GUILTY IL - Katrina Smith, 30, beaten to death, Machesney Park, 23 Oct 2012 *new trial request 2023* #3

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Judge Truitt denied the motion to supprss evidence found via search warrants.

Todd Smith allowed the searches, signed the warrants but said he hadn't read the fine print, plus he was stressed out. GMAB.
http://www.rrstar.com/article/20131101/NEWS/131109911


And here's another article, same subject:
http://www.wrex.com/story/23856273/2013/11/01/todd-smith-testifies

The state argues that he did because in the consent papers they asked Smith to mark different items including allowing his home, a cell phone and computer to be searched. But he specified that he did not want a different computer searched. The state also says he was able to be at home when at least part of the search happened especially when any of the items were actually removed from the home. The defense had asked particularly for a pair of hiking boots taken from the home to not be allowed into evidence. A judge disagreed and said it would all stay.
 
FINALLY!

Fraud charges against Smith, he's been indicted.

http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/Todd-Smith--244969771.html

46-year-old Todd Smith and 36-year-old Travis Oliver of California have both been charged with several counts of mail and wire fraud. The indictment accuses Smith and Oliver of lying to people to invest their money. Smith and Oliver involved with Electus Asset Holdings allegedly schemed investors from 2009 to 2012 out of over $983,000.
 
AmandaReckonwith said:
FINALLY!

Fraud charges against Smith, he's been indicted.

http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/Todd-Smith--244969771.html

46-year-old Todd Smith and 36-year-old Travis Oliver of California have both been charged with several counts of mail and wire fraud. The indictment accuses Smith and Oliver of lying to people to invest their money. Smith and Oliver involved with Electus Asset Holdings allegedly schemed investors from 2009 to 2012 out of over $983,000.
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I saw this on our local news earlier. Wonder if this was the motive behind murder - Could Katrina have known something that Todd didn't want the world to know about his fraud charges??
 
 
Good grief. It has been nearly 18 months since Katrina was murdered, and Todd still hasn't been convicted.
 
Nothing at all in the news with this case. I wonder sometimes if they are going to make the federal case the main charge?

After all, they have him through good evidence in Katrina's murder.
 
unique_astrology said:
From where Katrina was on video at around 8 pm it would only be a trip of minutes to get to the Tetterhall Lane address. Police have arrested her husband who was at that address when he last saw her at around 9 pm according to him. I do not know if there were children there at that time. Was his story that Katrina was there to do laundry backed up by a "load" of her laundry that would have had to be there? Would she have laundry to do when a weekend had just passed? Would she wait so late to do laundry if she had to be to work the next morning by 8 or 9 am. From where she was living to the town where she worked is about a 1/2 hour drive. She would probably have to be up by 6:30 or 7 am the next morning.

If Katrina was attacked at the Tetterhall address between 8 and 9 pm, likely possible inside locations to have been tested with Luminol would be a laundry room if there is one, the basement, or the garage.

Because of his statement that Katrina left about 9 pm I think he would have driven away in her car at that time in case any neighbors were able to be witness to the car leaving.

Going on the word of previous posters that it is not likely that a body would have made it over several dams between Machesney Park and Byron I offer the following. The distance from the residence to Byron is a little more than 22 miles with a travel time of about 40 minutes down, and 40 minutes back with some additional time to dispose of Katrina's body and drive to where the car was found (I don't think he would have driven the car back to the house and then away again later).

From where the car was found to the Tetterhall Lane house is just over 3 miles and could be walked in about an hour. There was no bus service in that area. That would place arrival back at the house at about 11:30 pm.

You will notice that in the 3rd attachment there is a bridge not far from where the car was found. If TS dropped the body off that bridge the time element would have changed and he could have been back at Tetterhall Lane between 10:15 and 10:30 if he left around 9.

If Katrina was attacked at the house, there would be a lot of cleaning to be done and whatever was used (mop, sponges, brushes, rags, clothing) would have had to be cleaned or disposed of and if her car was parked outside something to hide her body to transport it to the car would likely have been used and that would have had to have been disposed of. It would have been easier for him to have driven the car into the garage to place Katrina into it after closing the garage door.

Possible evidence: Blood splatter or residue matching Katrina's blood type in the house or garage, any cleaning materials used, his clothing with Katrina's blood found on it, his fingerprints being the last ones on the door handle or steering wheel of her car or on her phone or purse.

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You are def nominated for Mega Sleuth of the year. In awe,,, inspiring. You Good!
 
Defense is reaching pretty far, but at least there is something going on in the case.


http://www.rrstar.com/article/20150316/News/150319508

Lawyers for a Machesney Park man accused of beating his wife to death with a baseball bat could attempt to raise doubt about his guilt by implicating other potential suspects

During a court appearance Monday before Judge John Truitt, Assistant Public Defender Margie O’Connor requested police reports about a juvenile charged with stalking a friend of the Smiths two years before the killing.
 
Feb 1 Pre-trial hearing:

Forensic experts and Winnebago County Sheriff's deputies testified in a pre-trial hearing. Autopsy photos showed bruises all over Katrina's body which experts say were made before her death. She had several gashes on her head and blunt force trauma was ruled her cause of death.

Pictures taken by deputies show trace evidence of blood in the trunk of Katrina's car, matching her own blood, and on a baseball bat found in her estranged husband’s house. An expert says Todd's DNA was not found on any of those items where Katrina's blood was found.

http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/New-Details-Emerge-in-Katrina-Smiths-Death-367292021.html?ref=021
 
Feb 1 Pre-trial hearing:

As an evidentiary hearing in a Winnebago County courtroom continued today, Vicki Wagner, secretary for attorney Tamika Walker of the Sreenan & Cain law firm, testified that Katrina Smith had scheduled a consultation for Oct. 29, 2012. But Katrina Smith never met with Walker. Police say she was killed the night of Oct. 22, 2012.

Katrina Smith's stepfather, Bruce Edlun, testified that Todd Smith had told him that the marriage was in trouble when Katrina stopped joining them for church for several consecutive Sundays before her death. And in the week before she was killed, Edlun said, Katrina had texted questions inquiring about how to obtain an Illinois Firearm Owner's Identification Card. And she asked whether she could practice at a gun range without one.

Graphic autopsy photos were shown and discussed in court today, showing Katrina with bruises on her arms, legs and side.

Dr. Mark Peters, a forensic pathologist, testified that Katrina had been struck in the head, leaving seven deep lacerations on her skull. Peters said that although he determined her cause of death was blunt force trauma, the "mechanism of death" may have been asphyxiation, possibly by drowning.

http://www.rrstar.com/article/20160201/NEWS/160209940/?Start=1
 

http://www.rrstar.com/article/20160307/NEWS/160309551/0/SEARCH

Katrina Smith returned to the U.S. Cellular store to ask, during a second visit, about getting her own wireless phone contract under her own name. And during a third visit on Oct. 18, 2012, asked if her husband might somehow be using her phone to track her movements.

Store personnel urged Katrina Smith to get an order of protection and file a police report indicating that she suspected she was the victim of stalking.“She wanted to make sure he didn’t have access to her account at all,” Busjahn testified.

Although Katrina Smith made several inquiries about getting her own phone account, questions from Margie O’Connor, Todd Smith’s assistant Winnebago County public defender, revealed she never followed through and signed a new contract.

“She seemed very afraid, very shaky,” Busjahn testified. “Her hands were shaking, she was playing with her phone and fidgeting. She looked around like she was nervous. And her eyes welled up like she was going to cry.”


^ this is from the March 7th hearing.
The final witness will be heard April 1.
 
I never could find anything about a hearing April 1, but this is real bad news for Todd Smith.

http://www.rrstar.com/article/20160415/NEWS/160419642/0/SEARCH

ROCKFORD — New evidence that Todd Smith used a GPS tracking device to monitor his wife before her Oct. 22, 2012, killing was found on his laptop computer by using digital forensic software and techniques unavailable a few years ago, a detective testified in court today.

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Winnebago County Sheriff's Detective Bob Juanez testified before Judge John Truitt that in December he conducted a digital forensic analysis of Smith's laptop. It was the second time since the laptop was seized as evidence in late 2012 that such an analysis was conducted, but Juanez said he used new forensic software that revealed new evidence.

Data found on the computer included coordinates that Juanez said coincided with the night Katrina Smith disappeared. Her body was found in the Rock River; she had been beaten to death with a baseball bat.

The coordinates followed the path her killer may have taken to dispose of evidence — Katrina Smith's purse found east of her abandoned car on Obispo Road near Ventura Boulevard in Machesney Park, bloody paper towels found in a field outside Ralston Elementary School, her cell phone thrown in the bushes at a residence west of Norman Avenue.


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