Wednesday I sat in to observe closing arguments at a murder trial involving what clearly was a non-socialized Psychopath.

Most of the Psychopaths our community discusses are primarily Socialized Psychopaths. Instead of guns or knives, they rip out hearts and ruin lives and don’t spend time in prison. A Non Socialized Psychopath is a trickier deal, they aren’t business suit types and tend to come from a poorer less educated background and tend to inflict more direct violence with guns, knives etc. at least from my observations. I believe all Psychopaths will/can easily murder someone else, which goes with not having a conscience. Think of Scott Peterson, clearly a well Socialized Psychopath

This Psychopath and the new girlfriend met at the packing house where they both worked. They moved in together after a couple weeks of dating. He signed the lease for the apartment. She had a young son around 6 years old. They split up after a couple months. He left her for another woman and her and her son and now new boyfriend lived there.

Early in the morning while the new boyfriend was downstairs warming up the car, the x (after he opened a fresh pack of new knives he had in his car ran past and into the apartment, locking the door behind him, she was trapped.

His defense was that she was responsible and she dove into the knife in his hand. I don’t know about anyone else but I know it wouldn’t be logical unless a person was out of their mind to rush into the blade of a knife. As badly as she was stabbed he only admitted to stabbing her only once because she deserved it.

This series of articles are so well written by the reporter, read and sees how both socialized and non-socialized they are always in their minds the victims, the real victim deserved it

Many times people think that premeditation only means of first sitting around and plotting to murder someone (this guy clearly did that) but premeditation also happens the second you touch that knife, gun or action to cause someone to die or be harmed. Premedication can happen in a second.

His Defense attorney with little to argue with such concrete evidence kept trying to pitch the jury that this guy entered the apartment without “intending” to murder but a quarrel broke out”. Hard to get a good quarrel going when someone fly’s into the room with a knife.


6/14/2011 9:19:00 AM
Victim's final words relayed to jury
Police criticized during murder trial

By TRISHA SCHULZ
News Staff Writer

MADISON — Maria Villarreal's last words were “Help me,” and “I can't take it anymore.”

As well as, “Leo, don't kill me.”

That was part of the evidence that seven men and five women heard in Madison County district court here Monday afternoon as the trial of 32-year-old Leodan Chavez-Alarcon got under way. He's being charged with first-degree murder, tampering with a witness and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony in the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend Villarreal in March 2010. If convicted, he could spend life in prison.

On that March morning, Villarreal's live-in boyfriend of two weeks, Aniel Campo-Pino, went outside to start Villarreal's vehicle so it could warm up before traveling to Madison to work. He stood outside for a minute smoking a cigarette. In that time, Chavez-Alarcon allegedly went into Villarreal's apartment and locked the door behind him fueled with rage because she left him, said Madison County Attorney Joe Smith.

“Within minutes or seconds, Maria can be heard to be yelling,” he said.

When he heard the commotion, Campo ran to the upstairs apartment. Campo said he asked Alarcon to leave so that he could help Villarreal. He even left the apartment for a few minutes, telling Alarcon he could leave without any consequences.

Finally, a neighbor came out to the hallway and Campo told him to call police.

The call first came into police at 5:53 a.m. that there was some kind of disturbance at 1406 Country Club Road. It took a few minutes for Officer Jon Hobbs and another officer to find out which apartment to respond to.

From outside Apartment 28, Hobbs said he could hear a woman in distress, yelling in Spanish.

“I heard her make statements, but I didn't know what she was saying,” he said.

When Hobbs announced police presence and asked that the door be opened at 6:06 a.m. He didn't get a response. He tried to open the door himself to no avail.

He called in his supervisor and another officer for help. Officer James Kelley brought along a dispatcher who could act as an interpreter but told her to stay in the vehicle until the scene was secured.

Campo and another Spanish-speaking man on scene insisted that police knock the door down.

At 6:14 a.m., police kicked the door in and found Chavez standing over Villarreal with a knife in each hand.

“So, a civilian told the police when it was time to knock the door down?” Smith asked during questioning of Kelly.

Kelley used a Taser to subdue Alarcon, who he said was in a “fighter's stance.”

But it proved to be too late.

Villarreal had been stabbed five times and had multiple defensive wounds on her hands.

“They (the police) stood outside the door 12-13 minutes when the woman begged for her life,” Smith said. “A lot of people think they should've went in sooner.”

When the police entered the apartment, Villarreal looked back and up at the officers. She had blood on her hand and face, she was covering a stab wound to her stomach. She was still coherent, talking and moving her arms but in a lot of pain.

Within one minute, however, her face turned gray, “ashen,” Kelley said, and she stopped talking and moving.

The rescue unit arrived at 6:18 a.m.

Campo said he found Villarreal's toddler son crying inside a bedroom closet after police entered the apartment……

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6/15/2011 9:01:00 AM
Purchase of knives caught on surveillance video

By TRISHA SCHULZ
News Staff Writer

MADISON — A jury watched a Walmart surveillance video on Tuesday that depicted a man walking into the store, purchasing a 12-pack of Miller Lite and a set of knives.

Madison County Attorney Joe Smith contends that man to be 32-year-old Leodan Alarcon-Chavez who is accused of first-degree murder, tampering with a witness and using a weapon to commit a felony in the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend Maria Villarreal.

The evidence was heard during the trial’s second day before seven men and five women in Madison County district court here.

Tom Brungardt, asset protection coordinator at Norfolk’s Walmart, tracked the transaction from a UPC code on the back of a set of knives recovered from Chavez’s vehicle. The knife set recovered had been opened and one knife was missing……..
At the time of the purchase, the knife set was located at the end of an aisle in the grocery section of the store and not with the housewares section, Brungardt said.

He said that out of the more than 160,000 transactions at Walmart in March 2010 only four sets of those knives had been sold. Chavez was only in the store seven minutes and made his purchase at 11:34 Psychopath.m., on March 9, 2010.

Less than seven hours later, Villarreal was dead at her apartment in Norfolk.

The jury viewed autopsy photos that depicted the depth and nature of the stabbing wounds to Villarreal’s abdomen, back and arms. They also saw the defensive wounds to her hands in which she would have either grabbed the knife or tried to shield the blows.

One of the stabbing wounds indicated that the knife was twisted in her body or she moved during its insertion, but there’s no definitive way to know which occurred.

At one point when the photos were shown, Chavez could be seen wiping his eyes. He also looked toward Villarreal’s sister several times who has been attending the trial since its start.

Jerry Thompson, a firefighter and paramedic at the Norfolk Fire Division, said Villarreal was in shock when he arrived on scene. He treated her in the apartment for seven or eight minutes before she was transported by ambulance to Faith Regional Health Services.

Thompson said he was tending to Villarreal’s wounds when Chavez was escorted in handcuffs out of the apartment. He said Chavez walked past Villarreal and smirked or smiled at her.
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6/16/2011 9:44:00 AM
Defendant gives his side of the story
Chavez says he stabbed ex-girlfriend once during struggle

By TRISHA SCHULZ
News Staff Writer

MADISON — Leodan Alarcon-Chavez said he stabbed ex-girlfriend Maria Villarreal in the abdomen during a struggle in a Norfolk apartment, but he never intended to kill her.

The 32-year-old man — who is accused of first-degree murder, tampering with a witness and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony — testified Wednesday before a Madison County district court jury of seven men and five women, giving his version of the events leading up to her death.

Through court interpreter Alex Perez of Lincoln, Chavez said they moved in together at 1406 Country Club Road, Apt. 28, in November 2009 with him being the lessee. But in February 2010, he ended the relationship with Villarreal when he told her about his involvement with another woman.

But even after his admission, they continued to live together for a few days, Chavez said, before Villarreal left the apartment and lived in a hotel for a week.
When that week was up, she returned to the apartment, threatened him and Chavez left, he said.

He ended up staying with a friend who had recently had back surgery and needed help around the house, including the cooking chores.

Once he moved out, Villarreal would continue to call Chavez, threaten him and call him names, he said.

The day before the stabbing, Chavez saw Villarreal with her new boyfriend, Aniel Campo-Pino, at a local cellphone store.

That night, he drank several beers before traveling to the Walmart store around 11:30 Psychopath.m. to buy another 12-pack. He saw a set of knives in the store on his way through to the beer case. He purchased them because his friend didn’t have any sharp knives, and Chavez said he thought he could use them to prepare meals there. And, he explained, they were cheap enough, at $2 or $3.

On his way back to his friend's home, he was stopped for speeding and given a written warning.

When he finally arrived where he’d been staying with a friend, Chavez said he took the beer into the house and “forgot” the Walmart sack with the set of knives in the car.

He drank and listened to music all night, he said.

In the early morning of March 10, 2010, Chavez said he felt uncomfortable at his friend's house. He was sleeping on the floor in a closet with only his clothes as a pillow.

It was at that point that he decided to go back to the apartment and demand that she be the one to move out.

“I decided to recover what was mine,” Chavez said……..

Chavez said he arrived at the apartment complex at around 5:10 a.m. and got out of his car. But he was worried about Villarreal or Campo threatening him so Chavez said he went back to retrieve a knife from the Walmart package that was still in his car.

He put the knife in his waistband to conceal it, he said.

The door was unlocked so he walked into the apartment and didn't announce his presence.

Villarreal was preparing food in the kitchen with a knife in her hand. When she saw Chavez, she got scared, he said.

She then grabbed Chavez around his body and started to yell out for Campo to call the police.

Chavez described Villarreal as a strong, tall woman, and he was unable to move at that time.

Chavez said he was nervous that Campo was going to attack him from his back so he pulled the knife from his waistband and attempted to push Villarreal away.

“During the struggle, I remember I stabbed her around the abdomen,” he said.

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Verdict comes back 'guilty' of first-degree murder

By TRISHA SCHULZ
News Staff Writer

MADISON — It took 3 hours and 15 minutes for a jury to convict a Norfolk man of stabbing to death his ex-girlfriend.

The jury found Leodan Alarcon-Chavez, 32, guilty of first-degree murder, use of a weapon to commit a felony and tampering with a witness. The verdict came in at 4:15 Psychopath.m. Thursday in Madison County district court here.

Chavez’s lawyer, Todd Lancaster of the Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy, had argued that the case only amounted to manslaughter because Chavez had not intended to kill Maria Villarreal the morning of March 10, 2010, and that the stabbing had occurred as a sudden quarrel.

“This is not a case about who done it,” he said. “It's not about whether he went to No. 28 that morning or even whether he stabbed Maria Villarreal. It's what his intent was.”


But Madison County Attorney Joe Smith said Chavez’s version of events doesn’t match with the evidence.

If Chavez had stabbed Villarreal during a struggle, the main abdomen wound would have shown some rotation in that the knife was moved inside her body or that Villarreal moved as she would have during a struggle, he said.

The evidence also showed the amount of force that would’ve been used to make the depth of those wounds, Smith said.

And the evidence also pointed to Chavez’s intent as he made several intentional decisions that led to Villarreal’s death, he said.

For starters, Chavez opened the package of knives in his car and took it into 1406 Country Club Road, Apt. 28 that morning, Smith said.

At the time he went into the apartment, Chavez — by court order — was not supposed to have contact directly or indirectly with Villarreal.

“It wasn't to get his property back (as Chavez had suggested in his own testimony),” Smith said. “Whatever he wanted to do that day was so important that he risked getting arrested just to walk into the apartment.”

When the police arrived, Chavez had the opportunity to get Villarreal help, to show remorse and say that the stab had been an accident.

“Salvation, at least early on, was just outside the door,” Smith said.

Smith said the evidence indicated that the crime was pre-meditated and the jury should return a guilty verdict on first-degree murder.

“If the first one (stab) wasn't pre-meditated. What about the second one? The third one? The fourth one? The fifth one?” Smith said.

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My thoughts and comments:

My note: see how the Defense attorney is now twisting the meaning of premeditation by bringing up “intent”. Why else would someone show up with knives on them and had just open the package of them in his car before trapping her?

Also note the defendant was seen wiping his eyes, what no tears?

I am trying to keep this straight; they meet at work, date for 2 weeks and move in along with her young son.

He leaves her for another woman a couple of months later.

The day he saw his x’s new boyfriend was when he went out later and bought the beer and knives.

I was watching him during the closing statements, Joe Smith the County Attorney gave a brilliant closing statement. The defense attorney didn’t have much to say gee wonder why his client was there at the scene, he was alive, and she was taking her last breathes and all he had were blood splatter spots on his hands.

Oh, the defense attorney tried to convince the jury as to why would he come over and murder someone when he knew there would be people around. Duh, because he was a Psychopath and it appears to me that seeing the new boyfriend triggered him. He was one cool guy sitting there, never saw any emotion from him, Joe Smith went over many of the pictures taken at the scene and all the violent stab wounds. The courtroom was small and I was sitting and could observe the jury, actually I was so close in that row could have about touched them. When he was escorted in, I wanted to see his eyes. Since I was the only person in the first row he looked at me and then lowered his head. I continued to watch him, he was sitting straight up and his attorney was on the side of him closest to me, the minute the attorney leaned forward so did he. He popped his head back up several times and when he saw me still looking at him he bobbed his head back down.

Joe Smith the County Attorney is a very brilliant man. At one point when Joe raised his voice the defense objected so it was good timing because when Mr. Smith was getting into a very visual description of the murder he was told they couldn’t hear him at the defense table. Joe then said something in a very loud voice, even if you believe this wasn’t anything other than manslaughter but it was in fact 1st degree murder when he stabbed her the second time, the third time, the fourth time, and fifth time. That was when I observed the jurors all started taking notes, prior that they were just listening carefully. Now I am wondering what the sentence will be and how long before he will be on the streets again. Even life sentences don’t always end up being life. The Psychopaths I have observed in the past when they get sentenced to death will take a plea if they can to save their own skin and sit out the rest of their life in prison. Guess there must be some meaning to the old saying, three hot meals and a cot. Personally I don’t think a convicted Psychopath shows the same concern I know I would have thinking of being locked up for the rest of my life or for even a day, I would plea to be executed. They just don’t get it and since they are always the victim and they are right these details of being in prison certainly have a different effect on them. I have a healthy sense of never imagining living my life in prison but I also am not remotely likely to stab someone to death. I don’t know of any research saying prison would be a swell place to ride out my life. Until sentencing who knows how long he will be locked up, these days 1st degree murder doesn't mean you will be locked up forever, that is still to be seen when sentencing happens.

This woman was subjected to bumble after another, when a crime is in action what reason would they have to further delay and call a supervisor, that is why they where those heavy boots. If a crime is clearly taking place what is there to mull over instead of kicking that door in. They also had knowledge I would assume a young child was in the same place the crime was in action.

I am also unclear and since I am not an attorney, I thought there was some legal thing that an attorney had to deny and report to the judge if he was letting his witness be on the stand if he had knowledge that he would be committing perjury? Don't get me wrong because I think he helped sink his own boat but his defense had to know he would be lying on the stand.

Now we the tax payers will be footing the bill while he can hang out in the law library and try to figure out an angle for an appeal. The police all over this country are getting depleted to make sure we can gve those tax cuts to the wealthy. I have never understood why there are no limits on how many times these evil thugs can appeal their cases. Simply for the reason the pain it must cause the loved ones of the victims to keep being subjected to never getting closure but having to suffer while he kicks back and tries to worm his way to appeal. The trail of victims any Psychopath leaves is so massive, imagine the trauma her son will suffer the rest of his life after hearing his mother pleading for her life and being stabbed to death in the next room.

Never underestimate evil socialized or not they are all capable of murder, I think the non-socialized ones lack the slick skills Scott Peterson had and that is the only thing that divides them. Scott was socialized enough to not be caught at the murder scene and smart enough to not take the stand (or maybe if he wanted to take the stand his defense knew he would be lying and bar him from knowing that he would be giving staements under oath that are clearly purgery. One issue that any defense attorney would worry about when a defendant takes the stand if there is some evidence that hasn’t been allowed to be in the trial, one slip up and the door is open on that round of questioning. This guy let the jury hear him first hand sit on the stand and keep changing his lies and declare she deserved it. I figured they would come back with a verdict pretty quickly. There was no reasonable doubt, they had the right killer. He admits to stabbing her once. What is in these Psychopaths minds, there were photos of a horrible multiple stab wounds. I don’t care what language she was using when the officer said he could hear her but didn’t understand her (she spoke Spanish) I would think screaming, yelling for your life would be a universal tone even if you didn’t understand the language.

And please dabbing at his eyes when the brutal pictures were being shown, didn't mention any tears. He didn't seem too upset when I was observing him and in closing Mr. Smith was showing the jury the crime photos again. I wasn't even involved and I felt like rushing out the the room sick they were so horrific. The defense attorney in his very short closing argument questioned why anyone would conduct such a murder with so many people around, DUH, he is a psychopath.

Watching Joe Smith the County Attorney was beyond impressive, very intelligent man and the witnesses from Wal-Mart video witneess informaton he had the case nailed. Didn't miss a beat and won the conviction. He has such a way talking to the jury they have confidence he knows what he is doing when he told them it was nothing less than 1st degree murder and don't let the defense let you think otherwise.

Every Psychopath from my perspective must create numbers of victims over their lifetime I don’t think I can count that high to figure it out. I can’t imagine being a young child and hearing his own mother being murdered and yelling for help and no one came in time to rescue her, she was trapped. And once she was trapped no one seemed to be in a big rush to knock down the door. I must be very misguided because I thought that if an officer can cldearly hear a crime in action his next and first response would be to kick that door down, call the supervisor later, the timeline seems a bit backwards. 0 Her fate was sealed when he entered the room. The murder took quite bit of time and still she was not rescued. I think from what I have read it is really personal when a person stabs someone to death. Not that being shot with a gun is a good deal. And he smirked when he saw her drawing her last breathe, mission accomplished. It has always amazed me but now he can hang out in prison without a worry and have women writing to him and soon he will claim he has found religion.

Never underestimate pure evil.

Di