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

[fhc]

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:

Please accept my sympathy for your loss & respect for surviving such a loss. Thank you for sharing what most of us can't imagine.

 

[believe09]

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)

Are there backwashes from dams at points along the river?

 

[Calliope]

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.

Why, if he was told to stay across the street ?

 

[believe09]

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

Yes. 7-11, whatever.

Think about it from the perspective of a man who is being tried in the press and is refusing to cooperate with the investigation. What a photo op there was for him to be standing outside of his parents house while they were searching.....does not bring warm fuzzies. JMO.

I dont know if DS committed this crime. It seems like all arrows point his way, but I am waiting until he is called a suspect before I make up my mind.

However, he is not doing himself favors...again, JMO.

 

[Lurkey Lou]

Are there backwashes from dams at points along the river?

I'll ask my dad, he knows that river like the back of his hand, fished it forever. I'll try to remember to ask when I see him later.

 

[Calliope]

With him standing across the street during the search, it tells me he is a total control freak. If he is that much of a control freak that he had to watch the search then there is no way he could stay 600 miles away during the investigation, that is why he moved back to his parents home so he could be close and keep an eye on the investigation. This makes me think her body is somewhere not far from his parents home or not far from where she vanished. He had to be close to see if they are getting close to finding her and he could not do that 600 miles away. This reeks of guilt to me IMHO.

I'm not getting the outrage of him waiting while they searched the house and property.

 

[Lurkey Lou]

Are there backwashes from dams at points along the river?

ok, he said there are 3 ( maybe 4 ) between Colon and the Lake ( I thought there was only one ). He asked if you mean by backwashes the deep ruts one side of the damn from the water rushing over ? Where the water is inherently deeper??

 

[Calliope]

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 so sorry. How horrific

 

[believe09]

I'll ask my dad, he knows that river like the back of his hand, fished it forever. I'll try to remember to ask when I see him later.

Thanks LL!! I wonder if he would consider particular ones that might be in the area specific to the case. For example, what if something were tossed in the river, and stuck in a backwash???

 

[Calliope]

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:

Is his alibi holding up though? If he was in NN, he couldn't have abducted her.

 

[believe09]

ok, he said there are 3 ( maybe 4 ) between Colon and the Lake ( I thought there was only one ). He asked if you mean by backwashes the deep ruts one side of the damn from the water rushing over ? Where the water is inherently deeper??

Where it churns in a cylinder and comes back to the dam....kind of like centrifugal force...if that is the right word, lol. Like if you threw a stick in it would go over the dam, be driven into the river by the force of the water, but rather than popping up and floating away, it gets sucked down and back....am I making sense???

 

[Calliope]

Yes. 7-11, whatever.

Think about it from the perspective of a man who is being tried in the press and is refusing to cooperate with the investigation. What a photo op there was for him to be standing outside of his parents house while they were searching.....does not bring warm fuzzies. JMO.

I dont know if DS committed this crime. It seems like all arrows point his way, but I am waiting until he is called a suspect before I make up my mind.

However, he is not doing himself favors...again, JMO.

What is it that he's doing to 'refuse to cooperate' ?

 

[believe09]

What is it that he's doing to 'refuse to cooperate' ?

From puf's timeline:
Wednesday - 28 April 2010: Douglas Stewart refuses to answer questions by investigators or the media and refers all contact to his attorney, Jeffrey M. Schroder of Portage, Michigan. Lt. Mike Risko says all investigators' contact with Doug Stewart is through his lawyer. Newport News police locate the Dodge Ram truck at Doug Stewart's apartment building's parking lot.

BBM-this has been well reported in the media, right?

 

[believe09]

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/lowhead.htm

 

[Calliope]

From puf's timeline:
Wednesday - 28 April 2010: Douglas Stewart refuses to answer questions by investigators or the media and refers all contact to his attorney, Jeffrey M. Schroder of Portage, Michigan. Lt. Mike Risko says all investigators' contact with Doug Stewart is through his lawyer. Newport News police locate the Dodge Ram truck at Doug Stewart's apartment building's parking lot.

BBM-this has been well reported in the media, right?

So, he's asserting his rights. He's speaking to police through his attorney. He's expecting LE to have a warrant to search his property. Wouldn't you do the same, knowing the police were trying to pin an abduction and possible murder on you?

 

[believe09]

So, he's asserting his rights. He's speaking to police through his attorney. He's expecting LE to have a warrant to search his property. Wouldn't you do the same, knowing the police were trying to pin an abduction and possible murder on you?

BBM-pin?? Hmm, I am not seeing any "pinning" here let me say respectfully.

If my loved on disappeared under suspicious circumstances, I would absolutely let LE clear me so they could find the actual perpetrator. Especially knowing that if I did not they would be wasting valuable time and resources trying to eliminate me through other methods.

Everyone has a right to plead the 5th, everyone has the right to lawyer up. The question becomes why you would do so unless you felt that there was something to the allegation.

Now, he may just be reacting to something like the tape recorded conversation that was transcribed. When Venus disappeared, he may have said "uh-oh-they are going to think I did it....cause I had a few to many beers and there is this tape out there..." Or whatever the circumstances were.

Or not.

 

[Calliope]

BBM-pin?? Hmm, I am not seeing any "pinning" here let me say respectfully.

If my loved on disappeared under suspicious circumstances, I would absolutely let LE clear me so they could find the actual perpetrator. Especially knowing that if I did not they would be wasting valuable time and resources trying to eliminate me through other methods.

Everyone has a right to plead the 5th, everyone has the right to lawyer up. The question becomes why you would do so unless you felt that there was something to the allegation.

Now, he may just be reacting to something like the tape recorded conversation that was transcribed. When Venus disappeared, he may have said "uh-oh-they are going to think I did it....cause I had a few to many beers and there is this tape out there..." Or whatever the circumstances were.

Or not.

I respectfully disagree. LE stated he was a POI right from the beginning, and that they suspected she was with him. Guilty or not, he was smart to "lawyer up". The police aren't looking to prove him innocent.

That really chaps my butt to think that people consider applying their rights is somehow an admission of guilt. Perhaps they should try living somewhere where those rights are not recognized by authorities and get back to us on that.

 

[Kimberlyd125]

I'm not sure MSP's goal is to "pin" DS!
I think their goal is to find the truth...and it's all pointing to DS.

 

[Kimberlyd125]

I respectfully disagree. LE stated he was a POI right from the beginning, and that they suspected she was with him. Guilty or not, he was smart to "lawyer up". The police aren't looking to prove him innocent.

That really chaps my butt to think that people consider applying their rights is somehow an admission of guilt. Perhaps they should try living somewhere where those rights are not recognized by authorities and get back to us on that.

Even if you are innocent and applying your rights is wasting LE's time in finding your "loved one". GMAB

If I was innocent and someone was missing, I would dang sure tell them and show them everything I had, did, said, considered... so that they could move on and find the guilty one.

But, I think in this case, the original POI is the guilty one, so it does not really matter.

And I think THAT is why he applied his rights and refused to lend any info.

JMO

 

[AmandaReckonwith]

I respectfully disagree. LE stated he was a POI right from the beginning, and that they suspected she was with him. Guilty or not, he was smart to "lawyer up". The police aren't looking to prove him innocent.

That really chaps my butt to think that people consider applying their rights is somehow an admission of guilt. Perhaps they should try living somewhere where those rights are not recognized by authorities and get back to us on that.

Excellent point, Calliope.
Our rights are precious, even if we'd like to see them applied only to the good guys

But I think the cops are going after the right guy, just need her body to really get him. CE won't get him LWOP.