1. Several men confronted the victim at a toga party at the 48th Street
house in the days or weeks before her death and used physical force to attempt to get her
into an upstairs bedroom in the house. The
men had to be forcibly removed from the party. Derek
was not involved in this incident.
2. In the days or weeks before her death, the
victim had spent at least one night in the bed of another housemate (Michael Bain) with
that housemate.
3. In another case, the Virginia Court of
Appeals granted a defendant in a murder case a rare full hearing after allegations that
Shaun Squyres, the lead investigator in the Barnabei case, essentially bribed him into
signing a statement implicating two other individuals in the murder by conditioning a
prison visit by his girlfriend on his willingness to sign the statement.
4. One of the other housemates, David Wirth,
was arrested in 1997 in Schaumburg, Illinois, on charges of aggravated assault for
threatening a woman honking a car horn outside of his home with a shotgun. Wirth pled guilty to the charge and was sentenced
to supervision in September 1998.
5. Serious questions have been raised about
whether certain evidence in the case was planted. For
example, certain items were allegedly found on shore near where the victim was located. However, testimony concerning the tides in the
Lafayette River suggests that she was not placed in the water near the place she was
found. This raises the specter of evidence
planting.
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