# 275: Lauren Bump

An episode of [Morbidology](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1463979546), 23 Sep 2024, 45 min.

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O.P Schnabel Park is located in the northwest of San Antonio, Texas. It was New Year’s Eve of 2013, and a young family were walking back to their car after picnicking in the park. As they neared the parking lot, something unusual caught their eye on the group. It was a shape, barely discernible in the dim light, but it was surrounded by a dark, wet stain… SPONSORS - Mochi Health: Start your weight loss journey with Mochi Health, the complete solution tailored specifically to you. Get $40 off when you use code MORBIDOLOGY at: https://joinmochi.com/ SmartLabels: Are you wanting to be more organized this fall? SmartLabels is the solution and they are now available in the UK! Just head to Amazon and search “SmartLabels”. SHOW NOTES - https://morbidology.com/morbidology-the-podcast-275-lauren-bump PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/morbidology YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/morbidology Audio Credit: Epidemic Sound Evening of Chaos - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Empty Reflections - ErikMMusic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgq4SPKHlyI A Mothers Sacrifice - OurMusicBox - https://ourmusicbox.com/ Dark Tranquility - Anno Domini Beats - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6mBav72Ak Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/morbidology--3527306/support.

## Transcript

[0:34] Speaker 1: He had a knife and he was he was slicing branches,
[0:37] Speaker 1: and you could hear the the leaves whistle, and you know,
[0:40] Speaker 1: the leaves look like we're making, you know, swish, And
[0:43] Speaker 1: then he was whistling this tune.
[0:57] Speaker 2: San Antonio in Texas is a city that is rich
[0:59] Speaker 2: in history and culture. It's often referred to as the
[1:03] Speaker 2: Alamo City Judett's pivotal role in the Texas Revolution. It
[1:09] Speaker 2: was founded back in seventeen eighteen as a Spanish mission
[1:12] Speaker 2: and colonial outpost, and as unique as one of the
[1:15] Speaker 2: oldest cities in the United States. The city's earliest history
[1:21] Speaker 2: was shaped by the convergence of indigenous, Spanish, Mexican, and
[1:25] Speaker 2: later American influences. The city's earliest history was shaped by
[1:31] Speaker 2: the convergence of indigenous, Spanish, Mexican, and later American influences.
[1:39] Speaker 2: In eighteen thirty six, it was the scene of the
[1:41] Speaker 2: Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican state of Tajas
[1:45] Speaker 2: won independence and became a self governing republic. As the
[1:50] Speaker 2: twentieth century progressed, San Antonio grew from a small military
[1:53] Speaker 2: town into a vibrant metropolitan area. The city expanded very
[1:59] Speaker 2: quickly with economic growth fueled by its military installations, tourism,
[2:05] Speaker 2: and a growing healthcare sector. Landmarks such as the River Walk,
[2:10] Speaker 2: a network of walkways along the San Antonio River, became iconic,
[2:15] Speaker 2: drawing millions of visitors each year. By twenty thirteen, San
[2:20] Speaker 2: Antonio had become a bustling city known for its hospitality, diversity,
[2:25] Speaker 2: and deep cultural routes. Families often enjoyed outdoor activities in
[2:31] Speaker 2: the city's many parks, with Opiese Naval Park being a
[2:35] Speaker 2: favorite for its trails, picnic areas, and natural beauty. Located
[2:40] Speaker 2: in the city's northwest, the park offered an escape from
[2:44] Speaker 2: the urban hustle, and most days its teaming with joggers, walkers,
[2:48] Speaker 2: and picnickers alike. On the evening of the thirty first
[2:53] Speaker 2: of December two thousand and thirteen, a family was walking
[2:56] Speaker 2: back to their car along one of the many trails
[3:00] Speaker 2: as dusk began to settle. They just enjoyed a picnic.
[3:06] Speaker 2: As they neared the parking lot, something unusual caught their
[3:09] Speaker 2: eye on the ground. It was a shape, barely discernible
[3:14] Speaker 2: in the dim light, but it was surrounded by a dark,
[3:17] Speaker 2: wet stain. As they drew closer, they could make out
[3:21] Speaker 2: exactly what the figure was. It was a young woman
[3:26] Speaker 2: and she was surrounded in blood. Lauren Bump was born
[3:44] Speaker 2: to parents John and Laurie Bump on the twenty fourth
[3:46] Speaker 2: of July nineteen eighty nine. The Bumps were very close knit,
[3:52] Speaker 2: and Lauren doated on her older brothers, Ryan and Stephen.
[3:56] Speaker 2: Lauren graduated from O'Connor High School in two thousand and said,
[4:00] Speaker 2: where she was known for her kind heart and strong
[4:03] Speaker 2: moral compass. Her compassion and desire to make a difference
[4:07] Speaker 2: in the world led her to McMurray University in Abilene,
[4:11] Speaker 2: where she earned her bachelor's degree in biomedical science. She
[4:16] Speaker 2: was just a second student in the small school to
[4:18] Speaker 2: earn such a degree, and she graduated a semester early
[4:22] Speaker 2: in twenty ten. Gary Wilson, the chairman of the biology department,
[4:28] Speaker 2: said of her, she was brilliant, just incredibly smart, and
[4:32] Speaker 2: of course stunningly beautiful. But more importantly, she was just
[4:36] Speaker 2: gentle and kind. Lauren was described as somebody who made
[4:41] Speaker 2: friends easily, somebody who didn't have a main bone in
[4:44] Speaker 2: their body. It was during her studies that her dream
[4:48] Speaker 2: of becoming a physician assistant took root. Following her undergraduate studies.
[4:54] Speaker 2: Lauren's journey letter to Harding University in Arkansas, where she
[4:58] Speaker 2: enrolled in the prestigious Physician Assistant program. There were only
[5:03] Speaker 2: thirty five students in her class, creating a tight knit group.
[5:08] Speaker 2: Lauren excelled in her studies not only because of her
[5:11] Speaker 2: academic abilities, but also because of her deep commitment to
[5:15] Speaker 2: the well being of others. By twenty thirteen, she was
[5:19] Speaker 2: in the final stages of the program, living in Fayetteville
[5:23] Speaker 2: to complete the clinical requirements for her degree. She had
[5:27] Speaker 2: completed one clinical rotation in surgery and one in women's health.
[5:33] Speaker 2: Her enthusiasm for learning and her genuine care for her
[5:36] Speaker 2: patients made her a standout student. Education was important to Lurne,
[5:43] Speaker 2: but eagally as important was her faith. Lauren's life was
[5:47] Speaker 2: guided by her faith, which was the cornerstone of everything
[5:50] Speaker 2: she did. She was an active member of the Gateway Church,
[5:56] Speaker 2: where she not only worshiped, but also participated in numerous
[5:59] Speaker 2: missionary trips and volunteer efforts. One of her most profound
[6:04] Speaker 2: experiences was her missionary work in Guatemala, where she spent
[6:08] Speaker 2: time helping impoverish communities, offering medical assistance and sharing her faith.
[6:14] Speaker 2: Her work in Guatemala fueled her passion for service, inspiring
[6:18] Speaker 2: her to make plans for further missionary work abroad after
[6:21] Speaker 2: her graduation. In addition to her international missions, Laura was
[6:26] Speaker 2: also deeply involved in local charity work throughout South Texas.
[6:32] Speaker 2: With the Gateway Church. She traveled across the region, helping
[6:35] Speaker 2: those in need, whether it was through providing medical care,
[6:39] Speaker 2: offering a helping hand, or simply listening to those who
[6:42] Speaker 2: needed comfort. Her close friend, Gabrielle he Minez, preferred to
[6:47] Speaker 2: her as a pure reflection of how God wanted us
[6:50] Speaker 2: to treat people. She fondly recalled she was kind and
[6:55] Speaker 2: sweet to everybody, but I also learned a lot from
[6:58] Speaker 2: her about how to be kinder, and through her, I
[7:01] Speaker 2: learned how God wanted us to love people. Lauren's ambitions
[7:05] Speaker 2: extended far beyond her professional and missionary work, as she
[7:09] Speaker 2: dreamed of one day returning to Texas to settle down
[7:12] Speaker 2: and start a family of her own. Lauren's visions for
[7:16] Speaker 2: the future were shaped by her love for her close
[7:18] Speaker 2: knit family in San Antonio, where her parents still lived
[7:22] Speaker 2: and where she was raised alongside her two older brothers.
[7:26] Speaker 2: Her bond with them was unbreakable, and she particularly doated
[7:30] Speaker 2: on her two young nieces. While she lived away from
[7:33] Speaker 2: home for her studies, Lauren made it a point to
[7:37] Speaker 2: visit her family in San Antonio whenever she could. She
[7:41] Speaker 2: never missed her daily phone calls to her mother. On
[7:50] Speaker 2: New Year's Eve of two thousand and thirteen, the Wagner
[7:54] Speaker 2: family were strolling through opeche Nables Park in San Antonio, Texas,
[7:58] Speaker 2: on the northwest side of the town. Edward and Sierra
[8:02] Speaker 2: walked hand in hand with their young son walking alongside them.
[8:07] Speaker 2: It was almost six pm and the family had just
[8:10] Speaker 2: enjoyed a picnic and their son had played in the playground,
[8:14] Speaker 2: but darkness was encroaching and it was now time for
[8:17] Speaker 2: the family to head home. They had a very strange
[8:21] Speaker 2: encounter about forty five minutes earlier, and they didn't want
[8:25] Speaker 2: to be in the park after dark. They had come
[8:29] Speaker 2: upon a man in the park who looked and was
[8:32] Speaker 2: acting suspicious. He appeared to be pacing back and forth,
[8:37] Speaker 2: and then he sat down on the trail beside a bench.
[8:41] Speaker 2: As they passed the man, they said hello, but he
[8:44] Speaker 2: ignored them. Sierra had joked to her husband that he
[8:49] Speaker 2: looked like a serial rapist. As they walked back to
[8:54] Speaker 2: the car, they approached the area where they had encountered
[8:57] Speaker 2: the strange man. The jogging trail that they followed was
[9:01] Speaker 2: dimly lit, the path stretching out in front of them.
[9:07] Speaker 2: Edward was thinking about the year ahead, the resolutions he'd
[9:11] Speaker 2: yet to make, and the promises he intended to keep.
[9:15] Speaker 2: Cierre was thinking about getting their son to bed before
[9:18] Speaker 2: the midnight countdown began. But their thoughts were interrupted when
[9:23] Speaker 2: something unusual caught their attention in the distance, just off
[9:27] Speaker 2: the trail. At first, it seemed like a dark, indistinct
[9:32] Speaker 2: shape lying on the ground, but as they got closer,
[9:36] Speaker 2: a chill swept over them that had nothing to do
[9:39] Speaker 2: with the weather. It wasn't just a shadow or a
[9:44] Speaker 2: discarded piece of clothing. It was a bundle, something crumpled
[9:51] Speaker 2: and surrounded by a dark pool of blood. There was
[9:56] Speaker 2: nobody else around, and the couple were desperate to help.
[10:01] Speaker 2: As they got closer, they could see that it was
[10:03] Speaker 2: a young woman. They rushed to her side, and the
[10:08] Speaker 2: severity of the situation became clear. She was completely motionless
[10:14] Speaker 2: and her clothing and body was stained with blood. Edward
[10:19] Speaker 2: recalled she.
[10:20] Speaker 3: Was just laying on the floor based down. I could
[10:22] Speaker 3: definitely see some blood, lots of blood. I was kind
[10:25] Speaker 3: of in shock when I saw it because it didn't
[10:27] Speaker 3: seem real.
[10:29] Speaker 2: Edward fumbled for his cell phone to call nine one
[10:32] Speaker 2: one while Sierra assisted the situation. The woman was still warm,
[10:40] Speaker 2: Sierra later recalled, I.
[10:42] Speaker 1: Couldn't fill a pulse, so I looked at her back
[10:45] Speaker 1: to see if she was breathing, and that's when I
[10:48] Speaker 1: noticed that her body was im mutilated.
[10:50] Speaker 2: While Edward's booke with the nine one one operator, Sierra
[10:53] Speaker 2: had a sinking feeling in her stomach. She thought back
[10:58] Speaker 2: to that strange man they had seen less than an
[11:01] Speaker 2: hour earlier. San Antonio Fire Department paramedic Jason Nieper was
[11:10] Speaker 2: among the first responders on the scene. He crouched on
[11:15] Speaker 2: beside the woman and found no pulse. He could see
[11:19] Speaker 2: that she had been stabbed numerous times all across the body.
[11:24] Speaker 2: He immediately began CPR, but there was no resistance, which
[11:28] Speaker 2: meant that there was hardly any blood left in the body.
[11:32] Speaker 2: With each compression that he attempted, fluyd came out of
[11:36] Speaker 2: the wounds. There was so much blood that it had
[11:40] Speaker 2: coagulated on the ground He and the other first responders
[11:44] Speaker 2: tried life saving efforts for five minutes, but the fluids
[11:48] Speaker 2: were just coming out of the body as soon as
[11:50] Speaker 2: they were put in. The young woman was pronounced dead
[11:53] Speaker 2: at six fifteen pm. The medical examiner arrived to transport
[11:58] Speaker 2: the body to their office for an identification to be made,
[12:02] Speaker 2: as well as the cause of death. About the same time,
[12:07] Speaker 2: Lauren Bump's father, John was becoming concerned. She was home
[12:12] Speaker 2: for the holiday and she had been staying with her parents.
[12:16] Speaker 2: Their plan for that evening was to have dinner and
[12:19] Speaker 2: then attend a firework show together. However, Lorne had failed
[12:23] Speaker 2: to appear. John had texted and called her several times,
[12:28] Speaker 2: but he received no response. Just the day before, he
[12:32] Speaker 2: and Lorne had gone out running at Opeachnable Park. He
[12:36] Speaker 2: wondered if she had gone out for a run and
[12:39] Speaker 2: made his way over to the park. As soon as
[12:43] Speaker 2: he arrived, his heart fell to the pit of his stomach.
[12:48] Speaker 2: The area was flooded with police vehicles and their jarring lights.
[12:52] Speaker 2: Along with police officers. He had a sinking feeling they
[12:57] Speaker 2: were there for his daughter. His worst fears were confirmed
[13:02] Speaker 2: at the medical Examiner's office. The body was positively identified
[13:07] Speaker 2: as Lorne Bump. Her autopsy was performed by doctor Regish Cannon,
[13:14] Speaker 2: who found that she had been stabbed twenty seven times.
[13:18] Speaker 2: She had bled to death rapidly. As the details of
[13:28] Speaker 2: Lauren's murder spread throughout the area, people were stunned. According
[13:34] Speaker 2: to detectives, Lorne was simply outrunning that evening when she
[13:37] Speaker 2: was attacked and killed. This left many women scared of
[13:42] Speaker 2: venturing out alone. The city had fourteen thousand acres of parkland,
[13:48] Speaker 2: and there were always people enjoying the outdoors, whether that
[13:51] Speaker 2: be walking, jogging, or picnicking. In fact, there had been
[13:56] Speaker 2: a thirty five percent decrease in violent crimes in city
[13:59] Speaker 2: parks in the previous two years, but Lawrence murderer left
[14:04] Speaker 2: everybody second guessing. Carl Chipman, who lived close to the park,
[14:10] Speaker 2: commented in the media that he had been visiting the
[14:12] Speaker 2: park since he was a little boy. He said, I've
[14:16] Speaker 2: never seen anything like this happen. It was a big
[14:19] Speaker 2: shock that had happened so close to our neighborhood. Police
[14:23] Speaker 2: Chief William McManus announced that they were increasing patrols at
[14:27] Speaker 2: Opechneable Park. He stated, since the murder occurred, we've provided
[14:32] Speaker 2: an increase to visibility in the park, and we're going
[14:35] Speaker 2: to continue to do that just to keep people at ease.
[14:40] Speaker 2: Eduardo Gonzalez, a running coach with Ray Runs on Antonio,
[14:44] Speaker 2: touched on the fair, stating, this tragic circumstance has really
[14:49] Speaker 2: shaken a lot of runners up in our community. We're
[14:52] Speaker 2: a tight knit running community. He said that in Lauren's memory,
[14:57] Speaker 2: runners were going to dedicate a mile in silence that weekend,
[15:02] Speaker 2: we Run San Antonio hosted the Silent Mile, while another
[15:06] Speaker 2: run in Lauren's honor was held at Opesneable Park. The organizer,
[15:11] Speaker 2: Aga mccoulis said, we need to show them that we're
[15:15] Speaker 2: not afraid to run in our parks. Lauren's friends and
[15:19] Speaker 2: family were both runs, and they thanked runners who came
[15:22] Speaker 2: out to pay their respects to a woman most of
[15:25] Speaker 2: them didn't even know. Her. Close friend Gabriellis said, it
[15:31] Speaker 2: makes me feel amazing because you see what an effect
[15:33] Speaker 2: she had on people. People didn't even know her, and
[15:36] Speaker 2: they're here today supporting her, and it just shows how
[15:39] Speaker 2: her love is still going on, her spirit is still here.
[15:53] Speaker 2: The investigation into Lauren's murder began and police Chief William
[15:57] Speaker 2: McManus announced they didn't have a suspect. They stated, we
[16:02] Speaker 2: don't have any indication out there right now as to
[16:05] Speaker 2: whether it was a relationship or whether it was someone
[16:08] Speaker 2: who may have been mentally ill. We just don't know.
[16:12] Speaker 2: The detectives were keen to retrace Lauren's last known movements.
[16:17] Speaker 2: They knew that she had gone to the park for
[16:18] Speaker 2: her regular job. She had obviously been intercepted by her killer,
[16:24] Speaker 2: and detectives believed that it wasn't somebody who was known
[16:27] Speaker 2: to her. As the investigation began, Lauren's family announced a
[16:32] Speaker 2: cash reward for information that could lead to the arrest
[16:36] Speaker 2: of the suspect. They urged anybody who knew anything about
[16:40] Speaker 2: the murder to contact San Antonio police immediately. Detectives weren't
[16:46] Speaker 2: waiting long before a handful of tips came in. There
[16:50] Speaker 2: were multiple people in the park that day, and many
[16:54] Speaker 2: of them had encountered a very strange man. After the
[17:04] Speaker 2: news of laurence murder spread through the area, police received
[17:08] Speaker 2: a phone call from Air Force Second Lieutenant Kelly Cooper.
[17:13] Speaker 2: She told them that she had been walking her dog
[17:15] Speaker 2: in the same park on the thirty first of December
[17:18] Speaker 2: when a man approached her. She said that the man
[17:22] Speaker 2: invaded her personal space and asked her whether she was alone.
[17:28] Speaker 2: She recalled, I didn't know what to think. Then he
[17:32] Speaker 2: got super close. Kelly told detectives that the man's teeth
[17:37] Speaker 2: stood out to her. She was studying to become a
[17:41] Speaker 2: dental hygienist, and she drew the man's teeth for detectives.
[17:47] Speaker 2: She recollected they were chipped in a certain way. The
[17:51] Speaker 2: forefront teeth had cavities pretty distinctive. Another witness in the
[17:57] Speaker 2: park had seen a similar man that same evening. Andrew
[18:01] Speaker 2: Billings was walking his dog with his wife when he
[18:05] Speaker 2: saw a strange man. He was fidgeting with something in
[18:09] Speaker 2: his waistband and staring at people. The man made him
[18:13] Speaker 2: so nervous that he pushed his wife out of the
[18:16] Speaker 2: way when they walked past. His wife, Lorne recalled how
[18:20] Speaker 2: the man gave her such a bad feeling. Michele Debbs
[18:25] Speaker 2: had been walking her dogs in the park at about
[18:27] Speaker 2: four thirty p m. When a man approached her. He
[18:31] Speaker 2: was literally nosed to nose with her, and he looked
[18:34] Speaker 2: her up and down.
[18:35] Speaker 1: He looked me up and down with this absolutely horrid,
[18:39] Speaker 1: malicious look.
[18:41] Speaker 2: She then added it was odd, like he wanted to
[18:45] Speaker 2: eat me. Michelee told detectives that she walked past the
[18:49] Speaker 2: man but noticed that he was looking back at her.
[18:53] Speaker 2: She decided that she didn't want to walk any further
[18:56] Speaker 2: on her own and turned around to head back to
[18:58] Speaker 2: the car. The man then jumped out in front of her,
[19:03] Speaker 2: and she grabbed her cellphone and pretended to be on
[19:06] Speaker 2: a call with somebody who was meeting her for a walk.
[19:09] Speaker 1: He had a knife and he was slicing branches, and
[19:13] Speaker 1: you could hear the leaves whistle, and you know, the
[19:16] Speaker 1: leaves look like we're making a you know, swish, And
[19:18] Speaker 1: then he was whistling this tune. Did you recognize I
[19:23] Speaker 1: did recognize the tune, and it was the tune from
[19:27] Speaker 1: the movie Kill Bill.
[19:29] Speaker 2: Michelle had been so frightened by the encounter that as
[19:32] Speaker 2: she left the park, she warned another woman about what
[19:35] Speaker 2: had just happened. Lizzarroyo was walking in the park when
[19:39] Speaker 2: Michelle warned her be careful. The guy behind me looked suspicious.
[19:45] Speaker 2: He's been following me. Detectives firmly believed that this strange man,
[19:50] Speaker 2: seen by several people in the park that day, was
[19:53] Speaker 2: Lauren's Killer. He was described as having dark hair and
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[21:18] Speaker 2: detectives received another tip Marika Misunyagi a city park. Stewart
[21:25] Speaker 2: had been in the same park where Laura was killed.
[21:29] Speaker 2: She was on patrol when she spotted a man on
[21:31] Speaker 2: a bicycle that looked remarkably similar to the description of
[21:35] Speaker 2: the suspect. He was acting very strange. Police arrived at
[21:41] Speaker 2: Opichnable Park and arrested the man. He was identified as
[21:45] Speaker 2: twenty nine year old Christian Ivan Bautista, and he was
[21:49] Speaker 2: brought to the police station. Officer David's Arabia couldn't help
[21:54] Speaker 2: but notice that the man smelled like he hadn't bathed
[21:57] Speaker 2: in days. But it was when he removed his clothing
[22:01] Speaker 2: to change into a jumpsuit that the officer noticed something ominous.
[22:07] Speaker 2: There were bloodstains to his underwear and T shirt. He
[22:20] Speaker 2: was arrested in connection with Laurence murder. He was transported
[22:25] Speaker 2: to the Bear County Jail, where he was held on
[22:28] Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars bond. Detectives learned that at the
[22:33] Speaker 2: time of Laurence murder, Batista had been living with two roommates,
[22:37] Speaker 2: Brenton Danks and Ryan O'Shea in a rundown trailer. They
[22:42] Speaker 2: asked them to come to the police station to be interviewed.
[22:46] Speaker 2: They learned that Batista had met Ryan at a bus
[22:48] Speaker 2: stop in December of two thousand thirteen, and that's how
[22:52] Speaker 2: they became roommates. Beforehand, Batista had been homeless and recalled
[23:01] Speaker 2: Ryan gave him a chance because he didn't have anywhere
[23:03] Speaker 2: to stay and he had a job done the street.
[23:08] Speaker 2: In the beginning, everything seemed normal. Batista cared about his appearance,
[23:13] Speaker 2: keeping the home clean, and he always paid his rent
[23:16] Speaker 2: on time. But are on Christmas time, things changed. Ryan
[23:23] Speaker 2: was gifted a three hundred dollars gift card for Walmart.
[23:27] Speaker 2: He sent Batista to the store to buy groceries for
[23:30] Speaker 2: the house, but Batista returned with only gifts for his daughter.
[23:35] Speaker 2: Ryan let it slide, and on Christmas Day he was
[23:38] Speaker 2: gifted an eight inch combat knife. He had no use
[23:43] Speaker 2: for it, so he gifted it to Batista. Then on
[23:47] Speaker 2: New Year's Eve, Batista's behavior became even more peculiar. He
[23:52] Speaker 2: was talking to himself, something that neither Brenton nor Ryan
[23:56] Speaker 2: had seen before. Batista said to the men, and I'll
[24:01] Speaker 2: be back, before he took the knife into his waistband
[24:04] Speaker 2: and left the trailer. He returned to the home in
[24:08] Speaker 2: the early morning ours and Ryan started chatting with him.
[24:13] Speaker 2: He brought up the knife.
[24:14] Speaker 3: I just asked him how the knife was doing and
[24:16] Speaker 3: if he ever got the case for it and what
[24:20] Speaker 3: made he said. He said no, he stuck something and
[24:25] Speaker 3: had to get rid of it.
[24:27] Speaker 2: Ryan thought nothing of it at the time.
[24:29] Speaker 3: I just blew it up. Honestly, I thought he was
[24:32] Speaker 3: just trying to be how he normally acted. He usually
[24:35] Speaker 3: acted tough like that.
[24:37] Speaker 2: Detectives were now armed with a confession of sorts. They
[24:41] Speaker 2: obtained to search weren't for the trailer. Sandra Choppa, I
[24:46] Speaker 2: caught out with the San Antonio Police Department, was sent
[24:49] Speaker 2: to the trailer. She found that there was no electricity
[24:53] Speaker 2: and that it was very cold. She came across a
[24:57] Speaker 2: jacket in Batista's bedroom that had the word It's Premier
[25:00] Speaker 2: Relocations emblazoned on the back. This matched the jacket that
[25:05] Speaker 2: witnesses described the strange man in the park as wearing
[25:09] Speaker 2: on the bathroom floor. Chapa came across a pair of
[25:12] Speaker 2: jeans with blood on them. After Batista was arrested, detectives
[25:16] Speaker 2: had him to a lineup at the jail. Photographs of
[25:20] Speaker 2: the lineup were then presented to all of the eyewitnesses
[25:23] Speaker 2: in the park that day. Each and every one pointed
[25:27] Speaker 2: out Batista as the strange man they had encountered. By
[25:38] Speaker 2: the time Batista was arrested in connection with Laurence murder,
[25:42] Speaker 2: he already had a lengthy criminal record Since turning nineteen
[25:48] Speaker 2: in two thousand and three, he had been arrested on
[25:50] Speaker 2: almost a yearly basis. He had to arrest in Claremont, California,
[25:56] Speaker 2: as well as an arrest in Travis County for criminal
[25:59] Speaker 2: mischief that resulted in nine months in prison. His criminal
[26:04] Speaker 2: record in Bexer County included eight different defenses. In two
[26:09] Speaker 2: thousand and six, he was arrested for drug possession, and
[26:12] Speaker 2: a couple of weeks later he was charged with a
[26:14] Speaker 2: legal entry. This is a charge typically reserved for people
[26:19] Speaker 2: who entered the United States undocumented. Batista had been born
[26:24] Speaker 2: in Mexico, and he was sent to the custody of
[26:27] Speaker 2: Immigration and Customs Enforcement also known as ICE. That same year,
[26:34] Speaker 2: a detainer was put on him, but it was discovered
[26:36] Speaker 2: that he was in fact a United States citizen. Then
[26:40] Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight, Batista was sentenced to five
[26:42] Speaker 2: years in prison for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.
[26:47] Speaker 2: He and to other men had gone to another man's
[26:49] Speaker 2: apartment to purchase some weight. When the man opened up
[26:54] Speaker 2: the door, Batista began hitting him with the crow bar
[26:58] Speaker 2: Batista in the other men and then ran off with
[27:00] Speaker 2: the drugs and an iPod. He was released on the
[27:05] Speaker 2: twenty ninth of October two thousand and thirteen, just two
[27:09] Speaker 2: months before Lorne was killed, and he was released with
[27:12] Speaker 2: no restrictions to his freedom. This meant that he hadn't
[27:16] Speaker 2: fallen under the guidelines for parole or community service. Bexar
[27:22] Speaker 2: County Commissioner Tommy Atkinson commented, obviously there was much more
[27:27] Speaker 2: that could have been done with him. Adkisson had pushed
[27:30] Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight for the formation of the
[27:33] Speaker 2: Bexar County re Entry Program re Entry Council, which offers
[27:38] Speaker 2: services to people released from prison to help prevent repeat offenses.
[27:43] Speaker 2: In Bexar County, over seventy five people who go to
[27:46] Speaker 2: jail end up back behind bars at some point. Among
[27:51] Speaker 2: them was Batista. His criminal history started out with petty crimes,
[27:57] Speaker 2: but they grew more serious over time, Adkisson suggested that
[28:02] Speaker 2: each return trip to jail and prison appeared to harden him.
[28:07] Speaker 2: He said, they can learn worse things to do when
[28:10] Speaker 2: they get out, bating us, up ripping us off, and
[28:15] Speaker 2: in this case, killing people. On the sixth of January,
[28:21] Speaker 2: Batista was charged with Lorne's murder. Three days after the charges,
[28:26] Speaker 2: more than seven hundred people gathered for her funeral. It
[28:31] Speaker 2: was held at Community Bible Church, and those in attendance
[28:34] Speaker 2: wore various shades of pink in her memory. Among the
[28:39] Speaker 2: attendees was Police Chief William McManus, who said to CBS,
[28:44] Speaker 2: it's difficult to watch families in such pain when they
[28:47] Speaker 2: lose a loved one. In this particular case, when I
[28:50] Speaker 2: went to visit with the family, there was no hatred,
[28:53] Speaker 2: no malice. There was just a broken family devastated by
[28:57] Speaker 2: the loss of their daughter. Servis was a celebration of
[29:01] Speaker 2: Lauren's life, including songs and eulogies. Following the service, the
[29:07] Speaker 2: mourners released pink balloons in Lauren's memory. A memorial service
[29:13] Speaker 2: on campus followed, along with a candlelight vigil. PA program
[29:19] Speaker 2: director Michael Murphy spoke during the event. He remembered Lauren
[29:24] Speaker 2: as an excellent student and as a person who really
[29:27] Speaker 2: understood what it meant to live a christ centered life.
[29:32] Speaker 2: He said she got the mission of the program, and
[29:35] Speaker 2: the university was already looking for ways to serve people
[29:38] Speaker 2: with her newly acquired skills in her life. In January
[29:42] Speaker 2: the following year, in what would have been Lauren's graduation ceremony,
[29:46] Speaker 2: her class wore pink chords in her memory. Murphy said
[29:52] Speaker 2: the class really liked it too. It was in solidarity,
[29:55] Speaker 2: recognizing Lauren had an influence on all of them. By now,
[30:00] Speaker 2: Christian Batista had been ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation
[30:04] Speaker 2: that had been requested by his defense team. In May,
[30:09] Speaker 2: a second psychological evaluation was ordered from different psychologists. Batista
[30:15] Speaker 2: was ultimately ruled competent to stand trial, and the judge
[30:19] Speaker 2: scheduled the trial for December. However, when December rolled around,
[30:25] Speaker 2: the date was pushed back after a third psychological evaluation
[30:28] Speaker 2: was ordered after being requested by his defense attorney. Defense
[30:34] Speaker 2: attorney Richard Timothy Mouline said that a psychologist had met
[30:37] Speaker 2: with Batista weeks earlier and suggested that he might not
[30:41] Speaker 2: be able to assist in his defense it could possibly
[30:43] Speaker 2: benefit from medication. According to the defense attorney, the psychologist
[30:50] Speaker 2: was of the opinion that Batista needed to be evaluated
[30:52] Speaker 2: for a third time, but just a week later, the
[30:56] Speaker 2: judge ultimately changed their mind and rejected the request. It
[31:01] Speaker 2: appeared as though the judge believed that Batista and his
[31:04] Speaker 2: defense team were simply trying to postpone the trial or
[31:08] Speaker 2: have him found incompetent. On the twenty sixth of January
[31:13] Speaker 2: two thousand and six, Batista arrived in court and took
[31:16] Speaker 2: his place alongside his defense team. The courtroom filled up
[31:21] Speaker 2: with all of Laurence loved ones, who listened intently as
[31:24] Speaker 2: Batista pleaded not guilty to her murder. During opening statements,
[31:29] Speaker 2: lead prosecutor Mary Green said, at the end of.
[31:33] Speaker 4: The evidence, ladies and gentlemen, you will realize that you
[31:37] Speaker 4: are sitting in the same room as a cold blooded murderer.
[31:44] Speaker 2: She continued, stating, you will be asked to follow the
[31:47] Speaker 2: oath that you took yesterday, a true verdict rendered according
[31:50] Speaker 2: to the law and the evidence. The defense began their
[31:54] Speaker 2: opening statements by reminding the jury of the presumption of innocence.
[32:00] Speaker 2: Defense attorney Timmalinus said, I want you to pay attention
[32:04] Speaker 2: to all the details. I know you will, and remember
[32:08] Speaker 2: the presumption of innocence. He went on to describe his
[32:12] Speaker 2: client as weird and creepy, and warned that he stared
[32:16] Speaker 2: strangely and often mumbled he's weird.
[32:19] Speaker 1: Okay, you'll hear people describe him as creepy, that he
[32:23] Speaker 1: stares at you, that it talks to himself.
[32:26] Speaker 2: However, he said that this wasn't against the law, stating
[32:30] Speaker 2: he wasn't engaged in anything illegal, he was just creepy.
[32:35] Speaker 2: The first witness to be called was Lauren's father, John Bump.
[32:40] Speaker 2: He told the jury that Lauren was scheduled to come
[32:42] Speaker 2: home on the night that she died. She had been
[32:45] Speaker 2: on holiday break from Harding University when she filled the
[32:49] Speaker 2: show up and she didn't answer his text or calls.
[32:52] Speaker 2: John went to the park where he and Lauren had
[32:54] Speaker 2: to run the day before. When he arrived, he found
[32:58] Speaker 2: it swarming with police cars and officers. He was told
[33:02] Speaker 2: that a woman had been stabbed to death. Something in
[33:06] Speaker 2: his heart told him that it was his daughter. Oh,
[33:08] Speaker 2: I definitely feel in my heart, definitely that it was her,
[33:12] Speaker 2: And I was almost trying to convince the detective that
[33:14] Speaker 2: it was her.
[33:15] Speaker 3: I was so sure.
[33:16] Speaker 2: Several times throughout the day, the judge was forced to
[33:19] Speaker 2: address Batista for his strange behavior. He'd been mouthing words
[33:24] Speaker 2: and making noises in court, as well as winking and
[33:27] Speaker 2: blowing kisses to the female prosecutor. He also made long
[33:31] Speaker 2: eye contact with women in the courtroom. The next witness
[33:36] Speaker 2: was Air Force second Lieutenant Kelly Cooper, who identified Batista
[33:40] Speaker 2: as the man who had approached her in the park
[33:42] Speaker 2: the same day that Laurene was killed. She had drawn
[33:46] Speaker 2: a sketch of his teeth for detectives when they were
[33:48] Speaker 2: searching for Lauren's killer. The prosecution put up a photograph
[33:53] Speaker 2: of Batista's teeth alongside Kelly's drawing, and the two images
[33:57] Speaker 2: matched closely. Kelly had also picked Batista out of a
[34:02] Speaker 2: line up identification, telling the court his eyes are like brown.
[34:08] Speaker 2: There's something about them when he's looking at you. You
[34:11] Speaker 2: just remember them. Kelly wasn't the only person to pick
[34:16] Speaker 2: Batista out of a lineup. Edward and Sierra Wagner, who
[34:20] Speaker 2: had found Lauren's body, also identified him as the man
[34:24] Speaker 2: they had seen acting strange in the park that day.
[34:28] Speaker 2: Andrew and Loring Billings, who encountered a strange man in
[34:31] Speaker 2: this park that same evening, testified as well. Lauren recalled
[34:36] Speaker 2: that some time after they saw him, they heard about
[34:39] Speaker 2: the murder of Lorne. She testified that she told her husband,
[34:44] Speaker 2: oh my gosh, that guy that was there. Much like
[34:48] Speaker 2: the earlier witnesses, the Billings picked Batista out of a
[34:50] Speaker 2: line up as the man they saw in the park.
[34:54] Speaker 2: Michel Debbs also told the jury about her strange interaction
[34:57] Speaker 2: with a man she identified as Batista. She recalled pretending
[35:02] Speaker 2: to be on her cell phone arranging to me a
[35:04] Speaker 2: friend in the park. She said that she knew he
[35:08] Speaker 2: was looking for reaction and if she showed that she
[35:11] Speaker 2: was scared, it would be too late. She testified, he
[35:17] Speaker 2: got extremely close to me. I felt the hair on
[35:20] Speaker 2: the back of my neck. As she pointed at Batista
[35:24] Speaker 2: as the person who was following her, he stuck his
[35:27] Speaker 2: tongue out at her. He was once more reprimanded by
[35:31] Speaker 2: the judge and warned that if he didn't stop, he
[35:33] Speaker 2: would be removed from the courtroom. The prosecution then called
[35:37] Speaker 2: on Batista's roommate Ryan O'Shea. He told the jury about
[35:42] Speaker 2: what Batista had said to him on New Year's Day.
[35:46] Speaker 2: He'd said I stuck some bitch and had to get
[35:49] Speaker 2: rid of it in relation to the knife. When Detective's
[35:54] Speaker 2: first book with Ryan, however, he hadn't actually mentioned the confession.
[35:59] Speaker 2: He testified, It's just how I was brought up, being
[36:03] Speaker 2: on the streets for so long. I wasn't going to
[36:05] Speaker 2: say anything unless I had to.
[36:08] Speaker 3: Once I found out that it was an innocent young woman,
[36:12] Speaker 3: that really I didn't want this to happen at all.
[36:16] Speaker 3: I'd rather him be locked up.
[36:20] Speaker 2: He admitted that when he spoke with detectives at first,
[36:23] Speaker 2: he was under the influence of heroin and meth. After
[36:28] Speaker 2: the murder of Lauren, Batista was captured on surveillance walking
[36:30] Speaker 2: out of opese Nable Park to the nearby Walmart. Jesus Gonzalez,
[36:36] Speaker 2: an action protection manager at Walmart, testified that Batista had
[36:40] Speaker 2: used his credit card to make a single purchase. It
[36:44] Speaker 2: was for a pair of dress pants costing less than
[36:47] Speaker 2: thirty dollars. From here, footage showed Batista boarding a via
[36:51] Speaker 2: bus and asking riders for change for five dollars. He
[36:57] Speaker 2: disembarked shortly after six pm off band Air Road in
[37:00] Speaker 2: Eckhart Road, Further testimony was presented about the blood evidence
[37:06] Speaker 2: in the case. When Batista had been arrested, there was
[37:10] Speaker 2: blood found on his underwear and T shirt. A forensic
[37:14] Speaker 2: expert said that lorn and Batista's DNA couldn't be excluded.
[37:19] Speaker 2: There was also testimony about the bloodstained items found in
[37:22] Speaker 2: the trailer. Once more, these couldn't exclude Lorne and Batista.
[37:29] Speaker 2: After the prosecution rested, the defense announced that they weren't
[37:32] Speaker 2: calling any witnesses. During the closing arguments, defense attorney Molina
[37:38] Speaker 2: said that the prosecution had not proven beyond a reasonable
[37:41] Speaker 2: doubt that Batista was guilty. He admitted that his client's
[37:45] Speaker 2: behavior was weird, but that didn't mean that he had
[37:48] Speaker 2: killed Lorne. The defense attorney went on to say that
[37:52] Speaker 2: Lauren was a good person from a good family, but
[37:55] Speaker 2: said that Batista quickly became a suspect for no other
[37:58] Speaker 2: reason than his odd behavior. He suggested that there were
[38:02] Speaker 2: multiple people in and out of the trailer, people who
[38:05] Speaker 2: abused drugs, and suggested that any one of them could
[38:09] Speaker 2: have taken the knife and killed Lorne. He further said
[38:13] Speaker 2: that there was little solid evidence. He stated, at the
[38:18] Speaker 2: most you have people saying they saw Christian in the area.
[38:22] Speaker 2: In prosecutor Wendy McClellan's closing arguments, she reminded the jury
[38:27] Speaker 2: of the number of witnesses who identified Batista as the
[38:31] Speaker 2: strange man in the park that day. He was acting peculiar,
[38:36] Speaker 2: and he had even been sitting at the location where
[38:38] Speaker 2: Lauren's body was ultimately found. She said, don't let him
[38:44] Speaker 2: get away with murder. She said that the defense hadn't
[38:47] Speaker 2: called anybody to the witness stand simply because they had
[38:51] Speaker 2: nothing to show that he was innocent. Prosecutor Mary Green
[38:55] Speaker 2: touched on the blood evidence, and while the forensic expert
[38:59] Speaker 2: said that Lauren Batista's DNA could not be excluded, she
[39:03] Speaker 2: was more emphatic. She said, this is a match. In
[39:08] Speaker 2: reference to the blood, The prosecutor continued, telling the jury
[39:14] Speaker 2: this was a sadistic, senseless, predatory crime. It saddens me
[39:19] Speaker 2: that the last face this beautiful woman saw is the
[39:22] Speaker 2: face of evil. He must be found responsible. Find him guilty.
[39:28] Speaker 2: After the closing arguments, the jury were sent off to deliberate.
[39:33] Speaker 2: It took them just thirty minutes to reach their verdict.
[39:36] Speaker 3: We the jury find the.
[39:37] Speaker 2: Defendant, Christian Baptista guilty, of murder as charged in the indictment.
[39:41] Speaker 2: They found Christian Battista guilty of the first degree murder
[39:44] Speaker 2: of Lorne Bump. The same jury returned to court the
[39:48] Speaker 2: next day for the sentencing phase of the trial. During
[39:52] Speaker 2: the hearing, Nick Roka of the Bexer Contee Sheriff's Office
[39:56] Speaker 2: testified about gang affiliations. He said the Batista had tattoos
[40:02] Speaker 2: that indicated he had been affiliated with the Mexican Mafia.
[40:07] Speaker 2: He explained that there were different tattoos associated with the gang,
[40:11] Speaker 2: such as using the number thirteen as m the thirteenth
[40:14] Speaker 2: letter in the alphabet. Batista had several tattoos on his stomach,
[40:20] Speaker 2: including the number thirteen. He also had a large tattoo
[40:24] Speaker 2: of an Aztec warrior on his back with the word
[40:27] Speaker 2: Saldado in large letters above it. Roqua testified, Mexican mafia
[40:34] Speaker 2: has a blood in, blood out mentality. You can't just
[40:37] Speaker 2: jump on and off that ride. His testimony was then
[40:41] Speaker 2: followed by Andrew Aradonado, a bs co O detention officer.
[40:48] Speaker 2: He told the jury that when Batista was in custody
[40:50] Speaker 2: awaiting trial, he found a shank on his person.
[40:53] Speaker 3: I conduged a paddown search on him in Bautista, and
[40:56] Speaker 3: I found a shank within his red uniform.
[40:58] Speaker 2: After the court took a short members of Lauren's family
[41:01] Speaker 2: were allowed to make their victim impact statements. Her father,
[41:06] Speaker 2: John was the first one to speak. He spoke proudly
[41:09] Speaker 2: of his daughter's mission work in Guatemala and said she
[41:12] Speaker 2: planned on returning in the spring. She had given children
[41:16] Speaker 2: medical care they wouldn't normally receive, and purposefully chose to
[41:20] Speaker 2: be a physician's assistant rather than an MD so she
[41:23] Speaker 2: could be more hands on. John said most people will
[41:28] Speaker 2: never forget having met her once. When he was asked
[41:32] Speaker 2: whether Batista should see freedom again, John said no. He stated,
[41:39] Speaker 2: they wouldn't want anyone to go through what we've gone through.
[41:43] Speaker 2: John was followed by Lauren's older brother Ryan. He said
[41:46] Speaker 2: that he and his sister were very close and very similar.
[41:51] Speaker 2: When he first heard that Lauren had been killed in
[41:53] Speaker 2: the park, he thought that it was by a wild animal.
[41:57] Speaker 2: He said to the courtroom that when he had cancer,
[42:00] Speaker 2: Laurence took time off to be with him. He then added,
[42:05] Speaker 2: I never thought I'd look back and be thankful I
[42:07] Speaker 2: had cancer, but that time was the best times we've
[42:11] Speaker 2: had together other than his mother, He said, the hardest
[42:15] Speaker 2: person to tell about Lauren's death with his seven year
[42:18] Speaker 2: old daughter. She wanted to be just like her aunt
[42:22] Speaker 2: when she grew up. Lauren's mother, Laurie then stood up
[42:27] Speaker 2: to provide her own victim impact statement. She fondly recalled
[42:31] Speaker 2: the holiday she and Lauren had spent together and how
[42:34] Speaker 2: they went shopping and got manicures and pedicures. Laurie said
[42:39] Speaker 2: that she and Lauren were the best of friends who
[42:41] Speaker 2: spoke each morning, and the hardest part about her daughter's
[42:44] Speaker 2: loss was no longer getting those phone calls. She said
[42:49] Speaker 2: to the courtroom, her goal was to help people who
[42:52] Speaker 2: didn't have the opportunities we had. In her closing statements,
[42:56] Speaker 2: Prosecutor Green told the jury that the only just for
[43:00] Speaker 2: for Batista would be life in prison. The jury were
[43:04] Speaker 2: then sent off to deliberate, and they reached their decision
[43:07] Speaker 2: once more in less than thirty minutes. Christian Batista was
[43:12] Speaker 2: then sentenced to life in prison. He will be eligible
[43:16] Speaker 2: for parole in thirty years, but eligibility is not a
[43:20] Speaker 2: guarantee of parole. In passing the sentence, judgment stated, you
[43:26] Speaker 2: still have choices. You can make with your life. That's
[43:29] Speaker 2: all I have to say to you. As he was
[43:33] Speaker 2: led away from the courtroom, Lawren's family commented, she feels
[43:38] Speaker 2: no pain, she smiles because justice has been served. Well,
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