Travis Forbes Attacks Woman, Tries to Kill her

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Back in April of this year, we watched Travis Forbes talk to a local news station about missing 19-year old Kenia Monge. Travis was the last person to see her before her disappearance, yet claimed no involvement. His interview was littered with hotspots and I wrote that I did not believe him. You can read my thoughts here. Sadly, no one has located Kenia Monge.

Yesterday, Travis Forbes was arrested attempted murder, arson and car theft. On June 5, 2011, Lydia Tillman, 30, was badly beaten and rescued from a burning building after jumping out the window.

Media sources have revealed that she was allegedly raped, choked, stomped on her throat, and believed to be dead. The suspect, which is now believed to be Forbes, poured bleach in and on her body, then set her apartment on fire, and stole her car.

There is an eerie connection between the behaviors in this crime to the disappearance of Kenia Monge. When Kenia Monge disappeared, witnesses reported seeing Forbes burn something in a 55-gallon barrel and worse, he was seen using bleach at his place of employment in the middle of the night on security camera and wheeling a large ducted tape cooler out his place of employment.

I was informed by a reader that police searched Travis Forbes dad’s house last night with cadaver dogs. I suspect, if this is true, they are looking for Kenia Monge.

What a sad story. I am glad Travis Forbes is off the streets today being held on $350,000 bond.

Kiesha Abrahams: Police Put Together Events

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Kiesha Weippeart’s mom, Kristi Abrahams, plead for her missing daughter on August 3, 2010.  She wore sunglasses when she made the plea and her cry was riddle with clues it was fake.  I immediately saw red flags and did not trust Kristi Abrahams.  You can read my original post here.

As the story continued to develop in time, there were a lot of things that didn’t make sense in this case, and most people saw something was up.  People speculated over the sad face of little Kiesha. Was it letting out a secret that she was sad at home?  Evidently, the answer is yes.   Police are expected to include in their statement against Kiesha’s parents that their treatment of their daughter was harsh, and included brutual treatment (source).

Sadly, Kiesha’s little bones were found in April of this year and now police in Australia, where this occurred, are working to put the pieces of this puzzle together.

They got a tip in April of this year that on Kiesha’s birthday, her parents were going to her grave and that is precisely what they did.  They hired a taxi and lead investigators, unknowingly, to Kiesha’s body.

Police suspect that Kristi Abrahams and her partner, Robert Smith, caused harm to the little girl, and believe she died as a result of head injuries.  They then believe once she died, somewhere between July 12-14 of last year, they hired a taxi and took her lifeless body in a suitcase to a bushland grave. A taxi driver remembers the two carrying a suitcase to the bushland.

Kiesha was then reported missing on August 1, 2010.  Both Kristi Abraham and her partner Robert Smith are facing murder charges.

You can read more here, and here.

Do you believe behavior is important evidence?

Breaking News: Thomas Bögerl Commits Suicide

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According to an Eyes for Lies reader, and TMNews, Thomas Bögerl, a banker, whose wife was taken for randsom back in May of 2010 and was found dead beside a road not to long after, was also found dead today.  Apparently he committed suicide by hanging.

The Eyes for Lies reader wrote:

Just a quick update on the German Boegerl case that you wrote about in the past. It is just going through the various news outlets over here that today about noon, Thomas Boegerl has been found dead in the fitness room of his home by the housekeeper. It seems that he hanged himself. Police found a suicide letter, but there is no word yet as to its contents.

I went online and found this news article as well. I have translated this for you using Google Translation.

 Rome, July 11 (TMNews) – The German banker Thomas Boegerl, widower of Mary Boegerl, committed suicide, hanging himself in his home. He writes on his online version of Germany’s Die Bild tabloid, which also confirms the local police. The man’s lifeless body was found by the cleaning lady around 12 today.

Boegerl‘s wife was kidnapped in May 2010 and his body found in early June. His kidnappers and killers have left no trace, and after 14 months on the mystery woman’s death remains unsolved.

I was watching this case because the father, Thomas, when he spoke to the media pleading for his wife’s return didn’t display oblique eyebrows of sadness like his children did, and while it wasn’t conclusive of guilt by itself, it was a huge red flag. Thomas had several red flags in his behavior, and now with this suicide, you have to wonder what truly happened.

Update 7-12-2011

I read the news this morning, and apparently Thomas left a suicide note that was to his two children — it was private say police and won’t be released.  It was oddly one sentence and it didn’t give any reason or motive.  He was, however, in the care of a treatment facility for depression.  He was struggling to keep his job says one of his co-workers.  He left the treatment facility for the weekend, went home and killed himself.

Tausha Fields on 48 Hours

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This woman is the typical manipulative psychopath. The jury got it right.  I see a lot of hotspots in Tausha’s behavior and I see no hotspots when I see Greg Morton testify on the stand.

Anthony Jury Ignored Casey’s Defense: Outrageous!

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Having listened to Jennifer Ford and her arguments as to why Casey wasn’t convicted, I am in shock!  This jury was so boons-waggled with Baez red herrings, they couldn’t think straight! I am floored.

Ford, if you want my opinion, is clearly a staunch person with strong opinions.  She truly feels the prosecution had no case whatsoever except to show that Casey Anthony behaved badly.  We hear her give us one of the arguments that convinced this jury to vote to acquit, “If you are going to charge someone with murder, don’t you have to know how they killed someone or why they killed someone?”

That’s a fascinating question, and if I were on a jury, I would have retorted back equally staunch by saying show me the law that says that no motive, no known cause of death equals acquittal.  To me those elements have no involvement in our decision if Casey Anthony is involved.  Bear with me a minute.

Let’s listen to Casey Anthony’s defense.  This is paramount!!

We are all in agreement that she hired Jose Baez to give her side of the story, correct?  Her defense, what Casey wants us to believe, is that she was home with her dad when her daughter went into the pool and drowned. She wants us to believe that her dad found Caylee, and that she allowed him to take the body and do an elaborate cover up.  She willfully and intentionally went along with that cover up.  That is what the defense is telling us, correct?

Why would we disbelief this as a starting point? Is there any reason?  While I don’t necessarily believe this is the whole truth, this is Casey’s story. This is what she is confessing to at a minimum.   This should be the starting point of what she is guilty of…or she wouldn’t admit to some involvement, if she had none. 

Next, if the prosecution argues that this was first or second degree murder, we can move up from there if we feel the evidence is substantial. I would argue that duct tape on the body supports that this was more than a simple drowning. Now we have Casey admitting involvement, and we have the duct tape found on the body… Where does that leave us? 

Is there still reasonable doubt of her involvement?

This jury failed to think critically, to even listen to what Casey Anthony hired her attorney to tell the jurors directly.  How stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!

The fact that the jurors discounted what Casey said, that she admitted through her attorney that she was involved in an accident, is simply mind-blowing!!!!!