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Hi everyone! Catch me on HLN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell tonight at 7 PM ET / 6 Central discussing the latest in the Elaina Steinfurth investigation! This missing baby vanished June 2nd, and now her mother is behind bars on child endangerment charges.

A friend of Angela Steinfurth, the mother of missing Ohio baby Elaina Steinfurth, spoke out about alleged injuries that baby Elaina had on HLN’s Nancy Grace. A man by the name of Frank, who lives next door to the King’s, where Angela and Elaina were staying when the baby vanished, told Nancy Grace that Angela informed him she woke up one day to discover injuries on Elaina.

According to Frank, Angela said those injuries included a bruised eye, dried blood around her nose, and a bump on the head. It appears as if this poor child was the victim of child abuse.

Angela Steinfurth is currently in jail for child endangering, and Frank says that she told him that she does not know where baby Elaina is, however her step-father said on Nancy Grace that she told him she was threatened not to tell anyone or “you’re next.” So Angela is telling two different stories.

This could be a case of a mother turning the other cheek while her daughter is being abused and she is covering for her boyfriend. Angela’s boyfriend Steven King apparently creeped out the backdoor without anyone knowing as soon as Angela ran out of the home screaming her child is gone. This was after he threatened to fight Elaina’s biological father when he came to pick her up for a custody exchange.

According to Frank, Angela also told him that King was the one who convinced her that despite Elaina’s injuries that she would be fine and medical treatment would not be necessary.

Cops really need to start turning up the heat on Steven King to see what his knowledge is about what happened to this child. Right now I’m convinced both Angela and King know what happened to this child.

Angela screaming that someone took her baby was obviously a distraction so nobody would notice Steven King slipping out the backdoor. Was he getting rid of evidence or getting rid of Elaina’s dead body? I’m also convinced the child is dead and that is why she didn’t let Terry Steinfurth Jr. or his father see or take Elaina.

If Angela is the less culpable, hopefully she will crack and turn on King. I pray this doesn’t turn into another Ronald and Misty Cummings circus that drags on for ages with no resolution.

Last night on HLN’s Nancy Grace, the father of missing Ohio baby Elaina Steinfurth spoke out about his missing daughter for the first time. Terry Steinfurth Jr., said on June 2nd, when he went to pick up Elaina and his 4-year-old daughter from his estranged wife’s boyfriend’s home, that his wife’s boyfriend challenged him to a fight and he wasn’t allowed to see Elaina. Steinfurth Jr. says that Elaina’s mother Angela Steinfurth allowed him to take the 4-year-old, but refused to give up Elaina.

Terry Steinfurth Jr., also told Nancy Grace that Angela’s boyfriend Steven King ripped off his shirt and said he wanted to fight him. Terry’s father even came to the home to convince Angela to allow his son to take Elaina and King wanted to fight him as well.

That isn’t the only strange behavior from King. According to Terry’s father, Terry Steinfurth Sr., after Angela went back into the home to get Elaina, she came out crying that someone had taken Elaina. During this time King left the residence through the backdoor without anyone knowing. Did he take Elaina, or her dead body with him?

Unfortunately, this is yet another case of an unfit mother that has no business having a child. The King residence was very trashy, a police report describes it as “unfit for living.” There was sewage running out of the toilet, and dog crap on the floor.

Angela’s stepfather told Nancy Grace, that Angela was threatened by mysterious unknown people. Richard Schiewe said they told Angela if she says anything, “you’re next.”

Now Angela is sitting behind bars for child endangerment. According to police, Angela knew her daughter was seriously injured but did not get her medical treatment. Police believe that the injuries to Elaina occurred June 2nd, the day she went missing.

Did Angela’s boyfriend Steven King do something to Elaina to cause injuries? Why did he run out as soon as Angela “discovered” Elaina was missing? Is Angela covering for him?

Nancy Grace has been pounding this story on her show, and it’s interesting that Steven King, and his mother both refuse to speak out. What are they hiding?

18-month-old Elaina Steinfurth vanished in East Toledo and now cops are frantically searching for the baby. Elaina was staying with her mother, 26-year-old Angela Steinfurth, at her mother’s ex-boyfriend, Steven King’s home.

Elaina was discovered missing when her father Terry came to pick her up, along with her 4-year-old sister. However, Angela Steinfurth refused to allow him to take Elaina, but did allow him to take the 4-year-old.

Terry’s father, Terry Steinfurth Sr., then came to the King’s home to try to convince Angela to hand over Elaina in a custody exchange. He told HLN’s Nancy Grace that he overheard Angela crying and screaming that she wasn’t going to give Elaina to him because she would never see her again if she did. Steinfurth Sr. said moments later Angela came out of the house screaming “the baby is gone!”

Cadaver dogs have been used in the search for the missing 18-year-old. Just blocks from where Elaina was reported missing a GMC van was searched by Cadaver dogs and then towed away. Also searched was a vacant home. Additionally, a diaper that was the same brand and size of Elaina’s was found by a near-by river bank.

Angela’s stepfather says he thinks that Elaina is dead, and that Angela is guilty of not taking care of Elaina. Angela has been arrested on one count of child endangering. She is being held on a $250,000 bond.

Prosecutors claim that Angela knew that Elaina was seriously injured and she never did anything about it. She told police that Elaina needed medical attention.

The bottom line is, nobody takes a child during the day, with three adults in the home, and the three adults not know anything or hear anything. Now with Elaina’s mother in jail, we may be able to find out what happened to this baby. Sadly, everything points to this child being dead due to the negligence of Angela Steinfurth. Hopefully, cops will be able to crack her.

The former police instructor Brett Seacat took the stand in his own defense and attempted to get a jury of 12 to believe that his wife Vashti, shot herself and set the family home on fire, but it didn’t work. Brett Seacat was found guilty of his wife’s murder.

Seacat wanted a jury to believe that his wife was depressed, and was using a diet drug HGC that caused her to be depressed. There was even a suicide note that Brett wanted the jury to believe was authored by Vashti, but prosecutors called a handwriting expert to the stand to say that the note was forged.

Moreover, prosecutors believe that Seacat used overhead projectors to trace her signature on the suicide notes. His coworkers testified that he had a projector taken out of storage, and they found it odd because the projectors haven’t been used in years.

The night of his wife’s murder, Seacat claimed he was asleep in the wee hours of the morning, and was awaken by a “popping” sound, he rushed upstairs to find his wife’s body in her bedroom and the bedroom was engulfed in flames. He claimed he attempted to rescue Vashti, but was unable to do so.

However, forensics didn’t add up with his story and supported the prosecution’s theory. Traces of gasoline was discovered on the pants he had been wearing that night. Furthermore, Seacat called his marriage counselor and confessed to killing his wife.

The prosecution claimed that Seacat killed his wife because he was angry that she wanted a divorce. He was served with divorce papers and was sleeping on the couch, despite being ordered out of the home. Many people say Vashti was happy to be moving on with her life and the divorce.

A family member of Vashti Seacat spoke out on Dr. Drew’s HLN show. She claimed that Brett Seacat was overly in love with his dogs and that he had them trained where they wouldn’t listen to anyone but him. That shows how controlling he is. She said he loved his dogs more than his family. Why would he love them more? Because dogs are easier to control than humans.

Vashti’s family also said that it was known that Brett Seacat used steroids, and many people speculated that the killing of Vashti was “roid rage,” however, the planning and premeditation doesn’t support that. I think he was angry that he was no longer able to control Ashti and that is why he killed her.

So glad justice was served, and this monster is going to prison. My hearts and prayers go out to Vashti’s children and her family.

Hi everyone. Unfortunately, the Levi Page Show will be off the air… For now. I’ve been hosting my show on BlogTalkRadio.com for years. Despite all the ads that Blogtalkradio puts on their website, they started charging users a ridiculous amount of money to host an hour long show in prime time hours and have repeatedly gone up on their prices. My show has always been popular, and despite the traffic that my show drew to the site, the amount of money I was making wasn’t even enough to cover the cost of my show. Which is disappointing and a very low-down way to conduct business.

I put a lot of work into researching the cases that I cover on my show, booking guests, and making sure I put together a quality show, and was getting very little in return from Blogtalkradio and feel I was being ripped off. So unfortunately, I will no longer be hosting my show on Blogtalkradio.

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Brett Seacat is expected to take the stand in his own defense in a trial where he is accused of shooting his wife and setting the family home on fire. He claims that his wife Vashti was depressed and committed suicide.

But why is Seacat taking the stand in his own defense? The prosecutor is going to tear him apart. There is more than a mountain of evidence against this former cop. Brian Carol with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation testified for the prosecution and said that he discovered a power point presentation on the dining room table that was about death investigations involving fires and how investigators determine whether the death is suicide or homicide.

In the power point presentation it points out that it is hard to determine the cause of death of the victim because the burns destroy tissues and make it difficult. Is that why Seacat set the home on fire? Hoping it would burn her body so badly and the bullet holes in her head would not be discovered?

That is a smoking gun for the prosecution and proves premeditation. How is he also going to explain away confessing that he murdered his wife to their marriage counselor? For someone who was a police instructor, he did a terrible job at planning and executing the “perfect murder.” He was very reckless in confessing and leaving a trail of his premeditation for investigators to connect right back to him.

In addition to all that, his own coworkers testified against him and said that he was practicing forging documents in his office and burning computer hard-drives.

So what do you think? Good or bad call for Brett Seacat to take the stand in his own defense? He is going to pull a Jodi Arias!

Brett Seacat is currently standing trial in Kansas for shooting his wife Vashti and burning down their home with her body inside. The prosecution rested their case, and now the defense begins their effort to convince a jury that Vashti Seacat committed suicide and set fire to the family home.

Seacat’s half-brother took the stand as the first witness for the defense, he is a former state trooper. Robert Seacat testified that Vashti seemed depressed, withdrawn, and looked like she lost a lot of weight, the Easter weekend before she died. He also says that he attempted to get the KBI to test his brothers hands for gun powder residue, and that the KBI failed to do so.

The defense also called a private investigator to the stand that testified that HCG, a drug many use for weight loss was found in the home. The defense claims that Vashti was using this drug and a side effect of HCG is depression.

Seems like a very desperate move to claim that a weight loss drug caused this mother to set her home on fire and then shoot herself.

Brett Seacat, a former Kingman, Kanas cop is on trial for killing his wife. Seacat claims that he was sleeping downstairs at the home he shared with his wife Vashti, and their children, and was awaken by a noise and then his cell phone rang… According to Seacat, he answered his phone and his wife informed him to get the children out of the home before they got hurt.

Moments later Seacat claims that he heard two popping noises, he went upstairs and saw flames. He then claims that he ran into his wife’s bedroom and unsuccessfully attempted to save her. However, prosecutors are not buying his version of events.

Prosecutors doubt Seacat attempted to save his wife because no blood was found on him, and he only had a small burn on his foot.  Now he is currently standing trial for shooting his wife and setting their home on fire.

Why would Seacat want to murder his wife? The couple was undergoing marriage counseling and Vashti was happy and ready to move forward with their pending divorce. Additionally Vashti was worried about how Brett was handling the divorce.

The case against the former cop is extremely strong. Their marriage counselor Connie Suderman testified for the prosecution and claimed that Seacat called her hours after his wife died and confessed to her that he murdered her, saying: “I killed her, Vashti is dead and it’s my fault.” Moreover, Suderman also testified that Vashti informed her that one night Brett woke her up and told her that he had a dream that he killed her. 

However, the defense claims that Vashti was secretly depressed and that she committed suicide. They point to a suicide note found in her journal. But the prosecution called a handwriting expert with the Kansas Bureau of investigation to the stand and he says that the suicide note is a forgery.

The prosecution claims that Seacat used his position as a police instructor to help him forge the suicide note. They say it is possible he used an overhead projector pulled out of storage at the law enforcement training center to trace her signature on the suicide note.

Furthermore, the jury has also heard from forensic scientist Chris Riddle that traces of gasoline were found on the pants of the defendant.

A coworker of Vashti also testified for the prosecution and said that Vashti confided in her that Brett made threats to kill her, burn down their home and make it appear as if she did it.

Plus, another coworker testified that Vashti elaborated on the threats and said that Brett claimed he would get away with it because he was a cop, and that fireman would not be able to figure out what happened because they were “idiots.” This coworker was a male, and the defense tried to claim that he was having an affair with Vashti. However the coworker denied those allegations and said the two were just friends.

How will the defense overcome such strong evidence? Seacat basically confessed to the murder. In addition to a confession there is motive… Vashti died days after her husband was served with divorce papers and was ordered to move out of the home (Vashti was allowing Brett him to sleep on the couch despite the order). Plus the forensic evidence of gasoline on his pants and the fake suicide note. There is just to much evidence against him. The defense team of Brett Seacat will have to work some magic to get him off.

When the jury deadlocked and was unable to come to a conclusion on whether or not Jodi Arias deserved to be executed for the murder of Travis Alexander, I was going to cut them some slack. They did convict her of first degree murder. They deserve credit for that. After the Casey Anthony case, it is obvious that juries do not like to think that a woman can deliberately kill someone in cold blood… At least this jury didn’t let Arias slide.

However, now that the jury foreman is giving interviews, I’m pissed. This man actually thinks that Jodi Arias was verbally and mentally abused. Are you kidding me?

“I’m very sure in my own mind that she was mentally and verbally abused,” jury foreman William Zervakos told the ABC News “Good Morning America” program. “Now, is that an excuse? Of course not. Does it factor in the decisions that we make? It has to.”

Regardless of your position on the death penalty, calling someone a sociopath after they slash your tires, threaten women you are close to, and sneak into your home via the doggy door doesn’t equal “verbal” or “mental abuse.” Neither does calling a woman a “three hole wonder” after they inform you that they want to be “debased” during sex, tied up to a tree, and receive anal sex.

Zervakos also stated that he doesn’t know why Jodi Arias murdered Travis. I was stunned at that statement. I thought the prosecution painted a very clear picture of Jodi Arias as an obsessed stalker. This jury heard from a friend of Travis Alexander, Mimi Hall, who was set to travel with Alexander to Cancun. She said she was worried about going with him, because she knew he had a stalker.

Hall testified that Arias sent threatening emails to Alexander, followed him on dates, broken into his bank accounts, slashed his tires, and entered his home via the doggy door and slept on his couch late at night.

After listening to juries in high-profile cases speak to the media, it seems like some of them suspend their common sense and want to do back beds to believe asinine stories and statements from defendants. Thank god there was forensic evidence (bloody palm print and nude photographs of the two of them that night) that placed Jodi at the scene and forced her to admit she was there and that she killed him. Because without that, I wouldn’t be shocked if a juror like Zervakos would have voted not guilty.

I’ll be watching the post trial interviews with the jury this week. They’re going to hit up HLN in their media tour next. That should be interesting.