GUILTY MI - Venus Stewart, 32, Colon, 28 April 2010 - #11

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Tweets after I left earlier:


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.Sinke testifies fingerprints are not Venus Stewart's or her father's
about 4 hours ago via web

.Judge says "we've been introducing a lot of evidence without a positive result at this point"
about 4 hours ago via web

.Jason Sinke, MSP fingerprint examining expert takes the stand
about 4 hours ago via web

.Hunt tells court not finding DNA means it likely wasn't there, or was too degraded to find
about 5 hours ago via web

.No DNA results from apparent blood stains or hair tie found at Venus' parents' home
about 5 hours ago via web

.Hunt found Doug Stewart's DNA inside gloves
about 5 hours ago via web

.Hunt says MSP withdrew request to analyze smudges on tarp bag
about 5 hours ago via web

.Ann Hunt, MSP Dept. of Forensic Science employee takes the stand
about 5 hours ago via web

.Thibault says truck bed liner stain tested positive as blood but could have been ketchup or bleach
about 5 hours ago via web

.Thibault says stain on front drivers door of Stewart's pickup truck is blood but no conclusive evidence it's human blood
about 6 hours ago via web

.Thibault says several things were tested for human blood
about 6 hours ago via web

.Thibault tells court she analyzed several different pieces of evidence including stains from a car and truck
about 6 hours ago via web

.Sarah Thibault, Forensic Scientist at the MSP takes the stand
about 6 hours ago via web
 
A few articles from today:

http://www.wwmt.com/articles/newschannel-1388120-stewart-continues.html
Video at link
Testimony continues in Stewart trial



http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/03/nancy_grace_americas_missing_t.html
'Nancy Grace America's Missing' to feature Venus Stewart case tonight


http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/sw_mich/Doug-Stewart-murder-trial-March-4-2011
Blood, DNA introduced in Stewart trialForensic scientists testify through the day


http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/03/fbi_examiner_testifies_in_venu.html
FBI examiner testifies in Venus Stewart murder trial; more witnesses expected this afternoon




http://www.sturgisjournal.com/featu...rrying-shovel-store-employees-testify?photo=0
Sucurity Footage Shows Man believed to be defendant carrying shovel; Store empolyees testify
 
I am on the road with hubby today but following Dani Carlson's tweets. Praying still!!
 
Stewart Trial
Monday March 7, 2011

Prosecution admits phone records into evidence.

Lena Powell, Colon MI - testified that she saw a man "soaking wet" near her home in April 2010, saw the man before she knew Venus was missing.

Mark Thomason testified he saw "soaking wet" man, who acted like "he did something wrong". Venus' cousin called him and said "soaking wet" man might have something to do with Venus' disappearance. Thomason does not see "soaking wet" man in courtroom but there's a similarity.

Frederick Brandt says he saw Venus' parents digging a hole by the side of the road.

Brian Wages testifies that in April a car with Virginia plates was driving in front of him, the man wouldn't look at him as he passed. He saw a woman in the passenger seat with her head up against the window with something that looked like "a sleeping bag". He didn't think much about the slow moving car at first...but after hearing about Venus' disappearance contacted MSP.

Tony Duke went to school with Venus. Testified he saw someone who looked like Venus and her husband at a MI Dollar General store before he heard she disappeared. He didn't talk to the person, and can't be sure it was Venus. Duke says realized the man he saw may have been Venus' husband Doug after seeing news reports. Duke says he saw the two at Dollar General near the end of April 2010.

Donna Cratsenburg Scott, who had lived across the street from the Stewart family, said she saw a silver-colored Sedan on April 25 that looked like the one that belonged to Venus and Doug Stewart.
 
Before Venus Stewart vanished, 'soaking wet' man spotted near her parents' home, witnesses say

Published: Monday, March 07, 2011, 12:08 PM


Several witnesses testified Monday at the Venus Stewart murder trial that they noticed a man who drove unusually slow or was soaking wet and appeared nervous shortly before the time she disappeared from her parents' home in rural St. Joseph County.

The witnesses took the stand Monday as the trial continued in which her estranged husband, Doug Stewart, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree premeditated murder in the abduction and alleged slaying of Venus Stewart.
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more at link
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/03/witnesses_say_they_noticed_a_s.html
 
I think "swamp man" lol was another person bought off by Doug to throw the investigation off, jmo of course.... Or he was another man up to no good that day for different reasons
 
Well, it's definitely him in the Walmart surveillance, but so far, no real evidence tying him to the crime scene. I hope they have more guns in their arsenal because the prosecution's case is supposed to wrap up on Wednesday. The judge was even exclaiming that they were entering a lot of evidence without many positive results. Fingers crossed that they can nail him down in the next couple of days.
 
thinkaboutthis said:
Well, it's definitely him in the Walmart surveillance, but so far, no real evidence tying him to the crime scene. I hope they have more guns in their arsenal because the prosecution's case is supposed to wrap up on Wednesday. The judge was even exclaiming that they were entering a lot of evidence without many positive results. Fingers crossed that they can nail him down in the next couple of days.
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Hopefully they can.......the State only has one shot unless there is a hung jury. If only Venus' body had been found!
 
Well, that fingerprint seems mighty telling to me! I hope it does to the jurors as well.
 
AmandaReckonwith said:
When was the first time MSP Lt Chuck Christiansen first testify?

He's the detective that questioned Ricky Spencer in DE.
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Doing a quick search it appears it was Friday, March 4, 2011 ...


@DaniCarlsonTV8 Dani Carlson
MSP Detective Chuck Christensen called to the stand
4 Mar via web
 
Phone map questioned in Stewart trial

Lead investigator may testify Wednesday afternoon

Updated: Wednesday, 09 Mar 2011, 12:14 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 09 Mar 2011, 6:34 AM EST

  • By Dani Carlson
CENTREVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) - A controversial GPS map was the center of attention Wednesday in a St. Joseph County courtroom.


The prosecution asked to admit the map from Tuesday, offering to change some of the labels that the defense objected to during testimony. The defense and prosecution talked about what changes need to be made to the potentially inflammatory GPS map.


The defense said points reading "abduction" and "heading to Michigan" need to be removed from the map. The defense objects that even if potentially inflammatory labels are removed from the map, different color labels are inappropriate.


more at link
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/sw_mich/Doug-Stewart-murder-trial-March-9-2011
 
Doug Stewart cell phone used outside Venus Stewart's parents' home on morning she disappeared

Published: Wednesday, March 09, 2011, 6:27 PM By Rex Hall Jr. | Kalamazoo Gazette

On the morning Venus Stewart disappeared, a cellular phone purchased by her estranged husband at a Hampton, Va., Walmart was used to call her parents' Colon Township home, a Michigan State Police detective testified Wednesday.

The call, which was made at 7:17 a.m. on April 26, hit off a cellular tower near Colon, not far from the Driftwood Drive residence of Stewart's parents, Therese and Larry McComb, Detective Sgt. Shane Kriger said under questioning from St. Joseph County Prosecutor John McDonough.

Criger was the last witness called Wednesday during testimony in the trial of Doug Stewart.

more at link
http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/03/doug_stewart-bought_cell_phone.html
 
Stewart defense wants phone map out

Prosecutor 'didn't work copy machine properly'

Updated: Wednesday, 09 Mar 2011, 4:44 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 09 Mar 2011, 6:34 AM EST

  • By Dani Carlson
CENTREVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) - A late start, a series of objections, a nearly two-hour recess and a continued fight over what is and isn't admissible punctuated the Doug Stewart murder trial Wednesday in St. Joseph County.


On Tuesday, defense attorneys Jeffrey Schroder and Kymberly Schroder objected to the introduction of a map prepared by Michigan State Police investigators that purported to plot the cell phone calls of Doug Stewart and his alleged accomplice, Ricky Spencer.

In early courtroom action, the prosecution asked to admit the map, offering to change some of the labels that the defense objected to during testimony. The defense and prosecution talked about what changes need to be made to the potentially inflammatory GPS map.


more at link
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/sw_mich/Doug-Stewart-murder-trial-March-9-2011
 
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