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PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/teresa+halbach/SIG=
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Sheriff: Halbach Investigation Now Homicide Case


Police are investigating the disappearance of Theresa Halbach as a homicide case, after finding the remains of an adult woman in the salvage yard owned by Steven Avery.

Sheriff Jerry Pagel says the female bones and adult teeth found
on the property have not yet been identified.

Pagel says there was a significant amount of blood found in
Halbach's vehicle and the ignition key to her vehicle was found in
Steven Avery's bedroom.

Authorities arrested Steven Avery yesterday on a weapons charge.
Avery is the man who spent 18 years in prison before D-N-A
exonerated him in a sexual assault case.

Officials also ordered Avery and seven of his family members to provide D-N-A samples as part of the investigation.

-- Associated Press Wire Reports Contributed To This Story


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BLESS THIS FAMILY.

LET US HOPE THEY ARRESTED THE RIGHT MAN,OR THEY ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK NOW WITH THE FAMILY - this seems like a rather complex set up if it is one.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Posted Nov. 10, 2005



Warrant indicates someone tried to conceal Halbach vehicle




CHILTON — Documents filed today in Calumet County Circuit Court in conjunction with a search warrant suggest someone made an attempt to hide Teresa Halbach’s vehicle in the Avery’s Town of Gibson salvage yard.

The property is the site of a salvage yard operated by the Avery family, including Steven Avery, now being held in jail on a charge of felon in possession of a firearm.

According to an affidavit filed in support of a search warrant to seize a truck and Steven Avery’s personal vehicle, on Nov. 5, investigators found Teresa Halbach’s blue Toyota Rav 4 in the salvage yard among several other vehicles and it appeared someone tried to camouflage it.


“During a visual observation of the vehicle, (it was) noted that there were tree branches covering the vehicle and also vehicle parts placed alongside of the vehicle which looked as though someone had attempted to conceal the vehicle,” said the affidavit.

A check of the vehicle’s identification number confirmed it was Halbach’s car.

The warrant states that investigators believe Halbach “is the victim of a crime including, but not limited to, homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment and theft.”
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:28 pm    Post subject: Avery to be charged on DNA Reply with quote

http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/nov05/369842.asp

Todays Paper


Avery to be charged on DNA
Homicide complaint likely next week, plus other charges, DA says
By TOM KERTSCHER
tkertscher@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Nov. 11, 2005

Halbach Murder

Photo/AP

Steven Avery, the man freed last year after spending 18 years in prison for a sex assault he didn't commit, will be charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach, investigators announced Friday.


Teresa Halbach was last seen Oct. 31.

Related Coverage
$18M: Homicide case likely to complicate civil suit
Video: TMJ4 newscast (10 p.m.)
Audio: News conference announcing DNA findings

Recent Coverage
11/10/05: Remains found on Avery family property
11/10/05: Lawmakers cringe, yet stand by legal reforms
11/10/05: Video - TMJ4 report, 10 p.m.
11/9/05: Avery held on gun charge
11/8/05: Investigators sift through gravel pit near Avery property
11/7/05: Police, volunteers seek clues at Avery's home
11/7/05: Nichols: Justice won't be blind if law enforcement is in the spotlight
11/6/05: Missing woman's car found in junk lot
11/5/05: Missing woman, freed prisoner crossed paths

Avery Background
10/12/04: Suit filed over wrongful conviction
9/11/03: Steven Avery was arrested Wednesday and charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.

Steven Avery Timeline
Dec. 14, 1985: Convicted of sexually assaulting a 36-year-old Manitowoc woman on July 29, 1985.
Sept. 11, 2003: Freed from prison after 18 years when judge rules that DNA tests prove Avery did not commit the crime.
Oct. 12, 2004: Sues Manitowoc County over his wrongful conviction. Case is pending in federal court.
March 2, 2005: Pleads no contest to disorderly conduct, a municipal violation, in a Manitowoc County incident that occurred Sept. 9, 2004.
Saturday: Investigators searching for a missing photographer, 25-year-old Teresa Halbach of Hilbert, search the Avery family salvage yard in Two Rivers where Avery works. Investigators believe Avery, who saw Halbach on Monday at his home near the salvage yard, was among the last people to see her before she was reported missing Thursday.

DNA evidence, which freed Steven Avery after he spent 18 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, will now be used to charge him with a crime that could return him to prison for the rest of his life.

Friday's announcement that Avery will be charged with killing Teresa Halbach also means Avery will likely become the first person in the nation charged with a homicide after being exonerated by DNA.

Halbach's vehicle, spattered with blood, was found a week ago in the Manitowoc County auto salvage yard owned by Avery's family. On Friday, authorities said tests confirmed that Avery's DNA was in the vehicle and on the ignition key, which was found hidden in Avery's home on the property.

Calumet County Sheriff Gerald Pagel, who led the investigation into Halbach's disappearance, said Avery told investigators in a taped interview this week he had never been inside the vehicle.

"We know now that's a lie," Pagel said.

Avery, 43, became the marquee case for the Wisconsin Innocence Project two years ago when the University of Wisconsin Law School program proved with DNA evidence that he did not commit a 1985 sexual assault in Manitowoc County.

Not long after his release, Avery sued Manitowoc County, claiming his wrongful arrest and conviction violated his civil rights. The case is pending.

Of 163 people nationwide who have been wrongly convicted of crimes and then cleared with DNA, only one, a rapist, was later charged with a serious crime, according to the national Innocence Project.

"I am terribly saddened," said Keith Findley, co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. "But my thoughts are with the Halbach family."

Halbach family mourns
The Halbach family said it would not make any comments Friday. They and friends had begun to mourn Thursday after it was announced that pieces of bone from a woman had been found on the Avery family property.

Halbach, a 25-year-old photographer, rented a home next door to her parents in Hilbert in Calumet County. Friends described her as exceptionally personable.

"As soon as you met Teresa, you instantly knew she was a good person," said Katie Uttech, 26, of Green Bay.

Uttech said Halbach, who specialized in taking portraits of children, never expressed worry about driving to people's homes as part of her side job photographing vehicles for Auto Trader magazine.

"She's a strong-willed person, so I don't think the thought of anything happening to her ever crossed her mind," Uttech said.

Investigators say Halbach was last seen the afternoon of Oct. 31 when she visited Avery's home to take a photo for Auto Trader of a vehicle he was selling. He said she had taken such pictures several times over about the past year.

Avery quickly became a subject of the investigation after Halbach's parents reported her missing to Calumet County authorities three days after the day she was at Avery's. But it became clear that he was a focus of the inquiry on Wednesday after he was arrested and jailed by the investigators on a gun charge unrelated to Halbach's disappearance.

Asked about Halbach by the Journal Sentinel on Monday, Avery said she was "not my type" because he liked women who weren't as slim.

Items found burned
Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz, the special prosecutor in the Halbach case, said he believes she was killed the same day that she visited Avery's home, a trailer that is adjacent to the family's auto salvage yard. He said he has theories about how she died but would not comment until after more lab tests are done.

Kratz, who was named a special prosecutor in the case because of Avery's lawsuit against Manitowoc County, said Avery would be charged with crimes in addition to homicide when a criminal complaint is filed Monday or Tuesday. He would not elaborate, but investigators said in obtaining search warrants that they believed Halbach was sexually assaulted.

The investigators searched the auto salvage yard, Avery's trailer, a garage and other parts of the sprawling family property. Court records show they found what appeared to be blood on Avery's home, in his bathroom, in the garage and on "a number" of vehicles in the salvage yard.

The records also show that the searchers found, on unspecified parts of the property, remains of a woman, remnants of clothing and what appeared to be a cell phone and camera, all of which had been burned, as well as handcuffs, leg irons, sexual devices and pornographic materials.

Avery's mother, Dolores Avery, maintained that her son is innocent.

"I don't know why the hell they do that stuff," she said of the plan to charge Avery with killing Halbach. "They must like wrecking people's lives."

Repeated denials
Before his arrest and jailing in Calumet County, Avery had spoken voluntarily to investigators and given countless media interviews to deny any knowledge of Halbach's disappearance. His lawyers had repeatedly warned him not to make such statements, but he continued, saying, "I ain't got nothing to hide."

Avery also repeatedly expressed fear that investigators were planting evidence to charge him with a crime in Halbach's disappearance. That fear seemed to grow during the week as investigators continued to occupy the Avery family property. They will continue to do so over the weekend, not allowing anyone to enter.

Addressing Avery's allegations, Kratz said Friday that local investigators did not search or enter Halbach's Toyota Rav4. The sport utility vehicle was sealed in a container and shipped to Madison for investigation by state analysts there, he said.

Kratz and Pagel also had said several times during the week that there was only one victim - Halbach - in the case. They said Friday that the comments were in reference to Avery's questioning in the media why he was a focus of the investigation.

"I hope with the DNA . . . that that question does not have to be answered anymore," Kratz said.

Avery's seemingly paranoid comments were based on his wrongful conviction in the 1985 sexual assault, a conviction he blamed on the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Department.

Sheriff's Department records show that shortly after a woman was sexually assaulted on a beach in July 1985, Manitowoc police raised Gregory Allen as a potential suspect. It was Allen's DNA that was found in 2003 in testing of evidence found on the victim.

The records show, however, that the Sheriff's Department had seized upon Avery within hours of the assault and never pursued Allen as a suspect.

Findley, of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, said Avery's being charged with Halbach's killing, while tragic, does not change the fact that a judge declared him innocent of the sexual assault. He said the new charge also should not threaten the work of the project or legislation, developed by a state panel called the Avery Task Force, which has aimed at preventing wrongful convictions.

"It remains as important as ever that the criminal justice system convict the guilty and not convict the innocent," Findley said.

Findley pointed out that Chris Ochoa, the first man whose wrongful conviction was overturned by the Wisconsin Innocence Project, is now a UW law student. Ochoa is working on the project's case of convicted double-killer Beth LaBatte of Green Bay, who because of DNA evidence was granted a new trial this week.

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God Bless the Family- RIP Teresa

Steve Avery is an animal. I hope they throw away the key, and recheck the facts twenty times over on his last crime. He is a tomb-bomb that was ticking away.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:32 pm    Post subject: Avery Bill ReNamed! Reply with quote

-------An animal disgraces his own bill...Read on.

http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2005/11/11/local/iq_3760371.txt


Avery bill' renamed
By Lee Newspapers

Lee Newspapers MADISON - Dismayed by the miscarriage of justice that robbed Steven Avery of 18 years of freedom for a crime he didn't commit, lawmakers quickly convened an "Avery Task Force" to examine ways to prevent wrongful convictions and invited him to testify.

On Nov. 1, a day after freelance photographer Teresa Halbach disappeared, "The Avery bill" unanimously passed both houses of the Legislature.

Now that human remains have turned up at the salvage yard Avery's family owns, and Avery has been arrested on a weapons charge, lawmakers have been knocked on their heels. The bill's lead author, Rep. Mark Gundrum, R-New Berlin, said the bill would no longer be referred to by its original name out of respect for Halbach's family. "It's now just the `criminal justice reforms bill,' " he said.

Gov. Jim Doyle now will probably quietly approve it.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sad, sad case. Teresa was such a lovely young woman and from what I've read, she was outstanding in every area.

Reading the website that her family put together, you can read about Steve
Avery's track record prior to the rape conviction. Not hard to see why LE looked in his direction. He killed a cat- burned it to death- for one thing.

Makes me wonder if he was really innocent (in the rape case).

http://www.teresahalbach.com/newsfeeds.html

Good news for you rd, Wisconsin has passed a bill re:the ankle or bracelets for felons.

One state down.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks so much on that info, skipper, both on the web site and Wisconsin taking some action on monitoring criminals. I will check on that. For readers, a link to more that I've written on that is Track offenders with GPS recorders!.

"Not his DNA". Such simple words for another woman to disappear. Like any reasonable person, I thought the DNA from a rape and attempted murder was from semen or blood. I was shocked to hear from an analyst on a FOX show just now that it was a from a stray hair. A hair?

It was a hair found in the evidence stored for over twenty years. I can see a re-evaluation of the case based on that, but I don't see a stray hair that could have been picked up from anyone before or after the vicious assault as "not his DNA", release him from prison. That's just not tied to the crime close enough on which to base life and death decisions. It's a factor to consider, but neither should a stray hair convict or free a vicious rapist.

Nor should it be called "not his DNA". Reasonable people expect more behind such a statement.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rd:

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It was a hair found in the evidence stored for over twenty years. I can see a re-evaluation of the case based on that, but I don't see a stray hair that could have been picked up from anyone before or after the vicious assault as "not his DNA", release him from prison. That's just not tied to the crime close enough on which to base life and death decisions. It's a factor to consider, but neither should a stray hair convict or free a vicious rapist.

Nor should it be called "not his DNA". Reasonable people expect more behind such a statement.


This is an outrage. Nothing against the WI Innocence Project as it stands rd, but but but, I read all about this- and I feel more is needed. I read he had aliblis, etc, but still, I'm very leary at this point.

I feel if I'm around, or I make a visit, I would like to attend some function of this trial for more information- maybe do a tad bit of research. I don't understand how this hair could have freed him but that is not important anymore....He will never walk again. His past points to him being a monster, and his crime is outrageous. My opinion is that society was lucky that he was behind bars all these years.

Also, I heard one of the F. Pathologist speaking and he stated that more is usually needed in the way of DNA when clearing someone.

laskipper: Do you have a link to WI passing a law for ankle or bracelets for felons?

Normally I receive some sort of update but I have not, maybe I have been following other news but I did not receive anything. Thanks, if you have that.

Good weekend all.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No Goz- I don't have the link to the Wisconsin law- I thought I had saved the
info. Will keep looking.

As to the rape victim, Penny Beernsten, read this:

http://www.theforgivenessproject.com/stories/penny-beernsten



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

from http://www.theforgivenessproject.com/stories/penny-beernsten (fair use)

Penny Beernsten

In 1985 Penny Beerntsen was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted in a state park in Wisconsin. Soon afterwards, Steven Avery was convicted of the crime. Eighteen years later, however, advances in DNA testing revealed that he had been innocent all along.

A couple of years after the attack I remember saying to my therapist that although I felt my assailant needed to be in prison, I was struggling with the knowledge that he'd left five children behind. She didn't understand this; like most people her attitude was, “You should want to kill the son of a bitch.”

It happened in a beautiful place. I was out jogging when a man grabbed me from behind and pushed me into a wooded area. When I screamed, he choked my windpipe; when I fought back as he tried to rape me, he began beating and strangling me. Finally I lost consciousness. My last thoughts were: “I wish I'd kissed my son goodbye this morning” and “my daughter’s last vision of me will be of my dead, beaten body.”

Two good Samaritans found me, bleeding and naked in the sand dunes. In the emergency room in the hospital I gave a description of my rapist to the police. I asked the sheriff if he had a suspect in mind and he said, “Yes.” I found out later that this was Steven Avery, who was out on bail for sticking a rifle in the face of a deputy sheriff's wife.

Later they put nine photos by my bedside. I presumed the suspect was among them. Steve’s photo was in there and I selected it. That night he was arrested and held without bail.

At the live line-up I looked at eight men and again picked out Steve Avery. I had selected his photo, and his image had become enmeshed with my memory of the real assailant. In my mind, Steve was the only person in those photos and in that line-up. As it turned out, my actual assailant was in neither.

The case went to trial in December 1985 and, despite 14 alibi witnesses, Steve Avery was found guilty of first degree sexual assault, attempted first degree murder and false imprisonment. When he received his 32-year sentence, I was relieved: a violent man was now off the streets.

After the assault I went into a deep depression. I felt I'd disrupted the lives of my husband and children, and I shut down emotionally. Then one day I read about a young woman, ten years younger than me, who had gone out jogging and been murdered. As I heard how her strangled body had been found in a swamp, I realized that I’d been given a second chance, whereas she had not.

At about the same time I heard a talk on Restorative Justice by a man called Dr. Mark Umbreit. He talked about how liberating it can be for victims to let go of their anger and hatred, and suddenly I felt a huge weight lift. At the next break I headed out to the state park where the assault had taken place. For the first time I wasn't afraid.

I trained to be a mediator in juvenile crimes, and subsequently started speaking in prisons on victim impact panels, usually to men who had committed very violent crimes. I thought I might be able to help them feel empathy toward their victims. What I didn't realize was how much of my own healing would come through these men. Many had grown up in horrendous circumstances, and I came to see them as human beings with mothers, wives and children.

Then, in 2001, Steve’s attorney contacted The Wisconsin Innocence Project, who agreed to help with his case. A year later there was a motion to release additional biological materials for DNA testing. Two hairs were tested: one was identified as mine, and the other belonged to someone else – but that someone was not Steve Avery. In the CODIS database they got a direct hit with a man named Gregory Allen, who in 1995 had brutally raped a woman in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and was subsequently serving a 60-year sentence. Gregory Allen looks very much like Steve Avery.

When my attorney told me that the judge had reversed the verdict, I wanted the earth to swallow me. After all, I was partly responsible for identifying the wrong man, and no one can give Steve back those lost years. Not a day goes by when I don't think about the woman Gregory Allen raped in 1995, or wonder how many other women’s lives were drastically altered in those years when he was walking free.

I sunk into another deep depression and, feeling utterly powerless, wrote Steve a heartfelt apology letter. In it I stated that I felt like an offender and offered to meet with him. I'm so grateful that he agreed.

Steve is a very quiet man, but he gave me a hearty handshake and I told him how terribly sorry I was. After a bit, I asked if his parents would like to come in so I could apologize to them too. He said his mother would be OK but that his father was still kind of bitter. But in the end both of them agreed to meet me.

When it was time to conclude the meeting I stood up and went over to Steve and said, “Is it alright if I give you a hug?” He didn't even answer but just grabbed me in a big bear hug. Then I whispered, “Steve, I'm so sorry.” And he said, “Don't worry, Penny; it’s over.”

That was the most grace-filled thing that’s ever been said to me, because of course it isn’t over for him. I was totally overwhelmed. He didn’t use the word ‘forgiveness’, but I think his generosity of spirit has allowed me to start moving forward.

When Steve and I met, it occurred to me that our handshake was the first physical contact we’d ever had, yet our lives have been intertwined for nearly two decades. Since the exoneration it sometimes feels as if I’m living in some parallel universe where the usual rules no longer apply. I’m still struggling. The most difficult thing in all this is being able to forgive myself.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, that's entirely different. Thanks for that info, skipper. It wasn't just 'not his DNA", the hair was identified as that of another area rapist who is now serving 60 years in jail.

In addition, Avery had 14 people giving alibis. Unless they were an unsavory gang, dissing 14 alibis alone is a problem, unless there's a detail that we're not being told about the nature of the alibis.

This was a conviction based on eyewitness, and the police suggested the suspect. I am sorry, but almost all miscarriages of justice are based on this. It should not happen. I know that is asking a lot, but planting evidence, at a scene or in a victim's mind, should never happen.

One thing Penny and the police who suggested him to her can be happy about. The police were right about him, and Penny can feel good now about what she did. He proved to be just what she thought he was.

Teresa had to disappear to find out, though.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:07 pm    Post subject: thanks laskipper- link to Brachlets-- comments Reply with quote

I just found the link.. Thanks for alerting me. I usually get a notice in the mail.

Rd I have read the forgiveness statement too---, but still. I found it heartwrenching. The poor woman to endure such pain and horror. How sad, and still, I can't find what the predator said, and his pleadings on the case. I'm curious about that. I still think Steve Avery is a ......................!

Her is the link on the ankle brachlets all:

http://wfrv.com/topstories/local_story_313202209.html

Bracelets For WI Sex Predators
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(AP) MADISON Wisconsin's most dangerous sex predators would be forced to wear global positioning system bracelets to record their locations for the rest of their lives under a Republican-authored bill the state Assembly passed overwhelmingly Wednesday.

The measure also would require the state Department of Corrections to use GPS technology to track the state's most serious child molesters for at least 20 years after they leave prison.

"It's 24 hours, seven-days-a-week monitoring of our state's worst child molesters," said Rep. Scott Suder, R-Abbotsford, one of the bill's authors. "If you're a child molester in this state, Wisconsin will quickly become your worst nightmare."

The bill still has to pass the state Senate and get Gov. Jim Doyle's signature before it can become law, but Doyle spokesman Dan Leistikow says the governor has already ordered Corrections in late September to place 200 of the state's most dangerous sex offenders on GPS tracking. He said Doyle, a Democrat, likes the bill because it goes even further.

The bill passed the Assembly 96-1 with no debate. The lone dissenter was Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison. He said a GPS system would cost the state millions of dollars to operate and wouldn't stop sex offenders from striking again. Republicans are just trying to make themselves look good, he said.

"Instead of finding solutions to stop recidivism, people decide to go for headlines," Pocan said.

A dozen states have adopted similar legislation to use GPS technology to track sex offenders over the last two years, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Wisconsin's Department of Corrections has been using GPS to track 15 offenders since January 2004 in a pilot study, Corrections spokesman John Dipko said.

"We think it holds a great promise," Dipko said.

The bill's key provisions include:
--Offenders found to be sexually violent under Wisconsin's Chapter 980 statute would have to wear GPS bracelets after they're released until they either die or the Corrections Department deems they've become too feeble to pose a danger to anyone. They could not ask a court to end the monitoring.

Chapter 980 allows civil commitment of sexually violent offenders after they complete their sentences.
--Anyone released after being convicted of first- or second-degree child sexual assault would have to wear a GPS bracelet for 20 years after they physically walk out of prison. Unlike sexually violent offenders, they then could petition a judge to end monitoring.
--The GPS units would transmit an offender's location to Corrections Department staff every 10 minutes.
--Any offender who tampers with his GPS device would be guilty of a felony and could face up to $1,000 in fines and three and a half years in prison.

Running a GPS tracking system wouldn't come cheap.

According to a fiscal estimate that the Corrections Department attached to the bill in September, the agency would have to spend $8.6 million a year for equipment and hire 43 new employees to monitor the data at a cost of $2.4 million annually, plus startup costs of $387,800.

The Department of Health and Family Services, which supervises sexually violent offenders, would have to pay the Corrections Department up to $127,800 the first year and up to $25,550 thereafter to cover tracking their offenders, the estimate said.

"The cost is extremely prohibitive," Pocan said.

Suder said those numbers are overblown.

Corrections' estimate improperly assumes all current child molesters would have to get on GPS monitoring, Suder said. His bill applies only to sex offenders in the future, he said.

He pointed to another fiscal estimate, this one from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, that found tracking costs would be closer to $3 million and the technology would run no more than $2 million. Corrections would need about 12 new positions, that estimate said.

Suder said the bill has been changed to require offenders to pay for the daily cost of their bracelet, which runs anywhere from $9 to $11. U.S. Congressman Mark Green, R-Green Bay, also is working on getting federal money for the bill, Suder said.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Remember the reason that LE "found" Teresa's vehicle?

The family went to the Avery junk yard and searched. Steve and his mother Dolores went "up north" and there was another family member present who gave the Halbach family permission to search the grounds for Teresa's car.

A day later, all the links read "Police find Teresa Halbachs vehicle at Avery Salvage yard".

Police, eh?

Well, one thing that LE can use that tidbit for is the case that the Avery family is concocting against them re: setting them up in the murder.

IOW, if LE had gone to the Avery property when they first learned that
Teresa was missing (5 days at that point I believe), and found a reason
to search the grounds and THEY found the vehicle- then the Avery "setup"
story would have more credibility.

OTOH, LE may have suggested to the Halbach family to attempt to gain
permission from the Avery family for the search due to the fact that the
police dept did not have adequate basis for a warrant at that time.

Hard to tell.

Good work on the part of Teresa's family and friends.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's sad that they had to do it. If they can figure it out, what does that say about the police?

As for the GPS monitoring, great news. A couple of things. One is that I feel the cost estimates are overblown. That happens when people don't want to do something or try to shortcircuit the rest of us from changing things. With one dissenting vote, there aren't many except criminal apologists who would exaggerate these figures to try to undermine it.

Secondly, what I propose is far cheaper but would be required of all felons for the length of their probation. The GPS locations would be recorded but not transmitted, and then uploaded periodically when they visit their parole officer or check in with the police every week or two. That would be much cheaper equipment and operations but still serve much the same purpose and accomplish everything we need in knowing where these deviants were at any given time a crime was committed.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The family went to the Avery junk yard and searched. Steve and his mother Dolores went "up north" and there was another family member present who gave the Halbach family permission to search the grounds for Teresa's car.





This serves one purpose, now ole' Steve can't blame LE for setting him up, as he will try to do. Thank GOD. I'm tired of his constant whine-thank God he is no longer on local news. Spare me and my friends letters.

Also, in regard to Penny, I think she may have been correct in her identification. Remember, a small town, (*as rd stated-- alibi witnesses as family & friends). Poor Penny, she has endured enough for ten lifetimes. I think I will write her a note this weekend to show concern. I don't know what really did happen but I don't like this guy at all. What can I say, but maybe I have blinders?

I do agree with you Rd for sure:

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Quote:One is that I feel the cost estimates are overblown. That happens when people don't want to do something or try to shortcircuit the rest of us from changing things. With one dissenting vote, there aren't many except criminal apologists who would exaggerate these figures to try to undermine it. [quote]

As duly noticed, one dissenter. He of cause has been overthrown and with good reason. I will have to read more on your chapters. Pardon me for being slow. I recently joined the Missing persons org. in my state. I have tried. Usually since I write letters to a national rep. I get word Rd, but since many laws are still sitting, this could be why.

Also: glad to see these scum have to pay a cost toward their GPS monitoring.

More links below on Avery. Updates...

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:50 am    Post subject: $500,000 bond set and other news Reply with quote

http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051116/APC0101/511160494





Steven Avery is escorted out of the Manitowoc County Courthouse after his initial appearance Tuesday in Manitowoc. Avery was charged Tuesday with killing Teresa Halbach, a missing freelance photographer who had an appointment with him the last day she was seen alive. AP photo by Morry Gash

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Criminal Complaint against Steven Avery for the first degree intentional homicide of Teresa Halbach


Posted November 16, 2005

Homicide case builds against Avery

Ex-convict charged in suspected killing of Teresa Halbach

By John Lee
Post-Crescent staff writer


MANITOWOC — Supporters of Teresa Halbach and Steven Avery packed the small courtroom here Tuesday as the focus of the investigation into Halbach's disappearance and suspected killing moved to the courts.


Avery made a brief appearance on charges of first-degree intentional homicide and mutilation of a corpse. Manitowoc County Judge Patrick Willis set a $500,000 cash bond — half the $1 million cash Calumet County Dist. Atty. Ken Kratz requested, but considerably more than the $50,000 bond that Avery's attorney, Erik Loy, said would be "reasonable."


Willis scheduled a preliminary hearing in the case for 1 p.m. Dec. 6, although attorneys will have a conference call with the judge next week to decide who will represent Avery on a charge of possession of a firearm by a felon that Kratz filed last week.


Another of Avery's attorneys, Craig Johnson of the Milwaukee public defender's office, said a "glitch" in state law makes Avery eligible for a public defender on the homicide charge, but not on the weapons charge.


"We hope and expect we will be able to work that out," he told reporters after the hearing.


And Johnson, in the first public statements from Avery's defense team, reminded the media that the case against Avery is unproven so far.


Twenty years ago, when Avery was convicted of sexual assault and served 18 years in prison before being found innocent by DNA, Johnson said he assumes police and prosecutors then were convinced of Avery's guilt.


"They were wrong," he said. "Steven Avery is proof of the tragic fallibility of our criminal justice system."


Although the case has been national news for more than a week, Johnson told reporters he would not try the case in the media.


Teresa's brother, Mike Halbach, who has been the spokesman for the family since his sister disappeared Oct. 31, said the family is pleased to see progress in the case.


"It's good to know things are moving along," he said. "A court of law will decide.


In the meantime, he said, "We are not going to express any anger toward anyone. That's not who we are.


"It's been a tough time for our family. We've never been through anything like this before and we never want to go through anything like this again."


As evidence in the case mounts, it gets harder for the family, he said. "It was painful from day one. Learning she was missing was the worst thing in my whole life. Learning more and more, it's harder."


Mike Halbach commented on whether the potential maximum penalty Avery faces of life plus 23½ years is enough, saying, "Life in prison is what someone who did this can expect."


Security was tight as about 80 people, including the media and members of the Halbach and Avery families, crowded into the courtroom. Those attending had to pass through a metal detector and at least eight uniformed officers besides some in plain clothes, who were in the courtroom.


Manitowoc County officials said several more people were turned away once the courtroom was filled.


Kratz asked for the high bond, citing the gravity of the allegations, potential penalties of life plus 23½ years in prison, the degree of violence exhibited in the alleged crime, Avery's record and his character.


For past convictions, Kratz cited a 1982 animal cruelty charge, 1980 and 1981 burglary convictions and a 1986 charge of endangering safety by conduct regardless of life in the attempted abduction at gunpoint of a Manitowoc County woman.


Evidence in this case, he said, also has provided a "series of matches implicating" Avery through DNA.


"They are strong indicators for a substantial cash bond," he told Willis.


Loy, however, said Avery had been a suspect in Halbach's disappearance for a week.


"He didn't go anywhere," he told the judge. "He has substantial ties to the community."


He asked for a lower bond, "so Mr. Avery and his family might have some chance" of posting the amount.


The criminal complaint filed by Kratz just hours before the court hearing basically recounts information that already has been released in the investigation of Halbach's disappearance.


Halbach's sport utility vehicle was found without license plates and concealed by tree branches at the Avery Salvage Yard on Nov. 5.


Blood from Avery and Halbach was found inside Halbach's vehicle, including in the cargo area and on the ignition. Avery denied ever being in the vehicle.


Investigators also found the key to Halbach's vehicle hidden in Avery's bedroom, and also have reported finding blood in other locations in the salvage yard and in his home. Investigators also have seized handcuffs and leg irons from the home.


The criminal complaint quotes Leslie Eisenberg, a forensic anthropologist, as saying "bone fragments (are) the obvious result of mutilation of a corpse."


Eisenberg said "that almost every bone in the body or body area is present, and has been recovered from the scene."


The State Crime Lab continues to analyze the bone fragments and human teeth found in the salvage yard, but has not yet completed DNA testing to confirm they are Halbach's.


Although positive identification of the remains has not been made, Sherry Culhane, a DNA analyst with the crime lab, said the remains are, "consistent with the female DNA profile developed from the human blood stain in Teresa Halbach's vehicle, as well as the (soda) can" located in the vehicle.


Avery was arrested Nov. 9 on a charge of being a felon possessing a firearm after investigators found a .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle and a .50 caliber powder muzzleloader in his bedroom while they were investigating Halbach's disappearance.


Kratz was appointed special prosecutor and Calumet County Sheriff Jerry Pagel headed the investigation to avoid any conflict of interest by Manitowoc County, which was named in a $36 million federal lawsuit Avery filed in connection with his 1985 wrongful conviction.


Avery has been held in the Calumet County Jail since his arrest last week, and Loy, who also works in Calumet County as a public defender, said he did not think having Avery in jail in Chilton rather than Manitowoc would be a major inconvenience for him.


"We'll just work around it," Loy said.

John Lee can be reached at 920-993-1000, ext. 362, or by e-mail at jlee@postcrescent.com

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And Johnson, in the first public statements from Avery's defense team, reminded the media that the case against Avery is unproven so far.


OH really, it appears there is no evidence toward Mr. Avery even at this point. Attorneys, give us a break please. Goz

----* Blessings to this brave family who has lost their child, and sister. They have conducted themselves with such dignity. AMEN

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