(2) At first, my primary suspect was a rogue MTSO officer, perhaps Lenk, but an excerpt from John Ferak's book, "The Wrecking Crew", gave me a different idea:
"Although Bobby does not smoke, Scott Tadych was a heavy cigarette smoker, Zellner observed."
Was it Tadych?
(3) Let's step back a little to Steven's affidavit section covering November 3rd.
Steven had reopened the deep cut on his finger while unhitching his sister's trailer. He dripped blood in his Pontiac on the gearshift and then went inside and dripped blood in his bathroom sink.
(4) Steven had been trying to go to Menard's with his brother Chuckie, and Bobby Dassey had witnessed him reopening the cut. He quickly wrapped his finger in duct tape and took off with Chuckie.
(4) While Steven and Chuckie were leaving, Steven saw tail lights near his home. The lights did not look like car lights, perhaps a RAV4, or Tadych's truck?
(5) While Steven and Chuckie were at Menards, there was an opportunity to enter Steven's residence and swab up blood from Steven's sink to plant in the RAV4.
(6) Now let's get back to the cigarette smoking man. If Tadych, working in league with Bobby, entered the trailer and swabbed up the blood, he had a clear opportunity to plant it on the RAV4 on November 3rd, shortly after.
(7) Scott Tadych held Steven in utter contempt and smoking in his residence showed it. There are also pry marks on the south front door and DCI techs later found traces of lifted blood in Steven's sink that had not been cleaned using blacklights (see evidence markers).
(8) On the evening of November 3rd, 2005, only the perpetrators knew where the RAV4 was located. The blood had to be lifted fairly quickly after Steven left for Menards. Bobby and Scott are the only suspects who fit this opportunity.
Scott must be the cigarette smoking man.
(9) If Sowinski was right about the date he saw Bobby and Gray Beard push the RAV4, it must have been somewhere else on the 3rd, perhaps the Mishicot Turnaround near Scott's trailer.
(10) Several witnesses (Kevin Rahmlow, Pam Sturm, ...) had reported an abandoned SUV at the East Twin River/Old Mishicot Dam Turnaround.
(11) Let's add a few deeper details. We can prove Steven had a deep cut on his finger and that he left blood in his Pontiac Grand Prix.
Steven's Affidavit and Zellner's tweets fill in the gaps.
(12) Police photos of Steven's sink show the evidence markers, and also show filth on the sink indicating the blood residue had not been cleaned up, but had been lifted.
The police report explains that blood was only found in the sink under an alternate light source.
(13) The March 2006 Garage Search video shows the front door was damaged at that time, and Zellner's demonstration video showed how easy it was to pry open the door.
(14) Zellner's other recreation video showed how easy it was to gather and plant the blood with q-tips and baggies.
(15) MTSO may have staked Steven out and found the blood, but they didn't know where the RAV4 was that night, and it would be difficult to plant it after it dried out.
Of course, some of the planted blood had flaked.
(16) I apologize for the amateur mash-up, but I believe Scott Tadych is "the cigarette smoking man" and participated in the gathering and planting of blood in the RAV4.
His contempt for Steven is well documented. His ties to Bobby were right there in the Wendy Baldwin Files.
(24) The blood would coagulate and dry in an hour or two. Only the perpetrators knew where the RAV4 was on the evening of Nov 3, 2005, when the blood was lifted.
(25) As blood spatter expert Stuart H. James concluded, the stain on the dashboard looked like it was planted and was not consistent with blood transfer from Steven's cut finger.
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(3) Scott had said he lived about 2 miles away. His address was 12764 State Highway 147, Mishicot, WI, but I believe I have identified the location of his driveway on the google map below, and it comes up as 12744.
(1) After #MakingAMurderer Season 2 came out, @ZellnerLaw released a thread of new findings. The first finding involved our current Person Of Interest, Scott Tadych. The tweet put Tadych at the Janda/Dassey residence around noon on 10/31/05.
(2) @ZellnerLaw's entire thread can be found here:
(3) Shortly after the posting, Tick Tock Manitowoc legend, Nexious, posting an analysis of the thread and the following Question and Answer threads that @ZellnerLaw posted.
(1) #MakingAMurderer: More on Scott Tadych
Inv. Wendy Baldwin's files
During the Teresa Halbach murder investigation, CASO Inv. Wendy Baldwin (Schmitz) found leads that suggested Scott Tadych had more involvement in the murder than it first seemed.
Let's review her reports.
(2) This saga began when Inv. Baldwin interviewed Lisa Novachek at THE WISCONSIN ALUMINUM FOUNDRY where Scott Tadych worked 2nd shift. Keith Schaefer, Scott's Shift Super, had asked Lisa to set up an interview.
I'm starting a new working thread: Pulling together evidence and timelines for Bobby Dassey and his suspected accomplices, Gray Beard, Michael Osmunson and Scott Tadych.
(2) I'm going to start out by collecting evidence without trying to organize it. Then I will analyze it & give it structure.
I'll start w/this lead from Scott Tadych's brother Shaun, "Watch the movie again and watch how he [Scott] acts on the stand when he gets questioned...."
(3) Before we view the film, let's first go over the transcript of his testimony, that can be found here.