Sept. 6, 2024
Chapter 83: A Romeo & Juliet Scenario-The Murder of Joanne Witt
Joanne Witt knew better than anyone that parenting wasn't always the easiest job in the world, but when her 14-year-old daughter, Tylar, started hanging around with a much older teen named Steven Colver, things got a lot more difficult. When Joanne...
Joanne Witt knew better than anyone that parenting wasn't always the easiest job in the world, but when her 14-year-old daughter, Tylar, started hanging around with a much older teen named Steven Colver, things got a lot more difficult. When Joanne banned steven from coming around her daughter with the threat of pressing charges, Tylar and Steven came up with a plan to get Joanne off their backs so they could be together forever.
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Hi guys. I'm Courtney and I'm Lisa, and welcome to
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the next chapter in the Book of the Dead. Brought
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to you by dark Cast Network indie podcasts with a twist. Hello, Hello,
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Welcome to the next chapter in the Book of the Dead.
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The story I have for you today is about forbidden
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love and the lengths someone would go to to get
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what they want. A story where the perpetrators were likened
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to a twisted version of Romeo and Juliet. As most
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of you know, having probably read the famous Shakespeare play
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in school, Romeo and Juliet star cross lovers took their
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own lives to be together. They were from rival families
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and their love was forbidden, so they took matters into
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their own hands. Like Romeo and Juliet, the lovers in
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this story were prohibited from being together and they took
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drastic measures to change this. This is the murder of
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joe Anne Witt. Joe Anne Witt was born in Santa Clara, California,
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to Norb and Judy Wit on January twenty fifth, nineteen
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sixty two. She was described as a gourmet chef and
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a devoted friend. Norbes said quote she never had a
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bad word to say about anybody. She was one of
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four children in the whit household. She had two brothers
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and a sister, and when she was in her thirties,
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she became a single mother, raising a daughter she named
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Tyler in El Dorado Hills, California now El Dorado Hills
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is a suburb of Sacramento, California, with a population of
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over fifty thousand. It reportedly has a low crime rate,
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which a lot of appeal, and it's also very expensive.
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According to payscale dot com, the housing expenses are one
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hundred and forty seven percent higher than the national average,
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and utilities are twelve percent higher. Transportation fare like buses
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and gas are twenty two percent higher, and the cost
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of groceries is eight percent higher. Obviously, to live in
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an area like this, one needs to have a good job,
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and Joanne did. She had a master's degree in mechanical
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engineering and worked as an engineer for El Dorado County.
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According to ABC News, she and the father of her
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child broke up while Joanne was still pregnant with Tyler,
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and she raised her by herself. Joanne and Tyler lived
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in a gated community and Joanne provided Tyler with as
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many opportunities as she could, like acting classes and writing lessons,
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and taking Tyler on various traps hips. Tyler told twenty
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twenty how her mom was a skilled cook and very
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much a tomboy as well as an accomplished engineer. Tyler
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said quote, she was a lot like a dad. What
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other mom catches snakes and lizards and puts them into
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an aquarium. I don't think I ever appreciated what my
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mom did for me. When you were a kid, the
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only thing that you see are parents doing stuff for
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you and then punishing you. Now, Joanne and Tyler did
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have a tumultuous relationship, beginning from very early on. When
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Tyler was in preschool, she had shown up to class
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with suspicious bruises, and according to what Joanne's sister Mary
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told ABC, Joanne admitted to getting angry while driving Tyler
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to school and pulled over, dragging Tyler from the car,
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smacking her, and hitting Tyler with a belt. This was
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reported and Tyler was removed from Joanne's care while she
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was ordered to attend anger management classes. Joane completed the
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classes and vowed that it would never happen again. It
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never did, but Tyler and Joanne's relationship continued to suffer
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as Tyler grew into a teenager. Tyler claims this was
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due to a secret drinking problem that Joanne had, but
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I couldn't substantiate that. What I can tell you is
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that reportedly Joanne was trying really hard. But parents and
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children argue, and many of these arguments stems from Tyler
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wanting to know who her father was. Joanne wouldn't tell her,
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and Mary claimed it was because Joanne didn't want him
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in their lives. However, according to Joanne's friend Rock San Jergeit,
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Joanne lived in fear of disciplining Tyler too strongly in
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the event Tyler would call CPS. Tyler apparently took advantage
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of this fear and would make veiled threats about calling
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if her mom told her no when she wanted to
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do something. In December of two thousand eight, Joanne was
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forty seven and Tyler was fourteen when she started spending
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time at a local coffee shop. According to medium dot com,
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at this coffee shop is where Tyler met nineteen year
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old Stephen Culver. Stephen had just started at the local
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community college. He dressed in black gothic clothing, and Tyler
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was completely enamored by him. They started talking almost every day,
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and before long they had entered into a sexual relationship,
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something that Tyler hid from Joanne. To her mother, who
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was concerned about the possibility of Tyler dating Stephen given
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their age gap, Tyler said they were just good friends.
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He was like a big brother to her. She also
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told joe Anne that Stephen, who went by the nickname Boston,
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was gay. Now Joanne seemed to believe her daughter, even
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though others in their lives had their reservations, but Tyler
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continued to see him, saying that he was a great
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listener and he was there for her. Quote. I had
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had a really bad day. I called him up and
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said I just needed someone to talk to. He would
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come by my house and we would just talk. But
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Stephen was also introducing Tyler to things that were dangerous.
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According to Joanne's father, Norb he told ABC quote, he
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had a fourteen year old that looked at him as
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a god. I mean he had total control over her.
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We knew that drugs were involved. They were into marijuana,
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ex c cocaine. What does that do to someone's mind?
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A few months into their relationship. In March or April
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of two thousand and nine, Joanne was looking for someone
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to rent a room in her house to help with
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the mortgage payment, and Tyler suggested that Steven be the
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one to move in now. According to all sources, everyone
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in joe Anne's life told her that Stephen moving in
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was a very bad idea. Norbes said quote no one,
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every friend she had, everyone in the family did not
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want him in there. But Joanne was very strong willed,
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so Stephen moved in. Joe Anne said that he could
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be there to help Tyler with her homework, and he
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would be paying five hundred dollars a month in rent
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to help out with the mortgage. However, Joanne would soon
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grow suspicious about Tyler and Steven's relationship, noticing that they
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were far closer than she had anticipated. On May fourteenth,
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according to Medium, Joanne went looking for Tyler in the
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house but couldn't find her, so she knocked on Stephen's door.
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After a few minutes, Steven opened the door. He was
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shirtless and in the closet naked was Tyler, hiding and
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covering herself with her discarded clothing. Joanne immediately decided that
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Stephen needed to go, so she called up two of
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her coworkers to help get Stephen out of the house.
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Vinnie Capetano told ABC, quote, she said she was going
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to kick Stephen out and she didn't want to be
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there alone. So Vinnie and the other coworker came in
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brought all of Stephen's belongings to the curb. Vinnie said, quote,
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the first thing I said to him is if it
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was me, you'd be in jail right now. Joanne did
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want to call the cops, mind you, but Tyler begged
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her not to. Joanne told Stephen that she wouldn't if
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he cut all contact with her daughter, and Vinnie said,
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in an effort to intimidate Stephen into leaving Tyler alone, quote,
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you know, if you make contact with Tyler again, either
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by phone or in person, I'm going to hurt you,
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and I'm going to hurt you East Coast style, not
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West Coast style. But Stephen was unfazed by threats of
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Bottler harm or the police because he and Tyler continued
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to see each other while Joanne was working or late
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at night while joe Aanne was asleep. A few days
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after the discovery, of their relationship. Tyler disappeared to a
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friend's house, and Joanne, in a panic, called the police
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and told them about what had happened with Stephen. When
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Tyler was found later that day, police questioned her about
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having a sexual relationship with Stephen, but she denied it.
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According to Medium, she admitted being in his room without
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clothes on, but she claimed she was trying on different
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outfits to get his opinion when her mom walked in,
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it was just a misunderstanding. Police pulled Stephen into the
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station to speak to him as well, but his story
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was the same as Tyler's. Lacking proof, the police let
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Tyler go back home and nothing happened regarding an arrest.
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After this incident with the police, Tyler and Joanne's relationship
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continued to deteriorate. She was still talking to and seeing
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Stephen behind Joanne's back, and Joanne was frustrated with her
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daughter's rebellion. This led to explosive arguments between the two,
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and Tyler started making claims to CPS that Joanne was
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beating her, but there was never any evidence to prove that.
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No bruises, no marks, nothing. At some point, the police
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recalled by Tyler pretending to be Joanne, saying that her
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daughter had assaulted her, hoping the police would remove her
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from her mother's custody because in Tyler's mind, being in
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juvie was better than being with her mom. Now, Joanne
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did get on the phone trying to explain the situation
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and told the dispatcher that she didn't know she was
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safe in her home, as Tyler had started throwing things
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at her, and that she had in fact attacked joe Anne.
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She had a cut on her chin and bruises on
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her arm. So Tyler was placed in a juvenile detention center,
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but ultimately released when Joanne decided not to press charges.
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Yes the situation would escalate, however, when Joanne found Tyler's
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diary in June of two thousand and nine. In the diary, Tyler,
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much to Joanne's horror, had written a detailed account of
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all of her sexual encounters to Stephen. It was cold,
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hard proof that Stephen had committed statutory rape. In the diary,
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Tyler also had written multiple times that she wished death
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on her mother for trying to keep Stephen away, something
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that she had also told her friends as well. Joanne
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brought the diary to the police and showed them the
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evidence they needed to arrest Stephen. Now to give you
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an understanding of the age of consent laws and statutory
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rape in California, because it's different depending on where you live,
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I'll give you a quick rundown. According to Goodelinlaw dot com,
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the age of consent in California is eighteen years old,
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meaning that someone under the age of eighteen is considered
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a minor and cannot consent to sexual activity. A person
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engaging in sexual acts with someone under eighteen can be
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charged with statutory rape. Now. Statutory rape is defined as
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a criminal offense that occurs when someone engages in sexual
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activity with someone under the age of eighteen, regardless of
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whether or not the minor consents. The consequences vary depending
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on the degree of the charge. If an adult engages
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in sexual activity with a minor and there is less
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than a three year age gap, they will be charged
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with the misdemeanor, which carries a maximum sentence of one
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year in jail. If the miner is over three years younger,
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the charge can be a misdemeanor or a felony, and
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the felony conviction carries a jail term of one to
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three years. If the adult is twenty one or older
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and the miner is sixteen or younger, the adult will
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be charged with felony and the jail sentence can vary
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from one to four years. Now, again, these are statutory
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charges or consequences for statutory charges, which is different than
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sexual abuse relating to a child. They're two totally different things,
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which is why the sentence is not as harsh. Now,
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some people may hear this and go they should be
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getting more, and it obviously would depend on the situation.
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But again, these are statutory charges. They're different. In Stephen
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and Tyler's case, Stephen was potentially looking at a felony
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charge as Tyler was at minimum four years younger than him,
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but again it could have been a misdemeanor. It really
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depended on what the prosecution wanted. Now. According to a
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witness named Rosanne Perez, who worked at Jonie's Cafe and
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Grill in Shingle Springs, Tyler and Joanne came in for
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dinner on June tenth of two thousand and nine. According
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to Roseanne, she was so shocked by the look on
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Tyler's face when they walked in that she actually hesitated
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going up to them. According to an article for Village
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life dot Com, Roseanne said, quote, It's something I'll never forget.
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It was a blank stare. I've waited on hundreds of
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thousands of people, but I have never seen a blank
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stare like that. Roseanne also overheard a conversation between the
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two where Joanne allegedly told Tyler that she had made
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a complaint against steep And for statutory rape. Quote she said,
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I want you to know I have filed statutory rate
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charges against him. You know he's in real trouble. But
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according to Roseanne, Tyler had no reaction to this quote.
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It was as if her mom didn't exist. It's as
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if nothing existed. Although I will say that Tyler herself
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claimed that when she learned her mother had turned over
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her diary to the police, she completely freaked out. She said,
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according to ABC, quote, I went into a full blown
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panic attack, hy preventilating, screaming, shaking. Everything was in that diary.
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There was no way he was going to get out
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of the charges now, as I said. Rosanne claimed, they
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came in on the tenth, but it is possible that
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Tyler learned about the charges prior to this day either way,
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She went to Stephen and they tried to figure out
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what to do, including a Romeo and Juliette scenario. Now,
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this scenario meant that they were going to take their
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own lives in order to be together forever, but Stephen
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said that that would be a last resort. However, Tyler
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insisted they were at the last resort, so Tyler came
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up with a plan for them to run away to
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San Francisco, drugging her mom so that Joanne would be
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delayed in calling the police looking for her. Late in
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