01-27-2014, 05:05 PM
MORE DETAILS/SUSPICIONS REVEALED IN AFFIDAVIT
A newly released search warrant affidavit obtained by CBS News' Crimesider indicates Chism may have recorded the crime on his smartphone before smashing it and discarding it. The warrant seeks to search the shattered phone.
Both Chism’s and Ritzer’s phones were found destroyed near a Danvers movie theater that Chism allegedly went to by himself and watched Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” at in the hours after the murder.
Chism told investigators he destroyed the phones so that authorities wouldn’t be able to track him, police say, according to the affidavit.
Massachusetts State Police Detective Steven Buccheri says in the affidavit that he believes the phones may hold evidence of Chism’s “planning, motive and memorialization of his crime."
"...It is not unusual for individuals involved in homicides, particularly sexually violent homicides, to memorialize their victims' deaths through photographic, audio or video media for further humiliation of the victim or later viewing, for guilt relief or for enjoyment," Buccheri wrote.
The affidavit says the teen admitted on Oct. 22 to killing his teacher but denied having sexual contact with her. Police say DNA tests show otherwise.
Chism had moved to Massachusetts from Clarksville, Tenn., before the beginning of the school year. Students told police that Chism stayed after school to receive extra help the day Ritzer was killed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/affidavit-ma...rs-murder/
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ETA: If LE's suspicions about Chism taping the crime turn out to be true, I'll be even more convinced that a potential serial killer was stopped young in this case and relieved that he made such a mess of his first kill (though feeling terribly for Colleen Ritzer and her family).
A newly released search warrant affidavit obtained by CBS News' Crimesider indicates Chism may have recorded the crime on his smartphone before smashing it and discarding it. The warrant seeks to search the shattered phone.
Both Chism’s and Ritzer’s phones were found destroyed near a Danvers movie theater that Chism allegedly went to by himself and watched Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” at in the hours after the murder.
Chism told investigators he destroyed the phones so that authorities wouldn’t be able to track him, police say, according to the affidavit.
Massachusetts State Police Detective Steven Buccheri says in the affidavit that he believes the phones may hold evidence of Chism’s “planning, motive and memorialization of his crime."
"...It is not unusual for individuals involved in homicides, particularly sexually violent homicides, to memorialize their victims' deaths through photographic, audio or video media for further humiliation of the victim or later viewing, for guilt relief or for enjoyment," Buccheri wrote.
The affidavit says the teen admitted on Oct. 22 to killing his teacher but denied having sexual contact with her. Police say DNA tests show otherwise.
Chism had moved to Massachusetts from Clarksville, Tenn., before the beginning of the school year. Students told police that Chism stayed after school to receive extra help the day Ritzer was killed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/affidavit-ma...rs-murder/
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ETA: If LE's suspicions about Chism taping the crime turn out to be true, I'll be even more convinced that a potential serial killer was stopped young in this case and relieved that he made such a mess of his first kill (though feeling terribly for Colleen Ritzer and her family).