Thursday, March 17, 2016

LONNIE FRANKLIN, JR. PLAYS DUMB!


Jurors Watch Video of Detectives Interrogating Serial Killer Lonnie Franklin Jr.



The "Grim Sleeper" brutally killed 10 women before he was caught.


Posted: 03/16/2016 01:08 PM EDT
Jurors Watch Video of Detectives Interrogating Serial Killer Lonnie Franklin Jr.

Lonnie Franklin Jr., the serial murderer known as the "Grimp Sleeper," has been on trial since February 16 for the murder of 10 women between the years of 1988 and 2002 in Los Angeles. This week, the jury got their first glimpse at seeing the killer speak.

Jurors were shown videotapes in which two LAPD detectives interviewed Franklin about the murders soon after he was apprehended. In the video, Franklin denied knowing any of the victims, despite the fact that his DNA was connected to all of them. "You've never seen that girl before?" one detective asked, raising a picture of victim Janecia Peters. "I know a lot of people, but I don't know her," Franklin replied. "I haven't killed anybody."

The video is a major aspect of the prosecutors' case, which also includes DNA and ballistics that connect Franklin to the women, which they hope will prove he's a sociopathic liar.

The major pieces of evidence include a slice of pizza that Franklin has discarded that matched genetic material found at some of the killing sites, a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun, which two criminalists have testified was the gun used to shoot Peters, and the greatest piece of evidence in the case: the lone woman who survived one of Franklin's alleged attacks, Enitra Washington. Washington testified earlier in the trial that Franklin was the man who shot her back in 1988.

"You know what the news calls you?," former LAPD detective Dennis Kilcoyne said. "I know damned well you know."

"The Reaper?" Franklin said.

"The Grim Sleeper," Kilcoyne corrected.

Reactions to the hour-long interrogation video of Lonnie Franklin, Jr.


The case has left many wondering why, despite plenty of evidence and even a witness, Franklin was able to kill for nearly 15 years before he was caught. Did it have to do with the fact that most of his victims were Black women? Franklin has pled not guilty to the case, but the mountain of evidence against him makes it unlikely he'll be found so.

Below is a report from the courthouse reporter and a relative watching the video. I tried to get the actual video, but was unable, although this shows sketches.

Reports from the courthouse about the video and Franklin's reaction
Kilcoyne eventually told Franklin that the DNA "only connects to one person in the world. That's only Mr. Lonnie Franklin who has the DNA make-up that's found on those young ladies right there. So, how in God's name is that possible?''
"I don't know,'' Franklin responded.
When shown a photo of 34-year-old Henrietta Wright, whose body was discovered in an alley in August 1986, Franklin responded that she looked "butt ugly.'' He denied knowing her.
When shown a photo of Bernita Sparks, who was found dead in a trash bin in April 1987, Franklin said that she looked "fat.''
"It's not like we picked your name out of a hat,'' Coulter told the defendant. "It's all linked to you.''
Franklin again responded, "I don't know these people.''
Kilcoyne told Franklin that "the science has caught up with you'' and urged him to "man up'' to what he had done.
When asked how he could explain why his DNA was linked with the victims, Franklin responded, "I can't explain it.''
"It's not me,'' he said, when Kilcoyne said he and his fellow detectives were "having a chat with the Grim Sleeper.''
"How did your DNA juice get on these bodies?'' Kilcoyne asked.
"I don't know,'' Franklin responded.
He maintained that he didn't kill anybody and reiterated that he didn't know any of the women and was going to have to get an attorney.
Police detectives then told him that he was going to be arrested on suspicion of 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder before asking him to swab the inside of his cheeks and leading him out of the room — apparently in handcuffs.
The nearly hourlong videotaped interview was shown to jurors as the prosecution nears the end of its case-in-chief against Franklin.
The prosecution is expected to rest its case Wednesday after calling members of the victims' families to the stand to identify the victims and to testify that none of their families are related to Franklin's family.
One of Franklin's attorneys, Seymour Amster, said the defense was reserving its opening statement until beginning its portion of the case.
In her opening statement last month, Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman told jurors that DNA and firearms evidence linked Franklin to the attacks.
"The evidence in this case will tell a story, a story of a serial killer who stalked the streets of South Los Angeles, a serial killer who is responsible for the murders of 10 women'' and the attempted murder of another woman, the prosecutor told jurors.
The killings occurred between 1985 and 1988, and 2002 and 2007, with the assailant dubbed the "Grim Sleeper'' because of the apparent 13-year break in the killings.
Most of the victims were shot in the chest or strangled, Silverman said.
The prosecutor said all of the victims were "connected to the same serial killer'' either through DNA evidence or firearms evidence.
"And that serial killer, ladies and gentlemen, is the defendant Lonnie Franklin,'' Silverman told the jury.
Eight of the victims were linked through firearms evidence, and DNA collected from seven of the victims was linked to the same male profile, she said, noting that the male profile was matched to "the defendant's unique DNA profile'' during an LAPD task force investigation into the killings.
Along with the shooting deaths of Wright and Sparks, Franklin is charged with murdering:
-- Debra Jackson, 29, who was found dead from three gunshot wounds to the chest in an alley on Aug. 10, 1985;
-- Barbara Ware, 23, who was shot once in the chest and found dead in an alley on Jan. 10, 1987;
-- Mary Lowe, 26, who was shot in the chest and found dead in an alley on Nov. 1, 1987;
-- Lachrica Jefferson, 22, who was found dead from two gunshot wounds to the chest in an alley on Jan. 30, 1988;
-- Alicia Alexander, 18, who was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest and found in an alley on Sept. 11, 1988;
-- Princess Berthomieux, 15, who was strangled and discovered in an alley in Inglewood on March 19, 2002;
-- Valerie McCorvey, 35, who was strangled with a ligature and found dead at the entrance to an alley on July 11, 2003; and
— Janecia Peters, 25, who was shot in the back and found dead inside a sealed plastic trash bag in a trash bin in an alley on Jan. 1, 2007.
Authorities said after Franklin's arrest that he was identified as a suspect using familial DNA — investigators determined that his son had DNA similar to the killer, and when they subsequently got Franklin's DNA, his genetic material allegedly matched forensic evidence from eight killings between 1985 and 1988, and three killings between 2001 and 2007.
Detectives have said since Franklin was taken into custody that they were also investigating whether he might be connected to the disappearances or deaths of eight other women whose photos were found in his home near 81st Street and Harvard Boulevard. 
Reactions to the Video

Thursday, March 10, 2016

WHO WOULD HAVE EVER THOUGHT A SLICE OF PIZZA WOULD SNAG A KILLER?!

Here's another update on Lonnie Franklin, Jr., "The Grim Sleeper,' who's currently on trial for killing ten women. This article tells you how he was found. I hope you find it as interesting as I did.



How an undercover LAPD detective posing as pizzeria busboy helped catch alleged 'Grim Sleeper' serial killer linked to at least 10 murders
  • Lonnie Franklin Jr, 63, is on trial for 10 murders and one attempted murder in Los Angeles' 'Grim Sleeper' case 
  • Franklin was arrested in 2010 after DNA evidence secretly collected from pizza parlor matched evidence from several crime scenes 
  • Undercover detective was sent to John's Incredible Pizza in July 2010 to pick up Franklin's plate and utensils for testing
  • A raid of Franklin's home yielded a handgun and 1,000 photographs of women

Eating a slice of pizza at a Buena Park, California, eatery on the afternoon of July 5, 2010, Lonnie Franklin Jr had no idea that a middle-aged busboy lurking nearby was watching his every move and waiting for a chance to get a hold of his dirty plate and used napkins.
Franklin also did not know was that the hardworking staffer at John's Incredible Pizza was, in fact, an undercover Los Angeles police detective, and that he was in the middle of a three-day sting operation to catch the elusive 'Grim Sleeper' serial killer.
Details of Franklin's dramatic capture emerged in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday. The 63-year-old man is on trial for allegedly killing nine women and a 15-year-old girl between 1985 and 2007 in one of the city's most notorious serial killer cases.
 
 Lonnie Franklin Jr, left, a suspect in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case, pictured in court on February 16, was arrested in 2010 after a sting operation involving an undercover detective posing as a pizza parlor bus boy
 Lonnie Franklin Jr, left, a suspect in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case, pictured in court on February 16, was arrested in 2010 after a sting operation involving an undercover detective posing as a pizza parlor bus boy
Elaborate ruse: The LAPD cop was sent to John's Incredible Pizza in Buena Park, California, to secretly collect Franklin's plate and utensils for DNA testing 
 
Elaborate ruse: The LAPD cop was sent to John's Incredible Pizza in Buena Park, California, to secretly collect Franklin's plate and utensils for DNA testing 
Franklin, a former garage attendant, has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
He has been behind bars awaiting trial for nearly six years since his arrest in 2010 based on DNA evidence collected by the enterprising cop masquerading as a pizza parlor employee, reported the Los Angeles Times. 
On that July afternoon five years ago, Franklin was eating pizza at a child's birthday party while the undercover cop was walking between tables at John’s Incredible Pizza carrying a plastic tub to collect dirty dishes.
Inside the bin, however, he had a separate metal pan reserved just for Franklin's trash.
 
In a CCTV video from the pizzeria that was played for the jury on Friday, Franklin is reportedly seen getting up from his table at the end of the meal and leaving the room where the birthday celebration was taking place.
With the suspect out of sight, the bogus busboy picks up Franklin’s plate and carefully deposits it in the metal container, covering it with a trey to avoid contaminating the evidence, which included a half-eaten slice of pizza; a fork; two napkins; two plastic cups, and a piece of chocolate cake.

 
Franklin, pictured in a mugshot from 1999 on the left and in court in August 2010 on the right, is suspected of killing 10 women between 1985 and 2007 
Judge Kathleen A. Kennedy wipes her eye while Prosecutor Beth Silverman, left, delivers her opening statement in the People vs. Lonnie Franklin Jr. trial which began on February 16
Judge Kathleen A. Kennedy wipes her eye while Prosecutor Beth Silverman, left, delivers her opening statement in the People vs. Lonnie Franklin Jr. trial which began on February 16
DNA samples collected from those items would eventually lead to Franklin’s arrest in the ‘Grim Sleeper’ case. 
Final victim: The groundwork for Franklin's capture had been laid in 2007, during the investigation of the shooting of 25-year-old Janecia Peters (pictured), whose naked body was found in the fetal position inside a trash bag
Final victim: The groundwork for Franklin's capture had been laid in 2007, during the investigation of the shooting of 25-year-old Janecia Peters (pictured), whose naked body was found in the fetal position inside a trash bag
The groundwork for Franklin's capture had been laid three years earlier, during the investigation of the January 2007 shooting of 25-year-old Janecia Peters, whose naked body was found in the fetal position inside a trash bag under a Christmas tree, about 5 miles south of Franklin’s home.

DNA evidence collected from Peters' crime scene matched samples linked to two other killings, but at the time police did not know to whom the DNA belonged.
Police decided to try and match the DNA found at the various crime scenes to see if they could identify a family member, to narrow down the search.

The year before, Franklin's son Christopher was found guilty of a weapons charge. As part of the legal process, his DNA had been entered onto a database. When officers ran the mystery DNA through the database, they found a partial match with Christopher Franklin.

But they still needed a sample from Franklin’s father, Lonnie, to test against the previously collected evidence, which is why the LAPD decided to send in the undercover detective posing as a busboy to John's incredible Pizza in July 2010.
When police searched Franklin Jr's home three days later, they discovered more than 1,000 photographs of women and several hundred hours of video. Two of the still images were of murder victims, including one who had just been shot in the chest when she was photographed. 

The raid on Franklin's residence on 81st Street in South Los Angeles also yielded a semi-automatic handgun, described by prosecutors on Monday as the murder weapon in the slaying of Janecia Peters, who is believed to be the 'Grim Sleeper's' final victim.

Officers raiding Franklin's house after his arrest found pictures of more than 1,000 women and videos 
Debra Jackson, 29, was killed on August 10, 1985
August 12, 1986 : Henrietta Wright - The 35-year-old was found dead in an alley near West Vernon Avenue. She was shot twice and wrapped in a blanket and covered in a mattress
Debra Jackson, 29, on August 10, 1985 (left) and Henrietta Wright, August 12, 1986 (right)
 August 10, 1985: Debra Jackson - A 29-year-old cocktail waitress who went to take a bus home after visiting her friend. 
Her body was found three days later with three gunshot wounds to the chest.
 
August 12, 1986: Henrietta Wright - The 35-year-old was found dead in an alley near West Vernon Avenue.
 She was shot twice and wrapped in a blanket and covered in a mattress.

Barbara Ware, 23, was found dead on January 10, 1987
Bernita Sparks, 26, murdered April 15, 1987
 January 10, 1987: Barbara Ware - The 23-year-old had been shot once in the chest and her body had been dumped under a pile of rubbish.
 
April 15, 1987: Bernita Sparks - 26-year-old went out to the shops but never returned. Her body was found in a bin, covered in rubbish. She had been shot, strangled and beaten.
October 31, 1987 : Mary Lowe - 26-year-old left home to go to a party, but never returned. Her body was found in an alley of Western Avenue.
January 30, 1988 : Lachrica Jefferson - Officers found the 22-year-old's body with a napkin over the face with the word 'AIDS' written on it.
 October 31, 1987: Mary Lowe - 26-year-old left home to go to a party, but never returned. Her body was found in an alley of Western Avenue.
 
January 30, 1988: Lachrica Jefferson - Officers found the 22-year-old's body with a napkin over the face with the word 'AIDS' written on it.
September 11, 1988 : Alicia Alexander - Another victim killed while going to the shops. The 18-year-old's body was also found in an alley near Western Avenue.

 September 11, 1988: Alicia Alexander - Another victim killed while going to the shops. The 18-year-old's body was also found in an alley near Western Avenue.
 
December 21, 2001: Princess Berthomieux - The end of the 14-year hiatus. DNA on the 14-year-old's body matched those of previous killings.
July 11, 2003: Valerie McCorvey - 35-year-old had been strangled and sexually assaulted
January 1, 2007 : Janecia Peters - 25-year-old was shot in the back and her body was dumped in a rubbish bag
 July 11, 2003: Valerie McCorvey - The 35-year-old had been strangled and sexually assaulted.
 
January 1, 2007: Janecia Peters - 25-year-old was shot in the back and her body was dumped in a rubbish bag.
 



 


 

Friday, February 26, 2016

"IF I DIE, I AM GOING TO HAUNT YOU!"

In the ongoing saga of Lonnie Franklin, Jr's trial that began February 16th, now ten days later, I thought you might be interested in reading the testimony of his only known survivor.

For many years, Lonnie Franklin Jr. hunted young black women, sexually assaulted them and then, shot or strangled them and dumped their bodies.

On one night during November 1988, Franklin drove down a Los Angeles street in his orange Ford Pinto and stopped when he spotted Enietra Washington. He offered her a ride to which she declined, but Franklin pushed a little harder.

Enietra Washington today.

Angry, he lashed out at her. “That’s what’s wrong with you black women?” he said. "People can’t be nice to you.”

Feeling sorry for him, she decided he was only being nice and she accepted.

According to records, Enietra Washington is the only survivor who came in contact with the man known as the "Grim Sleeper."


Lonnie Franklin, Jr. today at 63


On that fateful night, Franklin sexually assaulted her, shot her and then snapped a photo of her as a memento before pushing her out of his moving vehicle and left her to die. Thankfully, she's still alive to tell her story.

It was after that night that Franklin became the Grim Sleeper because of the long break he'd taken in between slayings.

Now, Franklin, faces 10 counts of murder for nine women and a 15-year-old girl, as well as Washington’s attempted murder. Here's a billboard showing the headshots of the women he's suspected of killing, but only 10 were able to identify him.



In court, Washington testified that she was on her way to a friend’s house when she accepted the ride during which Franklin told her he needed to stop by his uncle’s house to get some money. After that stop, she said he started acting strange, saying Washington was “dogging him out.” He even called her by another name while he was muttering. After that, things got “eerily quiet.”

And then, when she noticed blood leaking from her chest she realized she'd been shot. It seems odd to me that she didn't know she'd been shot, but those in the know tell me it's possible not to realize it. I don't know if it's shock or what. She asked him why? He never responded. Being a single mother of two children, she knew she needed a hospital and asked him to take her. He refused. Realizing she might become unconscious, she forced herself to remain conscious.

And after his refusal, that's when she told him,  ‘If I die, I am going to haunt you. You are going to have to take care of my kids.'”

During her testimony, Washington looked him directly in the eyes and said, “I thought I forgave you, but I was wrong. You stole so many people’s lives.”  He remained silent and emotionless.

It should be interesting to find out why, if we ever do, he went on the rampage.

Friday, February 19, 2016

JOEY 'THE ANIMAL' BARBOZA


Joseph “The Animal” Barboza



 Joe (the Animal) Barboza,  known as a Boston psychotic killer working as a mobster, was so vicious he “made Caligula look like a saint. (Caligula was known as a cruel and unpredictable leader during the Roman empire.)

After Barboza turned state's evidence in 1970, he tallied his violent crimes at 75 stabbings, 500 beatings and around 20 murders, give or take a few gut cleanses on corpses. He sounds like Hugh Glass in The Revenant, only he didn't gut them to survive, Barboza did it for the sheer pleasure of killing. He is known as the most feared hitman of the 60's, and achieved his moniker, "The Animal" during an incident at a nightclub when he bit out part of a man’s cheek after a disagreement.

For a while he pursued a career as a boxer, winning 8 out of his 12 fights under the moniker of “The Baron.” Despite several attempts to make a legitimate living he always returned to crime. In 1950 he served a 5 years sentence at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute, during which he assaulted guards and other inmates on numerous occasions. Three years into his sentence he escaped with fellow inmates, though was soon recaptured.

After his release, he became involved with big time gangsters and started his own burglary ring. Around this time he also began his first work as a hitman for the Patriarca Crime Family. Over the years the number of his victims grew, as did his reputation as a contract killer. His preferred murder weapon was a silenced pistol, though it is thought he also experimented with car bombs. Barboza soon became a powerful and respected figure in the criminal underworld; however his rash personality and violent reputation soon made him dangerous enemies.

After being imprisoned on murder charges, he learned that his old criminal friends were plotting to assassinate him.. That's when he agreed to testify against mob boss Raymond Patriarca, in return for protection by the FBI.


On Feb. 11, 1976, Barboza, living under the assumed name of Joe Donati, finally met his death when he left his San Francisco apartment and was hit by four shotgun blasts fired from a Ford van. The Animal was carrying a Colt .38, but never got the chance to use it.

Even F. Lee Bailey, his one-time lawyer learned of his death, he said, “With all due respect for my former client, I don’t think society has suffered a great loss.”
 

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE GRIM SLEEPER!

A while ago, I wrote about the Grim Sleeper and promised to keep you informed of his pending trial. Today, the trial began in Los Angeles, and CNN is reporting its coverage. The article written is so good, I'm pasting it in here for those of you who expressed interest. This article was written by Scott Glover from CNN.

Here's the link to the video that accompanied the article: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/16/us/lonnie-franklin-grim-sleeper-killer-trial/

Catch up on the 'Grim Sleeper' case

Story highlights

  • "Most of them were in various states of undress," prosecutor says of victims
  • Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is charged with killing one girl and nine women ranging in age from 15 to 35
  • The killing sprees occurred 13 years apart, inspiring the nickname the "Grim Sleeper" for the period of apparent inactivity
Los Angeles (CNN)Thirty years after the first of the Grim Sleeper serial killer victims was found fatally shot and discarded in a South Los Angeles alley, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is facing a jury in a downtown courtroom.
 
Franklin, a former garbage collector and police garage attendant, is charged with killing one girl and nine women ranging in age from 15 to 35 over a span of three decades. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Opening statements began Tuesday.
The killings for which Franklin is charged came in spurts that were 13 years apart, resulting in the nickname "the Grim Sleeper" for the period of apparent inactivity.
Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is accused of being the Los Angeles-area serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.
 
Franklin, 63, has pleaded not guilty. His attorney has promised a vigorous defense of the man neighbors described as friendly, helpful and reliable.
"All I can say is stayed tuned," said the lawyer, Seymour Amster.
 
The trial is expected to last two to three months, said Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman, the lead prosecutor on the case.
 
Silverman told the jury Tuesday that the murders "followed a pattern."
Victims were taken from a murder scene, and their bodies were dumped in alleys and trash bins, concealed by garbage or mattresses, the prosecutor said.
 
"Most of them were in various states of undress," she said in her opening statement. "Some were missing their bras. ... Some were missing their underwear."
 
All bodies were "Jane Does" when first discovered, and relatives had to identify them later.
 
"All tested positive for cocaine, except one," Silverman said of the autopsies.
 
The defense reserved its opening statements until after the prosecution completes its list of witnesses, at which point the defense will begin presenting its side to the jury.

A case with a lot of notoriety

The case has already spawned a documentary about Franklin, an "official" website and a made-for-TV movie about a local reporter whose stories for the LA Weekly drew attention to the case.
 
The LAPD has been both criticized for failing to alert the community sooner that there was a serial killer on the prowl (before Franklin was identified by name) and heralded for doggedly pursuing the case once the more recent slayings were discovered.
 
Evidence in the case will span three decades of policing in Los Angeles: From the murderous, crack-fueled 1980s, during which at least two serial killers were operating in South L.A., to the relative calm of the 2000s and the creation of an LAPD cold case unit charged with taking fresh looks at unsolved slayings, to the modern era of advanced DNA testing.
 
Prosecutors say they have tied Franklin to the killings with physical evidence, including saliva collected from bodies, and ballistic matches between slugs recovered from crime scenes and a .25 caliber handgun seized from Franklin's home the day he was arrested.
 
A woman alleged to be a surviving victim of Franklin is expected to be a star witness against him.
Enietra Washington was shot in the chest with a .25 caliber handgun and sexually assaulted before escaping. She has since identified Franklin as her assailant. In addition to the 10 counts of murder, Franklin is charged with one count of attempted murder in Washington's attack.

 

Back to the 1980s

The first killing spree attributed to Franklin began in the summer of 1985 and seemingly ended three years later. Police did not know his identity at the time but had linked seven slayings to the same .25 caliber handgun. The bodies of the victims were found scattered in alleys around South Los Angeles, often covered in debris.
 
The then-unknown killer apparently fell dormant for years.
 
Decades later, in 2007, LAPD homicide detectives got word from the department's forensic lab of "case to case hits" linking one person's DNA to unsolved slayings in 2002, 2003 and 2007, according to Detective Dennis Kilcoyne.
Detectives were unable to match the killer's DNA to any known samples contained in databanks. The department formed a task force, which soon discovered that the killings in the 2000s were connected to the unsolved spree in the 1980s, Kilcoyne wrote in a statement submitted to a congressional subcommittee investigating the use of DNA in so-called cold cases.
In 2008, detectives submitted crime scene DNA from both sprees to the California Department of Justice to conduct a "familia search" to determine whether a close relative of the unknown killer was in a state databank of convicted felons' DNA.
The search came back negative.
But a second attempt, conducted two years later, yielded a hit, Kilcoyne wrote. It matched the DNA to a recently convicted felon.
The criminal's father turned out to be Franklin, according to authorities.
Detectives placed Franklin under 24-hour surveillance and came up with a plan to obtain a sample of his DNA.
An undercover officer posed as a waiter at a local restaurant and collected a pizza crust left behind by the suspect. DNA taken from the crust matched DNA left by the suspect in multiple murders, Kilcoyne wrote.

An arrest and puzzled neighbors


When police raided his South Los Angeles home, they discovered photos and videos of 180 women. Police have since accounted for the identities and whereabouts of most of them, but the circumstances surrounding about 30 of the women remain unknown.
In the wake of Franklin's arrest, neighbors told reporters it was difficult to reconcile the charges with the pleasant, helpful man they knew.
Steve Robinson, who lived across the street from Franklin and said he knew him for more than 20 years, said he had no inkling that his friend could be capable of the acts he's alleged to have committed.
"He was just a good guy," Robinson said. But as the case heads to trial, Robinson said, "all the evidence points toward him."
"DNA don't lie," he added.
Silverman, the prosecutor, said multiple postponements of the long-awaited trial have taken a toll on the victims' loved ones.
The mothers of two of the victims died during the more than five years since Franklin's arrest, she said.
"That means they won't get to see justice for their daughters or be there for victim impact statements," if he's convicted, she said. "It's beyond frustrating."