NM - Tera Chavez, 26, found dead in her Los Lunas home, 22 Oct 2007 - #1

[NCB]

Here we go I think with more fraternization. :-(

He's clearly not very original, is he?

 

[calamityjane831]

Tera called her and was very upset. Levi was there when this happened then he moved out 2 weeks later but went to Sanchez to visit and the relationship ended by 11/21/2006 bc she was dating someone else. They did see each other a couple of times after, they had some words but then she considered him a friend after that. Now the colored stripes.

 

[NCB]

Lost both feeds--exactly the same time--multiple times. Color bars...

 

[calamityjane831]

9:54 AM
Anna V @Anna_Velasquez
Sanchez not sure of exact date when #LeviChavez moved in, or when she got angry phone call from Tera.
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9:54 AM
Anna V @Anna_Velasquez
Serna's turn. #LeviChavez

 

[ChubbyCheeks]

Thanks for all the updates everyone! I wasn't able to follow along at all yesterday, and won't be able to today either. I've tried watching the feed during lunchtime today, kept going down. Anyone who can bear to watch it and provide updates - TIA x a million! You are more patient than I am!

 

[calamityjane831]

9:57 AM
Anna V @Anna_Velasquez
Sanchez says bulletproof vest is blue, not the color of the one shown in a picture taken from the death scene #LeviChavez

 

[NCB]

Looks like they're resetting...and here we go...

 

[calamityjane831]

9:57 AM
Anna V @Anna_Velasquez
Lunch break until 1:30p, then we'll hear from OMI. #LeviChavez

 

[NCB]

Why does the feed work during the breaks, but not during the actual testimony??

 

[calamityjane831]

Lost both feeds--exactly the same time--multiple times. Color bars...

That is I think because some one let the laptop they are running the LiveWire from go to sleep. I can tell by the way they reset it on the laptop that we see.

 

[calamityjane831]

Why does the feed work during the breaks, but not during the actual testimony??

A lot of it has to do with traffic. There bandwith they use with the LiveWire service is small because it most probably cost less for the tv stations subscription or service contract they have with livewire. They clearly run local commercials on their own servers. When we all log on to watch the trial plus it is so much traffic it creates a huge traffic jam....like a freeway that is to small for all the cars then the feed freezes and buffers and the feed can not handle going in and out of it either. KOAT or the courts need to improve their streaming service if this is by law to be shown to the public.

 

[NCB]

That is I think because some one let the laptop they are running the LiveWire from go to sleep. I can tell by the way they reset it on the laptop that we see.

That's interesting, and thanks for the insight. They have a shoestring setup, I guess. I'm kind of surprised, as I would have expected a bit more from the size of the ABQ market. Regardless. I'm sure they are peddling as fast as they can.

 

[calamityjane831]

Another Chavez paramour testifies
By Jeff Proctor / Journal Staff Writer on Tue, Jun 25, 2013
POSTED: 12:06 am
LAST UPDATED: 8:33 am

12:03 p.m.

BERNALILLO–Yet another of Levi Chavez’s paramours took the witness stand in his murder trial this morning.

APD officer Regina Sanchez testified that she had known Chavez for years — possibly since grade school when the two were growing up in Los Lunas.

After losing touch, the two reconnected in August or September of 2006 at APD headquarters Downtown, Sanchez testified. At the time, she was working for APD, and Chavez was working for Aviation Police, which essentially is a division of APD.

They exchanged telephone numbers and, in fairly short order, began an intimate dating relationship, according to Sanchez’s testimony.

Then, in October 2006, Chavez moved in with Sanchez.

“He brought possessions, clothes, a gun safe, (police uniforms,) hygienic items and his graduation photo … either from Aviation or Rio Rancho” Police Department, where he had worked previously, Sanchez said.

She testified that she knew Chavez had children and was married, but he told her he was “separated and in the process of getting a divorce,” she said.

Not long afterward, Sanchez said — although she couldn’t recall exactly when — Chavez’s wife, Tera Chavez, called Sanchez. Levi Chavez was present when the call came in.

Tera Chavez “pretty much just got mad at me,” Sanchez testified, adding that Tera was “very” angry.

Levi Chavez moved out a week or two later, Sanchez said from the witness stand, after she broke the relationship off.

Changing gears, lead prosecutor Bryan McKay showed Sanchez a photograph of an armoire that was taken inside the Chavez’s home near Los Lunas the night in October 2007 that Levi called 911 to say Tera had shot herself in the head.

Hanging in the armoire were an APD uniform and an outer shell for a department-issued Kevlar bullet-proof vest.

Sanchez testified that APD field officers are required to wear their vests and uniforms during their shifts and that officers are issued only one uniform.

Both she and Chavez were field officers for APD in October 2007.

On cross-examination by Chavez’s attorney, David Serna, Sanchez testified that “back in the day,” officers may have been issued more than one of the vest liners.

Earlier this morning, APD property supervisor Richard Campos testified that officers only are issued one vest and one uniform, but that they could buy additional vests for $700 or $800 of they wanted to.

The significance of Chavez’s department-issued gear hanging in the armoire on the night he says he discovered his wife’s body centers around the last time he says he was in the home prior to that discovery, which was around 9 p.m. on Sunday Oct. 21, 2007.

According to statements Chavez made to investigators, he hasn’t been to the home since Friday morning Oct. 19. He worked a shift for APD that day and the following day, Saturday Oct. 20.

Chavez told investigators he had spent that Friday and Saturday night — after his shifts ended at midnight — with another of his paramours, then-APD officer Deborah Romero at her home in Albuquerque’s far Northeast Heights.

Prosecutors have introduced various other evidence and presented testimony to suggest Levi Chavez had been in his and Tera’s home at 11 Ash Place in the Las Maravillas subdivision that weekend.

Another of Levi Chavez’s mistresses, Rose Slama, testified earlier in the trial that he told her he was getting out of the shower when he heard a bang, then discovered his wife’s body.

And Aaron Jones, who was the lead detective who investigated Tera’s death for the Valencia County Sheriff’s Office, testified that he noticed a damp towel in the bedroom where Tera died.

The weapon that killed Tera Chavez, according to testimony and evidence, was her husband’s APD-issued Glock 9 mm pistol.

Chavez told investigators that he carried a personally-owned Kimber pistol on duty for APD.

That gun was in the trunk of his police car when VCSO deputies arrived at the Chavezes’s home the night Levi called 911.

APD officers are allowed to carry their own weapons on duty, provided they have passed qualification tests with those guns and received permission to use them for police work from APD brass.

Chavez told VCSO investigators they he had special permission from Police Chief Ray Schultz to carry the Kimber on duty.

According to documents filed by attorneys for Tera’s family in a civil wrongful death lawsuit against Levi Chavez, he had qualified to use the weapon but didn’t have permission to carry it on duty.

That fact has not been disclosed during the murder trial.

Testimony in the murder trial will resume at 1:15 p.m. Expected on the witness stand are the doctor from the Office of the Medical Investigator who signed off on Tera’s autopsy and death certificate and a handwriting expert who examined two notes found at her death scene.

 

[thefragile7393]

One scary psychopath. He scares me as much as OJ

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[NCEast]

Good afternoon everybody! I am so late getting here. I left home at 8:45am for a doctor's appointment and just got back home about 30 minutes ago. Had to have labs and radiology and then pick up prescriptions after I saw my doctor. Can't complain though, he spent about an hour and 20 minutes with me. Now I am truly ready and eager for my old lady nap. I will rejoin you all after the court's lunch break.

 

[geevee]

We've taken some steps to improve stream quality and reliability. When the trial resumes this afternoon, let us know in the comments section if it's any better. Thanks
by Devon Armijo/KOAT.com Staff 6/25/2013 6:54:59 PM 1:54 PM

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Guess we'll see shortly.

 

[geevee]

In 4 minutes the feed has dropped twice, I don't think their improvements are working.

 

[Paintr]

Another Chavez paramour testifies
By Jeff Proctor / Journal Staff Writer on Tue, Jun 25, 2013
POSTED: 12:06 am
LAST UPDATED: 8:33 am

12:03 p.m.

BERNALILLO–Yet another of Levi Chavez’s paramours took the witness stand in his murder trial this morning.

APD officer Regina Sanchez testified that she had known Chavez for years — possibly since grade school when the two were growing up in Los Lunas.

After losing touch, the two reconnected in August or September of 2006 at APD headquarters Downtown, Sanchez testified. At the time, she was working for APD, and Chavez was working for Aviation Police, which essentially is a division of APD.

They exchanged telephone numbers and, in fairly short order, began an intimate dating relationship, according to Sanchez’s testimony.

Then, in October 2006, Chavez moved in with Sanchez.

“He brought possessions, clothes, a gun safe, (police uniforms,) hygienic items and his graduation photo … either from Aviation or Rio Rancho” Police Department, where he had worked previously, Sanchez said.

She testified that she knew Chavez had children and was married, but he told her he was “separated and in the process of getting a divorce,” she said.

Not long afterward, Sanchez said — although she couldn’t recall exactly when — Chavez’s wife, Tera Chavez, called Sanchez. Levi Chavez was present when the call came in.

Tera Chavez “pretty much just got mad at me,” Sanchez testified, adding that Tera was “very” angry.

Levi Chavez moved out a week or two later, Sanchez said from the witness stand, after she broke the relationship off.

Changing gears, lead prosecutor Bryan McKay showed Sanchez a photograph of an armoire that was taken inside the Chavez’s home near Los Lunas the night in October 2007 that Levi called 911 to say Tera had shot herself in the head.

Hanging in the armoire were an APD uniform and an outer shell for a department-issued Kevlar bullet-proof vest.

Sanchez testified that APD field officers are required to wear their vests and uniforms during their shifts and that officers are issued only one uniform.

Both she and Chavez were field officers for APD in October 2007.

On cross-examination by Chavez’s attorney, David Serna, Sanchez testified that “back in the day,” officers may have been issued more than one of the vest liners.

Earlier this morning, APD property supervisor Richard Campos testified that officers only are issued one vest and one uniform, but that they could buy additional vests for $700 or $800 of they wanted to.

The significance of Chavez’s department-issued gear hanging in the armoire on the night he says he discovered his wife’s body centers around the last time he says he was in the home prior to that discovery, which was around 9 p.m. on Sunday Oct. 21, 2007.

According to statements Chavez made to investigators, he hasn’t been to the home since Friday morning Oct. 19. He worked a shift for APD that day and the following day, Saturday Oct. 20.

Chavez told investigators he had spent that Friday and Saturday night — after his shifts ended at midnight — with another of his paramours, then-APD officer Deborah Romero at her home in Albuquerque’s far Northeast Heights.

Prosecutors have introduced various other evidence and presented testimony to suggest Levi Chavez had been in his and Tera’s home at 11 Ash Place in the Las Maravillas subdivision that weekend.

Another of Levi Chavez’s mistresses, Rose Slama, testified earlier in the trial that he told her he was getting out of the shower when he heard a bang, then discovered his wife’s body.

And Aaron Jones, who was the lead detective who investigated Tera’s death for the Valencia County Sheriff’s Office, testified that he noticed a damp towel in the bedroom where Tera died.

The weapon that killed Tera Chavez, according to testimony and evidence, was her husband’s APD-issued Glock 9 mm pistol.

Chavez told investigators that he carried a personally-owned Kimber pistol on duty for APD.

That gun was in the trunk of his police car when VCSO deputies arrived at the Chavezes’s home the night Levi called 911.

APD officers are allowed to carry their own weapons on duty, provided they have passed qualification tests with those guns and received permission to use them for police work from APD brass.

Chavez told VCSO investigators they he had special permission from Police Chief Ray Schultz to carry the Kimber on duty.

According to documents filed by attorneys for Tera’s family in a civil wrongful death lawsuit against Levi Chavez, he had qualified to use the weapon but didn’t have permission to carry it on duty.

That fact has not been disclosed during the murder trial.

Testimony in the murder trial will resume at 1:15 p.m. Expected on the witness stand are the doctor from the Office of the Medical Investigator who signed off on Tera’s autopsy and death certificate and a handwriting expert who examined two notes found at her death scene.

Thank you kindly for the updates!

All those lovers! Good Grief! When did LC have time to work? Shine his shoes? Get a haircut? He must have been run ragged, juggling all those girlfriends.

 

[Thundar]

Thank you all for all of the updates! I kind of quit watching the live feed cause I just could not take it any longer but still check in here a couple times a day. So thank you to all who are still watching and putting updates in this thread!!!!!

 

[geevee]

Goodness, once testimony resumed the feed is like a real live feed, no trails when the camera moves, good audio as well, no dropping, so far it's a very nice improvement.