GUILTY MI - Ashley Young, 32, dismembered, Kalamazoo, 29 Nov 2018 *arrests*

[inmyhumbleopinion]

Updated Sep 10, 4:37 PM; Posted Sep 10, 3:33 PM
“GRAND RAPIDS, MI – While investigating a foul odor in his rented home, Mario Nelson – who lived in the apartment below slaying suspect Jared Chance – saw blood coming from a tarp in the basement.

In a 911 call, he said he suspected Chance was responsible.

He recalled that Chance – while the two smoked marijuana in Chance’s apartment - had once played with a .22-caliber and talked about being able to clean up a crime scene using soda pop. Chance also tried to impress him by saying that his father, a retired Illinois police officer, was part of the Irish Mob.

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Nelson testified that before he discovered the tarp that a woman had stopped by the house, looking for Ashley Young.

He told a dispatcher: ‘I need police to come here ASAP and come look at it.’

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Defense attorney Andrew Rodenhouse says police focused on Chance from the start and did not consider others could be involved. He contends there is no evidence that Chance killed the woman.

A forensic pathologist said Young was victim of homicide by unspecified means.

The prosecution has suggested that Chance shot her in the head. Police found two casings for a .22-caliber firearm in the house’s furnace. His gun hasn’t been found.

[Chance’s parents,] James Chance, 77, and Barbara Chance, 64, of Holland, are charged with perjury under a prosecutor’s investigative subpoena and accessory after the fact. Their other son, Konrad Chance, is expected to testify for the prosecution.

He previously said he learned the weekend of his brother’s visit that the victim had been killed and dismembered.“ (BBM)
Man who found bloody tarp suspected Jared Chance in killing, dismemberment

 

[inmyhumbleopinion]

05:34 11 Sep 2019, updated 06:38 11 Sep 2019
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Kristine Young, the mother of Ashley Young, 31, whose torso was found in December 2018 in the basement of a Grand Rapids home that had been rented by Jared Chance, was the first to testify in his trial on Tuesday.

Young told jurors that her daughter 'always believed that there was good in everyone'.

The grieving mother recalled through tears how she was supposed to meet her daughter in Kalamazoo on Thursday, November 29, 2018, to co-sign on Ashley's new apartment, according to WZZM.

She said she became worried when she didn't hear from her daughter by Thursday, November 29.

The following day, November 30, Young told jurors that she called Chance and left him a message.

Prosecutors played the message in court: 'Hello, Jared. My name is Kristine Young. I am looking for my daughter. She was last with you. Is she with you? She needs to contact me. Tell her I am going to contact the police department to do a missing person.'

Chance reportedly text Young and told her that Ashley left her phone at the lounge in Grand Rapids and had gone to pick it up before heading back to Kalamazoo.

A text message exchange between Chance and Young was displayed in the courtroom.

In multiple texts, Chance claimed that he had just spoken to Ashley. He also gave the worried mother fake phone numbers to call.

Young tried to file a missing persons report on December 1 but she was turned away, according to WZZM.

According to the station, Young began her own investigation and asked to see the surveillance video from Mulligan's Pub, where she saw her daughter and Chance together late November 28 and early November 29.

'I wanted to pull her off the screen and take her own,' Young testified.

Six days later, she learned that a torso that was found in Chance's rental home in the 900 block of Franklin Street SE belonged to her daughter.

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On Monday, Chance rejected a plea deal that offered an opportunity for parole after 31 years in prison.

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Chance's father, retired Illinois police sergeant James Chance, and his mother, Barbara Chance, were both charged last month with accessory after the fact to the mutilation charge and lying to police. They have denied any wrongdoing.

James, 76, and his 63-year-old wife are currently out on bond.

According to an affidavit cited by mlive.com, on December 1, Jared Chance's parents learned that their son had 'cut Ashley Young's body into multiple pieces and hid some of these pieces,' but they failed to report the woman's death and mutilation.

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The elder Chance's attorney claimed that his client took his son to the Grand Rapids Police Department on December 1, but the cops turned them away and told them to contact police in Kalamazoo County.

Court documents allege that the parents dropped their son off at his home and made no further attempt to contact the authorities about Young's death.

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Tearful mother confronts a man accused of murdering her daughter in 2018 | Daily Mail Online

 

[inmyhumbleopinion]

Published: 9:09 AM EDT September 10, 2019
Updated: 7:21 PM EDT September 10, 2019
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[Jared]?hance, 30, is suspected in the Nov. 2018 death of Ashley Young, a 31-year-old Kalamazoo County woman. Her partial remains were discovered on Dec. 2.

During testimony Tuesday, Chance's downstairs neighbor at a rental home on Franklin Street SE told police he smelled something rotting before he found a blood-covered tarp in the basement.

‘It started out as a burning smell,’ said Mario Nelson, Chance's downstairs neighbor, during his Tuesday testimony. ‘And then, it started to smell like the sewer.’

Grand Rapids police found Young’s torso wrapped in the tarp. Her arms and legs were found in a cardboard box on a stairway landing. The box was from an Amazon package with the defendant's name and address on it.

Young's head, hands and feet have not been found. Part of the plea deal offered on Friday, which is now off the table, required that Chance explain what happened to Young's body.

The prosecution is now asking jurors to find Chance guilty of second-degree murder. That option was pursued because investigators could not prove the cause of death without Young's missing body parts.

Chance is also charged with tampering with evidence and mutilation and dismemberment of a body. Because of prior felony convictions, sentencing guidelines call for a minimum prison term of about 26 to 87 years if Chance is convicted of second-degree murder. Kent County Circuit Court Judge Mark Trusock will set the maximum.

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Nelson and his girlfriend Yashieka Monique Christian, Chance's downstairs neighbors, were the second and third people to testify before jurors. The two testified that they began smelling something terrible starting Friday, Nov. 30.

Christian said she asked her boyfriend to go check if the smell was coming from the basement, after she noticed that the washer and dryer had been moved. When Nelson went down to the basement Sunday, he discovered the tarp that police would later learn held some of Ashley's remains.

‘Once I come back to the stairs, there's a tarp laying there and there's a stream of blood out of it,’ Nelson said.

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Mother testifies about conversations with her daughter's accused killer

 

[ValhallaWolves]

I think about this case all the time. I feel so horrible for Ashley’s family who may never get closure and a proper resting place for her (entire) body.

 

[Niner]

Thank you inmyhumbleopinion for those articles. I got a few more updates for my notes. Just got some of those this morning. So - here is my revised notes. If I missed anything - please let me know!

Thursday, Sept. 12th:
*Trial continues (Day 4) (@ am ET) – MI – Ashley Regina-Maria Young (31) (last seen Nov. 29, 2018, Oshtemo Township, Kalamazoo County, found in basement of Chance’s rental home on Dec. 2, 2018, except head & neck) -*Jared James Chance (29) arrested (12/3/18), charged & arraigned (12/4/18) with 1 count of mutilating, defacing, removing or carrying away a portion of a body & of discovery of body & failing to inform proper authorities. Charged & arraigned (1/4/18) with 2nd degree murder & 3 counts of tampering with evidence. Plead not guilty to all charges. $750K Bond. Judge sets no bond (1/4/19).
Trial began on 9/9/19.
9/5/19 Update: Kent County prosecutors have offered a plea deal that would allow him to plead guilty to second-degree murder, provided he discloses all that happened. The deal would allow Jared Chance to avoid a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. Chance will be allowed to plead guilty on Monday, Sept. 9 – the same day jury selection is slated to begin. The plea offer includes a recommendation that Chance serve a minimum of 31 years in prison. But the Judge will set the maximum term.
9/9/19 Update: Chance rejects plea deal. Jury selected. Opening statements begin 9/10.
9/10/19 Day 2: Opening statements. State witnesses: Mario Nelson (neighbor in Apt below Chance's). Yashieka Monique Christian (Nelson’s GF). Kristine Young (Ashley’s mother). No other info available. Trial continues on 9/11.
9/11/19 Day 3: State witnesses: Emily Potgetter (Eastown Tavern bartender). Demetreis Taylor (friend of Chance's). Grand Rapids police Detective Shawn Harmon. Karen Curtiss, supervisor of Kent County sheriff’s crime-scene unit. Konrad Chance (Jared’s bro). No other info available. Trial continues to 9/12.
*Barbara Louise Chance (63) & *James Howard Chance (76) (Jared’s parents) – Have agreed to a plea deal. Bench trial begins 10/14/19.

 

[Niner]

Friday, Sept. 13th:
*Trial continues (Day 6) (@ am ET) – MI – Ashley Regina-Maria Young (31) (last seen Nov. 29, 2018, Oshtemo Township, Kalamazoo County, found in basement of Chance’s rental home on Dec. 2, 2018, except head & neck) -*Jared James Chance (29) arrested (12/3/18), charged & arraigned (12/4/18) with 1 count of mutilating, defacing, removing or carrying away a portion of a body & of discovery of body & failing to inform proper authorities. Charged & arraigned (1/4/18) with 2nd degree murder & 3 counts of tampering with evidence. Plead not guilty to all charges. $750K Bond. Judge sets no bond (1/4/19).
Trial began on 9/9/19.
Court information of trial (Day 1 thru Day 3) 9/9/19 thru 9/11/19 reference post #125 here:
Found Deceased - MI - Ashley Young, 32, Kalamazoo, 29 Nov 2018 *arrest*
9/12/19 Day 4: State witnesses: No info available yet. Trial continues on 9/13.
*Barbara Louise Chance (63) & *James Howard Chance (76) (Jared’s parents) – Have agreed to a plea deal. Bench trial begins 10/14/19.

 

[Niner]

Not too many people following this one.

Not getting any info unless I get an article from my google alerts....

Guessing there are no tweeters for this case?

 

[inmyhumbleopinion]

Not too many people following this one.

Not getting any info unless I get an article from my google alerts....

Guessing there are no tweeters for this case?

Here are a couple of reporters to follow:
Barton Deiters on Twitter

Carolyn Muyskens on Twitter

There may be a verdict this afternoon, IMO.

 

[Niner]

Thanks inmyhumbleopinion - I shall check them out!

 

[Niner]

from yesterday, Sept. 12th:

Barton Deiters
‏Verified account @ReporterBartonD
Sep 12

Day 3 of murder, dismemberment trial turns to DNA

MSP DNA expert David Hayhurst tells the jury that Kristine Young’s DNA swab was used to determine that the body parts found in Jared Chance’s home belonged to her daughter, Ashley Young.

DNA, blood and tissue, found on hoodie belonged only to Ashley Young.

Defense attorney Andrew Rodenhouse going over DNA testimony to show jury that there were other people’s DNA found in the samples other than Jared Chance.

GRPD Det. Tim DeVries explains how police traced the movements of Ashley Young, Jared Chance and his mother Barbara Chance.

Using animation of cell phone tower data, the jury sees how the phones of Young and Chance moved together until the morning of Nov. 29 when Young’s phone stops working. Then on Dec. 1, the phones of Chance and his mother intersect.

Cell phone records show that Chance was lying to mother Kristine Young about where he was and about receiving calls from Ashley on Nov. 30.

Forensic pathologist David Start said the amputation of Ashley Young’s head and limbs were made after she was dead.

Pathologist explains that Ashley Young’s dismemberment was done with a blade from a saw.

No evidence that Ashley Young died from drugs, alcohol, heart issues or any natural cause. She died from something that happened to her head, Start says.

The blood and tissue on Ashley Young’s hoodie indicates that it was either blunt force trauma or a gunshot to the head, Start says.

Start tells the defense that it is not likely that Ashley Young died of a stroke.

Prosecutor has one witness left when court resumes at 2:30. Then the defense will have their turn.
We hope to be live-streaming at that time.

The end of the prosecution case against Jared Chance is starting.

Erika Fannon is the last witness for the prosecution. She is the lead detective in the investigation of the slaying of Ashley Young.

Det. Fannon describes the hundreds of hours spent investigating the case against Jared Chance to blunt the defense proposition that there was a hasty decision made by police.

Defense attorney asks detective why police didn’t do DNA tests on other people who have testified in the case.

The prosecution rests, the defense asks judge to throw out the case based on lack of evidence. Judge refuses saying circumstantial evidence is sufficient to send to the jury.

Jared Chance will not testify in his own defense.

Testimony is over. Closing arguments tomorrow morning. Then the case goes to the jury. We will be here live (hopefully)


Sept. 13:
The fate of a man accused of murdering a woman and dismembering her body in his Grand Rapids apartment late last year will go to a jury today.


link: Barton Deiters (@ReporterBartonD) | Twitter

 

[Niner]

Carolyn Muyskens
‏ @cjmuyskens
18h18 hours ago

After the jury leaves, Chance’s lawyer asks if the jury can be given instructions for involuntary or voluntary manslaughter instead of 2nd degree murder. Judge says they’ll stick with 2nd degree murder.


8 min. ago
I’m waiting with other media outside the courtroom to be let in for the final day of the Jared Chance trial. The prosecution and defense will give closing statements and then it will be time for the jury to deliberate.


link: Carolyn Muyskens (@cjmuyskens) | Twitter



I shall keep these two tweeters open - just in case there are some tweets for today.

 

[Niner]

Carolyn Muyskens
‏ @cjmuyskens
18m18 minutes ago

During prosecutor Lawrence Boivin’s closing statements, he goes over, again, where Ashley’s blood was found — on a saw and a shower curtain at Chance’s parents in Holland, on Chance’s jeans, on Chance’s kitchen floor.

Defense attorney Andrew Rodenhouse has pointed out that Chance’s DNA was not found in any of those samples. Boivin says “Of course (the blood) is not the defendant’s .... he didn’t saw through his own limbs.”

“The optics on this are not good, I get it,” says Rodenhouse as he begins his closing statement.

"But you promised ... you would keep your mind sharp and steeled against emotion, and that’s what I’m asking you to do still,” Rodenhouse says.

Rodenhouse is saying the prosecution can’t prove that Chance killed her, or if he did cause her death they can’t prove what state of mind he was in.


link: Carolyn Muyskens (@cjmuyskens) | Twitter




Barton Deiters
‏Verified account @ReporterBartonD
1h1 hour ago

Defense and prosecution teams prepare for closing statements in the trial of Jared Chance charged with the murder and dismemberment of Ashley Young.

Today, Jared Chance could find out if he will go to prison for 2nd-degree murder.

The jury can find Chance guilty of 2nd degree murder only. Manslaughter is not an option. He is also charged with mutilation of a body, tampering with evidence and concealing a death of a person.

Assistant Kent County Prosecutor Lawrence Boivin outlines the case starting Nov. 28 when Ashley Young and Jared Chance went out in Eastown and she is never seen alive again.

Prosecutor: “How cruel is this man that he continues to lie to the mother of the woman he just killed?”

Boivin tells jury that Chance killed Young on the floor of the kitchen with either blunt force trauma or gunshot, then cut her up in the bathtub.

Defense attorney Andrew Rodenhouse points out that there is no direct evidence of how Ashley Young died or who killed her.

Rodenhouse says the were other reasonable suspects who were never investigated.

Rodenhouse: Chance had no motive to kill Young. “He had a crush on her, they were cuddling.”

In his closing, Rodenhouse never addresses the mutilation of Ashley Young’s body.


link: Barton Deiters (@ReporterBartonD) | Twitter

 

[Niner]

Carolyn Muyskens
‏ @cjmuyskens
17m17 minutes ago

On rebuttal the prosecutor reminds the jury that the medical examiner believes she could have died of either a gunshot wound or blunt force trauma. What state of mind do you have when you’re hitting someone in the head, he asks. “You’re not sending them a Christmas card.”

Boivin asks the jury to imagine, in detail, what it would take to saw through a body. “If you didn’t kill that person, which one of you would be able to do that to another person?” Nobody would, he says.




Barton Deiters
‏Verified account @ReporterBartonD
24m24 minutes ago

Rodenhouse tells the jury Chance is a “dumbass” but not a murderer.

In his final statement, prosecutor asks jury whether if a fellow juror died would they use a saw to dismember them. He then gives a graphic description of what butchering a human would be like. Jury takes that final thought on a break.


links in post #132

 

[Niner]

Carolyn Muyskens‏ @cjmuyskens 9m9 minutes ago




The jury has just left to begin deliberations. @HollandSentinel


so - by my calculations - they started @ about 11:45 am ET.

 

[Niner]

well - I guess the jurors did not go & deliberate....

Barton Deiters‏Verified account @ReporterBartonD 3m3 minutes ago

After a quick lunch break, jurors are deliberating.


so... deliberations started 12:15pm ET.

 

[Niner]

According to court personnel, we have a verdict!! posted 5 minutes ago!!

@inmyhumbleopinion @Luckyzmom @Vail @ValhallaWolves

That's all I see who are watching this case.

 

[Niner]

Barton Deiters‏Verified account @ReporterBartonD 3m3 minutes ago

The family and friends of Ashley Young wait to see if Jared Chance is found guilty of 2nd degree murder in her slaying and dismemberment.

 

[Niner]

Barton Deiters‏Verified account @ReporterBartonD 3m3 minutes ago


Chance guilty on all counts. more @WOODTV – at Kent County Courthouse

 

[Niner]

hollandsentinel‏ @HollandSentinel 15m15 minutes ago


BREAKING NEWS: Jury finds Jared Chance guilty of second degree murder and five additional charges. Sentencing will be 1:30 p.m. Oct. 10.

 

[Luckyzmom]

Many Thanks Niner !