The video linked here and in the image above is a report by Action 2 News from November 4, 2005.
At the 3:05 mark in the video, Teresa Halbach's roommate and Ryan Hillegas' good friend, Scott Bloedorn, is interviewed.
CASO investigator Mark Wiegert reported on November 3rd that Scott told them "he was aware that on Saturday night Teresa had been at a Halloween party in Green Bay," which they talked about on Sunday (CASO pages 6-7).
Scott states he had talked to Teresa last on Sunday afternoon, 10/30/05, at about 2:00 p.m. I asked him what they had talked about to which Scott stated they talked about the Halloween parties they had both attended over the weekend. I asked Scott if she had talked about what she was going to be doing on Halloween, the 31", to which Scott stated she did not mention anything to him. Scott states they are just roommates and they do not check in with each other and only talk if they happen to meet each other in the house. He states they basically both live their own lives out of that house. When asked what may have happened to Teresa, Scott said "maybe she had met a guy when she was out over the weekend. Scott did tell me that he was aware that on Saturday night, Teresa had been at a Halloween party in Green Bay. He also stated Teresa hangs out in Green Bay a lot and has a lot of friends from Green Bay.Mike Halbach, Teresa's brother, confirmed during his testimony at Steven Avery's trial in February 2007 that Teresa went to a Halloween party on Saturday night, October 29th:
Q. Okay. The gathering at -- was at grandpa's house on Sunday, October 30?sIn March 2006, almost one year before he testified at Avery's trial, Ryan Hillegas told Milwaukee Magazine that Teresa was dressed as a cowgirl the last time her saw her (the "friend's house" was Scott's house, which was also Teresa's house):
A. That's correct.
Q. For his -- for his birthday?
A. Correct.
Q. And then, I think -- Were there, if you know, did she -- had she had plans to go to a Halloween party the Saturday night right before that?
A. I believe so. Earlier in the evening she was helping me with a wedding, shooting a wedding video. After that I think she would have went to a Halloween party. I believe that's correct.
Q. Okay. Saturday night, October 29?
A. Right. Yeah, it would have been later on in the night.
"On the Sunday before she disappeared, Hillegas ran into Teresa at a friend’s house. Halbach told him she planned to join her family at a bar in Appleton for a Halloween party. She was dressed as a cowgirl."In February 2007, during Ryan's testimony at Avery's trial, Buting asked Ryan about seeing Teresa on Saturday or Sunday.
Ryan changed his story when he testified in February 2007: he said Teresa "mentioned she had a cowgirl hat and she was going to dress up like a cowgirl."
Ryan Hillegas testified at Avery's trial that he stopped by Teresa's home on Sunday, October 30th, to drop off something for Scott, at which time he spoke to Teresa while she was using her computer, but he testified that he didn't remember what time it was or if it was day-time or night-time (he was not asked if Scott was home or not, and Scott did not testify).
Q. Now, the night before, Saturday night, was sort of Halloween weekend; there would be parties, bar parties, house parties, whatever. Did you chit chat at all, talk about that?
A. On Sunday we just talked and she had mentioned that she had a cowgirl hat and she was going to dress up like a cowgirl. And that was pretty much the extent of it.
Q. This was, I’m sorry, Saturday or Sunday?
A. Sunday.
Q. Okay. Did she talk about having gone out the night before, Saturday night at all?
A. No.
Q. Do you know from any other information whether she did go Saturday night?
A. I don’t know.
Q. Or Sunday night?
A. I don’t know that either.
On Sunday afternoon Teresa was going to her grandfather's to celebrate his birthday with her family. Why would she be "dressed as a cowgirl" for his party?
CASO investigators reported on November 3rd that Scott told them the last time he saw Teresa was at 2 PM on Sunday, October 30th (CASO page 6).
This would mean that Teresa left for her grandfather's birthday party at 2 PM, while Scott was still home (and he was home until at least 2 PM). This was after Ryan called Scott's cell phone at 1:25 PM (call duration less than one minute) and after Scott returned Ryan's call at 1:36 PM (call duration one to two minutes).
Ryan's testimony suggests that Scott was not home when he stopped by and saw Teresa for the last time.
Scott was home until at least 2 PM, when Teresa left.
Therefore, Ryan did not stop before 2 PM on October 30th.
Teresa didn't return home until around 4:30 PM on October 30th.
Therefore, Ryan could not have stopped by and talked to Teresa between 2 and 4:30 PM on October 30th.
The Cingular report entered into evidence indicates on October 30th the first activity for Teresa's cell phone was at 4:41 PM, which was an incoming call. At 5:05 PM, she received another incoming call. The first time Teresa made a call was to check her voicemail at 5:27 PM. According to the Cingular report, at 5:40 PM she made at outgoing call; however, this call is not listed on the report generated by AT&T in 2017.Teresa's mother, Karen Halbach, testified at Brendan Dassey's trial (day 1, page 108) that on Sunday, October 30th, Teresa came over at 7 PM and left sometime after 10 PM (after returning from the birthday party, and before Teresa came over around 7 PM, the Halbach family milked cows on their diary farm, about 1/4 mile from Teresa's home).
These three or four calls were the only activity for Teresa's cell phone on October 30th, and the Cingular report indicates that these calls were serviced by Teresa's home tower.
Therefore, if the Cingular report is correct, and if the report was not altered before being entered into evidence, Teresa returned home from her grandfather's party no later than 4:41 PM on Sunday, October 30th.
Q. Could you tell the jury what you remember about Sunday, the 30th of October?Karen Halbach testified at Dassey's trial that Teresa was at her parents' home from 7 to 10 PM on October 30th.
A. Um, my dad's birthday is October 31, Halloween, so the day before, my whole family got together at his house and we just celebrated his birthday during the day.
Q. Was Teresa in attendance at that party?
A. Yes, she was.
Q. Were the rest of, uh, the siblings there as well?
A. Yes, they were.
Q. What happened that night if you recall?
A. That night, um, we milked cows, and then Teresa came home from -- about seven, because Extreme Makeover Home Edition was coming on and she wanted to watch it with the girls.
Q. She was at your house?
A. Right. At our house.
Q. All right. Do you know about what time Teresa left your home on the 30th?
A. I would say it was after ten.
Karen testified at Avery's trial (trial testimony, day 13, page 106) that "it became a tradition" for Teresa to come over on Sunday nights to watch TV with her sisters:
"It kind of became a tradition, Teresa would come over Sunday after -- Sunday night, and three of her favorite TV shows were on that night, and they (she and her two sisters) would watch it together and laugh and have a good time."The defense didn't follow up at Avery's trial with the question, "Did Teresa come by on the Sunday night, October 30th, to watch TV with her sisters."
This means the only time period on October 30th for Ryan to have seen Teresa at her home, dressed as a cowgirl, was between 4:30 and 7 PM.
On Sunday, October 30, 2005:Ryan is the only person to mention Teresa wearing a cowgirl costume on October 30th.
- Around 2 PM, Teresa left home to attend her grandfather's birthday party at his home (if the report about Scott last seeing Teresa at 2 PM is accurate and not falsified).
- Around 4:30 PM, Teresa returned home from the party (if the Cingular report is accurate and not falsified).
- By 7 PM, Teresa went next door to her parents' home and watched TV with her sisters.
- Sometime after 10 PM, Teresa returned home.
- At 10:29 PM, Teresa printed her day planner for the week beginning October 31st. We know that Teresa was at home at 10:29 PM on October 30th because this is the timestamp on the page that she printed from her day planner.
Teresa did not put on her Halloween costume to go to her grandfather's birthday party at 2 PM. Nor did she come home at 4:30 PM and dress up like a cowgirl before going to her parents' house to watch TV with her sisters at 7 PM. Nor did she come after 10 PM, print her day planner at 10:29 PM, dress up as a cowgirl, and then head out to party in Appleton at 11 PM, the day before Halloween and the day before she was supposed to work from 9 AM to 2 PM for Autotrader.
Teresa did not dress up as a cowgirl on Sunday, October 30th.
Teresa was planning to meet friends in Appleton to party for Halloween, dressed as a cowgirl, on Monday, October 31st.
At the 42-minute mark in episode 5 of Making A Murderer, Ryan testifies that he ran into Teresa at her house, but doesn't remember if it was day or night.
Ryan stated that he saw Teresa the day before she disappeared yet he cannot give any specific details about the visit. He knew nothing of a major Halbach family gathering planned for that afternoon, nor did he provide an alibi for the time period from October 30th through November 3rd.
Ryan can't provide any details because he didn't see Teresa on Sunday, October 29th. He saw Teresa at her home sometime between 4 and 7 PM on Monday, October 31st, as she was completing her Autotrader paperwork and preparing to go to Appleton, first to FedEx her package to Autotrader, and then to meet friends at a bar to party for Halloween.
Around 4 PM on Halloween, Monday, October 31st, Teresa returned home after completing her Autotrader assignments.
As she was doing her business paperwork and preparing to leave for Appleton, Ryan stopped by.
Ryan told Milwaukee Magazine in March 2006 that Teresa was dressed as a cowgirl for Halloween the last time her saw her.
Tom Pearce said in his affidavit dated April 21, 2017 that Teresa told him on Saturday, October 29th, that she planned to go to a party on Halloween, October 31st (Tom said in his testimony at Avery's trial in 2007 that he last saw Teresa at their studio in Green Bay on October 29th):
"Ms. Halbach told me on October 29 that she intended to go out to a party on Halloween. I know that most of the time when Ms. Halbach went out to a party, she went to Green Bay or Appleton."
Teresa never made it to Appleton for Halloween on Monday, October 31st [see Teresa Halbach's Last Day].
Ryan was the last person to see Teresa alive on Monday, October 31st.
Ryan told Milwaukee Magazine in March 2006 that he called Teresa on Tuesday (November 1st) to ask her about the [Halloween] party, and her voicemail box was full [Scott Bloedorn told Wiegert on Thursday, November 3rd, that "he noticed on Tuesday (November 1st) Teresa's truck was also not anywhere to be found at the house"].
At 2:52 PM on November 3, 2005, Karen Halbach called the Calumet County Sheriff's Office and reported Teresa as missing and last seen at home on Monday (image above):
"Daughter has not been seen since Monday at home."UPDATE APRIL 2018: The 911 call placed by Karen Halbach at 2:52 PM on November 3, 2005, was requested in March 2018 by FOIA. Click here for the audio and transcript. Karen told the dispatcher that Teresa's roommate Scott Bloedorn saw Teresa at home on Monday, October 31, 2005; however, Wiegert's activity report for November 3rd says that the "last time Scott talked to Teresa was at 2 PM on Sunday." Therefore, either Scott lied or Wiegert's report was falsified.
Pagel told reporters on November 4th that "parents, friends, relatives, nobody has had any contact with her since the 31st:"
"It is out of character for her not to have contact with family or friends for this length of time," Pagel said. "This is behavior that is not normal for this young lady. It's suspicious. Parents, friends, relatives, nobody has had any contact with her since the 31st."Action 2 News reported on November 4th that the last time her family or roommate saw her was Sunday afternoon (October 30th):
"The last time her family or her roommate saw her was Sunday afternoon."At Avery's trial, Karen Halbach was not asked if she saw Teresa after the birthday party on the afternoon of October 30th:
Q. Tell the jury about, um, your relationship with Teresa? And I'll -- How often would you talk to her?At Dassey's trial, Karen Halbach was asked about seeing Teresa after her grandfather's birthday party:
A. Um, at least once a week. She'd come over a lot on the weekends to spend time with us and her two sisters. Um, she took pictures for us. She did our family picture, and she was always taking pictures of the girls and around the farm. She liked to take pictures a lot. And we'd spend a lot of time together. We'd go out, out to eat, or -- it seems like the kids were always over on a Sunday afternoon, and we'd talk, sit around the island in our kitchen and talk a lot. We did spend a lot of time together.
Q. Was Sundays a day that the family would typically get together?
A. Yeah. Yes.
Q. In fact, the Sunday before Teresa -- Teresa's death, a Sunday, the one day before her death on the 30th of October, do you recall all getting together for a birthday party that day?
A. Yes. It was my father's birthday on Halloween, but we got together that Sunday before and celebrated his birthday at his house.
Q. Okay. So Teresa was actually killed on your dad's birthday?
A. Yes.
Q. I think you told us, um, Mrs. Halbach, that Teresa lived close to you in -- in physical proximity. Who owned the property in which she lived?
A. My husband and I do.
[...]
Q. Your, um, daughter, Katie, who we've heard from, um, were you familiar with Katie's relationship with your daughter, Teresa?
A. Yes.
Q. Would you describe that? What -- what you noticed about that relationship?
A. Um, Teresa was very close to both of her sisters. Um, you know, they spent a lot of time laughing and picking on each other. Uh, it kind of became tradition, Teresa would come over Sunday after -- Sunday night, and three of her favorite TV shows were on that night, and they'd watch it together and laugh and have a good time. You know, she took them shopping.
Q. All right. When you heard that Katie knew about Teresa's clothing, when she knew that she owned a pair of Daisy Fuentes jeans, do you have any doubts that, uh, they were close enough that she'd know that?
A. Oh, yeah. Teresa, um -- The girls would go over to Teresa's house and they would try on her clothes, because if Teresa had jeans that wouldn't fit her, she'd give them to the girls. So I'm sure Katie knows she had them.
Q. All right. There's been at least some suggestion that on, perhaps, the 2nd or 3rd of November, that your daughter, Teresa, may still have been alive. May have been accessing her cell phone. After the 31st of October, Mrs. Halbach, um, did you ever hear your daughter, Teresa's voice again?
A. No, I did not.
Q. Is Teresa -- or was Teresa the kind of girl that would have taken off, or would have left, or would have, um, vanished without talking to you, or talking to her family?
A. No, she would not.
Q. Could you tell the jury what you remember about Sunday, the 30th of October?At Dassey's trial, Teresa's sister Katie indicated that the last time she saw Teresa was at her grandfather's birthday party:
A. Um, my dad's birthday is October 31, Halloween, so the day before, my whole family got together at his house and we just celebrated his birthday during the day.
Q. Was Teresa in attendance at that party?
A. Yes, she was.
Q. Were the rest of, uh, the siblings there as well?
A. Yes, they were.
Q. What happened that night if you recall?
A. That night, um, we milked cows, and then Teresa came home from -- about seven, because Extreme Makeover Home Edition was coming on and she wanted to watch it with the girls.
Q. She was at your house?
A. Right. At our house.
Q. All right. Do you know about what time Teresa left your home on the 30th?
A. I would say it was after ten.
Q. Okay. Katie, on Sunday nights did your sister, Teresa, and you make a habit of watching some television shows together?
A. We did.
Q. Where would you guys usually watch those shows together?
A. Either at our house or hers.
Q. All right. Do you remember the day before she was killed, that is, on the 30th of October, if you and Teresa and your other sister spent that night together and watched those shows together?
A. Urn, I believe we were at my grandpa's house for his birthday.
Q. All right. You remember that birthday party that night?
A. Yeah.
Q. Or that day at least?
A. Yeah.
Q. And the same question that I asked of your mom, after the 30th of October, have you ever seen or heard from your sister, Teresa?
A. I did not.
Q. Last question for you. Urn, do you know what kind of soda that, uh, your sister, Teresa, used to drink? Did she have a brand of soda she liked?
A. Urn, she likes cherry sodas a lot.
Q. Do you know if she liked Wild Cherry Pepsi brand soda?
The following is a clip from NBC Dateline. It includes interviews from 2005 of Mike Halbach and Ryan Hillegas.Buting: So the last time you actually saw Teresa was Sunday?— TickTockManitowoc (@TManitowoc) January 25, 2018
Hillegas: Yes.
Buting: Do you know about what time that was?
Hillegas: Uhm, I dunno.
Buting: I mean talking morning, afternoon, night?
Hillegas (shaking head expressively): I dunno
"She'll be in my heart forever.." pic.twitter.com/GfeKIxaw5v
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/remembering-teresa-shell-be-in-my-heart-forever-611975235991
Teresa lied to her ex-bf. Teresa Dressed as a Cowgirl - The Halloween Party - Where was it? Who was there?
By Bill_Shackelson, MakingaMurderer
December 27, 2015
"On the Sunday before she disappeared, Hillegas ran into Teresa at a friend’s house. Halbach told him she planned to join her family at a bar in Appleton for a Halloween party. She was dressed as a cowgirl."
Source: http://www.milwaukeemag.com/2006/05/01/blood-simple/
"Wygralak last saw her at a Halloween party Oct. 21, which Halbach attended dressed as a cowgirl, and she planned to see her Saturday when the two were to throw a surprise party for two friends in Green Bay. Instead, Wygralak spent the day helping friends search for some sign of Halbach." [I presume the date Oct. 21 is a typo by the newspaper.]
Source: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-31696.html Original: http://www.wisinfo.com/heraldtimes/news/archive/local_23315707.shtml
I understand her family could have been at this Halloween party (on Sunday along with her friend Aubrey Wygralak), but come on guys...single, pretty and dressed up as a cowgirl on Halloween? She ain't hanging out with her family, ya'll. And these dates are a little funky. Halloween party on Friday October 21st and then another Halloween party on Sunday October 30th with her family? That first date could be wrong. Let's say it is the same party -- then Teresa lied to Ryan. I'd put money on it that there was another guy there or she was bisexual or gay. And Ryan Hillegas felt burned or jealous.
Bill_Shackelson also wrote on reddit in December 2015:
Well, according to that older article, on Sunday, October 30th, the day before Halloween, the ex-boyfriend, Ryan, said he showed up at the house of his "friend" who lived with Teresa and saw her dressed up as a cowgirl...to go to a Halloween party. He didn't mention at all that she was dressed up to go to a Halloween party except the one mistaken slip to the magazine in 2006, telling them that she was dressed up as a cowgirl and on her way to a Halloween party. The story he stuck to consistently thereafter and in court was that she was at her computer and he had no recollection of what time of the day it might have been. Just doesn't sound right.
Who dresses up in her costume in the morning or afternoon, even? And who goes to Halloween parties with their family at 25 years of age? Something's not right here. And her ex-boyfriend doesn't remember what time of the day it was when he saw her dressed up? That never even came up in court -- "What was she wearing when you saw her?" The ex-boyfriend didn't remember what time of day it was when he last saw her, yet he told a reporter that she was dressed as a cowgirl? Do people wear their Halloween costumes for breakfast and wear it all day?
What I am saying is, if he wasn't invited to this Halloween party, he's gonna feel a little butt-hurt. And you remember when a girl you dated for five years is looking sexy in her cowgirl costume.
Can't underestimate what Halloween means to dudes when they know the girl is dressed up all nice and fancy. Their imaginations start running wild -- in the wrong direction.
Trust me. The burned weiner is a powerful force. And if it smells like a duck and quacks like a duck, the thing works for Aflac and is a mf'g duck! The duck in this case being Ryan, who shows up to his "friend's" house where his ex-girlfriend of five years lives, as well. And the other duck being Teresa, who seems to be hiding something from him.
Here is the still of Pagels Duping delight. pic.twitter.com/0ASP6aS1b7— MysticJynx (@MysticJynx) January 25, 2018
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