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Suspect in Hayward nursing student slaying indicted by grand jury

OAKLAND -- The often-delayed case of Giselle Esteban moved out of the slow lane as prosecutors secured a grand jury indictment, clearing a major hurdle en route to a trial for the woman suspected of killing nursing student Michelle Le.

The indictment means that the case won't have to go through a preliminary hearing -- a potentially lengthy endeavor that prosecutor Butch Ford said he wanted to avoid.

"It's much quicker -- a preliminary has been known to take up to three years," Ford said Tuesday.

Grand jury proceedings are held in secret, and jurors met for three days starting Dec. 12, Ford said. Jurors handed down the indictment Wednesday.
 
jedi said:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_19585885

Suspect in Hayward nursing student slaying indicted by grand jury

OAKLAND -- The often-delayed case of Giselle Esteban moved out of the slow lane as prosecutors secured a grand jury indictment, clearing a major hurdle en route to a trial for the woman suspected of killing nursing student Michelle Le.

The indictment means that the case won't have to go through a preliminary hearing -- a potentially lengthy endeavor that prosecutor Butch Ford said he wanted to avoid.

"It's much quicker -- a preliminary has been known to take up to three years," Ford said Tuesday.

Grand jury proceedings are held in secret, and jurors met for three days starting Dec. 12, Ford said. Jurors handed down the indictment Wednesday.
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So relieved for Michelle's family, this will be enough of an ordeal as it is...
 
More news today....Eric Kurhi has been doing a good job with the write up's and I saw him Michelle's first vigil.

This is just some parts of the article....

http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_19648388?source=most_viewed

By Eric Kurhi
Hayward Daily Review
Posted: 12/30/2011 04:23:38 PM PST
Updated: 12/30/2011 10:40:03 PM PST

According to the 470-page transcript, Esteban stated that Le had "dug her own grave" and "would not be around much longer" in text messages sent to Scott Marasigan, the father of Esteban's child, who was also a friend of Le. Prosecutor Butch Ford told the jury that Esteban believed that Marasigan was having an affair with Le, and could not be convinced otherwise.

Marasigan testified that he dated Le for two or three weeks several years ago, but they never had a sexual relationship.

Esteban began attracting attention among the staff at Samuel Merritt University Kaiser in Oakland, the site of the nursing program where Le, who lived in San Mateo, was enrolled.

One staff member testified that Esteban showed up at her office to inquire about programs and after her visit, a security badge was missing. The employee later identified Esteban as the woman who gained access to to offices and was caught on camera going through files. The missing badge was later found in Le's car.

Another employee received an "odd call" around the same time from someone claiming to be an instructor and asking for the names of students doing their clinical rotation at the hospital, as well as their schedules.

"I told her, well, if you are the skills lab instructor, you would know that," said the witness.

Hayward Detective Fraser Ritchie testified that he questioned Esteban. She acknowledged she had been at Kaiser to sign up for prenatal insurance and said she saw Le at a distance on an overhead pedestrian bridge. Under questioning by the detective, her story changed. After initially denying that she spoke to Le, she later said that because she wasn't taking her medication, she suffered blackouts.

Other evidence included Le's missing cellphone, which prosecutors said Esteban brought to an Apple store and had its memory erased the day after Le disappeared. Records show the phone's memory was cleared -- and the password reset -- by someone named "Giselle Marasigan."

Le's phone was later found under a back seat floor mat in Marasigan's car.

Marasigan testified that he believes Esteban stole his extra set of keys when she stopped by his house in March and "feigned a scene." Those keys were never recovered.

Esteban gave birth in November, while in custody, and told a television station shortly after Le's disappearance that Marasigan is the father of her second child.

In the transcripts, Marasigan acknowledges that he had been intimate with Esteban during what he described as an "off-and-on" post-breakup period, but he knew of at least one other person who may have fathered the child.
 
Mox said:
Can you get recent video from Google earth, Bing Mapquest,
of the day of the disappearance and show whose vehicle drove back there.

What type of weapon caused the death, blunt force trauma or sharp entry wound.

Could a rock be at the scene if a Knife was it thrown toward the water.

the scene is strange its a cliff on one side you wouldnt drive there at night.

Was she tied up

Was there lots of blood at the scene. Well it stay in the earth.

How long can blood last on a object when it is exposed to the elements.

Did they get any tire tracks prints.
it had been a long time but if hers was the only vehicle could there be prints.

Is there evidence of the area on Michelle's car.(Dirt, weeds etc)

is there evidence of the area at GEs house or car.
Did they take any of the logs for prints.
Possible dna on logs
Was she tied up
was she wrapped up in anything
How did she find this area (GE)
is it on her computer google maps etc
Does her cell phone show her in the area often.
Where does she work
does her work involve this area
Could she have entered from the golf club side
Does she have any recent scars that could have left trace elements in Michelles car
Under a door latch, under a seat etc
How was the body positioned, was it sending a message
revenge, embarrassment, or just quick leave her and hide her
Has she ever returned to the scene after the fact
once again, onstar,fastrak cell towers etc they all track vehicles.
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Some answers for you from the article just posted:
Also, Le's instructor testified that immediately after she went missing, the instructor went to search the garage for her white Honda CRV. After the instructor had looked around for a while, she said she saw a white CRV drive up a ramp, then make an abrupt U-turn and quickly leave the parking structure.
Other evidence included Le's missing cellphone, which prosecutors said Esteban brought to an Apple store and had its memory erased the day after Le disappeared. Records show the phone's memory was cleared -- and the password reset -- by someone named "Giselle Marasigan."
Numerous people received messages from Le's cellphone that same day. Most stated she was "on the way to Reno," which was her plan before she went missing, and that she knew people thought she was missing and she was "putting out fires right now," or that her battery was dying and not to text her any more.
"We know Giselle was in possession of what might be described as her most hated enemy's cellphone," Ford told jurors.
Le's phone was later found under a back seat floor mat in Marasigan's car.


The testimony did not have further information on how Le died, other than that a considerable amount of Le's blood -- including a "dinner-plate sized pool" -- was found in the parking garage, along with some of Le's hair. More blood was found in her car. DNA matched Esteban to a stain on the steering wheel and turn signal of Le's car, and Le's DNA was matched to a stain on Esteban's shoe.
Weeds and foxtails were found stuck to the undercarriage of Le's SUV, which was found at side street near the hospital a few days after Le disappeared. Le's body was found in a makeshift grave in the Sunol-Pleasanton wilderness area on Sept. 17.
"You can tell from the evidence presented that (cause of death) may never be determined," Ford told jurors. "But that's not required to prove that somebody died."
 
jedi said:
More news today....Eric Kurhi has been doing a good job with the write up's and I saw him Michelle's first vigil.

This is just some parts of the article....

http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_19648388?source=most_viewed

By Eric Kurhi
Hayward Daily Review
Posted: 12/30/2011 04:23:38 PM PST
Updated: 12/30/2011 10:40:03 PM PST

According to the 470-page transcript, Esteban stated that Le had "dug her own grave" and "would not be around much longer" in text messages sent to Scott Marasigan, the father of Esteban's child, who was also a friend of Le. Prosecutor Butch Ford told the jury that Esteban believed that Marasigan was having an affair with Le, and could not be convinced otherwise.

Marasigan testified that he dated Le for two or three weeks several years ago, but they never had a sexual relationship.

Esteban began attracting attention among the staff at Samuel Merritt University Kaiser in Oakland, the site of the nursing program where Le, who lived in San Mateo, was enrolled.

One staff member testified that Esteban showed up at her office to inquire about programs and after her visit, a security badge was missing. The employee later identified Esteban as the woman who gained access to to offices and was caught on camera going through files. The missing badge was later found in Le's car.

Another employee received an "odd call" around the same time from someone claiming to be an instructor and asking for the names of students doing their clinical rotation at the hospital, as well as their schedules.

"I told her, well, if you are the skills lab instructor, you would know that," said the witness.

Hayward Detective Fraser Ritchie testified that he questioned Esteban. She acknowledged she had been at Kaiser to sign up for prenatal insurance and said she saw Le at a distance on an overhead pedestrian bridge. Under questioning by the detective, her story changed. After initially denying that she spoke to Le, she later said that because she wasn't taking her medication, she suffered blackouts.

Other evidence included Le's missing cellphone, which prosecutors said Esteban brought to an Apple store and had its memory erased the day after Le disappeared. Records show the phone's memory was cleared -- and the password reset -- by someone named "Giselle Marasigan."

Le's phone was later found under a back seat floor mat in Marasigan's car.

Marasigan testified that he believes Esteban stole his extra set of keys when she stopped by his house in March and "feigned a scene." Those keys were never recovered.

Esteban gave birth in November, while in custody, and told a television station shortly after Le's disappearance that Marasigan is the father of her second child.

In the transcripts, Marasigan acknowledges that he had been intimate with Esteban during what he described as an "off-and-on" post-breakup period, but he knew of at least one other person who may have fathered the child.
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Thanks so much for providing this information.

I don't see how she can ever plead "insanity". It sounds like she knew exactly what she was doing;she sneaked around, got into files,and researched how she would access Michelle and perform this heinous act.
 
Posted: 12:14 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, 2012
KTVU And Wires
OAKLAND, Calif. —
Giselle Esteban pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge that she murdered nursing student Michelle Le, who disappeared in Hayward last May and whose body was found in September.<snip>
An Alameda County criminal grand jury indicted Esteban on an identical murder charge on Dec. 14 at the end of a three-day hearing. Prosecutors sought the indictment to try to speed up her trial.
The indictment allows prosecutors to bypass the step of having a preliminary hearing at which a judge determines if there is enough evidence against a defendant for a case to proceed to trial.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Carrie Panetta ordered Esteban, who is being held at the county jail without bail, to return to court on Feb. 17, when a trial date might be set. more at link:http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/not-guilty-plea-michelle-le-murder-case/nGWhx/
 
Posted: 3:14 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 KTVU.com and Wires
OAKLAND, Calif. —
Giselle Esteban was scheduled to go on trial Monday on a murder charge based on prosecutors' allegation that she killed nursing student Michelle Le because she blamed Le for wrecking her relationship with her daughter's father.
Le, a 26-year-old San Mateo woman who was attending Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, disappeared from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward on May 27, 2011, and a highly-publicized search ensued for nearly four months until her decomposed body was found in a remote area between Pleasanton and Sunol on Sept. 17, 2011.
Esteban, a 28-year-old Union City woman who attended high school with Le in San Diego, was charged with Le's murder on Sept. 8, 2011, -- before Le's body was found -- based on DNA evidence and cellphone records. more at link: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/trial-start-woman-accused-murdering-michelle-le/nSQNc/
 
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...of-Nursing-Student-Michelle-Le-172138481.html
~snipped~
The murder trial of Giselle Esteban started Monday after prosecutors charged her with killing a nursing student because she blamed the victim for wrecking her relationship with her daughter's father.

The courthouse in Oakland was packed, mostly with family and friends of Michelle Le, whose body was found on Sept. 17, 2011, four months after the Samuel Merritt University in Oakland nursing student disappeared from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward.

Prosecutors opened their statements by showing a picture of Le smiling, and then a glimpse of the surveillance photo taken near the parking garage were she was last seen.

Esteban, a 28-year-old Union City woman who attended high schoolwith Le in San Diego, was charged with Le's murder on Sept. 8, 2011, -- before Le's body was found -- based on DNA evidence and cellphone records.
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Posted: 8:25 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 KTVU.com and Wires
OAKLAND, Calif. —
The defense lawyer for Giselle Esteban didn't deny the prosecution's allegation Monday that the Union City woman killed nursing student
Michelle Le, who disappeared from Hayward in May 2011 and whose body was found four months later.
Defense attorney Andrea Auer admitted that the prosecution has "a mountain of evidence" against Esteban, 28, but told jurors that she doesn't think it will be able to prove that Esteban committed either first- or second-degree murder for the death of Le, who had been her close friend in high school and in their college years in the Bay Area. more at link: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/defense-lawyer-esteban-acted-heat-passion-when-kil/nSRFm/
 
LinasK said:
Posted: 8:25 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 KTVU.com and Wires
OAKLAND, Calif. —
The defense lawyer for Giselle Esteban didn't deny the prosecution's allegation Monday that the Union City woman killed nursing student
Michelle Le, who disappeared from Hayward in May 2011 and whose body was found four months later.
Defense attorney Andrea Auer admitted that the prosecution has "a mountain of evidence" against Esteban, 28, but told jurors that she doesn't think it will be able to prove that Esteban committed either first- or second-degree murder for the death of Le, who had been her close friend in high school and in their college years in the Bay Area. more at link: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/defense-lawyer-esteban-acted-heat-passion-when-kil/nSRFm/
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BBM How's that ??!?!!
The mountain of evidence against Ms. Esteban involves hunting down Le, illegally accessing her records to acquire her schedule and stalking her. All of which points to premeditation.

The definition of first-degree murder according to TFD Legal Dictionary:
first degree murder n. although it varies from state to state, it is generally a killing which is deliberate and premeditated (planned, after lying in wait, by poison or as part of a scheme), in conjunction with felonies such as rape, burglary, arson, involving multiple deaths, the killing of certain types of people (such as a child, a police officer, a prison guard, a fellow prisoner), or with certain weapons, particularly a gun. The specific criteria for first degree murder are established by statute in each state and by the United States Code in federal prosecutions. It is distinguished from second degree murder in which premeditation is usually absent, and from manslaughter which lacks premeditation and suggests that at most there was intent to harm rather than to kill.
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http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/first+degree+murder

So, is her defense that she just happened to be near Le's vehicle in the parking garage of Kaiser Permanente with a weapon and flew into a rage upon seeing Ms. Le? :waitasec:
 
Indy Anna said:
So, is her defense that she just happened to be near Le's vehicle in the parking garage of Kaiser Permanente with a weapon and flew into a rage upon seeing Ms. Le? :waitasec:
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I know, I laughed when I saw that!
 
Posted: 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 KTVU.com and Wires
OAKLAND, Calif. —
The defense lawyer for murder defendant Giselle Esteban questioned her ex-boyfriend Tuesday about the ups and downs of their 10-year-long relationship, which includes the birth of a child nearly seven years ago.
In her questions of Scott Marasigan, defense attorney Andrea Auer seemed to be trying to support her contention in her opening statement Monday in Esteban's trial that Esteban did not plan to kill nursing student Michelle
Le in May 2011 but instead snapped as a result of "extreme provocation and heat of passion."<snip> Marasigan said he, Esteban and Le met with a counselor on Nov. 23, 2010, to try to resolve Esteban's allegations that Le was interfering with her relationship with him but the meeting didn't appear to satisfy Esteban because she texted him the next day asking him to contact Le because it was "really important" that they meet again. more at link: http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/ex-boyfriend-talks-his-ups-and-downs-esteban/nSR5S/
 
By Paul T. Rosynsky Oakland Tribune
Posted: 10/04/2012 05:34:03 PM PDT
Updated: 10/04/2012 06:12:19 PM PDTOAKLAND -- Giselle Esteban took extraordinary efforts in the days before she allegedly killed Michelle Le to track down her former high school friend, testimony from several witnesses revealed this week.
From making phone calls where she pretended to be Le to stealing a security badge in order to rifle through university records, Esteban cunningly fooled almost a dozen people into giving her little pieces of information that together finally led her to Le on May 27, 2011, in the parking garage of Kaiser Permanente in Hayward.
After failing to get Le's home address from mutual friends, Esteban focused her efforts on finding out where Le was practicing to be a nurse.
Two days before she is accused of killing Le, Esteban called Samuel Merritt University, where Le was enrolled, pretending to be an old friend and asked a teacher for Le's contact information, the teacher testified Wednesday. more at link: http://www.contracostatimes.com/new...inary-steps-find-victim-witnesses?source=jBar
 
Lead investigator says Giselle Esteban was suspected for months and that she had a tumultuous relationship with Le.
By Bay City News Service 7:05 pm
Less than 30 hours after nursing student Michelle Le went missing from a Hayward parking lot last year, murder defendant Giselle Esteban told police she didn't know what happened to Le, according to a taped statement played in court today.
Esteban, a 28-year-old Union City woman who attended high school with Le in San Diego and had been a close friend, also tearfully told Hayward police Inspector Fraser Ritchie, the lead investigator in the case, to "just find her," referring to Le. <snip>

Ritchie testified today that he and other officers went to Esteban's apartment just before midnight on May 28, 2011.
Ritchie told Esteban in the taped interview played in court that he wanted to talk to her because other witnesses in the investigation had told police that she and Le had a tumultuous relationship.
Esteban admitted to Ritchie that she had gone to the Kaiser facility in Hayward in the evening of May 27 and had seen Le on a walkway between the hospital and the parking lot but said she then went home and rested the remainder of the evening because she was tired.
Ritchie testified today that he found Esteban's statement about being able to see Le on the walkway "troubling" because he knew from experience that someone on the street wouldn't be able to see the walkway well enough to identify a person on the walkway or even to determine the person's gender.
When Ritchie asked Esteban if she could help police find Le, Esteban said, "No, I don't know where she is. I don't know how to help you find her." more at link: http://dublin.patch.com/articles/michelle-le-murder-suspect-said-she-saw-victim-day-of-disappearance
 
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