Because of American jurisprudence's standard practice of "innocent unless proven guilty", there are certain advantages given to defendants in criminal cases, involving technicalities of law and occasionally issues that might cause prejudice against a defendant. When evidence is supressed before a trial, it is usually, though not always, in favor of the defendant. Sometimes things get missed, or things that should not get in do. In the trial State of Missouri v. Byron Case, there were a number of facts of evidence that were not presented to the jury.

1. Byron Case had two police interviews before his arrest. One was ruled inadmissible during the trial. Case spoke with Jackson County Sheriff Deputy Gary Kilgore on July 29, 1999¹ only after receiving assurances that nothing in the interview could be used against him,² and his attorney sought in a pre-trial motion to supress all statements made during that interview.³ This supression definitely favored the defendant.

2. One item that was not discussed anywhere except during that 1999 police interview was a letter that Anastasia had written to Justin only days before her death, giving a strong indication of some of the mutual animosity between her and Byron Case, and providing additional evidentiary weight to Case's suggested motive. Because it was part of that interview and had been introduced nowhere else, it could not be used by prosecution. This supression also favored the defendant.

   Since his conviction, the killer and his supporters have attempted to use that letter, or at least a tiny, cherry-picked portion of it (about 5 per cent of it) to argue that Anastasia was suicidal. We include it among our documents in order to give the full picture.⁴

   

3. While the prosecution did not want to exploit the "Goth" angle of this case (long before Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris made it iconic, Byron Case had adopted the fashion "style" of wearing black trenchcoat, and was dressed that way on the night of the murder), they did seek to enter evidence that Case had kept autopsy photos on his computer's screen saver, ⁵ just to show that he was not the sensitive guy his defense portrayed him to be. The Court would not allow that particular fact out.

4. The court also did not allow prosecution to delve into certain other activities that would put aspects of Case's general lifestyle on display: his personalized license tags, and various web diaries were put off limits. One very important web page that the jury was not allowed to see was his own fictionalized story of the murder itself.⁶ Case's online diary also told a story of how he kept a rotting chicken carcass impaled on a pitchfork (right) he had welded onto his car's hood as an ornament.

5. Case's emails to Anastasia's family, in which he threatened a lawsuit, belittled their relationship with Anastasia, tried to paint himself as a victim,⁷ and occasionally told stories inconsistent with his later testimony, were likewise suppressed as hearsay.

6. Kelly Moffett had taken a Voice Stress Analysis (VSA) test in August 1998, and both sides agreed that it could not be considered admisible in court.⁸ When she later inadvertently mentioned having taken a VSA during her testimony, a mistrial was nearly declared.⁹

   

7. Case's attorney sought to have Kelly Moffett's psychiatric records opened for review, as he sought to show evidence that she might have given multiple versions of the murder;¹⁰ Judge Atwell examined the records in camera and ruled that there was no such evidence present. He also ruled that any diagnosis or treatment of Moffett before the murder was irrelevant as well, as what she did and said on or after that date was relevant and still revealed no such behavior as Case was seeking to show.

One piece of evidence and one incident concerning the murder were not even brought up during the trial. A psychological test that was administered to the defendant while in custody was also never used.

8. Days after the murder, Anastasia's parents found a pair of her blue jeans in the washing machine, matching the jeans described by defense witness Dawn Wright. They were duly turned over to the Sheriff's department's investigation, but nothing else was done. It was only after the trial, when pre-trial documents were released to the family, that the connection was made.¹¹

9. No mention was made during the trial of harrassment of two potential witnesses by some of Case's friends.¹²

10. It was revealed to Anastasia's family during conversation with the Prosecutor's Office that Case had been administered the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised test, a common practice when dealing with an accused of a violent crime. Case's score was well within the range to label him psychopathic (30 or more points out of 40 possible). This was irrelevant to the trial and not revealed, as it is mainly used to determine security risks of the incarcerated, but it was helpful as a guideline once he was sentenced to prison.

    And, it has been helpful to know with whom we are dealing during one of his several attempts to convince gullible people that he is an honest and innocnent man, and we can tell them he is much more likely a psychopath.

11. Because it was irrelevant, one incident during the investigation never came up at trial. Just more than a week before Anastasia's murder, her father, Robert WitbolsFeugen received a phone solicitation from his insurance company to take out additional insurance on his family, and he decided to do so. Following the murder, he had difficulty collecting the payment on Anastasia's death, solely because the officer in charge of the investigation refused to sign a necessary form; his refusal was in petty retaliation for Robert having filed a complaint against him earlier. The dispute became (also unnecessarily) part of the officer's investigation records. After the trial and conviction, several of the killer's supporters attempted to use the insurance policy to cast suspicion on her father for her murder, or for covering up a suicide in order to collect his insurance. Every few years, they forget that it was put to rest as an argument back in 2002, and try to use it again, so we mention it here because we are certain that someone will bring it up again, thinking it is new evidence, or perhaps hoping that no one will notice.

Defense witnesses made two claims in testimony without offering any documentary evidence to back them up; in both cases, that evidence could have been provided.

12. Evelyn Case referred a few times in her testimony to a journal she kept to provide her with backup for some of her statements. She did not provide the journal (nor a copy thereof) to prove her statements, and her reason given was that she wrote her journals in German (her native language), and "Nobody here could probably read them anyway".¹³

13. Byron Case made reference in his testimony that he had discussed his relationship with Kelly Moffett with a couselor, in an effort to show that he was the victim in that relationship. He never named that counsellor, never called him to the stand, never showed any proof that he had actually had such counseling; he never made any effort to prove his claims.¹⁴