Teen Lesbian Couple Mary Chapa & Mollie Olgin Found Shot in Park

[yvross]

Mollie Olgin​

WOuld this be the survivor? Mary Kristene Chapa? The girl who died was Mollie Olgin.

And @Aslan If her parents and those around her are whispering about her 'accident' then that may be where she got the term....

I, too, would not call it an accident! I'd be more of a - 'when my life was forever changed!' 'when I was almost murdered alongside my friend!'

 

[CbabyRKO]

A man accused of fatally shooting a 19-year-old woman in a Portland park in 2012 has pleaded not guilty, defense attorney John Gilmore said.

David Malcom Strickland waived arraignment Thursday on the capital murder charge and hired Gilmore as his attorney. His trial is set to start Oct. 27 with a pretrial slated for Oct. 13, San Patricio district court officials said.
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Strickland also faces felony charges of kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault and robbery, said San Patricio County District Attorney Michael Welborn in August.

The United States Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and Texas Rangers arrested Strickland on June 20 at an apartment in the 12000 block of Bandera Road in Helotes.

His wife, Laura Strickland, also was arrested in Helotes that day.

Portland police believe Laura Strickland wrote a letter and left it at a Sinton home on June 11 detailing the 2012 assaults and shootings of Olgin and Chapa. The letter was addressed to Chapa’s father and written from the perspective of a hit man hired to kill her by David Strickland’s friend and former roommate in Utah, according to earlier arrest affidavits.

District Judge Starr B. Bauer set Laura Strickland’s bail at $150,000 June 30 with conditions she wear a GPS ankle monitor and live with her parents. She also would have to report to a probation officer twice a week and have no contact with Chapa or either of the victims’ families.

http://www.caller.com/news/local-ne...ds-notguilty-in-portland-murder-case_22680217

 

[CbabyRKO]

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[Farmer Jayne 1]

Going back to the hate crime thing (which I realize this is not), isn't the stipulation of hate crime more of a way to change the way they sentence a person? A murder is still a murder and investigated as such, but then when they get to court, if the crime is considered a hate crime there are different sentencing guidelines. I don't see that in the eyes of the investigators it makes it any less of a crime or changes how it is handled - unless it points to certain perpetrators. Let me know if I'm wrong, because I'm asking for info and/or your opinions, not trying to start something.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Jan. 31, 2019

David Strickland was not the person who killed a 19-year-old in a Portland park, and new DNA evidence proves it, attorneys for Strickland say.

Strickland was found guilty in the 2012 shooting at Portland Park that left 19-year-old Mollie Judith Olgin dead and her girlfriend Mary Kristene Chapa seriously injured. At the time, Strickland denied shooting and raping the girls.

In September 2016, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

In a Nov. 30 motion that was previously sealed, Strickland's attorney Cynthia Orr argues a different man whose DNA was found at the scene and on the surviving victim is actually responsible for the crime.

DNA testing was previously pending on a pubic hair found on Chapa. The type of DNA testing being done uses technology that wasn't available at the time of Strickland's trial.

"Not only was his DNA found on objects left at the crime scene, but a lab report now undeniably shows that the hair pulled from Kristine Chapa’s body is in fact (the man's) hair," the November motion states.

Strickland's appeal is still making it's way through the legal system.

Defense: New DNA results exonerate man convicted in 2012 double shooting in Portland

Newly unsealed documents reveal DNA results could exonerate a man convicted in the double shooting of two women in Portland.

www.caller.com