2012年12月23日星期日

Contradictions abound in explosion case

Monserrate Shirley faces the real possibility of spending Christmas Day inside a cell at the Marion County Jail, seperated from her 12-year-old daughter.Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors.

If not by planning, her holiday incarceration is an advantageous convenience to investigators probing the explosion that leveled Shirley’s southside house November 10th as they look for a weak link to exploit in building their case in the fatal blast.

Shirley, her boyfriend Mark Leonard and his brother Bob Leonard, Jr., face a Christmas Eve morning initial hearing before Judge Shelia Carlisle In Marion Superior Court #3. Each of the accused faces two counts of murder plus conspiracy to commit arson and dozens more arson charges.

Investigators say they have the physical evidence, eyewitness accounts and anecdotal and historical recollections that could send the trio to prison for the rest of their lives.

A confession from one of the three suspects would tie the evidence together and go a long way toward the healing process that is only just now beginning in the Richmond Hill community where two neighbors died,Whether you are installing a floor tiles or a shower wall, 12 were injured, 80 homes were damaged and the losses total $4.4 million.

Home insurance companies will be expected to make up the bulk of that loss.

Citzens Energy Group, with a natural gas product that was allegedly misused and an employee who unwittingly may have provided technical expertise to the accused conspirators, may face exposure to financial damages.

And Moncy Shirley will most likely spend Christmas Eve in the Marion County Jail, her own state of mind described as, “paranoid,” by her boyfriend according to the Affidavit for Probable Cause filed by the Marion County Prosecutor.

Shirley and the Leonard brothers each have their own alleged criminal exposures and histories that will play into decisions to be made by defense attorneys yet to be assigned to the case.

Therein lies the first conflict, which will be addressed Monday morning in court.

Shirley and Mark Leonard are both currently represented by his attorney Randall Cable.

Cable has defended Leonard in the past on a drunk driving charge and currently in Warren Township small claims court on a case regarding a disputed automobile title.

Cable was also served with a judgement against his client by a woman who told Fox 59 News that Leonard stole $71,000 from her in a 2011 scam.

Cable cannot defend both Shirley and Leonard against the Richmond Hill charges. He must pick one client over the other.

Leonard has a history of perpetuating scams on women, according to the probable cause, as well as a reputation as a, “con man,” according to police reports and allegations of past arson and insurance schemes.Our technology gives rtls systems developers the ability.

One witness told police that Leonard hoped to profit $100,000 from the insurance settlement expected in the wake of the destruction of the home at 8349 Fieldfare Way. Leonard told that witness he was shopping on-line for a luxury sports car to purchase with the proceeds of the scheme. Leonard is also known to rack up large gambling debts. Leonard and Shirley spent the weekend of November 9th & 10th at the Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg. That’s where they were when they received word that Shirley’s house had blown up.

Leonard has served time in the Indiana Department of Corrections after conviction on charges of intimidation of an ex-girlfriend and said in an unrelated IMPD report that he would kill himself rather than return to prison to be, “punked,” on.

As the boyfriend of Shirley, Leonard is alleged to have failed in attempt to blow up her home the weekend before when he told an acquaintence, “the tsunami winds came down the chimney,Posts with indoor tracking system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. blew out the fire in the fireplace and the gas kept running and the house blew up.”

Sources tell Fox 59 News that the earlier attempt failed due to an insignificant ignition system and amount of natural gas introduced into the house. Neighbors told Fox 59 News that they spotted Moncy Shirley’s furniture in the driveway before the fatal blast as if it was being moved out of or back into the house. Attorney Cable said the furniture was being steam cleaned. Sources indicate the furniture was being cleaned to remove the natural gas and soot smell from the fabric as a result of the earlier failed attempt.

That furniture, along with other personal items inside the home, have never been discovered leading invesThe howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry,tigators to believe the belongings were removed in an anticipation of the explosion.

The Leonard brothers are alleged to have fine-tuned their plan on November 9th when they struck up a conversation with an employee of Citizens Energy Group. On November 29th, 19 days after the explosion, the employee, referred to as “AK” in the probable cause, told investigators that the Leonards spotted him at a southside business and peppered him with questions such as, “What is the difference between propane and natural gas?”, and, “how much gas would it take to fill a house?” and whether a gas regulator would continue to dispense gas into a house should a coupling be disabled?

In late November Fox 59 News reported that investigators had data from the home’s gas meter indicating an excessive flow of gas into the residence on the afternoon of November 10th, at the same time a neighbor told Fox 59 News that he had observed two men walking away from the house.

On November 21, Citizens Energy Group issued a statement that read, “Several media outlets have inquired about reports suggesting the meter at the home which exploded had a high reading on November 10th. These reports are inaccurate. Citizens’ gas meters do not have the ability to monitor daily usage.”

Said Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry Friday, “The examination of the gas meter at the house determined that there was a large volume of gas that was entering into the home in the six to nine hours prior to the explosion.”

Investigators determined that a metal cylinder was placed inside a microwave oven with a time-delayed start setting. Sources indicate a propane tank was purchased at a nearby camping and hunting retail store and may have been filled with propane to create a small bomb which would have set off the larger bomb that was the home filled with gas. Examination of the damaged tank for evidence of arcing which in of itself would be sufficient to cause an explosion is continuing.

The same neighbor who told Fox 59 News that he spotted two men at the house the day of the blast told investigators he could positively identify one of them as Bob Leonard, Jr., Mark Leonard’s older brother.

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