The Murder of Crystal Gigliotti

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I was absolutely heartbroken when I read of a Crystal Gigliotti’s being found dead by her mother in the early morning hours, around 2:30 a.m., inside her apartment at 4524 Newby Drive in Durham Co., N.C; Crystal’s three-year-old baby son was in the home. Police said Crystal was found lying in a pool of blood; the thought of her baby possibly seeing his mother like that makes me ill. The day, Wednesday, May 4 2011 that she was found, her mother had advised the officers that someone had slashed Crystal’s car tires two nights before she was found. She had gone to Crystal’s home because her, (mom’s) husband had gotten a call from Crystal’s ex-boyfriend, Silvestre Alvarad Chaves, about Crystal and he’d mentioned slashed so they felt she should check on their daughter.

Police said they had received three previous calls about disturbances in the past year. Two of those calls were in March and April 2011. The police in Memphis, TN charged Mr. Chaves with offenses not related to Crystal’s death on May 7 2011 and they booked him in at Shelby Co., TN jail. His booking shows he was due in general sessions court in TN (a misdemeanor court) on charges of fugitive from justice w/o warrant at 8:30AM Tuesday May 10, 2011. I presume at that time they will put him on hold for Durham N.C. since the media reported that Monday, May 9 2011, Durham Co., N.C. police charged him with murder. When they will transport Mr. Chaves from TN to NC for arraignment on the murder charge, is unknown.

No details are out yet with how Crystal died. However, law enforcement stayed at the apartment and collected evidence from it and the SUV in the parking lot for several hours. I have this sick feeling in my stomach that since Mr. Chaves allegedly mentioned ‘slash’ when he called Crystal’s dad, and the report she was lying in a pool of blood, that her killer slashed her throat. We will have to wait for Medical Examiner’s report before we know for sure. I pray not, what a horrific way to die; I also pray that her son was asleep and did not see his mother’s body that way.

I really wish people who have domestic violence, and obviously Crystal was, in their relationships had a copy of Time’s Up: A guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships by Susan Murphy Milano it could give them so much valuable information how to escape and protect themselves.

                                                                  


You can read about this horrific murder at: wral.com  and newsobserver.com
 

Elijah James and Danielle T. Brown's Death

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I’ve written a couple posts and shared them here on the disappearance of Danielle T. Brown and the arrest of the man believed to have been responsible. However, I want to share another one. Leon Co., Fl police have charged Danielle’s alleged killer, Elijah James, with first degree murder but at this time he is fighting to have his arson trial verdict, in the state of Georgia, overturned.

Danielle’s demise happened sometime after 11:30 PM Friday, February 5, 2010 and before 5AM on Saturday, February 6, 2010. Danielle and Elijah had been friends since 2006, and were allegedly once intimately involved. Mr. James has a history of arrest for drugs and other offenses (allegedly including violent crimes) before and since they had become friends.

Elijah’s prior drug arrest doesn’t reflect on the person Danielle was though.

The night of February 5, Danielle was taking Elijah to a residence that belonged to his mother on Kings Post Way located in northeast Leon Co., FL off Miccosukee Road. Come to discover, this residence was allegedly empty and had no working utilities; which begs the question - why did Elijah want her to take him there? Did he know his mother no longer lived at the house and was in fact living in Pavo, GA? Did he really intend residing at that home since she’d advised him he was no longer welcome to stay at her and her mother’s house with them? Or was it a ruse to cause Danielle to disappear? It’s been said dissidence existed between the two on that fateful day. Reportedly, the Leon Co., police did find some things belonging to Danielle scattered in the yard at that house. And too, when her cousin called Danielle at or about 11:40 the night of Feb 5 she stated she could overhear Danielle and Elijah arguing. Allegedly, the phone call was abruptly disconnected; voice mail answered any later calls to Danielle’s cell.

Mr. James was apparently as busy as a bee that early morning of Feb 6, 2010 as his lawyers have been since his arrest for arson, and since his trial and sentencing. During those early morning hours February 5, 2010 he allegedly managed to take Danielle’s life, hide her body and pick up his cousin before driving her car to a store and buying beer. Was it celebration time? It was said that he was pushing stuff around on the back seat and advised his cousin to wait before getting in the car - so, was he covering up the blood later discovered inside the car? From Feb 6 early morning hours and Monday, Feb 8 2010, Mr. James had a grand time visiting family, sleeping and going to the Lowe’s store with family members to purchase, a gas can, a sponge, the carpet cleaner, a bottle of windex cleaner, a new chainsaw, pair of gloves, trash bags and a shovel. The new chainsaw was said to have been needed for his work as a tree doctor.

During this time he had possession of Danielle’s car.

We know that because he’s seen on the store camera video when he and his cousin purchased beer. Oddly at some point in time Monday the 8^th,  Mr. James was no longer in her car, he was seen walking near the Pavo, GA dump; Danielle’s car was found at the dump burned. How, I ask how did he lose possession of the car Monday? Some unknown person or persons stole it from the family member’s home where he was and took it for a joy ride then drove it to the dump and torched it? I highly doubt that scenario. Forensic evidence during his arson trial in GA showed they discovered blood inside the car trunk and in the interior. Also, a gas nozzle was found in the car inside a sponge. Ut-oh, Mr. James just happened to have needed a sponge and gotten one at Lowe’s along with a gas can! That is evidence of guilt to me.

Although defense tried, the ‘someone else did it because two other people were seen in the car’ strategy, Elijah James was found guilty of theft and arson and sentenced to 20 years in a Georgia prison. However, his court dates are far from over; he has a first degree murder trial to attend. Despite Danielle’s body not having been discovered yet or how the appeals process goes in his bid for a new trial, he will go to trial in Leon Co., Florida for Danielle’s murder.

In Mr. James’s bid for a new trial, in GA., he says the verdict in his arson trial is contrary to evidence and no evidence supports the verdict and sentence that he was given. (Boy do I smile at that piece of astoundingly ridiculous defense news!) I hope Superior Court Judge James E. Hardy will see through the illogical aspect of that claim and deny his motion at the hearing set for June 13, 2011 at the Jail-Justice Center courtroom. If the judge does decide he deserves a new trial then, sadly,  they will likely delay the murder trial.

Elijah James really needs to make up his mind about that car. His claim was, (when LE spoke to him during their search for her as a missing person) that Danielle dropped him off at the house off Miccosukee, Rd., in Leon County and left driving her car. He said he then hitchhiked and a white man who only called himself Chuck picked him up on Miccosukee Rd. and gave him a lift to Pavo, GA. I asked myself then and still do ask, if that is a truth then how did he regain possession of Danielle’s Buick LeSabre? He was surely in her car when he picked up his cousin and at that store buying beer. If she was alive and gave him permission, then why was her blood found all inside it? Why was a piece of her driving license, and her cell phone found on the side of the road in GA?

I await a date being set for  this murder trial and Justice for Danielle T. Brown.


The previous posts can be located here:

http://tigresspenssurmisals.blogspot.com/2010/03/disappearance-of-danielle-t-brown.html
http://tigresspenssurmisals.blogspot.com/2010/08/danielle-t-brown-may-have-justice-after.html

My Pledge During Casey Anthony Trial

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Casey Anthony’s murder trial and what I have come to believe an obvious need she has for the 'attention spotlight' to be on her, only her, will not consume me. Thank God for the mute button on televisions and videos, and the ability to drop view to the toolbar on computers! Although I will give some of my listening attention to the testimony in the trial, I will not miss all my favorite Zeus radio shows or ignore my blog or favorite internet sites. I will pay attention to other people who have crimes committed against them; those people are ones whose voice deserves hearing. Casey Anthony and her need will not define my internet life. My internet life is not about her. When the medical examiner and forensic experts testify, I will un mute my view of the trial to hear the 'testimony of truth'. My internet life is about truth and not Casey’s apparent mendacious tales, but I will listen to Levi Page’s evening radio shows for updates on the witnesses testimony. I will however, if an end ever comes, watch the juror’s verdict and gladly focus my total attention to Justice for Caylee. Caylee is the only one who deserves my time and attention!

Serial Rapist of Children is in Phoenix, AZ

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Rapists are the scum of the earth to me, and calling a rapist that is an insult to real scum.

Once again a serial rapist is wandering the streets. This one, unlike the Detroit rapist who abducted young women at a bus stop then raped them, and the "Twilight Rapist’ who raped elderly women in their home, is raping children. The child rapist’s area of choice, South Phoenix, AZ.
Young girls walking to school are his prey.

Monday, April 25, this scum found another victim, a teenager, and forced her at a knife point into a vacant home. His previous victims, one in November of 2010 and another in January of this year was of the age 10 and 12. One of those victims’ was bound; as in the more recent case and other one, he also held her at a knife point, took her into a vacant home and raped her. Now, doesn’t that just make him a big man? ( Yes, that is sarcasm) I hope and pray law enforcement canvasses the area and flood it with units to protect the children.

DNA has connected the rapist in the November and January cases. A physical description of him at this time is black male in his early 20s, 5 feet 9 to 5 feet 11 inches tall with a thin build and dark skin; his hair is short. Obviously this scum slime knows his favorite area of attack. He knows where the vacant homes are and how to enter them. (A history of burglary maybe?)

If you want to read more about these cases go to: http://www.abc15.com/ And http://www.kpho.com

Michi Nogami-Marshall's Domestic Violence Arrest and Brandon Marshall

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I'll be interested to see what the outcome is of Brandon and Michi Nogami-Marshall's newest domestic violence incident. Trouble has allegedly spewed between these two for several years, both have a part in it.

Brandon’s been arrested several times with domestic-related incidents over the past few years; most of those charges were either dismissed, reduced or dropped. Allegedly his football career suffered in 2008 with a one-game suspension. Also in 2008, he received is said to have suffered a serious injury after smashing a television in his home.

Again allegedly, back in 2009 they arrested both Brandon and Michi Nogami on charges of disorderly conduct, after having a lively 'argument' and kicking and punching each other on the sidewalk. Those charges were also dropped.

Sadly, they have apparently dropped charges with too many arguments and neither Brandon or Michi Nogami have learned from them. This time Michi Nogami allegedly stabbed Brandon with a knife. Brandon had said he was hit with a vase, but his wound spoke differently.

Michi Nogami Marshall is facing aggravated battery with deadly weapon charges. Hopefully, this time, the courts will answer with, ‘no, we will not drop or reduce charges, you will go to court and answer for your crime’.

This incident will likely not hurt Brandon's career in football, many DV incidents in famous people's families don't. What a shame someone with talent like his, he irrevocably stains it with so much violence. If the DV incidents are true, not only does his stain his career, he allows and continues to participate in violence at his home.

I think these two have some serious anger going. So, Perhaps these two should agree to part ways permanently with all the 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander' ceasing post-haste.

Michi Nogami is out on a bond at this time. Hopefully we won’t discover Brandon perpetrated violence against her that night too. But, would anyone really be surprised?