Summary: <hr> <h1>Introduction</h1> <ol> <li>I know I skipped a week. I’m sorry. I’m not happy about it either.</li> <li>Correction: Victoria Martens’ rapists and killers, who I’ll remind you included her mother, who had arranged several rapes of her own daughter previously and who enjoyed watching the rapes take place, pleaded NOT guilty to all charges; <a href="http://krqe.com/2016/09/16/suspects-in-brutal-murder-of-victoria-martens-to-appear-at-hearing/">Source</a> </li> <li>I’m covering two news stories instead of four or five this time and covering them in more depth. Let me know what you think.</li> </ol> <hr> <h2>News</h2> <h3>Killers of Victoria Martens will go on trial in October 2017</h3> <p><a href="http://krqe.com/2016/10/07/transcripts-detail-initial-michelle-martens-interview-with-detectives/">LINK</a></p> <p>Newscasters <a href="http://krqe.com/2016/10/07/transcripts-detail-initial-michelle-martens-interview-with-detectives/">obtained</a> police interview transcripts and 911 audio but I couldn’t find the audio itself or the transcripts, only stories quoting bits and pieces of them. If I find them I’ll let you know, and if you find them, hopefully you’ll do the same.</p> <p>Here is an excerpt from the news article about the transcripts, and they’ll be a link to that article in the show notes:</p> <blockquote> <p>She told detectives she watched Gonzales and Kelley sexually assault Victoria at least three times in the days before the murder. She also said she suspected Gonzales had been sexually assaulting her daughter for a month while she was at work.</p> <p>One detective asks, “This time she died and you weren’t ready for the type of animals these people were?”</p> <p>Martens replied “Yes, but I should have stopped it.”</p> <p>She then told police she enjoyed watching men have sex with Victoria. She admitted to letting two other men have sex with her daughter over the past six months. She named both the men.</p> <p>Albuquerque police will not say if those two men have been questioned.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h3>Shawn Grate sends letters to news woman Megan Hickey</h3> <p><a href="http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/suspected-serial-killer-shawn-grate-reveals-why-he-murdered-victims-in-letters-to-news-5">LINK</a></p> <p>Shawn Grate was recently charged with <a href="http://fox8.com/2016/09/22/suspected-ashland-serial-killer-indicted-on-23-counts-including-murder-kidnapping/">23 counts</a>, including two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping. Listen to <a href="http://truecrimereview.net/podcast/911-1/">Episode 4.5</a> to hear the 911 calls from the woman who survived her abduction by Grate and got him arrested.</p> <p>From his first letter:</p> <blockquote><p>Grate’s first letter responded to a request from Hickey asking for an on-camera interview. “That sounds scary in facing myself even more,” Grate wrote. “The mirror has been enough but having even more questions hitting me straight on could and would only help to understand me better.”</p></blockquote> <p>From his second letter:</p> <blockquote><p>“They were already dead, just their bodies were flopping wherever it can flop but their minds were already dead! The state took their minds. Once they started receiving their monthly checks.” Grate said “government assistance” took his victim’s “minds.” He said he applied for government assistance five years ago and received $197 on a food card that he used for a year and a half. He found work making handcrafted signs. “Never was able to receive any encouragement, though many bodies received 700,” he wrote. Grate uses the words “people,” “bodies” and “victims” interchangeably.</p></blockquote> <p>Reaction of authorities to Hickey’s offer of the letters as evidence:</p> <blockquote><p>“Do what you want with the letters,” a member of the support staff said over the phone. In a subsequent email, Special Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Mark Weaver told New</p></blockquote>
