WA WA - Sky Metalwala, 2, Bellevue, 6 Nov 2011 - #10

[Magdalyn]

My first thought was confirmation she doesn't let anyone use the bathroom. I never bathed my son in the sink. Is it typical for parents who use the sink to bath their infants to do so when they reach 2?

My mother bathed me in a kitchen ONCE. I was about four, we just got home from the beach, the power was out and she used the gas stove to heat enough water to rinse off my, er, sandy bits. :blushing:

I never bathed either of my babies directly in the sink. But their baby tub was designed to fit across a kitchen sink, and I bathed them that way until they could sit up. (Is that 6 mos old?) Then they moved right into the regular bathtub and sat up with the help of a suction cupped seat.

At two and four, I'll admit I bathed my boy and girl together in the regular tub in the interest of saving time and for safety reasons. (Hubby still at work, can't look away from the one in the tub and can't have the other running around willy nilly while I was bathing the other.)

 

[GingerRed]

RSBM Yes she looks distraught in the bank photo and yes she doesn't have the children but she could have left them with a babysitter so it really doesn't tell us much. Wish we knew the date.

Babysitter? Julia?

 

[GingerRed]

What is she holding?

It looks to have been deliberately blurred out.

 

[MizStery]

Well I learned something I never thought of before tonight. Never go to the bank looking like ****. You get a free picture taken....including profile pics. How long do they keep pictures? :gasp:

OK, now I am letting everyone in on where I hang out. I have been in every library on the Eastside. I am not recognizing those pictures being taken in any of them. Still studying them.

What I do think ....but it is so blurred is photo number 8 of 15 could be taken by the surveilance camera of Julia standing at the counter facing the clerk at the Chevron. This is the Chevron she claims to have walked to on the morning of Nov.6th.

Also GingerRed gets a atta girl for spotting that the marina photo was taken in Tacoma. I was trying to figure out where in Ballard it was taken.:seeya:

 

[Magdalyn]

What is she holding?

Maybe holding open a checkbook, pen poised in her other hand? Trying to cash a check written to herself and she doesn't like the balance available that the teller just told her?

(Okay, mostly that's my imagination, but I thought holding open a wallet or checkbook.)

 

[gitana1]

So are we all in agreement that the pictures appear to be from 2 or 3 seperate occasions?

I'm just wondering if this compilation of photos is part of what forced the Julia admission that she leaves the children alone repeatedly, since she keeps showing up seemingly childless.

I get the sense that they confronted her with the fact that she could not account for childcare for Sky on the day of mediation, but could for M. Also, they probably confronted her with no one seeing Sky for two weeks. Instead of saying, "Well, yeah, okay, he was dead by then." She admitted to leaving him alone on occasions.

It would be damn near unimaginably incompetent if they haven't used HRD dogs here.

In any case, my gut (worthless, obviously) has been telling me all along that this boy was not killed in his home or vehicle, and probably some time -- possibly days -- before mom reported him missing.

I am thinking that mom heard that dad won some limited visitation and she took him for a drive that night. MMO, etc

I agree except mom didn't hear that dad won some limited visitation. Mom agreed to some limited visitation for dad at the 11 hour mediation 5 days before he was reported missing.

I feel that the next day, when she said she wanted to rescind that mediated agreement, it's because she made the agreement knowing he was already dead and only agreed so the mediation would end. She knew she had to try to rescind it because she could not otherwise explain why M was there for visits but not Sky. I really feel he died long before the day he was reported missing and before mediation:

1. Dad files for divorce stating his wife is sick and a danger to the kids.
2. Dad responds to mom's subsequent and ever increasing allegations of all sorts of abuse, by giving great detail about her illness and imploring the court to protect his kids. He states mom has had thoughts of suicide and strangling Sky. He says without intervention, she will hurt herself or the children.
3. Mom is granted custody.
4. Sky is reported missing but he hasn't been seen by anyone credible for two weeks prior to that.

I think mom finally acted on those thoughts of hers. With no visitation for dad and possible isolating OCD, there was no one to monitor how the kids were doing and thus, how sick Julia may or may not have been. And it happened. Maybe it wasn't hate or anything. Maybe she just needed to get rid of anything that made too much of a mess. I don't know.

But I think she spent the next two weeks trying to figure out how to explain Sky's disappearance. And here we are.

Still trying to figure out the significance of these photos and why these were chosen.

I think I better sleep on it before forming an opinion. Right now, it's just not coming together. Yes she looks distraught in the bank photo and yes she doesn't have the children but she could have left them with a babysitter so it really doesn't tell us much. Wish we knew the date.

As for dad being in the photo selection.......I'm stumped. I could understand the one of him holding Sky but the one of him posing alone.......has me :waitasec:

Maybe so they can say they looked at the possibility of dad being involved and even posted his photos so the public could see him and respond if they saw him with the child or whatsoever, during the critical period. Then, when they get no such tips, he is ruled out. Covering bases.

 

[~n/t~]

Maybe holding open a checkbook, pen poised in her other hand? Trying to cash a check written to herself and she doesn't like the balance available that the teller just told her?

(Okay, mostly that's my imagination, but I thought holding open a wallet or checkbook.)

lol...maybe that's why she's crying. NSF.

 

[Abby Normal]

I also have those dark circles and puffy eyes (i'm white) my kids are half filipino they also have a little darkness under their eyes.

In Sky's case and all the pictures I have seen of him on Flickr he does not have these in any of the photo's other then then new one that I noticed, that's why I brought It up. MOO

I think it's the unflattering color cast and overhead lights. Everyone has bags under their eyes if your primary light sources is above your head.

 

[hollyblue]

So what did she do? Withdraw money and go on a shopping spree? Where were the kids? Why did LE release these photos? She looks very distraught in the bank photo.

Maybe she bought new shoes at Ross's and had her hair darkened...and/or trimmed. I believe she did something to Sky on Thursday...just because she went shopping on Friday. Most women always feel better when the buy a new pr of shoes and treat thems to a new do. I do. It was a stress reducer for her. imo

 

[Cubby]

I think TheMothership didn't mean comments here, on websleuths, but on her flikr account. There are no comments on the flikr account about her allowing the public to see her kids in the bath but there are some telling her to tell the truth about Sky.

Respectfully snipped. I suspected she was reading here and removed the scenic photo after we discussed it the day she uploaded it and poofed it a few hours later. That's why I assumed she likely saw our comments on the half dressed photo's as well. Of course I can't be sure, but that was my thought and reasoning for my post.

jmo of course.

 

[katydid23]

Those Halloween pics could not have been from this year. . .as some of them are included in the 9/5 upload. I don't know about anybody else, but my camera can't take pictures from the future.

This is what I'm getting at. There are no pictures of Sky after June 2011. She did a massive upload of pictures on 9/5/2011. During that upload she included lots of older pics and labeled them summer 2011. Some of them say they were taken on 9/1 or 9/5, but it's simply not true. Sky's outfit is not too small like it is in the June pictures and M has not gotten her haircut into the bob she apparently did around the time of her birthday, June 2011. Why would JB do that? Now she did another upload 11/17. They include the Halloween party pictures that are obviously from 2010 because the same pics were uploaded in 9/2011.

WTH?!


I guess she thinks people are stupid.

Yes, I know they are not from this Halloween. It just shows that she did in fact let her kids celebrate Halloween. So it makes it seem odd that there are no sightings of the kids and their recent Halloween celebration.

These odd uploading of mass pictures and deletion of pictures reminds me entirely too much of Casey Anthony. It makes me afraid that the poor boy has been dumped unceremoniously somewhere close by, due to her lazy yet evil nature.

 

[Yoda]

Is she left handed? I thought it looked like she had a checkbook open also. And in her left hand it looks like ??? Could just be one of those loony pens that kids beg you to buy and end up being the only one you can find. Also photo 7, is the yellow thing an umbrella? If so could that narrow the day of that photo? http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=129&sid=580607&pid=6

 

[Abby Normal]

My interpretation of the little fish, big fish analogy was similiar to how LE rarely busts the guy with a small amount of narcotics and work their way to the dealers with the big quantity. IMO, in this case they are refering to the lesser crimes as the little fish and the solving what happened to Sky and who is responsible as the big fish.

jmo

Agreed. They have enough to charge her now, child neglect, endangerment, etc... but they are going after murder charges, which means being patient and not focusing on that.

 

[sorrell skye]

I think TheMothership didn't mean comments here, on websleuths, but on her flikr account. There are no comments on the flikr account about her allowing the public to see her kids in the bath but there are some telling her to tell the truth about Sky.



I believe Solomon. My years of experience as a family law attorney kind of allow me to sift through the myriad of allegations in contentious cases and separate the b.s. from what is sincere. I do not detect embellishment on his part. He may have left some things out or organized it in a certain way to showcase the crazy, but that's strategy, not lying.

I will say that I can see Solomon one day coming home to find that Julia persisted in yet again, making the baby stay in bed all day. I can see him coming unglued as a result, grabbing her, shoving her against a wall, telling her he would kill her if she did that again and saying that if she didn't get it together, he would leave, take the kids and she could be on the street and he wouldn't care if she sold herself for money at that point. I can see that as a plausible scenario.

But everyone has their breaking point and if my spouse was acting insane, endangering our kids and refusing to get help, I could easily see myself doing the same, or worse, out of desperation and fright.

BBM

The "I snapped" or "I reached my breaking point" defense has been used time & time again by defendants who have been charged with domestic violence. I don't believe the Court recognizes it as a defense against domestic violence charges.

I agree that someone can reach a breaking point, but that does not justify acting out violently against a spouse or partner.

I doubt that a reputable DA would agree that it's okay to threaten to kill one's spouse (or partner), or that it's okay to pull their hair or throw them against a wall, or punch them, or any other number of physical threats that spouses make against their wives or husbands (or girlfriends or boyfriends), when they claim to have reached their "breaking point" or when they claim to have "snapped", regardless of the alleged emotional trigger.

 

[Patty G]

I think the "disappearance" occurred on a Sunday ? But I don't think that's when it happened.

The bank teller/manager would know the exact day the photos were taken.

Yes, Sky disappeared on Sunday. I was trying to find out if a bank was open on Saturday, however, this bank is not. Normally no banks would be open on a Sunday, unless of course, banks located within a Wal-Mart might have hours on Sunday.

 

[GingerRed]

Do you guys see the green in this pic in her right hand (our left) ? It looks like something was blurred out, and I know the tools used in photoshop to match the color of her sweatshirt...that's a quick and easy thing to do....

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/photos/2011/11/18/e7/de/juliabiryukovanew.jpg

Notice the baby bottle in the photo shown in the giant blueberry cereal photo with M is green?

http://images.bimedia.net/documents/Bellevue+PD+Sky+Julia+photos.pdf

I'm not ready to commit to this being the case at all, but I wanted to throw it out there, especially because most of use believe the photos chosen are deliberate.

If that's the same bottle, it could be inferred M was with her, but Sky was not. Police would know from the full surv. vid., but if they wanted to send a message to JB....

Just sayin'........

 

[Patty G]

Being a bit sarcastic here, but it would be so cool to take one of the recent photos of Julia and post it on her "Sugar Babies" profile. I warned ya all ... :great: :floorlaugh:

 

[pferrin]

2 of the photos at the bank look as if they are coming from the cameras over and behind the tellers.

The other 2 photos there look as if they come from a camera located by the teller..when I cash a check that my brother has written me ..if I cash it at his bank..the tellers take a photo with camera that is on their counter.

The 2 closeup pics look like they are from one of those cams. Who could have written her a check?..I guarantee LE knows.

 

[Abby Normal]

Well I learned something I never thought of before tonight. Never go to the bank looking like ****. You get a free picture taken....including profile pics. How long do they keep pictures? :gasp:

haha, no DOUBT!

Still trying to figure out the significance of these photos and why these were chosen.

I think I better sleep on it before forming an opinion. Right now, it's just not coming together. Yes she looks distraught in the bank photo and yes she doesn't have the children but she could have left them with a babysitter so it really doesn't tell us much. Wish we knew the date.

As for dad being in the photo selection.......I'm stumped. I could understand the one of him holding Sky but the one of him posing alone.......has me :waitasec:

I think him looking like the good guy, the hero, is killing her. She wanted him to look like an abusive child molester. JMO. I think it's a head game. His stance, expression, etc is very proud, accomplished, confident, etc. I think they want her to explode and call him, or write an angry email, or mess up somewhere.

 

[pjcitizen]

So, just putting this together myself. This was in the last few days before she reported Sky missing. No kids w/ her that we see in this selection of pics. The kid(s) must have been home alone because there are no sightings of Sky by anyone but Julia in the past 2 weeks. If she had a babysitter for M then we know that person would be wondering about the location of Sky, leading me to believe at least M was left alone on that particular day.