases tried in the District, all four resulted in convictions, DiBiase said.
The most recent case involved the death of 18-year-old Latisha Frazier of Southeast Washington in 2010. Prosecutors argued that Frazier was brutally beaten by a group of teens, who then discarded her body in a dumpster. Her body was never recovered and authorities believe that it was dumped in a Virginia landfill.
Six people pleaded guilty in the case. One defendant, then-17-year-old Johnnie Sweet, was charged as an adult and pleaded not guilty. After a trial, a jury found Sweet guilty of orchestrating Frazier’s death. He was sentenced to 52 years in prison.
Former D.C. prosecutor Chris Kavanaugh, now a federal prosecutor in Virginia, said as long as other evidence in the case is strong, jurors today are pretty “sophisticated” and realize a murder suspect may dispose of a body in an effort to avoid charges.
But Kavanaugh said other pieces of evidence have to be strong, such as proving a motive, uncovering a false alibi or showing a history of violence.
“Jurors understand when evidence is missing . . . such as a murder weapon in a case, that the person on trial is responsible for the evidence being missing,” he said.
During Sweet’s trial, prosecutors had the advantage of the account of a co-defendant. That witness, a 19-year-old woman, told the jury how she and her friends beat, kicked and choked Frazier to death on Sweet’s orders because he believed Frazier had stolen money from him.
There are no co-defendants in the Butler case. But authorities say there is ample circumstantial evidence as well as a history of violence.
Butler, who worked at the Environmental Protection Agency, had surveillance cameras installed outside her home. The cameras showed Rodriguez-Cruz in and out of the house in the days after Feb. 13, 2009, several times carrying trash bags and once cleaning supplies. He told police that he was removing personal items after he and Butler had broken up.
Though police did not find evidence of blood or a weapon inside the house, they said that parts of the house were in disarray and that Butler’s bedsheets and blanket were missing.
During the initial hearing for Rodriguez-Cruz, prosecutor Deborah Sines noted that Butler had been declared dead after years without contact with her family.
Sines said Butler was abused during her relationship with Rodriguez-Cruz. Sines said the defendant had also abused other women and may also be responsible for the disappearance of his first wife in 1989.
Past evidence of abuse, particularly in domestic relationships, often is key in no-body ­cases, DiBiase said. The majority of such cases, he said, are the result of domestic violence involving a parent killing a child or a boyfriend or husband killing a partner.
DiBiase said assailants in those cases­ often believe authorities will view them as the primary suspect and then decide that if there is no body, it would be more difficult to make an arrest.
In 2010, a D.C. Superior Court jury found Terrence Barnett, then 45, guilty of second-degree murder in the 1999 disappearance of girlfriend Yolanda Bakerafter prosecutors argued that Barnett had a history of abusing Baker. Baker was officially declared dead in 2009, 10 years after she was last seen leaving her Northeast Washington home. Her body has not been found.
Defense attorney Nikki Lotze, who represented Barnett in the trial, said not having a body is a “glaring” piece of missing evidence because it “sets the scene of the crime.” Lotze said that for prosecutors who don’t have any witnesses to a crime, persuading a judge to admit details about a suspect’s past is not a guarantee.
Lotze was not surprised to hear that Rodriguez-Cruz’s attorney immediately argued that there was no proof of Butler’s death.
“By arguing there is no body, a defense attorney is doing their job and pointing out the absence of evidence,” she said.

// Former lead investigator in Brittanee Drexel case refutes suspect's claims // Also, Lied about being in School // Brittanee was taken on a Saturday // Witnesses put Him with Her ... Not just the Jailhouse Witness //




                                      Brittanee M. Drexel      Timothy Da'shaun Taylor                               


In the first hours after Brittanee Drexel disappeared in Myrtle Beach back in 2009, he was there.
For the first time, the lead investigator in her disappearance and murder is speaking out to refute a suspect's claims.
Just weeks ago, Timothy Da’Shaun Taylor spoke to Dr. Phil on national television, saying he didn't kidnap or kill Drexel. The interview was watched by private investigator Chris Bailey, a man who has been watching Taylor for the last seven years.
"There were several inaccuracies in what was said by him," Bailey told 13WHAM News in an exclusive interview.
Bailey came to know Taylor as the lead investigator assigned to Brittanee Drexel's disappearance for the Georgetown Sheriff's Office. He is retired now and works for a private investigation firm hired by Brittanee's father, Chad.
"I'm still very much a part of the case," said Bailey. "I still get calls about my knowledge and try to stay abreast of what's going on."
That's why he tuned into Dr. Phil. Bailey said he can't address all the inaccuracies he heard from Taylor out of fear of jeopardizing the case. But he will take on one.
In his interview with Taylor, Dr. Phil asked the suspect if he remembered an incident described by Chad Drexel. Drexel claimed he met Taylor after his daughter's disappearance; he said he handed Taylor a flier with Brittanee's photo on it, and that Taylor crumpled it up and threw it away.
Taylor said the incident never happened, and that Drexel was lying.

Bailey, on the other hand, said Drexel did hand Taylor a flier with Brittanee's picture on it - because he saw it happen.
"What Chad said was correct," Bailey said. "He did hand him the flier. There was joking going on, and he balled up the flier and sped off."
While it may not seem germane to the case, Bailey says it is.
"If he lied about that, what else would he lie about?" said Bailey. "It's a very complicated case."
Complicated, in part, because the case covers three jurisdictions - and in the last year, the FBI took it over. Agents were the one to name Taylor as a suspect. And Bailey believes they are right on.
"They're moving forward and, in my opinion, in the right direction," he said.
He added, "Everything is done for a reason. It's laid out. When I left, it was laid out."
The FBI reached the same conclusion in this case as Bailey and his team of investigators did six years ago. Bailey believes an indictment is close.

// Here is the same advice my father gave to me // Don't Break any Laws, Respect and Listen to the Police, Respect and Listen to your Teachers and Elders // Follow the rules // This applies to all races, religions and ethnic groups ... //


Here is the same advice my father gave to me

Don't Break any Laws, Respect and Listen to the Police, Respect and Listen to your Teachers and Elders.

Follow the Rules. 

This applies to all Races, Religions and Ethnic groups  ...  


Also, Don't run from the Police 

Comply 

Don't Break the Law 

Respect others and yourself