GUILTY IL - Carrie Olson, 29, Rock Island, 28 Dec 2013

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dyer now asking about rolls of carpet found in #McVay's Rock Island home on Jan. 3, 2014. Thomas said Mon that it was unrolled and looked at

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Thomas says it was mentioned in his original report. Dyer concedes that it may not have had any significance at the time #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dyer says the carpet wasn't looked at with significance until police found a strand of carpet in the trunk of Olson's car. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dyer now shows Thomas and the courtroom a photo of a small, light colored carpet strand in the trunk of Olson's car. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dyer shows several photos. Thomas says he doesn't know if the photos are of the same strand. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dyer asks Thomas to look at the location of a carpet strand found in the trunk on Jan. 3 and April 8, 2014. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dyer says the carpet strand photographed April 8 was in a different position than it was on Jan. 3. #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Thomas says he lightly searched Olson's car on Jan. 3. Says it's possible the carpet strand could have moved during that search. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Thomas says he doesn't know how many rolls of carpet there were in #McVay's house. Says there were several.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
#McVay's house was searched again on April 8 (3 days after O was found). T says his report is wrong - carpet samples, not rolls, collected.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dyer asks about a towel found in Olson's car. Goes back to #McVay's statement that O was drying her hair before he dropped her off Dec 29

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Thomas says towel wasn't collected. Says it didn't have blood on it. Notes that everything in her car could have her DNA on it #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Under cross, Thomas says there is no video of #McVay at Big Lots in La Cross, Wis. No records of O's car being there.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
We've heard testimony that a small plastic kid's shovel, leather travel bag was bought at that store. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
A sticker for a kid's snow shovel was found near Olson's body in a wooded area near Hastings #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Prosecutors have said #McVay had a bag that was similar to the one bought at the La Crosse Big Lots.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
There was no video of the Big Lots transaction, nor a description of the person who bought the shovel and bag. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
When Olson's body was returned to Scott Co on April 10. 2014, Thomas went to view the body.
says another officer wrote a report #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dyer finishes his cross. ASA Jennifer Gardner has more questions for Thomas #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
On re-direct, Thomas says the car charger #McVay bought in Winona, Minn. was paid for in cash. Not with his dad's bank card.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
During a search of #McVay's home on April 8, '14, police found 2 receipts from Dubuque. Used parents' bank card for gas

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Gardner now asking about earlier testimony regarding Olson supposedly taking a shower at #McVay's house before he dropped her at home.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
#McVay told police Jan. 3 that when he got back from getting gas, O was in the bathroom brushing her hair, doing makeup.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
On re-direct, Thomas says evidence techs were prepared to lift fingerprints at Olson's house if they thought it was a crime scene #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
No more questions for Thomas. Court takes a 10-minute break. #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Court is back in session. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Davenport Police Sgt. Gil Proehl is on the stand. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Proehl says he first learned of Olson's disappearance on Dec. 31, 2013. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Proehl says he was present at the search of Olson's house on Jan. 3, 2014. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Proehl says officers went in through the garage. Says there was nothing much to search there #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Proehl says when he was inside, he noted that Olson's home was very neat #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Proehl says they were looking for a crime scene at Olson's house. Says police didn't find one #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Proehl reads emails between #McVay and his ex-gf, Cathy Smiddy.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
The email appears to be in regards to an incident in early Nov, when Smiddy says #McVay poured OJ, vodka on her and her young children.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
In one email, #McVay acknowledges that liquor is his worst weakness.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
#McVay also wrote in the email that he had been jealous that someone might take Smiddy away from him.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Smiddy responded that she's not made that he's jealous, She's made that he was drunk, screaming, in front of her kids. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
These emails were sent in early December 2013. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Defense attny Jonathan Ruud asks Proehl about a tip that came in during the investigation. #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
The tip was that there was a "continuous" garage sale at a home in O's neighborhood (1/2)...#mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
(2/2) Says pple at sale brought in a trailer from Minn. each week. Tipster thought it might be significant bec O was found in Minn #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Proehl says he didn't believe police followed up on the tip. Says police were confident that they had the right man (#McVay)

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Ruud now asks about another tip regarding Justin Mueller, Olson's bf, being in Milan around the time of her disappearance #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Proehl says there were many tips called in. By the time Olson was found, police were "pretty firm" it was #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Proehl agrees with ASA Jennifer Gardner that there were public searches in Milan after Olson disappeared #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
No more questions for Proehl from either side. Next witness is RIPD CSI Garrett Alderson #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Prosecutors are setting up a laptop computer for Alderson's testimony #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson assisted with a search of McVay's 36th Street (RI) home on Jan. 3, 2014. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson says he was looking for blood evidence #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson says he photographed #McVay's residence.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson says he saw paint cans, bagged tools, rolled up carpet in foyer. Didn't photo the area bec the items, pple were in the way #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson says he photographed the foyer's ceiling, though. Carpet, other items searched for blood. None was found #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
ASA Heidi Wellers shows photos Alderson took at #McVay's home

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
One photo shows a black leather travel bag with clothes inside. Bag was found on the floor of the master bedroom #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Another photo shows a blue canvas "cooler" bag. Appears to have toiletries in it. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson also photographed Berber carpet in the living room. Was rolled up #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
A forensic scientist testified June 10 that fibers found in Olson's hair were similar to the Berber carpet in #McVay's house.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson says there was mold in #McVay's basement. Says it could effect ability to use luminol (a chemical used to find blood) effectively.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson says he found a small bong (to smoke marijuana) in one of the bedroom closets #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Now seeing some photographs of blood-like stains. One stain found the ceiling of the foyer. Others found on entryway into basement #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
ASA Weller said a test of the potential blood stains were not human blood. Turned out to be animal blood. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
There has not been any testimony as to why, or how, animal blood was in the house. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson also was at a second search of #McVay's house on April 8, 2014. Olson was found 3 days earlier in Hastings, Minn.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Weller shows several photos of rolled up carpet in #McVay's home.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Samples of carpet were collected from #McVay's home.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Alderson now asked to identify carpet samples he collected #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
No more questions from Weller. Defense attny Dan Dalton now questioning Alderson #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Under cross, Alderson says he did not take a sample of carpet installed in the living room. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
No more questions from either side for Alderson. Court takes a 10-15 minute break. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Feel free to send questions my way. Today could be a long one #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
We've already heard from 3 witnesses this morning. 3 more to go, including RIPD Det. Tina Noe. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
I've gotten a few ?s today abt the live stream. The Q-C Times does not provide the live stream. #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Court is back in session. RIPD Detective Tina Noe is on the stand #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
I expect Noe's testimony to be lengthy. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says she went to Dport Police Department on Jan. 3, 2014, where a search warrant was drafted for #McVay's home

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says #McVay was cooperative, friendly when she presented him with the search warrant.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says police found a black leather duffle bag. Had a boarding pass (Vegas to Minneapolis) with #McVay's name on it in the bag.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says #McVay's home was unkempt, disgusting.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says Dport Detective Bill Thomas asked #McVay about the black leather bag.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says #McVay confirmed that he had that bag with him in Las Vegas.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says she learned on 4/8/14 that Olson had been found in Hastings. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Olson was found about 4 miles away from the home of Tammy Hegi. #McVay had parked the car in Hegi's garage while the 2 were in Vegas.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe also says she learned that a clump of fibers had been found in Olson's hair. Says she got another seach warrant. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says #McVay commented that he was upset "because of everything going on with Carrie."

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says she became aware that Olson's cause of death was ruled a homicide by unspecified means. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says she learned from the ME that Olson's death could be due to "burking" or another form of asphyxia. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says she contacted #McVay's exes.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
ASA Heidi Weller asks if Justin Mueller, Olson's bf, was a "viable suspect." Noe says no #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says Mueller's cell phone never left the QC. He also had no personal car, just a pest control truck for work. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Mueller testified earlier that he only drove that truck to and from work. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says she finds it hard to believe that Mueller wld drive Olson's nude body in an "open bed truck" several hours away. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe also says Mueller's DNA was excluded as a source of the DNA found underneath Olson's fingernails. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
We heard last week that #McVay could not be excluded from the DNA found underneath Olson's fingernails #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says she also looked at phone records between #McVay and Olson.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Before she disappeared, Olson and #McVay texted daily, sometimes multiple times a day, Noe says. Not many phone calls.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says it was unusual that there were no text messages between Olson and #McVay on Dec. 20, 2013. Last contact was 358 am call on 12/29/13

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
We heard previously that the next time #McVay texted Olson was on Jan. 4, 2014. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Olson's family had been calling, texting #McVay numerous times in the days proceeding that.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says Olson's bank card was used to withdraw $200 from a Dport ATM at 2 p.m. Dec. 28, 2013. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
We've heard earlier testimony that #McVay tried to use Olson's debit card at 2 gas stations, a credit union ATM but entered in the wrong PIN

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says that if Olson was alive, why would #McVay not have called her or stop back by his house to ask her for the PIN number #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe also wonders why they didn't go by an ATM machine when #McVay supposedly took Olson back to her house in Davenport.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
No more questions from Weller. Attny Dan Dalton now asks questions. #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dalton pts to a statement #McVay made in his interview, where he said he asked Olson about the incorrect pin.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
#McVay says Olson told him that it was her best friend's bday.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
We heard during the first week of trial that Olson had changed the pin more than a week before she disappeared. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe still insists that #McVay and Olson could have gone to the ATM together if the PIN number kept coming up invalid.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Under cross, Noe says that the constant texting between Olson and #McVay indicates that they were getting along.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dalton suggests Mueller would have a reason to be upset if Olson had come home early Dec. 29 after being away all night. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Dalton also says that Mueller didn't try to call Olson when she didn't come home. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe notes that neither did #McVay.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Noe says she expected #McVay's attorneys to try and use Justin Mueller as a "scape goat."

 

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Kevin E. Schmidt ‏@maquoketaphoto · Jul 1
Rock Island Police Detective Tina Noe talks about cell phone records between Timothy #McVay and Carrie Olson.



Kevin E. Schmidt ‏@maquoketaphoto · Jul 1
Timothy J. #McVay talks with defense attorneys in Rock Island County court Wednesday in the death of Carrie Olson.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
On redirect, Noe says Mueller said he never went to Minnesota. Says his cell phone records back that up. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
On re-cross, Noe says Mueller said he was never in Milan, either. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
No more questions from either side. #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Joe Walker, #McVay's ex-brother-in-law, is on the stand.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says he has known #McVay since he was 15.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker was married for 18 years to one of #McVay's sisters.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker reads aloud some texts between him and #McVay on Nov. 18, 2013.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says he talked to #McVay about problems he was having in his marriage when they met for drinks.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says he talked to #McVay about an altercation with their brother-in-law. Says McVay was sympathetic.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
On Dec. 4, 2013, #McVay texted Walker to check in on him.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says the two met on Dec. 19 and discussed family issues. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker said he had threatened the other brother-in-law with a knife. Says #McVay said it was "stupid" for him to do that w a knife.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says #McVay said that a knife was "very messy" and would "prove premeditation"

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says he Olson was an acquaintance. Says he had met her a dozen times, was always with #McVay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says #McVay was "usually" pretty prompt at returning text messages.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says #McVay didn't mention anything about going to Las Vegas for New Years. Never mentioned anything about Tammy Hegi.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says he sent a "Happy New Year" text to #McVay on 1/1/14. No response.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says he later learned that Olson was missing and that #McVay was in Las Vegas.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says he sent #McVay a text later that night and said he was worried about him. Asked him to call. No response.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
#McVay called Walker back and explained situation, told him not to worry. Says he was on his way back from Minnesota.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
On Jan. 6, #McVay text Walker to see what he was up to. Walker responded that he was being a "single dad" and that his ex-wife moved out.