I wonder how JS felt about KM being pregnant??IMO
Also I am trying to understand how CM came to be with JS alone overnight? IMO
Did JS offer this option because he knew KM was going to be wasted/tired etc??? IMO
Or did he want to teach KM a lesson and make her suffer?? JMO
A NSW Supreme Court jury is played the second police interview with Justin Stein that records a key difference from his first.
www.abc.net.au
The accused told police Ms Mutten started causing fights as soon as Charlise arrived in Sydney in December, 2021.
"Ever since [Charlise] has come our whole relationship has gone to s***," he said.
Mr Stein denied he was "jealous" of Charlise and had been upset that she was there.
"I have no problem with Charlise ... I look at her like literally my daughter," he said.
Justin Stein is on trial accused of murdering the nine-year-old, whose body was found in a barrel in the Blue Mountains. Prosecutors laid out their case to the jury this week
www.theguardian.com
Mutten and Stein were caught on camera in August 2021, breaking into a house in the Blue Mountains. During the break in they allegedly stole two rifles – a BSA .22 calibre bolt action and Winchester .30 calibre lever action – and one of those is central to the crown case, prosecutor Ken McKay SC said.
I don't understand how this crime didn't affect KM's chance of having special holiday custody of CM when she was involved with JS in this crime together in August way before December school holidays. How was that a good option for CM?? MOO
I also thought it very odd to allow Charlise to stay with the two people in question, but it looks like Kallista and Stein weren’t charged with the break and enter and stealing until LE discovered the hidden guns a few months after Charlise’s death, from this article dated September 2022.
The article states that it was during the investigation into Charlise’s disappearance that they discovered the stolen items (but not the guns) and then charged the two. Which I find confusing, as I thought there was CCTV with audio, of the pair breaking into the property.
“Kallista Mutten, mother of allegedly murdered Charlise, pleads guilty over home invasion
As a result of investigations into Charlise’s death, police “identified several linked offences”.
Police charged Stein with aggravated break and enter of a Mount Wilson property on the Blue Mountains, which is alleged to have taken place in late August 2021.
“In July this year, Mutten was also charged with accompanying Stein on the break-in.
Almost five months after the alleged invasion on January 14, Mutten reported Charlise missing to Police.
When officers arrived to the property she was staying at with Stein, also located at Mount Wilson, police searched bushland and found a “buried galvanised toolbox” covered by a blue tarp, dirt and foliage.
“Police located identical clothing, gloves and hiking boots captured in the CCTV...the screwdriver and silverware,” court documents state.
The items were forensically examined, with Stein’s DNA allegedly found on the gloves.
Four days later, Charlise was found dead with a post mortem revealing the cause of death was a gunshot, but police could not find any guns, according to court documents.
A member of the public alerted police to a “suspicious area of disturbed ground” off a fire trail in Mount Wilson on January 30, where police discovered a buried blue tarp with more camouflage, foliage and dirt.
According to court documents, multiple items were found including a BSA .22 calibre bolt action rifle, Winchester Level Action 3030 shotgun, empty magazine clip from the rifle, ammunition, a bag with spent/unused cartridges, and black garbage bags.
Stein’s fingerprints were allegedly found on the rifle, and ballistics examinations of the firearm identified characteristics consistent with the firearm used in the alleged murder, but investigators were unable to make a definitive comparison.”