Lawyer for stepDaddy charged w/strangling & dumping 14 y.o.girl-slave,says he will argue that at-large serial killer in No.CA committed the murder
Joe1orbit
Not much news on the serial killer front today. Haven't been able to find ANY
significant updates on the newly discovered Colombian serial killer of
children, who made a splash on the news wires just before I left on my trip. Oh
well, I'll keep looking. Meanwhile, I found the below news item that mentions
serial killers, but in fact deals with a Daddy in CA who is soon to go on trial
for strangling his 14 year old stepdaughter to death, back in 1995.
Douglas Mouser is the name of our stepDaddy, and he is apparently a very
wealthy and successful computer expert. As such, he has retained a top quality
defense lawyer, who intends to challenge the prosecution's case on several
different levels. Cops believe that our slave murderer became enraged at 14
year old Genna following a family argument. He strangled her to death, stripped
off her clothes, threw her into his car, transported her to an isolated creek,
and dumped the body. I THINK he was TRYING to make this killing look like the
work of a SERIAL killer. He did NOT sexually assault the 14 year old girl.
Now, his lawyer tells us below that he will argue to the jury that his client
is innocent and that Genna WAS killed by an unknown and at-large serial killer.
A number of girls and young women have been found murdered & dumped in Northern
CA in recent years, with the crimes remaining unsolved, and our high priced
lawyer will try to use this fact to get his client acquitted. Interesting to
note how a serial killer CAN sometimes HELP his fellow enraged predators get
away with murder, in a totally inadvertent manner, based upon this scenario,
with lawyers for OTHER accused killers arguing to a jury that the killing their
client is accused of is actually the work of the at-large serial killer.
It's not a bad type of a defense at all, especially if there HAVE been other
unsolved killings in the area and there is very little solid forensic evidence
linking the accused to the one murder. Both of these situations seem to be
applicable in this case.
We learn that the ONLY piece of seriously incriminating "evidence", if you
want to call it that, comes from a photogrammetry forensic expert, based in
Canada, who says that After analyzing autopsy and other photographs, I was able
to match marks and indentations on Gamble's right leg with a carpet pattern and
seat-belt buckle found in the back seat of the Mouser's Honda Civic." Other
experts say that the marks & indentations occured after 14 year old Genna had
already been murdered. Bottom line is that Douglas's lawyer is trying to get
ALL of the findings and testimony of this "photogrammetry" scientist thrown
out, due to the fact that this type of crime scene analysis is NOT respected or
recognized as being positively conclusive and incriminating in USA courts.
If there IS a genuine serial killer operating in Northern CA, and if he
reads this news article, I bet he'd be tickled pink that a defense attorney is
trying to USE him to get his own client, on trial for murder, acquitted.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 1/6/99 online edition of The Modesto
Bee newspaper:
January 6, 1999
Defense challenges expert
By Michael G. Mooney
Bee staff writer
(Published: Wednesday, January 06, 1999)
A key legal battle in the case against Douglas Mouser, the computer expert
accused of strangling his stepdaughter, likely will be played out in a nearly
empty courtroom well before his murder trial gets under way.
If defense attorney Richard Herman of Modesto gets his way, the jury in the
Mouser trial never will hear the testimony of a Canadian forensics expert
considered crucial to the prosecution's case. Jury selection is scheduled to
begin March 22.
"No court in California," Herman said Tuesday, "has ever allowed this type
of testimony."
The lawyer is seeking a special hearing before Stanislaus County Superior
Court Judge Donald E. Shaver in an effort to block the expert's testimony. No
date has been set for that hearing.
Mouser, who once held a top-secret security clearance at Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory, is charged in the October 1995 slaying of Genna Lyn Gamble. The
girl was a 14-year-old Beyer High School freshman at the time of her death.
Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department investigators believe Mouser killed
her during a family argument that turned violent. They say she was strangled
before her nude body was dumped along Dry Creek near a walnut orchard north of
Waterford. Gamble had not been sexually assaulted.
Herman, however, said Gamble may have been the victim of a serial killer who
targets teen-age girls. The lawyer said he is seeking information from a host
of police agencies in Northern California, including Merced, who are
investigating the slayings or disappearances of a number of teen-age girls.
"We're trying to ascertain if there's a connection between Genna's death and
these other deaths and disappearances. I'm both professionally and personally
convinced of Doug Mouser's innocence. He did not participate in the death of
his stepdaughter."
Gary Robertson, the Canadian practitioner of the obscure science of
photogrammetry, first raised Herman's ire in February, during Mouser's
three-day preliminary hearing.
Photogrammetry uses mathematical calculations to extract measurements from
photographs. The technique has been used for years in aerial surveying as well
as in investigations of automobile accidents and plane crashes.
Robertson, through the use of digital technology, computers and specialized
software that he developed, has adapted photogrammetry for use in criminal
investigations.
Herman said he's not challenging photogrammetry itself. Instead, the lawyer
is calling into question the methodology developed by Robertson and whether
it's accepted by the scientific community.
Robertson's appearance at Mouser's preliminary hearing last year marked the
first time he had testified as an expert in a criminal proceeding in the United
States.
After analyzing autopsy and other photographs, Robertson said he was able to
match marks and indentations on Gamble's right leg with a carpet pattern and
seat-belt buckle found in the back seat of the Mouser's Honda Civic.
Other experts testified the marks and indentations occurred after Gamble was
dead.
Capt. Myron Larson, who led the sheriff's investigation into Gamble's death,
said Robertson's testimony represents "just a small piece of evidence in a
large case."
He continued: "We worked countless hours over a two-year period on this
case. A lot of evidence has been gathered in the course of this investigation.
Expert witnesses (like Robertson) are only part of it."
Larson also was skeptical of Herman's theory that Gamble had been the victim
of a serial killer who remained on the loose.
"It's been my experience," Larson said, "that it's not uncommon for defense
attorneys to establish any type of smoke-screen in defense of their clients."
He said sheriff's investigators checked out all leads.
"It took a couple of years to charge (Mouser) with this crime," Larson said.
"The arrest was based upon evidence gathered during that time. We don't charge
people with any crime without substantial evidence."