MT MT - Laura Johnson, 49, Billings, 4 Sept 2018 *Guilty*

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If you read the affidavit you quickly learn that the next door neighbor had a surveillance camera that had a view of the front yard, driveway, garage, and entryway to the home where this all happened. This camera was a 24-7 recording camera so law enforcement has a great timeline and was able to use that to try to gather other video elsewhere to try to trace the movements of Green's truck. There is more in there that is worth reading.
 
MAR 3, 2020
Defense begins in trial of man accused of killing missing girlfriend
Prosecutors on Tuesday wrapped up their case against a Nevada man charged with killing his girlfriend in 2018.

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Gregory Scott Green is accused of killing 49-year-old Laura Johnson on Sept. 13, 2018. The case is being tried without a body, autopsy, cause of death, or murder weapon. Police did find stains in Green’s truck made by Johnson’s blood.

Testimony on the fifth day of trial showed that Green exerted enough control over his girlfriend to prevent her from carrying cash at times, although she worked as a pizza delivery driver and made cash tips.

[...]

Jurors also saw on Tuesday side-by-side photos of Johnson posing roughly three weeks before her disappearance, holding a handbag, and a still frame of Green caught on a neighbor’s surveillance camera carrying a similarly shaped and sized handbag to his truck two days after Johnson was last seen.

Defense attorneys called their first witness on Tuesday, asking an addictions counselor to testify about triggers and relapse in drug addiction. Johnson had struggled with heroin addiction but was seeking treatment from the methadone clinic at the time of her disappearance.

[...]

Green has a history of domestic violence. According to divorce filings from Nevada filed by Green’s ex-wife, Lorry Green, police were called to the home several times. He broke her arm in 2003, threatened her life and was verbally abusive, according to her divorce filings.

[...]

The defense was scheduled to continue its case Wednesday. Fehr, the judge, said the case could be sent to the jury for deliberations on Wednesday, as well.

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Defense attorney Gregory Paskell directs Gregory Green to a seat in the back of the courtroom during his deliberate homicide trial in the disappearance of Laura Johnson.
 
MAR 5, 2020
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...of-killing-girlfriend-in-montana-body-missing
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Jurors deliberated for just over two hours before finding Green, 54, guilty of deliberate homicide in the Sept. 13, 2018, death of Johnson, 49. A sentencing date has not been set.

Video evidence and Green's actions after Johnson went missing from a Billings residence were key to the conviction.

Prosecutors presented a video captured at Walmart, showing Green with an abrasion on the side of his face. Video obtained from a neighbor's surveillance camera showed Johnson going into the house she shared with Green, but never leaving. The same neighbor's video showed Green carrying a heavy object out of the house covered in a blanket. Blood belonging to Johnson was found in the back of Green's pickup truck, investigators testified.

The manager of the property Green was renting said he sought reimbursement for several repairs to the residence, some for as little as $3.02, but did not seek reimbursement for the $250 cost of replacing the carpet and carpet pad in a bedroom, The Billings Gazette reported.

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Family of missing woman at man's homicide sentencing: 'He discarded her as a piece of trash'

It was a morning of emotional, heartbreaking but ultimately restrained testimony.
Much of the testimony given at the sentencing hearing Friday focused on asking District Court Judge Jessica Fehr to give Green the maximum sentence allowed under the law and asking to Green to divulge where he hid Johnson's body.

“We just want to bring our mom back home," said Jonathan Johnson, who participated by video.

"He has discarded her as a piece of trash and then declined to help" authorities find her, Howard Johnson, Laura Johnson's estranged husband, said over video.

In all, eight family members testified in court, some by video and others through written statements.
 
PommyMommy said:
MAR 3, 2020
Defense begins in trial of man accused of killing missing girlfriend
Prosecutors on Tuesday wrapped up their case against a Nevada man charged with killing his girlfriend in 2018.

[...]

Gregory Scott Green is accused of killing 49-year-old Laura Johnson on Sept. 13, 2018. The case is being tried without a body, autopsy, cause of death, or murder weapon. Police did find stains in Green’s truck made by Johnson’s blood.

Testimony on the fifth day of trial showed that Green exerted enough control over his girlfriend to prevent her from carrying cash at times, although she worked as a pizza delivery driver and made cash tips.

[...]

Jurors also saw on Tuesday side-by-side photos of Johnson posing roughly three weeks before her disappearance, holding a handbag, and a still frame of Green caught on a neighbor’s surveillance camera carrying a similarly shaped and sized handbag to his truck two days after Johnson was last seen.

Defense attorneys called their first witness on Tuesday, asking an addictions counselor to testify about triggers and relapse in drug addiction. Johnson had struggled with heroin addiction but was seeking treatment from the methadone clinic at the time of her disappearance.

[...]

Green has a history of domestic violence. According to divorce filings from Nevada filed by Green’s ex-wife, Lorry Green, police were called to the home several times. He broke her arm in 2003, threatened her life and was verbally abusive, according to her divorce filings.

[...]

The defense was scheduled to continue its case Wednesday. Fehr, the judge, said the case could be sent to the jury for deliberations on Wednesday, as well.

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Defense attorney Gregory Paskell directs Gregory Green to a seat in the back of the courtroom during his deliberate homicide trial in the disappearance of Laura Johnson.
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God forgive me, but I saw the photo of him with a mask on and thought to myself that the mask made him more human.

I thought worse than that, too, but keeping it kind.......although he doesn't deserve it.
 
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