GUILTY IN - Melinda Lindsey, 23, shot to death, Porter County, 16 Jan 2015 - #2

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ArabianLover said:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...rder-trial-friday-st-0227-20160226-story.html

Lt. William Young, of the Porter County Sheriff's Police, testified Friday that the angle and pattern of the spatters showed they couldn't have been from the shot that killed Melinda Kirby Lindsey, 23, on Jan. 16, 2015.

I don't get this. What is he saying here? There is blood spatter, but it's not from Melinda's gunshot?? Is he saying she was moved? Or this was somehow staged??

Young said that they waited unto 10:15 a.m. for a warrant, but Rogers questioned whether the scene was contaminated by a Chihuahua running around the master bedroom, EMT people removing Melinda Lindsey while she was still breathing and officers walking around without coverings on their shoes.

Ok....nice try, Rogers. But, um...how is a tiny little dog and people's feet on the floor going to disturb blood splatter on the wall?
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I don't get what they are saying about the blood spatter, either. Are they saying Melinda sustained an injury prior to the gunshot wound?
 
molly1255 said:
I don't get what they are saying about the blood spatter, either. Are they saying Melinda sustained an injury prior to the gunshot wound?
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That's what I thought and that is why the one newspaper linked a story on domestic violence.

If SL was abusing Melinda physically in the past, before he murdered her then I hope that at least one of her loved ones know so they can let the jury know
 
I really hope the prosecution presents more on this next week.
 
ArabianLover said:
....and since WHEN did Melinda want to go back to dancing??? When has that ever been brought up until now? I thought she was looking to get a waitressing job.
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I read through some articles from the last trial and SL told an investigating detective that he and Melinda had fought over money, They had also fought over her wanting to go back to dancing and that he had been out of work. Here's the link:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...y-trial-wednesday-st-1105-20151104-story.html
 
molly1255 said:
I read through some articles from the last trial and SL told an investigating detective that he and Melinda had fought over money, They had also fought over her wanting to go back to dancing and that he had been out of work. Here's the link:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...y-trial-wednesday-st-1105-20151104-story.html
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Thanks for that. I remember SL saying it. But I am always suspicious of anything he says. But I remember her dad saying she was getting a waitress job.

In my opinion, it doesn't matter what she planned to do to support herself and her daughter. As long as she could get away from this idiot.

It just seems to me that all of the information about Melinda going back to dancing / wanting to go back to dancing, etc, is only coming from SL. It's almost like he has been trying too hard to "put it out there" that she wanted to go back to dancing. Like this was part of his "smear campaign" against Melinda.
 
ArabianLover said:
Thanks for that. I remember SL saying it. But I am always suspicious of anything he says. But I remember her dad saying she was getting a waitress job.

In my opinion, it doesn't matter what she planned to do to support herself and her daughter. As long as she could get away from this idiot.

It just seems to me that all of the information about Melinda going back to dancing / wanting to go back to dancing, etc, is only coming from SL. It's almost like he has been trying too hard to "put it out there" that she wanted to go back to dancing. Like this was part of his "smear campaign" against Melinda.
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You are right. The only person this seems to be coming from is SL.

Here's a thought. If SL believed Melinda "might" go back to dancing, wouldn't that be his worst nightmare come true? He made her quit that job early in their relationship and in doing so, he managed to gain control of Melinda. He monitored her activities. She even had to check in with him if she was out with girlfriends. And one of the first things that came out of his mouth when he met with investigators was that they had argued about money and about her going back to dancing.

Perhaps in an argument (or arguments) over money and his lack of employment, Melinda reminded him that she could go back to her previous job and she could support both herself and their daughter? She possibly hoped a statement like that would motivate him, but perhaps it took it as a threat?

I do think his defense is trying to use this to create a smear campaign and I hope this jury remembers that Melinda IS the victim.
 
I completely agree with that. One of the hallmarks of an abuser is control. That and isolation. And he did both. He didn't want her around her friends. He didn't want her around her family. He didn't want her making her own money. And he certainly didn't want her working in an enviornment where other men would be looking at her.

This blood spatter pattern really has me intrigued. If it wasn't from the bullet wound that killed her, what has it from? Was it from a prior injury? Did he beat her up on a previous occasion and this didn't get cleaned up? Obviously from the other evidence, she wasn't the best house keeper. (Not knocking her, just stating a fact) This could be huge if it's proved to be her blood. Especially if there are witnesses who can say they had seen her with suspicious and or unexplained injuries.
 
I've thought the same things of the blood spatter on the wall. I don't recall this at all from the previous trial and hope more information is provided coming week!
 
I don't either. They said there would be new evidence coming in. This must be some of it.
 
So today the focus was on the insurance policy. Maybe the blood splatter testimony was covered in more detail than the reporter mentioned on Friday.
 
Interesting that SL had a lawyer call a week after he murdered Melinda to ask about the policy, then not fill out the paperwork, but yet call again to find out about the money, he must have thought that the insurance company would pay out the million dollars in blood money.
 
I would imagine the attorney who looked at this policy realized the policy would be voided and I also imagine he shared that with SL. This might explain why a claim was not filed. And then SL calls a couple of weeks later to ask about the status of the claim? Bizarre!
 
04-16-2015, 07:36 PM #1068 starshine4u starshine4u is offline
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When I saw the conspiracy charge my first thought was that the co-conspirator was the insurance agent. I wonder - did Steve take out a policy on himself at the same time?
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Steve never met with the insurance agent. Melinda met with him (insurance agent) and took out the policy. So I don't think there is a policy on Steve except through work.
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Interesting. This turned out not to be true. Steve never even had a job. So there couldn't be any life insurance.
 
skinnycat said:
Interesting that SL had a lawyer call a week after he murdered Melinda to ask about the policy, then not fill out the paperwork, but yet call again to find out about the money, he must have thought that the insurance company would pay out the million dollars in blood money.
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I think this is really weird too! Why would he have an attorney call? Very, very, strange.
 
molly1255 said:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...ptb-lindsey-trial-st-0301-20160229-story.html

The judge allowed the prosecution to play the recording of just one telephone call to the insurance company for the jury. But it is a good one. It is a recording of SL talking to the insurance company about getting life insurance quotes for him and for Melinda.

He made this call before they were even married.
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I caught that too. I had not noticed before that she got the policy BEFORE they were married. Yikes. And he's in the background insisting he be the beneficiary? Wow. That speaks volumes to me.
 
ArabianLover said:
04-16-2015, 07:36 PM #1068 starshine4u starshine4u is offline
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Quote Originally Posted by Tina Grant View Post
When I saw the conspiracy charge my first thought was that the co-conspirator was the insurance agent. I wonder - did Steve take out a policy on himself at the same time?
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Steve never met with the insurance agent. Melinda met with him (insurance agent) and took out the policy. So I don't think there is a policy on Steve except through work.
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Interesting. This turned out not to be true. Steve never even had a job. So there couldn't be any life insurance.
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So apparently, SL lied to insurance company (MetLife?) about having his own $1M policy through work. It appears he lied to Melinda and his "aunt" as well.

And now we know there wasn't a job either. So what was he doing when he was "leaving" to go "work"??
 
ArabianLover said:
I caught that too. I had not noticed before that she got the policy BEFORE they were married. Yikes. And he's in the background insisting he be the beneficiary? Wow. That speaks volumes to me.
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I had a policy with my fiance as my beneficiary, that's not completely unusual.

Also my understanding is that Metlife wouldn't approve the policy of that size without proof of SL having a policy. Maybe he did at the time with work, but once you leave your job you leave that policy with it.

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