GUILTY IL - Carrie Olson, 29, Rock Island, 28 Dec 2013

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says the two met at a bar on Feb. 7. Says they hadn't really talked since #McVay called him about the Vegas/Minnesota trip.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says #McVay told him that he dropped Olson off at home at 630 a Dec. 29. Says he watched her walk into the garage.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Justin Mueller testified that Olson never came home. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says #McVay was adamant that he was not trying to steal money from Olson's acct. Says she gave him the debit card for gas.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Walker says he did not know that #McVay was still seeing Tammy Hegi after the Vegas trip. Says McVay only gave him a shrt description of her

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
No more questions for Walker. RICo SA says there are no more witnesses. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Court will take another break before attorneys deal with some evidentiary matters. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Court back in session. Attorneys are stipulating to 10 photos taken by evidence tech Jill Foster on 4/8/14 #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Court is adjourned for the day. The attorneys will be back tomorrow a.m. to do some housekeeping things. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Trial will pick-up on July 14 #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 1
Prosecutors are expected to formally rest Thursday morning. #McVay

 

[geevee]

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 2
Good morning! Back in court for the Tim #McVay first-degree murder bench trial.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 2
Attnys this a.m. will go over exhibits. Prosecutors are then expected to formally rest. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 2
This could be a very quick hearing this morning. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 2
The trial then will be on hold until July 14. The defense could call witnesses or the parties will go into closing arguments #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 2
Prosecutors are going over evidence that has/will be admitted or will not be admitted. #mcvay

 

[geevee]

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 2
Just a reminder: No witnesses will be called today #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 2
Prosecutors rest their case. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 2
Court is adjourned until July 14. #mcvay

QCT crime & courts ‏@QCTcrime · 8h8 hours ago 
Prosecutors rest case in McVay murder trial http://bit.ly/1UgXJfT

 

[KristiDFW]

They reopened livestream today. Looms like they are done.
I wonder why TM did not choose a jury trial.

Sent from my LGMS345 using Tapatalk

 

[Joe Friday]

The defense didn't even call one witness. You have to wonder why they didn't try to make some kind of plea deal with the prosecution.

 

[geevee]

Shoot, with the closing arguments in the theater shooting trial Tuesday I completely forgot about Carrie's, I'll post the tweets from yesterday:
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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Judge F. Michael Meersman is now on the bench. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
The courtroom is packed today #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
#McVay now in the courtroom.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Defense says they have no witnesses. Meersman now admonishing #McVay on his right to testify or not to testify.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
#McVay says he will not testify.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Defense formally rests. Attorneys will now go into closing arguments. #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Just a reminder: defendants do not have to testify or present evidence. Can't be held against them if they don't. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
RICo SA John McGehee will give the closing argument. He also gave the opening statement. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee begins his closing. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says prosecutors have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that #McVay killed Olson.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee reminds the judge that Olson received a call from #McVay just before 4 a on Dec. 29, 2013. She was last seen Dec. 28.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay admitted to police that Olson was at his house before she disappeared. Her cell only hit IL towers after Dec. 29, 2013.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says that carpet fibers found in Olson's hair matched carpet in #McVay's home.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says Olson must have been on #McVay's floor and pulled across the carpet.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Olson was found nude in a wooded area near Hastings, Minn., on April 5, 2014. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee: She didn't get there by herself. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay could not be excluded from the DNA found under Olson's fingernails. Her dad and live-in bf were excluded.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay left the Tobacco Outlet on Brady around 8 a Dec. 29, which cld have put him in La Crosse, Wis., around 11-11:15.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says he believes #McVay went to a Big Lots in La Crosse and bought a kid's snow shovel and black leather travel bag around 11:29 am

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay engaged in acts of deception to avoid detection. Probability of his innocence "so astronomically low."

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay wanted to impress Tammy Hegi, the woman who flew him out to Vegas on Dec. 29, 2013.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay lied to Hegi about owning his own business. In fact, he was unemployed, got financial assistance from parents.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee pointed to #McVay's statement to police that Olson originally planned to drive him to Minn. Says she later let him take her car.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee points to emails between #McVay and Hegi. Says the plan was that he would drive a car up (which he didn't have), leave it at her hse

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says there is no evidence that Olson ever was involved in the plans to get #McVay to Hastings.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee also says that if Olson was supposed to take #McVay to Minnesota, there's no evidence of how he was going to get home to RI

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee now points to #McVay's comments to police that he believed Olson had smoked something on Dec. 28/29.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says Olson did not have marijuana in her system when toxicology was run. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
#McVay told police that he didn't smoke marijuana. However, police found a bong at his RI house.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
There also was a small amt of marijuana found in a bag belonging to #McVay that was at his parent's house, McGehee says.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says there is evidence that Olson had plans to go to lunch, shopping with her best friend, Amanda on Dec. 29. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay was "desperate." He needed to get to Minn., but couldn't ask his dad to get him there.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay had not job, no insurance. "Tim has been a disappointment to the McVay family."

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee: He had to figure out another way to get there. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says that's why #McVay started to contact Olson to try and convince her to get her car so that he could drive to Minnesota.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee now pts to #McVay's statement that O had given him her debit card to top off the gas in her car.

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay first tried to pump $55 at the Git-n-Go gas station in Rock Island early Dec. 29. PIN didn't work. He didn't text O.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
#McVay went to two gas stations and a credit union ATM a few blocks from his house to use Olson's debit card.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says if the PIN number on the card wasn't working, #McVay could have picked up Olson from his house.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says he believes Olson was already dead when #McVay tried to use the debit card.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
A friend of Olson told police that #McVay had told her that he had a surprise for her and asked her to come to his house on Dec. 28, 2013.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
The friend testified earlier that Olson thought the surprise was that #McVay would repay money he owed her.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
#McVay told police that the "surprise" was that he used some paint in his house that Olson had recommended.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee pts to texts earlier in December between Olson and #McVay about paint. McVay tells her the paint looks "freakin awesome."

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee pts to #McVay's statement to police that he and Olson were not intimate. He later told O's dad that they had sex on Dec. 28 or 29.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says he believes #McVay left his RI home around 7:30 a.m. Dec. 29. Olson was in the trunk, he says.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay told "half-truths" or lied to Olson's parents, his parents when he was in Vegas.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay ignored numerous texts from Olson's family, his family when they tried to track him down.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says that based on phone records, he believes #McVay dropped off Olson's body at or was leaving Presley Circle around 2:58 Dec. 29

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Presley Circle is about 4 miles away from Hegi's home in Hastings. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says it took #McVay and extra hour to get to Hegi's house. Believes he drove around, found Presley Circle, dumped body.

 

[geevee]

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee says #McVay most likely suffocated Olson when she wouldn't drive him to Minnesota, then put her in the trunk of her car.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
McGehee finishes his closing argument. Court taking a 10 minute break before the defense begins. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
During the break, the defense appears to be setting up a power point presentation for their closing argument. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Court is back in session. Defense attorney Dan Dalton will give the closing argument

 

[geevee]

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Court is back in session. Defense attorney Dan Dalton starts his closing. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton begins his closing with a definition of first-degree murder. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says there is no evidence that "any acts" were committed in IL. No evidence that O was even killed in IL. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says there is no evidence that #McVay killed Olson. Says it's "pure speculation" by prosecutors

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says the medical examiner who performed the autopsy performed no biochemical testing to determine O's cause of dead. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says the ME also didn't review Olson's medical records. Says that's "astounding." #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Reminder: the ME determined Olson's death was a homicide by unspecified means. #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says the ME suggested "burking" as a cause of death, but did not know how burking is done. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says the ME suggested that a "215 lb. man with his bare hands killed a 194 lb woman" and did so without leaving any marks. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton now pts to ME's testimony regarding lividity, which is used to determine position of a body at death. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says lividity become fixed within 8-12 hours #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says if a body is in a different position for up to 8 hrs prior to being dumped, there would be signs of fixed lividity #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Correction: mixed lividity. #mcvay

 

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Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says there was no signs of mixed lividity in Olson. Says that makes it unlikely that O was killed in RI, transported to Minn. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton pts to testimony from an anthropologist that a mark on O's knee was caused by 270-degree post-mortem pressure #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton ?s whether the mark cld have been caused by a 270-degree corner of the underside of a tool box in Justin Mueller's truck #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton now talking about motive. Says #McVay and Olson were friends. She confided in him about work, family, Mueller.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says there is no evidence that #McVay stole Olson's car or debit card.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton pts to #McVay's statement to police that he discovered he had the wrong PIN.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
#McVay told police that O told him when he got back to his house that the PIN was the birthday of her best friend.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says Olson was not happy with Mueller, who had been living at her home for a few weeks. #mcvay

 

[geevee]

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says Olson invited Mueller to her parent's for xmas. Didn't mention they were living together. #mcvay

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
#McVay told police that O was not happy with Mueller. Says she said M ate her food, drank her alcohol, smoked her marijuana.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
#McVay told police that Olson was going to confront Mueller after he dropped her off at her house early on Dec. 29, 2013.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton disputes prosecutors statement that #McVay did stay in contact with Olson's dad and police while he was in Vegas.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says #McVay contacted them multiple times and told them everything he knew about Olson.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton says the money #McVay used on his trip was not Olson's.

Tara Becker ‏@TaraBecker_QCT · Jul 14
Dalton now argues that Mueller gave inconsistent versions of what happened when he last saw her on Dec. 28, 2013. #mcvay