During the trial, Your News Leader spoke with experienced Legal Analyst and Host of Full Court Press Greta Van Susteren. She’s back to break down the verdict and aftermath.
After state and defense attorneys spent years of preparation and three long weeks of calling witnesses and presenting evidence, we heard the outcome: guilty.
During the three-week trial, the state outlined a case against Isaak saying that on the morning of April 1st, 2019, he entered RJR Maintenance and Management in Mandan and brutally stabbed and shot four RJR employees: William Cobb, Lois Cobb, Adam Fuehrer, and Robert Fakler.
Amy Michaud, a forensic chemist and trace evidence examiner with the ATF, testified about orange fibers that were found on the victim’s clothing. The fibers were compared to an orange sweatshirt and a ski mask that was found at Chad Isaak’s residence.
The trial turned to talk of blood analysis and DNA evidence for the beginning of week three. The prosecution spent the day asking how certain items of evidence collected from the crime scene and from Chad Isaak’s property were tested.
Prosecutors have been introducing physical evidence, including shoes seized from Isaak’s residence, to try to link Isaak to the crimes, while the defense has fired back with doubt.
Prosecutors spent Thursday of the Chad Isaak murder trial calling witnesses to testify how Isaak was detained and what was recovered when he was searched — including what they say is part of the murder weapon.
Full Court Press Host and experienced legal analyst Greta Van Susteren breaks down some of the latest evidence and anticipates some of the defense’s responses.
After a large number of videos and pictures were admitted into evidence Tuesday, BCI Special Agent Alex Droske spent Wednesday walking the jury through a surveillance video timeline from the frontage road through the crime scene and beyond.
Attorneys from both sides spent more than half of the day questioning Medical Examiner Doctor William Massello III about the manner of death for the four victims. Angela Davis, who works at McDonald's in Mandan, also testified about why she contacted the police of a suspicious man.
Lead investigator and Bureau of Criminal Investigation Agent Joe Arenz testified to the jury and physical evidence was introduced in the courtroom for the first time.
The trial against Chad Isaak continued for the fourth day Thursday. Isaak is accused of killing four people at a RJR Maintenance and Management facility in Mandan in 2019.
The third day of Chad Isaak's trial started Wednesday with opening statements. The State reminded jurors of the victims and the emotional day that was April 1st, 2019, while the defense worked to plant seeds of doubt that Isaak committed the crime he's accused of.
Six men and six women make up the jury with one man and one woman serving as alternates. Some jurors have lived in Mandan all their lives while others moved into Mandan after the crime took place.
During a status conference hearing on Wednesday, accused murderer Chad Isaak said he would consider representing himself after his lead attorney filed to withdraw as counsel.
Investigators said the drug seizure is the latest this year that has involved attempts to stop the flow of illegal and dangerous drugs to the Minot area.
A Williston man, accused of murdering one man and attempting to murder another in Williston, was in court Wednesday to introduce evidence and exclude the testimony of a friend of the victim, Matthew York.
Twenty-one-year-old Dawson Rouse is accused of exchanging nude photos and having sex with more than a dozen victims between the ages of 13 and 17 between 2017 and 2020.
A Minnesota judge on Monday warned that he's likely to move the trials of four former police officers charged in George Floyd's death out of Minneapolis if public officials, attorneys and family members don't stop speaking out about the case.
According to an internal report, Osmundson went undercover on May 30 without receiving permission from anyone at the Fargo Police Department violating the agency's rules.
The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a radical proposal to change the city charter that would allow the police department to be dismantled, following mass public criticism of law enforcement over the killing of George Floyd.
NASCAR released an image Thursday of the noose-like rope that caused an FBI investigation when it was discovered in the garage of the lone Black driver on the circuit.
Minot Police are reminding the public to lock their vehicles and remove valuables from vehicles, such as firearms, after seeing a recent uptick in auto burglaries and firearms stolen from them.
Williston and Williams County will be the first community law enforcement agencies in the state to start using a radio system that streamlines communication between all public safety first responders in North Dakota.
Cosby, 82, has been imprisoned in suburban Philadelphia for nearly two years after a jury convicted him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004. He’s serving a three- to 10-year sentence.
