Found Deceased MI - Venus Stewart, 32, Colon, 28 April 2010 - # 6 *D. Stewart guilty*

[Marinemom]

Why not just buy them online?

Online would be MORE STUPID! (than he already seems to be)

'If' you buy online, there is surely more of a record of purchase and how it was paid - ie credit card, etc. - and a delivery address??? Nah.....that is tooooo stupid even for DS.

JMO - My guess would be that indeed he didn't want to be recognized locally purchasing, and took a chance on purchasing late at night/early morning when the store was less crowded - and did it en route to MI hoping that it wouldn't be noticed or discovered. Because as someone said earlier, I'm sure he knew he'd be one of the first people looked at, so he arranged his alibi, and bought the 'kill kit' out of state, hoping it wouldn't be discovered. He's sooo dumb. :waitasec:

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Oh Marinemom....I am terribly sorry to hear about the loss of your daughter. So, so sorry....words escape me.....

 

[believe09]

Marinemom, I am so sorry to read part of your story.

 

[Marinemom]

Are the only applications for tarps and shovels homicides? I wonder why Walmart sells them then?

Well..............I can only IMAGINE that 'IF' someone purchased a tarp & shovel, then the next day their spouse or child or 'loved one' came up missing, and they have PROOF of said person 'threatening the disappeared persons life' then YES - those items COULD possibly have something significant to do with the case. Hmmm.:waitasec:

Those items alone are of no significance - but if you factor in that THEIR ESTRANGED SPOUSE DISAPPEARED THE DAY AFTER THEY WERE PURCHASED and he threatened to 'solve his problem with her' with a gun....well, I think many people would consider that to be a piece of that puzzle. DUH...:waitasec:

 

[Marinemom]

He well could be. But that's not enough to charge, much less convict.

...hence the delay in arresting him so far. I still believe they are watching his EVERY MOVE, but getting their 'ducks in a row' before making the move to arrest.

 

[believe09]

Let's see; the man lives in a apartment in Newport News VA-what might he have needed a tarp and shovel for? Perhaps he was starting a community garden.

 

[Kimberlyd125]

I agree! You can't take any one piece of this puzzle and really talk about it as it pertains, but there are a whole lot of pieces that are starting to fit together.
I don't see how anybody else could have done this.

 

[thesaint]

With him standing across the street during the search, it tells me he is a total control freak.

Doesn't he currently live there? Isn't it possible he was out and about and came home mid-search. And the police, apparently, didn't allow him to go on the property while they were searching it. They live out in the middle of the country. It's not like he could walk down to Starbuck's to wait for the police to finish their work. So what would you do in that situation? Drive away from what is currently your home?

 

[thesaint]

My point is that he should not have been there. At all. I am sure his attorney is having a heart attack.

But if that's where he lives, I don't understand where people expect him to have gone. Hide?

 

[thesaint]

False!

Casey Anothony was arrested before they found Caylee.
John Gardner was arrested before they found Chelsea.
Mario Andrette McNeill was arrested before they found Shaniya.

There are other cases as well.

They may not charge him with murder this early, but he can certainly be arrested!

Exactly.

 

[Marinemom]

Hmmm...well, they located DS the evening of the abduction and then they located the truck two days later IIRC. I have still seen conflicting reports of where it was actually parked-both two streets away and in a space at the apartment complex.

I feel pretty certain they impounded the vehicle when they found it-they probably didnt have to get DS' permission to look at it if he was/is not on the title. They might have had to get a warrant to seize the other car however.

DS didnt cooperate at all, right? So it seems unlikely he gave permission for any of the searching that was done....

Now, what might be the delay in having the truck arrive in MI? I cannot think of any, unless they are just misleading the public and the POI.

'MY GUESS' would be that they have the truck in possession of LE, and are doing investigative things with it where it is, BEFORE transporting it back to MI. Any sort of jarring and jiggling during transport could remove or misplace any such evidence that could be on the vehicle. (ie, mud, dirt, sand, weeds, plant growth, or anything that might have landed on the vehicle if it was possibly in MI) Just saying....

 

[thesaint]

The day that they seached DS parents house, they had the driveway blocked off with a state trooper, so he probably was told to stay across the street, BUT , he should have just kept driving IMHO if he came home and saw the house was being searched.

Run away? That looks guiltier than stopping at the place you live and waiting across the street (at the police's request, most likely) to go in your house.

 

[thesaint]

Why did it take LE this long to search DS's parents home, especially since it has been DS's primary residence now for 3 or 4 weeks?
:waitasec:

This is a missing persons case with the possibility of a murder,
why didn't LE roll up on DS"s parents homestead ASAP?

If there's a concern about probable cause, I'd say that if they had enough probable cause to search DS's Virginia apartment and his vehicles, then as soon as he moved back to Michigan and took up residence in his parents home, they'd have even more probable cause to search DS's parents homestead, due to its proximity to the scene of the alleged crime.

And it's likely that even if Doug has stayed in Virginia, the police could still have gotten a warrant to search DS's parents property as a potential base of operations for the abduction. So the MSP could've been searching DS's parents property at the same time as VA police were searching Doug's Virginia residence and vehicles.

 

[Marinemom]

This is a boon to the prosecution. So far, there are at least 5 crime scenes. Most cases only have one or two, so MSP has to be chuckling with delight over just how stupid this guy is.
I'd be looking in the St Joe's river. The house sits directly on it, so all he had to do was walk a shorter distance to it rather than go all the way across the street back to the truck. And there would be less of a chance of people seeing him since the street is very busy at that time of day with school buses, people going to work and to school.

I have no idea how deep the St. Joe River is at VS's parents house, but I live in another town about an hour away from there, and the St. Joe river runs thru here too, and in many areas it is only 3 or 4 feet deep. Many people canoe that river and it is NOT a big river. (but as I said - I don't know how big it gets in their area) So, dumping her in that river would not be a good idea, she would have quite possibly still been just outside her parents house. :waitasec:

 

[x_files]

Apparently that is not so unusual.

O/T - my daughter was brutally murdered in her own apartment in her bedroom by an intruder that came into the apartment in the night and she had a roommate sleeping across the hall that never even woke up! The murderer even went back and forth into the kitchen to retrieve a knife from there and used that on my daughter AFTER he had already stripped her, strangled her, and bound her up. Imagine that - the roommate said she never even woke up?????

sorry...I've never bought it, but 'apparently' it happens.....:snooty:

I am sorry to hear about your daughter. I want to thank you for sharing.
I completely agree with you-
yes, people can be abducted rather easily and quietly. That's why it is so scary.
VS parents house wasn't that close to neighbors and lots of blind spot in front of a house with no windows. The kids were probably playing and didn't hear anything. Her father was asleep.
Remember DS is a trained Marine- they are trained in strategic warfare and combat.

 

[spamelope]

I have no idea how deep the St. Joe River is at VS's parents house, but I live in another town about an hour away from there, and the St. Joe river runs thru here too, and in many areas it is only 3 or 4 feet deep. Many people canoe that river and it is NOT a big river. (but as I said - I don't know how big it gets in their area) So, dumping her in that river would not be a good idea, she would have quite possibly still been just outside her parents house. :waitasec:

I actually tried to find out how deep it is, and I found that it is 20 feet deep in spots and is 210 miles long. (I posted a link to the info in an earlier thread.) It eventually dumps into Lake Michigan. There is a picture of it in the wiki article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Joseph_River_(Lake_Michigan)

 

[PickieChickie]

"We're not going to call him a suspect until we have an arrest warrant in our hands," Risko told the CBS station. "And we do not have that at this point."

Continued at source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20006115-504083.html

 

[Lurkey Lou]

I actually tried to find out how deep it is, and I found that it is 20 feet deep in spots and is 210 miles long. (I posted a link to the info in an earlier thread.) It eventually dumps into Lake Michigan. There is a picture of it in the wiki article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Joseph_River_(Lake_Michigan)

The damn in Berrien Springs is between where the St. Joe is in Colon and where it dumps into Lake Michigan.

 

[Marinemom]

I'm sorry to have brought up the subject of my daughter, but when people talk of 'how can this happen without someone hearing or knowing' I just have to relay the fact that - it does happen. As strange and unlikely as it seems, it does happen. Especially if they have any special training in that sort of area. (meaning the military training) He could have snapped her neck instantly and no sound was to be heard by anyone. BUT I agree - that is a daring and cRaZy move in the light of day just outside the house!

I agree with the people that have said that he 'probably' arrived in the darkness, and it just kept getting later and lighter....and he held his ground. I don't know Venus's mom's routine, but with the country settings these places have, it would be actually quite easy to park in a nearby field concealed by trees and weed growth in the early morning hours before complete daylight and not be noticed. Maybe moms car was parked facing the direction she was about to be traveling, and she didn't even notice the field kity-corner from the house in the near-dawn hours.

I'm thinking that an arrest is imminent and DS will be eventually living in a state-furnished housing complex. Lifetime rent paid for by 'US'....:furious:

 

[Lurkey Lou]

I'm sorry for your loss Marinemom.