Laura Babcock Murder Trial 10.23.17 - Day 1, Opening Statements

[SnooperDuper]

Cristina Tenaglia‏ @cristina_CP24
Babcock told Shawn she was working for an escort company. "A new line of work for her." (after they had broken up)

Caryn Lieberman‏ @caryn_lieberman
Says she worked for an escort company, after they broke up and after she temporarily worked for him.

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
Lerner knew #Babcock started working as an escort, believed it was a new thing. He gets emotional talking about how much she loved her dog.

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
Laura mentioned suicide once to Lerner, he says, shortly before she was admitted to hospital. #Babcock

Caryn Lieberman‏ @caryn_lieberman
Former boyfriend says he became very concerned when days passed and he hadn’t heard from Laura Babcock.

Shannon Martin‏ @ShannonMartinTV
Lerner details the last days he spent with Babcock - he gave her an ipad, paid for her to stay at a hotel.

 

[matou]

I attended a number of the pre-trial motions, and also the morning today. Millard and his tactics leave me feeling ill. Just MO.

Anything else you can tell us about Millard and Smich? Is Millard giving Smich the stink-eye again this trial? How about the photos of the blue tarp and the rap video? Do you recognize where they were taken?

 

[Kamille]

I attended a number of the pre-trial motions, and also the morning today. Millard and his tactics leave me feeling ill. Just MO.

Thank you for your interest in bearing witness to justice for Laura. Is there anything you can share that hasn't been covered here today by the tweets? Only what has been said or done in front of the jury of course.

TIA

 

[SnooperDuper]

Shannon Martin‏ @ShannonMartinTV
The Crown alleges the same ipad - purchased by Lerner and given to Babcock - would eventually be renamed 'Mark's ipad'

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
Lerner tried calling & texting #Babcock after July 1 & got increasingly concerned. Learned family & friends hadn't heard from her either.

Liam Casey‏ @liamdevlincasey
Updated story from morning in court: Laura Babcock killed for being odd woman out in love triangle, court hears
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/woman-killed-for-role-in-love-triangle-court-hears-1.3644026

Shannon Martin‏ @ShannonMartinTV
Lerner talks about growing increasingly concerned after not hearing from Laura in a few days in the summer of 2012.

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
Babcock was always on phone, Lerner says. Texting & Facebook. Lerner guessed password to her voicemail & checked msgs. Also checked email

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
"There was no activity" in the time since July 1st, Lerner says of #Babcock's presence online. #Millard #Smich

 

[gremlingrrl]

Do we know if Millard and Smich are sitting at the same table?

No, they are not

 

[matou]

Cameron showed the jury a video of Smich rapping.


"The b---h started off all skin and bone, now the b---h lay on some ashy stone," Smich sings in the video. "Last time I saw her she was outside the home. If you go swimming you can find her phone."


Camerson said those words were written on Babcock's iPad, which was being used by Smich, on July 23, 2012, the night the Crown says the pair put her body into an incinerator.


The Crown also showed a photograph of Smich in front of the incinerator, with the door open and flames shooting out.

She was burned on July 23rd? So she was dead since July 3rd and was kept somewhere for 20 days? sigh.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/woman-killed-for-role-in-love-triangle-court-hears-1.3644026

 

[SnooperDuper]

Shannon Martin‏ @ShannonMartinTV
Lerner checked her social media accounts and reached out to her friends, to start searching for Laura after no one heard from her.

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
Lerner created a Facebook group to get friends together over #Babcock' disappearance. He went into Babcock profile & invited her friends

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews 2
No one in the group of friends had heard from Laura #Babcock. They started putting up missing person posters, visited her fav areas.

Sam Pazzano @SamPazzano
Shawn Lerner, Ex- boyfriend of missing-murder victim Laura Babcock tells jury of his efforts to find her via social media in July 2012.

Caryn Lieberman‏ @caryn_lieberman
On July 14th 2012 Laura Babcock’s former boyfriend reported her missing to police.

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
July 14, Lerner reported Laura #Babcock missing to police. He got Laura's phone billl from her mother which listed all outgoing calls.

 

[gremlingrrl]

Anything else
you can tell us about Millard and Smich? Is Millard giving Smich the stink-eye again this trial? How about the photos of the blue tarp and the rap video? Do you recognize where they were taken?

Smich is seated at a desk in front of Millard, so there is little opportunity for shared glances. During pre-trial (from what I observed) Smich continued his habit of avoiding Millard's gaze. I didn't observe side-eye/stink-eye from Millard, but there was a lot of smirking by Millard, imo not directed at Smich. The blue tarp photo appears to have been taken in front of the barn (imo).

 

[matou]

There is at least one photo of Smich in front of the incinerator with the door open and flames shooting out of it. Also a photo of something, likely Laura's body, rolled up in a blue tarp. These two are beyond stupid. Lucky for them, they had friends and girlfriends who did not rat on them. SMH.

 

[JPC]

Smich is seated at a desk in front of Millard, so there is little opportunity for shared glances. During pre-trial (from what I observed) Smich continued his habit of avoiding Millard's gaze. I didn't observe side-eye/stink-eye from Millard, but there was a lot of smirking by Millard, imo not directed at Smich. The blue tarp photo appears to have been taken in front of the barn (imo).

Hhmmm...I wonder if we will hear anything else about those barrels in the barn.


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[Kamille]

She was burned on July 23rd? So she was dead since July 3rd and was kept somewhere for 20 days? sigh.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/woman-killed-for-role-in-love-triangle-court-hears-1.3644026

Probably under a tarp in the barn. I hope that board that they removed is actually decomp evidence for this case since it was not used in TB's case. But I suspect they didn't find any other DNA or remains of LB even if this turns out to be a positive.



MOO

 

[gremlingrrl]

Thank you for your interest in bearing witness to justice for Laura. Is there anything you can share that hasn't been covered here today by the tweets? Only what has been said or done in front of the jury of course.

TIA

Will come back to this - home now and running to grab the kids from school.

 

[SnooperDuper]

Sam Pazzano‏Verified account @SamPazzano
Lerner reported the 23 year old Babcock missing to police on July 14, 2012. She was upbeat and looking forward to next stage of her life.

Sam Pazzano‏ @SamPazzano
Lerner and Laura split up at end of 2011 or start of 2012 but they remained friends, he booked her into a west end hotel June 25-26, 2012.

Caryn Lieberman‏Verified account @caryn_lieberman
Lerner says at Medieval Times for Laura’s bday he met Millard, and went back to his apartment.

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
Lerner started calling all #s #Babcock had. It took awhile. He has met Dellen #Millard. Invited to Laura surprise party 2011 Medieval Times.

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
Christina Noudga was another invitee to Laura's birthday party. They all went to #Millard's place after; a downtown condo.

Lisa Hepfner‏ @HefCHCHNews
Smich is "feeling very ill" so his lawyer asked court for a break.

 

[Kamille]

There is at least one photo of Smich in front of the incinerator with the door open and flames shooting out of it. Also a photo of something, likely Laura's body, rolled up in a blue tarp. These two are beyond stupid. Lucky for them, they had friends and girlfriends who did not rat on them. SMH.

I guess they were having a good time with the new Ipad and the camera feature? Were these photos deleted from the Ipad after they were taken but retrieved via the Apple warrant?

 

[SnooperDuper]

Sam Pazzano‏ @SamPazzano
Lerner met accused killer Del Millard at Laura's birthday party on Feb. 12, 2011. Millard was there with girlfriend Christina Noudga.

Adrian Humphreys‏ @AD_Humphreys
Crown witness, Shawn Lerner, is interrupted by Mark Smich's lawyer saying Smich is feeling very ill. Break ordered for 10 minutes. He's pale

Caryn Lieberman‏ @caryn_lieberman
Smich feeling ill. Lawyer asked judge for a break.

Trevor Dunn‏ @trevorjdunn
Mark Smich's lawyer has asked for a break. He says Smich does not feel well. Court recesses for 15 minutes.

Cristina Tenaglia‏ @cristina_CP24
***Court on break now as Smich feels sick.

 

[SomeITGuy]

Hhmmm...I wonder if we will hear anything else about those barrels in the barn.


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I could be wrong, I believe it was determined that those were filled with Kerosene during the TB trial.

 

[SomeITGuy]

Sam Pazzano‏ @SamPazzano
Lerner met accused killer Del Millard at Laura's birthday party on Feb. 12, 2011. Millard was there with girlfriend Christina Noudga.

Adrian Humphreys‏ @AD_Humphreys
Crown witness, Shawn Lerner, is interrupted by Mark Smich's lawyer saying Smich is feeling very ill. Break ordered for 10 minutes. He's pale

Made himself sick thinking about what they did to Laura?

 

[Kamille]

Made himself sick thinking about what they did to Laura?

Well if DM's "tactics" were making our own poster ill, imagine what they are doing to MS who just has to sit there quietly and deal with it. Too bad for him.

MOO

 

[Sphinx]

I remember a picture in the Tim Bosma Trial of a policeman carrying a long board out of the barn. It had what appeared to be a brown evidence bag over the top of it. I suspect that board was used as a support for Laura's body, which may have been tied to the board, then wrapped in the blue tarp. Since the bag was over one end, I thought that it was probably blood from a head wound. These evil, stupid, criminals left lots of evidence behind. I hope they never get out of prison. IMO

 

[matou]

Made himself sick thinking about what they did to Laura?

Sick realizing how stupid he was to film a rap video about killing and burning Laura and taking a photo of him in front of an incinerator with its door open and shooting out flames. Even without a body, these two are going to be found guilty. No doubt.