The prosecution’s case against a soldier accused of killing his then-14-year-old girlfriend’s mother is over without the girl taking the stand. FILE – In this March 23, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama is applauded after signing the Affordable Care Act into law in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Caleb Barnes’ murder trial got underway.
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Webster conceded that Barnes, an Army specialist who was stationed at Fort Meade in Maryland at the time of the killing, helped his girlfriend clean up the crime scene and bury her mother’s body.
Jurors also watched Barnes’ taped interview with investigators and heard him – exhausted and disheveled – detail the previous night when he said he stabbed Cheryl Silvonek. Caleb Barnes’ trial Friday. He called Jamie Silvonek a “liar” and a “manipulator”.
When she pleaded guilty, Jamie Silvonek admitted lying to Barnes about her age during their six-month relationship by saying she was 16.
Cheryl Silvonek found out about their relationship in early March 2015 and ordered them to end it, according to court documents.
The doctor said she could not say if Barnes was the one who carried out the stabbing.
She told the court Friday she was “in love” with the 22-year-old Barnes. Cheryl Silvonek then came back out to the vehicle to see where her daughter was and caught the couple.
The teenager then texted Barnes, “She threatened to throw me out of the house”.
“I owned up to the fact that I, I wanted it to happen”.
Later, she wrote to him, “Just do it”, authorities said.
Police say after Ms Silvonek was killed, her daughter and Barnes drove to Wamart and purchased alcohol, bleach and other cleaning products. Mueller said she got out of bed and looked out the window.
“I feel like with my skills I can convince her to give you another shot”.
‘This girl just killed her mom, but she’s having my baby.
The prosecutor showed jurors a series of text message Barnes and Jamie allegedly exchanged in the week leading up to the killing. “That leaves us as the suspects”.
Text messages between Jamie Silvonek and boyfriend Caleb Barnes a week before the murder of her mother Cheryl were read aloud to jurrors Thursday during Barnes’ trial.
Police allege Jamie Silvonek and Barnes buried Ms Silvonek’s body in a shallow, snow-covered grave.
Barnes, who’s from El Paso, Texas, is accused of stabbing Cheryl Silvonek in March 2015 in Pennsylvania.
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“It’s a horror story for me”, he told The Morning Call newspaper.
