{"id":237419,"date":"2010-01-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/the-trial-scott-roeder-day-three"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:09:38","slug":"the-trial-of-scott-roeder-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237419","title":{"rendered":"The Trial of Scott Roeder: Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tCarolyn Marie Fugit is covering the trial of Scott Roeder on assignment for RH Reality Check<\/em>.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to see her report from Day One and Two.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nOn the third day of Scott Roeder’s trial for the murder of
\nDr. George Tiller testimony was heard from Wichita Police Department detectives and
\nofficers, Sheriff’s deputies, FBI Special Agents, and clerks, all of whom talked about the days their paths crossed with Roeder.\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nThe Sunday morning of May 31st 2009, Lt. Kenneth Landwehr, commander of
\nthe homicide squad, received a call that there had been a shooting. After being
\nbriefed and examining the crime scene, Landwehr worked with other law
\nenforcement agencies in Kansas and other states, issuing a BOLO, "Be on
\nthe lookout." He talked with the District Attorney about possible other
\ntargets and notified Nebraska. Other officers, including Jason Bartel, were checking
\nwith every hotel in Wichita to see if Roeder had checked in. Saturday, he
\nchecked into the Garden Inn near Kellogg and Rock, about three miles south of
\nthe church. The week before, he had stayed at the Starlight Motel, about a mile
\nand a half west of the Garden Inn on Kellogg, the major highway through
\nWichita.\n<\/p>\n

\nSandy Michael had the misfortune of checking Roeder out
\nof the hotel on Sunday, May 31. She remembered he seemed "happy-go-lucky" and
\nfriendly as he checked out. He had paid with cash and used a coupon \u2013 readily available
\nthroughout Wichita \u2013 reducing the rate for the night to just under $40. He
\narrived the night before around 6:10 pm and left Sunday around 9:30 am, on his
\nway to the church.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn Johnson County, Kansas, approximately three hours
\nnortheast of Wichita via the fastest highway route, Johnson County Deputy
\nAndrew Lento patrolled his area of the county. It is usually "very
\nquiet" Sunday mornings in the furthest south patrol of the county. That
\nmorning around 10:40 am, he was informed of a BOLO for a car with Johnson County
\nplates. Lento let other officers north of him aware of his plan: at about 1 pm,
\nhe would go as far south as he was permitted on I-35 and wait in the median; if
\nhe saw the car, he would follow it north until they could back him up. They had
\nbeen informed the driver was armed, making this a high-risk traffic stop
\nneeding at least 3 officers. A half hour later, he saw a light colored car
\nheaded towards him, the shiny K-State Wildcat vanity plate visible nearly a
\nhalf mile away. He got behind the car and confirmed the plate number as the one
\nthey were looking for. A few miles later, they pulled him over and took
\nhim into custody<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe car was sealed for evidence, and Roeder
\ntaken to the county jail where Lento took several pictures of Roeder, dressed
\nin a denim shirt and black slacks. He noticed some blood spots on a shoe and
\nhis slacks. On cross examination, Steve Osburn asked if the car made any
\nattempts to leave the highway once Lento’s car got behind him. Lento said he
\ndid not and agreed with Osburn that Roeder complied and did not resist his
\narrest.\n<\/p>\n

\nAfter Roeder’s car arrived in Wichita, Crime Scene
\nInvestigator Andrew Maul began his investigation. First thing he pointed out to
\nthe jury were a few light brown splashes. He had been told that an usher \u2013 Keith
\nMartin \u2013 had thrown a cup of coffee at the car as it drove away.\u00a0 In the
\nphotographs, we can see some landed on the hood, on the roof, and on the
\npartially-opened window. He informs us the splatters he saw were consistent
\nwith the throwing of a coffee cup. Inside the car, he found a white shirt with
\nbrown spots on it, two ties, live rounds under a seat, a box of ammunition,
\nseveral papers from the driver’s side visor \u2013 bulletin from the church for May
\n24; a welcome pamphlet; another handout , this time with Rev. Lowell
\nMichelson’s name and phone number; another handout from the service on May 30
\nwith a note written on it; card from the Garden Inn; and a check copy from a
\ncheckbook made out to the Bullet Hole \u2013 car registration information in the
\nglove box, and an insurance card in the names of David and Karen Roeder. He
\nalso found a "nasty-looking, serrated, sheath-type knife," he said,
\nunder the front passenger seat and more bullets in the back. He showed us the
\nwhite shirt with coffee stains \u2013 Keith Martin’s doing all the way back in
\nWichita.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn Kansas City, Missouri, FBI Special Agent Andrew Alvey
\nwas asked to look for evidence in the house where Roeder lived. Earlier, the
\naddress from Roeder’s driver’s license and car registration were searched only
\nto find no one had lived there in a while. Alvey went in and found a bedroom in
\ndisarray. On the bed lay an open and empty suitcase, an empty gun box laying in
\nfront of it. In the living room lay a calendar underneath a remote control. He
\nalso found a receipt for ammo from the Bullet Hole and a church bulletin from
\nReformation Lutheran for August 24, 2008.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe hear from three employees of Jayhawk Pawn and Jewelry
\nin Lawrence who helped Roeder purchase a small .22 caliber handgun and some
\nammunition. One explained to him they only carried two brands of ammo for that
\nsize gun \u2013 a low velocity and a high velocity. Since Roeder had said he wanted
\nthe gun for target practice, it was recommended that he buy the low velocity as
\nit is not as loud. However, it had to be loaded from the top of the gun, not in
\nthe magazine, one at a time. As he checked out Roeder, buying one of each kind,
\nRoeder chit chatted with another patron he had been talking to beforehand.
\nLater that day, Roeder and another man went to High Plains Gun Shop in Topeka.
\nRoeder said his gun was not working right. The gun, we hear, was dirty, dry,
\nand the handle was held on with electrical tape. It was not working properly,
\nhe was told, because he was using the wrong ammunition. While the owner of the
\nshop fixed the gun, Roeder asked about proper ammo. He bought two different
\nkinds, some gun oil, and a bumper sticker. Roeder and the man he came in with
\nspent about half an hour in the store.\n<\/p>\n

\nMonday morning, Highway Trooper Denton Murray received a
\nphone call from a man calling himself David Roeder. His daughter had received a
\nphone call from the media asking about Scott. David was concerned the gun used
\nto kill Dr. Tiller had his fingerprints on it. As it was explained to Murray,
\nScott went to Topeka Saturday afternoon for some target practice at his
\nbrother’s. The two went to High Plains Gun Shop when the gun would not shoot
\nproperly. Murray and FBI Special Agent Michael Miller went out to David’s house
\nin a more rural part of Shawnee County. On June 1st and 2nd, Miller found
\nseveral shell casings and a few bullets on David’s property. They had been told
\nDavid owns two guns that Scott use to own \u2013 a 9 millimeter and an assault
\nrifle. He says while they were told the 9 millimeter gun had been used for
\ntarget practice in the past, they had not found any spent casings for it those
\ndays, only for the 22. They did not identify what type of shells they found as
\nthey "let the scientists back in the lab make that determination."\n<\/p>\n

\nToday, we learned how Roeder was apprehended, what he had
\nin his car on May 31st, that he stayed overnight in Wichita both the night
\nbefore and the week before, that he had purchased a gun two weeks earlier, and
\nthat just the day before, he had his gun fixed, bought the correct ammunition,
\nand made sure his gun worked before he found his way into a special Pentecostal
\nservice at Reformation Lutheran Church. The day before he finally carried out
\nhis plan to assassinate Dr. George Tiller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carolyn Marie Fugit is covering the trial of Scott Roeder on assignment for RH Reality Check.\u00a0 Click here to see her report from Day One and Two. On the third day of Scott Roeder’s trial for the murder of Dr. George Tiller testimony was heard from Wichita Police Department detectives and officers, Sheriff’s deputies, FBI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}