GUILTY Jennifer Blagg - Re-trial of Michael Blagg 20 February 2018

[Henry2326]

Don't know if this YTube has been posted before:

Downloading the Devil SHOCKING Crime Documentary (1:03:30 hr)

Published on Oct 25, 2016

[video=youtube;BsYRmsdKNxg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsYRmsdKNxg[/video]
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Super documentary! Filmed before his conviction was vacated. Worth a watch. Thank you for sharing.

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[Tortoise]

Dried blood found in several places on Jennifer Blagg’s minivan the day after she disappeared looked like tiny smudges, but was enough for crime scene investigators to take note.
Former Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent Matt Saluto told jurors this morning that smudges found on the steering wheel, near the driver’s inside door handle and on the exterior driver’s side door were noted by himself and other crime scene investigators on Nov. 14, 2001— the day after husband Michael Blagg called 911 to report Jennifer and daughter 6-year-old Abby missing.
Saluto — who took the stand on the ninth day of proceedings in Michael Blagg's first-degree murder trial — said the van, which was found parked in the family’s garage, was otherwise pristine.

“It almost appeared as if it was … cleaned recently,” Saluto said. “There (were) still cleaning marks in the vehicle.”

https://www.gjsentinel.com/breaking...cle_2a4f19ac-20ac-11e8-8aad-5f57114db563.html

 

[Tortoise]

The jury got a detailed look at the home of Michael and Jennifer Blagg when the man who photographed the crime scene took the stand Monday morning.
Michael Saluto, who was a criminal investigator for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation at the time, spent the morning reviewing dozens of photographs he took Nov. 14, 2001 — the day after Michael Blagg reported his wife and 6-year-old daughter Abby missing.


A small, wooden jewelry box appeared rummaged through and strewn about the floor, Saluto said. A calendar laid next to some rumpled clothes. And, most noticeably, a pool of blood covered almost one half of the Blaggs’ bed. The photographs showed a dark, red liquid running down the striped bed skirt, pooling on the beige carpet and around a light oak nightstand.
No bullet shell casings were found and there wasn’t any blood on the walls, Saluto said. He did find a handgun in the closet.

http://www.9news.com/article/news/p...with-up-close-tour-of-blagg-home/73-526004746

 

[Cherry]

He was guilty then, nothing has changed.

 

[Mountain Misst]

When I read this link, I couldn't believe this case is up again before the courts. So sad for the families left behind. Narcissus you have a lot to answer for...

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/details-in-blagg-case-released

 

[Niner]

Thanks again for the articles Tortoise!!

 

[Tortoise]

Jennifer’s keys for her minivan — where investigators found multiple bloody smudges — were found on the dresser as well.

Mahre this morning also showed jurors a copy of a note apparently written from Michael Blagg to his wife, which was found among the purse’s contents on the bedroom floor. The note appeared to be an apology for a recent argument, reading in part:

“Jennifer, I love you! I am sorry that we have ruined this day and the opportunity to spend our lunch time together. I don’t know what went wrong. My intent was to spend a wonderful time with you and coincidentally get some Christmas shopping done. That obviously went horribly astray. The Lord tells me to not let the sun go down on my anger and so I won’t. You are the light of my life. I ask your forgiveness for any wrongs I have done to you and I also forgive the wrongs I have perceived against me. I do not want us to waste a weekend being angry.”

https://www.gjsentinel.com/breaking...cle_c1fec748-216a-11e8-9da9-cbe8fca29825.html

 

[Tortoise]

I think this is an error of judgement. His addiction could be a reason that Jennifer wanted to end her marriage. If I remember correctly he had thousands of images stored.


Attorneys downplayed evidence about Michael Blagg's use Tuesday during the 55-year-old's retrial for the alleged murder of his wife Jennifer in a drastic departure from how the testimony was handled during his original jury trial in 2004.

On Tuesday, following strict limitations about the evidence set by Russell, Mesa County Sheriff's Investigator Mike Piechota testified only that he found two pornographic Power Point presentations on Blagg's home computer, that one presentation had five pages of images and that the other had one page of images.

Russell instructed jurors that they are only allowed to consider evidence of Blagg's use as evidence of marital problems between him and his wife.


"Do you have any way of knowing whether or not Mr. Blagg was viewing printed Power Point presentations of internet on Nov. 12, 2001?" Hand asked.

"No," Piechota said.

https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/wes...cle_be57e49c-21d5-11e8-9f7d-10604b9f6eda.html

 

[Tortoise]

One point of contention between the prosecution and the defense that keeps coming up during the second week of testimony is what happened to a 9mm handgun the Blaggs’ appear to have owned.

Ehlers told the jury that neither he nor anyone from the sheriff’s office ever found a 9mm handgun inside the two-story home on Pine Terrace Court. Investigators found three guns inside the house, but an insurance list written by a member of the Blagg family listed four guns — including a 9mm.

The bullet found inside Jennifer Blagg’s head could have been shot by a 9mm.

Troxell pushed back on the validity of the insurance list by suggesting it wasn’t made while the Blaggs were living in the Pine Terrace home.

“There were many items listed on this list that were not found in the Blagg home … ,” Troxell said. “You didn’t find a weight bench either or stair stepper.”

http://www.9news.com/article/news/l...could-have-killed-jennifer-blagg/73-526642178

 

[Tortoise]

More to read at link

[Ron] Walker, who spent years in the FBI’s behavioral scene unit, said it would take a significant amount of time to carefully wrap and move Jennifer Blagg’s body in a way that wouldn’t leave any blood in the rest of the home. Moving the body also didn’t make sense to him if the crime was a burglary gone bad.

That’s why he concluded the killer staged the home to make it look like a property crime gone wrong when it was, in fact, a “staged domestic homicide.”

Walker also thought it was odd only insured jewelry items taken while three guns were left behind.

When public defender Tina Fang had her chance to ask Walker questions, she didn’t dispute his conclusion that the home might have been staged. Instead, she questioned him about other types of crimes where someone might stage a room specifically sexual predator crimes.
“It can happen, but it’s rare,” Walker said.

Mahre pointed out that Jennifer Blagg was found in a landfill with human and medical waste. But Fang countered back that the male DNA was lifted from pubic hairs found inside the tent that was wrapped around Jennifer Blagg’s body.

http://www.9news.com/article/news/l...blaggs-killer-staged-the-bedroom/73-526742154

 

[RosalindaA]

Just a comment re the significance of Blagg's - I think in the documentary that I and YesOrNo posted it mentions that Jennifer had written down in her diary (where she weighted up spiritual issues/her marriage) that she had spent some time "with Stanley". Of course investigators immediately thought there's another male suspect but it was eventually thought that Jennifer meant she had watched a sermon by a preacher with the surname of Stanley.

On or around the date of the murder this man had preached an anti- sermon. Investigators therefore posited that this may have prompted Jennifer to raise the issue again with Blagg, resulting in an argument or his growing resentment that Jennifer would not tolerate this in her marriage.

This is just from memory but it is in the docu. I hope this point was able to be included. Makes sense to me that this wasn't a long-planned murder or I think Blagg would have covered his tracks better and maybe planned for his daughter to be out of the house. I think he boiled over with anger through that night at Jennifer's stance, murdered her and then Abby perhaps as she witnessed what he did, and then tried to make it look like his wife and daughter had been abucted in that "old chestnut" scenario of the "burglary gone wrong" by taking the jewellery (just that which was insured !!!)

He didn't think through the fact that the amount of blood at the head of the bed clearly showed even to the dumbest officer that whoever was in that bed had been shot in the head and so was certainly dead. He was so confident that his bizarre crime scenario would be believed that he didn't even bother to clean Jennifer's blood off her car properly.

 

[Tortoise]

I think that is most likely what happened too RosalindA. Sermon Sunday, argued Monday, murdered in the night of Monday/early hours of Tuesday. Strange how some men can't let their wives leave them but they can kill them.

 

[Tortoise]

[FONT=&quot]One of the jurors in the [/FONT]#MichaelBlagg[FONT=&quot] case is sick; heading back into court in a moment to see what the plan is.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Update. Juror is going to try to make it.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Other updates in the [/FONT]#MichaelBlagg[FONT=&quot] case: this is Day 12 of proceedings. Jurors have heard from 28 witnesses so far, including several whose testimony was presented in video form because they have died or cannot travel.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Most testimony has dealt with the initial crime scene so far; yesterday's testimony by former FBI special agent and consulting criminologist Ron Walker took a turn, however.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Walker, who's quoted in today's [/FONT]@DailySentinelGJ[FONT=&quot], talked extensively about his opinion that Jennifer Blagg's murder was a "staged domestic homicide," committed by someone familiar with her and her home, and staged to look like a property crime.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Today will be another marathon testimony session for jurors; prosecutor Trish Mahre just told the judge her team intends to call 14 witnesses. Court is briefly in recess while we wait for the ailing juror to show.

https://twitter.com/gabyreport
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[Tortoise]

The central focus of Thursday morning’s testimony in the Jennifer Blagg murder trial was surveillance video from her husband’s employer on the day she died.

Darren Cisar, the IT manager for what was then Ametek-Dixson, explained building’s layout and reviewed photographs from the four surveillance cameras that captured snipets of Michael Blagg’s movements Nov. 13, 2001.


Cisar told the jury that Michael Blagg first appeared on camera at the office shortly before 6 a.m. He appeared to be coming from a stairway that lead to the second floor, which means he entered the building some time before that from a door that didn’t have a camera.

Michael Blagg was in senior management at Ametek-Dixon, so he had keys to all 10 entrances while regular employees had key cards to enter a handful of doors.

http://www.9news.com/article/news/l...imony-focuses-on-husbands-office/73-526944151

 

[Tortoise]

Deborah Olson doesn’t know what the loud sound was that she heard in the early hours of Nov. 13, 2001, but she still remembers that it set her normally quiet Siberian husky barking in the yard of her Redlands home.

“In the middle of the night I was woken up by a noise about 1:30 in the morning,” said Olson, who in 2001 lived at 533 Foy Drive, directly across the street from Michael and Jennifer Blaggs’ back door. “I woke my husband up and we kind of just sat there for a minute.”

Olson, who testified this morning during Michael Blagg’s murder trial in Jefferson County, said her husband, a heavy sleeper, hadn’t heard anything, and the couple soon went back to sleep.

Cisar said that in 2001 no surveillance camera was set up in the trash compactor area of the company, where prosecutors believe Blagg dumped his wife's body.

https://www.gjsentinel.com/breaking...cle_7a8b5f86-2302-11e8-86a6-2f2453cf31ba.html

 

[Tortoise]

[FONT=&quot]Midday update: [/FONT]#MichaelBlagg[FONT=&quot]'s neighbor recalls waking to a loud noise early in the morning the day Jennifer Blagg was killed, testimony that could be a departure from defense's timeline

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]One juror down to stomach flu. Her advice to the court: "Disinfect the **** out of the jury room."

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Didn't expect politics to come up in the [/FONT]#MichaelBlagg[FONT=&quot] case at all, but a public defender just asked [/FONT]@SCOTTFORCOLO[FONT=&quot] on the stand about being in the same party as the Mesa County Da, saying it "goes to bias."

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]FWIW the senator said he's not aware of these prosecutors' politics.

https://twitter.com/gabyreport
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[Tortoise]

Sen. Ray Scott (R-Grand Junction) lived one street over from the Blagg house in 2001 and could see the front of the infamous Pine Terrace Court home from his backyard.

On Nov, 12, 2001 — the last night Jennifer and Abby Blagg were seen alive — Scott’s black Labrador retriever started barking around 10 p.m.
“Best way I could explain it was she did not like fireworks … ,” Scott said. “That’s the type of barking she was doing.”

Scott’s dog eventually calmed down, but she started barking again around 2 a.m.
“I do remember having to go back to the back fence and pull her by the collar and bring her back inside,” Scott said.

That’s when Scott says he noticed the Blagg’s garage door was open and the porch light was on.

Troxell also pressed Scott on why he didn’t mention the garage door being open when he testified during Michael Blagg’s first trial.

He told the jury he was “was mistaken, apparently,” when he testified in 2004.

The Grand Junction Republican wasn’t the only witness whose memory was questioned Thursday.

more to read at http://www.9news.com/article/news/l...ey-witness-in-blagg-murder-trial/73-527031439

 

[Tortoise]

That is not looking good. As a juror I would trust that his dog heard noises but not that he saw the garage door open if he didn't say it the first time.

 

[Tortoise]

Will they bring in a reserve juror with one down to flu? That report said the trial would continue Friday afternoon.

 

[Tortoise]

An article I can't read without a subscription. https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/wes...cle_6ff84af2-2370-11e8-8c0c-10604b9f6eda.html