MD - Phylicia Barnes, 16, Baltimore, 28 Dec 2010 #9
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Thanks for the welcome. Boots is nickname for younger Glenton. There is another brother I believe DD, who was at the house the night before Phylicia went missing.
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Here is the shelter video, from 12/30/10 on WJZ. I couldn't find it on the website, but this is a link (not a great vid, but it is here) to my archive vid:
Phylicia Barnes -MD- :: 12/30/10 Phylicia went to a shelter, was turned away because of her age. Deena says "I think someone..." The shelter story was later debunked. She was never there. video by crankycrankerson - Photobucket
**ETA: here is the print that I saved. Mind you though, this was saved before I knew how to do it the way I do now, and before I knew to give credit to the site and writer.
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/...-/123011WJZbut-nottrue-shelter-wasntthere.jpg
Here's another:
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/...cia Barnes -MD-/123110turnedAway-shelter.jpg
Phylicia Barnes -MD- :: 12/30/10 Phylicia went to a shelter, was turned away because of her age. Deena says "I think someone..." The shelter story was later debunked. She was never there. video by crankycrankerson - Photobucket
**ETA: here is the print that I saved. Mind you though, this was saved before I knew how to do it the way I do now, and before I knew to give credit to the site and writer.
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/...-/123011WJZbut-nottrue-shelter-wasntthere.jpg
Here's another:
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/...cia Barnes -MD-/123110turnedAway-shelter.jpg
Thanks to all for the warm welcome. I agree AmandaReckonwith!! I really am frustrated by the amount of attention the Arias case is getting. Other than some local coverage here in Baltimore, I haven't seen much (if any) national coverage. I actually emailed Nancy Grace to see if she was going to do any reporting on Phylicia's case and I haven't gotten a response nor heard it mentioned on her show. This whole thing saddens me.
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Per Baltimore reporter Justin Fenton, Star witness for the prosecution "James McCray" , stated that he spoke with M.Johnson about disposing of Phylicia's body BEFORE Christmas. Absolutely impossible? Probably, unless a whole bunch of people have been lying about Phylicia's death. It seems as if case against M. Johnson maybe falling apart. Personally, medical examiner seems shaky and this McCray dude....... I don't even know what to say! Ugggggh!!!!!!!! Don't mean to be so pessimistic, but I'm just saying! Dang!!!!!
Per Baltimore reporter Justin Fenton, Star witness for the prosecution "James McCray" , stated that he spoke with M.Johnson about disposing of Phylicia's body BEFORE Christmas. Absolutely impossible? Probably, unless a whole bunch of people have been lying about Phylicia's death. It seems as if case against M. Johnson maybe falling apart. Personally, medical examiner seems shaky and this McCray dude....... I don't even know what to say! Ugggggh!!!!!!!! Don't mean to be so pessimistic, but I'm just saying! Dang!!!!!
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Yes Betterbe, that's a game changer right there. When I got that tweet I felt sick. It's gut check time for the state. Michael may now walk. I hope they cleared it up on a re-direct, showing he misspoke, and meant to say before New Years. McCray's testimony tie into the fact that Johnson's older brother was looking up GPS tracking information for cellphones on the computer the day after Phylicia disappeared. It shows what the Johnson clan was doing before the police even began to treat the case as a homicide. I hope the jury picked that up!
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http://wmar.m0bl.net/w/news-local/story/83881875/
Friend of MJ (JM or JL) took the stand and told how MJ murdered Phylicia. He said MJ sexually assaulted her and choked her after she kept crying. JM said he saw Phylicia's body wrapped in sheets on the bed.
This witness is a bit shady because the defense asked him if this happened before Christmas. He said yes. December 28th is the assumed date of death.
Friend of MJ (JM or JL) took the stand and told how MJ murdered Phylicia. He said MJ sexually assaulted her and choked her after she kept crying. JM said he saw Phylicia's body wrapped in sheets on the bed.
This witness is a bit shady because the defense asked him if this happened before Christmas. He said yes. December 28th is the assumed date of death.
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I think it is quite possible he meant before New Years versus before Christmas. I think it is probably very easy to confuse Christmas day and the Christmas holiday for which PB was scheduled to stay in B'mor, which was through Jan 2. We'll see what happens on re-direct.
I'm curious where the sheets came from. Where they the sheets on the bed the morning of Phylicia's disappearance/murder? Where they sheets from a closet? Did MJ have his own sheets he was moving out with? Was it ever determined if any sheets were missing?
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He advised putting the body in a container but told Johnson not to bury it, instead dump Barnes in the ocean or another body of water so that the fish will eat her.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/01/30/judge-issues-warning-to-phylicia-barnes-father-stepfather/
"The fish will eat her" sounds like it came from someone who watched a few too many episodes of the Soprano's.
Water would make sense in an area where the ground was frozen making a burial impossible without special equipment. Depending how cold it was and for how long, the dam might have been one of the few places the river wasn't frozen over.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/01/30/judge-issues-warning-to-phylicia-barnes-father-stepfather/
"The fish will eat her" sounds like it came from someone who watched a few too many episodes of the Soprano's.
Water would make sense in an area where the ground was frozen making a burial impossible without special equipment. Depending how cold it was and for how long, the dam might have been one of the few places the river wasn't frozen over.
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"So, it's possible she could have fallen or, on a dare, jumped into the river, correct?" the defense lawyer asked.
Oh, defense please do tell how the victim could have hurled herself into the river from the inside of a container. If this is the best they've got to rebut medical science their defense is not as strong as it might appear.
So many of us were convinced numerous times throughout Drew Peterson's trial he was going to walk and look at the outcome of that trial.
Justice for Phylicia! :candle: :jail:
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I spoke with Janice Mustafa last night, couldn't talk much about the trial because the families are under a court order not to talk to the media. However, she is very upbeat, encouraged, and appear to be in the best mood I have ever experienced while talking to her. She is pleased how the trial is going, and hinted she think Deena Barnes will be charged at the conclusion of Michael's trial, Here is my latest article: Recent article on Phylicia Barnes Murder trial
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Glad to read this. I keep Janis in my prayers daily.
I still can't access the link to your site from WS. I'm getting the same scenes of NY city and when I try via google I only get half the article and can't scroll to finish reading it. Not sure why, but I wanted to let you know.
When I read that DB might be charged in the future my immediate thought went to Child Endangerment leading to death, or something along those lines.
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Cubby your inability to link to the article inside WS has got to be related to a system issue with your machine. Did you check to see in Javascript is enable on your system? At any rate, here is the article for people having similar issues:
Day four of the Phylicia Barnes Murder Trial began on a more peaceful note, as Baltimore Sun crime report Justin Fenton tweeted that Russell Barnes (biological father) and Raheem Mustafa (Phylicia's real dad) set side by side in court. The site was nothing short of the appearance of an olive branch having been offered between the pair after Circuit Court judge Alfred Nance had scolded them a day earlier. Before day three of the trial began Nance could be overheard from the bench saying. "this is about Phylicia, this is about Phylicia. If I hear it again I'll throw both of you in jail", after he summoned the men to the bench. The men both stormed out of the court room after the judge's stern warning. There had been no indication made public as to what the concern was between the slain teen' fathers, but TPC has learned that Russell Barnes allegedly threatened the child's stepdad in the hallway of the court house resulting in a heated exchange between them. Today's scene in cort depicting both men seated together offered hope that the riff between the pretty little girl's families may finally beginning to subside in a joint effort to collectively seek justice for their precious little girl. The states first witness Wednesday was assistant state medical examiner Pamela E. Southall, who detailed how she reached the conclusion that Phylicia Barnes was asphyxiated and that the manner of death was homicide. Southall said an examination of the body didnt reveal any sort of trauma, and that asphyxiation was essentially the default finding. Asphyxiation encompasses a few types of death including suffocation, strangulation, drowning, and compression. Southall said she couldnt be sure which of those Phylicia died from. To make the finding of homicide, Southall said she relied heavily on police investigators and their theories of the case. The suspicious nature could not be overlooked,and You cant ignore that shes 16 years old, visiting from out of state who simply ups and disappears. Defense attorney Russell Neverdon countered byasking Southall why she ruled it a homicide when the lack of evidence opened up other possibilities, such as Phylicia drowning due to her own actions. Is it possible to suppose she was alive at the time her body came into contact with the water? Neverdon asked. Southall said I cant rule that out." She noted that 13 people in the state medical examiners office, including chief medical examiner David Fowler, agreed on her findings. The examiner's testimony gives insight on the fact determinations on how some murder victims were actually killed isn't solely centered around science. Some common sense has to come into play, and that's apparently what they utilized to come to their conclusions in the Barnes teen autopsy. Assistant States Attorney Tonya LaPolla also put forward a theory that Phylicia was put into the water inside a plastic container, allowing the body to be preserved for a time. Phylicias body was only moderately decomposed despite her having been dead for three to four months, in the estimation of a forensic anthropologist who testified later. Southall testified that that was possible, saying that she would have expected more damage to the body had it been loose in the water for so long. That information is critical to the state's case because it has always been their position that Michael Johnson transported the teen's body out of the apartment in a plastic container. The lack of video footage from surveillance cameras around the apartment complex and in the immediate area, showing Barnes leaving, helped police theorize how she vanished without detection. The state later called one of their key witnesses to the stand. A 36-year-old man name James McCray began his testimony by saying his name was actually Jason Lee and that he had drifted to Baltimore six years ago from New York, and rann an under-the-table business helping unqualified drivers get tags and titles. McCray told jurors the defendant, Michael Maurice Johnson, called him for help disposing of a dead body. "You won't believe what happened," he said Johnson told him as they stood over Phylicia's body wrapped in a bedsheet. Defense attorney Russell Neverdon denounced McCray as a "jailhouse snitch and someone who "couldn't tell Michael Johnson from Michael Jordan. Neverdon spent little time cross-examining McCray, shouting "no more questions" after McCray incorrectly testified that the killing took place before Christmas. Although McCray made an error in establishing the actually date his alleged encounter with Johnson showing him her dead body, his version is compelling. McCray told the court that he had nothing to gain from testifying. He didn't come forward with information about Phylicia's death until June 2012, when he said he was overcome by guilt while reading the Bible in jail. Johnson had been indicted and charged in Phylicia's death two months earlier, though McCray said he was not aware of that. "I was feeling kinda bad about having information with respect to the young child's murder, and not doing what I can to help out," According to McCray, he had connected with Johnson a few times through his underground business but stressed that he did not know him. He also said he had met Phylicia, who visited Baltimore only a handful of times, and said she stuck in his head because she had remembered him, calling him by the nickname of "New York." He said Johnson called him one day, explaining he had a "serious matter" and giving McCray directions to his apartment. Johnson took him into a bedroom, where McCray said it looked as if there had been a struggle. He said Johnson explained that "the girl had been giving him mixed signals about what direction they were going" and that Johnson forced himself on her. McCray told the court, "After that, she wouldn't stop crying. He couldn't get her to stop crying, so he killed her. He said he choked her." McCray's account coincides with the state medical examiner's conclusion that Phylicia Barnes had been asphyxiated, and also supports police investigators theory that Barnes was killed at her half-siblings northwest Baltimore apartment. McCray said he declined Johnson's request to help him move the body but offered him advice based on a similar experience with someone else he knew. He said he told Johnson to turn off his phone so that his GPS data wouldn't track his movements, and said that Johnson shouldn't bury the body but toss it into water so that evidence showing he had sex with the teen would be destroyed. McCray's comments on that line of questioning maybe the pivotal moment in the case, because prosecutors had questioned the defendants older brother Glen Johnson previously during the trial, asking him if he remembered looking for GPS data information about cellphones on the computer the day after Barnes disappeared. The testimony is powerful with the state's ability to prove that Johnson family members may have been attempting to cover their tracks long before investigators even began looking at the Barnes case as a homicide. Additionally, McCray's account alleging he told Johnson to turn off his phone may close the gape the state faces, in which they are unable to show how Johnson got the teen's body to the Susquehanna River. Johnson may have more than likely turned off his cellphone or left it at home while transporting the body. McCray's advice may also have determined how Johnson decided to dispose of the teen's body. State medical examiners say they agree with the state's notion that Barnes was discarded in water inside some kind of container. To reiterate previous testimony from officials at the medical examiners office, testimony was given that they were surprised about the lack of decomposition the teen's body displayed, and that they would have expected more decay if the body had been completely floating in water for a four month period. On cross-examination, Neverdon asked McCray if he had any mental conditions or had been held in a psychiatric facility, and he said no. It's not clear whether the defense was attempting to establish McCray had a psychiatric history or simply questioning his competence, but his testimony was convincing, and supports medical examiners findings as well as the police investigators theories regarding what happened to Phylicia Barnes. I am personally convinced that McCray is telling the truth, because during an interview with Phylicia's mother over a year ago, she told me she believed Michael Johnson pounced on her daughter while she was alone, may have raped her, and her daughter probably told Johnson "I'm going to tell my mommie, and she is going to kill you", causing Johnson to panic, killing the pretty child to stop her from revealing that he had raped her. Ironicly, McCray's account is exactly what the child's mom believes actually happened. Defense attorney Neverdon questioned the logic behind the state's official conclusion on how Barnes actually died, saying that it was only a theory and that the evidence suggested a range of possibilities, including that Phylicia could have drowned because of her own actions. But medical examiner Southall also said that the "moderate" decomposition of the body bolstered prosecutors' theory that it was dumped into the water while inside a plastic tub, possibly helping to preserve the body for a time. "If not contained, you would expect more injury," she said. Moreover, while the state and defense argue and debate whether Barnes was actually place in the Susquehanna River inside some kind of plastic tub, it has already been proven that Johnson purchased a large plastic tub at a local Wal-Mart on the exact day Barnes disappeared. The defense knew that this was part of the 17,000 page discover evidence the state had filed in the case, and they have been attempting to create doubt about eyewitness accounts that depict Michael Johnson struggling carrying a large plastic tub in the hallway around the time he says he last saw Phylicia, citing the two witnesses description of the tubs size differ. In reality, the store surveillance tape shows Johnson purchasing a plastic tub, but it's the wrong size, and smaller than the one he may have used to transport the child's body. This maybe why the witnesses accounts differ on the size of the tub. This theory also supports James McCray's account as well, because Johnson probably purchased the container to replace the one he had taken from Deena's apartment, making certain he didn't leave any DNA evidence behind, as McCray testified he had warned Johnson about, and may demonstrate why the plastic tub has never been found. Day five of the Phylica Barnes Murder Trial continues tomorrow. Still waiting on Justice for Simone.
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Same for me. I tried access via google as well, still the blog fades to the NYC scrolling pics. Frustrating. I have tried it at least 20x in the last couple days. I used an old link I had saved and same thing happens.
David, when you speak to Janice next, please let her know she has prayers and support from many people she will never even meet.
And... Hooray! if Deena gets charged. I'd like to see her serve 10 years behind bars for her role in this waste of a promising girl. Why couldn't evil kill evil and let Phylicia live! Life is so not fair.
David, when you speak to Janice next, please let her know she has prayers and support from many people she will never even meet.
And... Hooray! if Deena gets charged. I'd like to see her serve 10 years behind bars for her role in this waste of a promising girl. Why couldn't evil kill evil and let Phylicia live! Life is so not fair.
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Justin Fenton of the Baltimore Sun tweets that during defense cross-examination of lead Det. Nicholson, it was revealed Deena Barnes was reported for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and possession of child *advertiser censored*. Unclear when it occurred or who actually reported her, but apparently someone notified authorities about the activities she allowed her kid sister to engage in while in Baltimore. It also indicates that some one other than the individuals captured in the nude romp recording, had knowledge of the tape's existence as well. So this would mean that they were showing people the tape...smmfh! Why does the name TF come to mind of potential people who may have reported Deena considering there probably was a female rivalry going on over Michael Johnson?
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@ Amanda - I had text Shauntel on Instagram last night, and expressed what you just mentioned.
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Baltimore Sun Crime Reporter Justin Fenton tweets: Big development: Jurors in Phylicia Barnes case were presented with communications of Michael Johnson expressing concern about the murder investigation, but stopped short of implicating himself. Investigators had reported while the case was actively being investigated that Johnson is overheard commenting "what if I move to another country like Brazil where I can't be extradited for murder charges."
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Justin Fenton tweets Defense for Michael Johnson now spending time questioning state police regarding body of a man found in the Susquehanna River the same day as Phylicia Barnes. Raising concern that authorities rushed cause of his death and not thoroughly investigating whether the two deaths were related.
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The defense is grasping at straws. IIRC, the other man found the same day as Phylicia in the Susquehanna River was suffering from severe depression. I seem to recall it having been determined his COD was suicide and he had recently left a psychiatric facility of some sort. I remember discussing this theory immediately after Phylicia was identified. It was determined the other person jumped off a bridge. (iirc).