Travis Mullis Totally Got The Death Penalty [Archive]

Harley_Tech

May 18th, 2008, 11:18 AM

I thought I would update this a little bit.

Seems Caren could not stay away from fubar for long. Her page has been updated as of April 30th, 2008 to show she is in Brooklyn N.Y. and she has opened it up for user comments again.

The title to the page claims it to be a 'Alijah James Memorial'.
Her personal picture folders are still there, along with one folder marked private, but it's a "memorial" to her baby right?

This from the woman that as far as I can tell didn't even have the decency to claim her child's body from the medical examiner and give him a proper burial.

She still has the baby age counter running on her page. Alijah would have been 6 months, 2 weeks and 5 days old today.

http://a.pcb3.cherrytap.com/43/28/158234/tn_155237846.jpghttp://tickers.baby-gaga.com/t/catcattbu20071029_-6_Alijah+is.png (http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmJhYnktZ2FnYS5jb20v)

Since her page is set to private, most will not be able to see the page. I could cut and paste them here if anyone is interested in that. Most comments are people who don't seem to realize her contribution to Alijah's death.

I found this comment SHE posted in the "about me" section of her page to be very odd:
This page will eventually be a memorial to my gorgeous little boy..
I thought about taking it down but, if it wasn't for this page, I never would have met his father and therefore Alijah would have never been here.

Alijah James Mullis
October 27, 2007 - January 29, 2008
Mommy loves you angel

Anyone hear any news on this story?

R

CorruptedMistress

May 18th, 2008, 11:27 AM

That bitch disgusts me to no end.

And I saw a conversation she had with another member awhile back where she admitted she created fake accounts to up her fubucks. There is no doubt that she has been on the site a lot under an alias. That or she probably couldn't get her fat ass up and get a job to afford the internet.

Haven't heard any news about her though.

impqueen

May 18th, 2008, 11:31 AM

Thanks for the info, HarleyTech!

I haven't gotten any recent updates, and I look several days a week. Nothing seems to be happening on the case yet.

Horrid. She's horrid. I wanted so much to believe she had no culpability, but i was wrong on her, and that still pisses me off. I hate to be wrong.

CorruptedMistress

October 29th, 2008, 04:54 PM

I was just checking up on the case today, to see if anything new has been posted. Only thing worth mentioning was little Alijah's birthday. He would have been 1 today.

She also has her fubar page open :

This page will eventually be a memorial to my gorgeous little boy..

Alijah James Mullis
October 29, 2007 - January 29, 2008

finally placed to rest on June 4, 2008

Mommy loves you angel
I hope you are playing in Heaven with Giovanni

http://fubar.com/user/158234

Nell

October 29th, 2008, 04:58 PM

God she makes me puke. It should be against the law for that nasty self absorbed whore to even speak that poor angels name. She didn't give a shit during his life. She just liked the attention she got when she was pregnant and then after he was dead. I wouldn't spit on her if she was on fire!

MichaelJCheaney

October 29th, 2008, 05:40 PM

impqueen

October 29th, 2008, 06:03 PM

So this attention starved whore hands over the baby to a mentally unstable man who suddenly develops "flashbacks" to sexual abuse as a boy, and then decides to stomp the baby to death?

She signed that poor childs DEATH WARRANT!!!!

Hopefully a Judge will sign hers!

Wouldn't hold my breath on that one. While Travis Mullis is facing the death penalty, Caren Kohberger is looking at - get this - two years. Total.

Travesty, you say? Oh HELL yeah.

Harley_Tech

October 29th, 2009, 07:50 AM

Alijah James Mullis
October 29, 2007 – January 29, 2008
Alijah would have been two years old today were it not for his worthless slimeball sperm donor.
I sure hope that bastard goes to trial soon and gets his due, the death penalty.
R

Silvahalo

January 18th, 2010, 07:27 PM

This story was well covered on the Front Page (http://www.dreamindemon.com/2008/01/29/dead-baby-carseat-found-on-side-of-road/) but wanted to see it here too. Baby Alijah's anniversary date is coming up soon, please post any and all info regarding the case. We want to make sure the fucker Travis Mullis is well covered on DD along with preserving the memory of baby Alijah James Mullis. He was such a precious child who's life was brutally taken nonetheless by his own "father". Travis Mullis killed baby Elijah because he was crying, basically killed for being a baby. He stomped on his head 3-4 times underfoot until he felt his head crush and collapse. Hell is preparing for this baby killer, oh, yes, a very special place for this one.

Travis Mullis, Baby Alijah James Mullis, Caren Kohberger.
http://mylifeofcrime.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/travis-alijah-caren.jpg
Note, Caren Kohberger (http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1541&highlight=Alijah+Mullis), the mother of this child is no innocent in this terrible incident, (IMO), HarleyTech has a thread on her too as you can post there or here on this woman who failed baby Alijah.

Travis Mullis-On the 12th of August, 2008, Prosecutors said that they would seek the death penalty for Travis Mullis. Possible this baby killer will never see the light of day or breath fresh air, but I'd rather see him fry... suits me fine.
Kohberger update:

Update – now Caren Kohberger has been charged with child endangerment because she handed Alijah to Travis Mullis at about 4:30 in the morning after Travis told Kohberger that he had to get out of the mobile home “or he was going to hurt one of the kids.”

http://pysih.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/alijah-mullis-outline.jpg
Baby Alijah's body was found here only clothed in a diaper, visible was severe head trauma. No baby should find its ending this way...

TIMELINE

• Tuesday: The diaper-clad body of 3-month-old Alijah Mullis is discovered on a Galveston Island roadside. After interviewing his mother, police seek Travis Mullis for questioning.
• Wednesday: Galveston County Medical Examiner's Office rules the death a homicide caused by a head wound.
• Thursday: Brazoria County issues an arrest warrant for Mullis, accusing him of taking an 8-year-old girl from her bed and asking her to pull her pants down.
• Friday: Mullis surrenders to police in Philadelphia and admits he killed his son by stomping him to death.
• Saturday: Mother Caren Kohberger holds a tearful memorial service for Alijah.

Another Grim Discovery In Galveston. (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5497308.html)
Slain baby's dad returned to Texas. (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5510362.html)

Silvahalo

January 18th, 2010, 07:29 PM

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Alijah, you were the light of life, a treasure, a gift to behold. You deserved to be cherished and protected. You precious one, deserved life. Rest in the heavens little love, may the angels kiss those tears away. May the light of the heavens warm you and shine its grace on you.
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carolinablue

January 18th, 2010, 07:45 PM

silva, this broke me. i look at him and see Charlie...how could he? i can't look at the pictures. i want to kill them both; slowly is preferred, but a bullet to the brain is ok too. a fitting punishment would be to stomp his head in...hers too. i volunteer, hell, i'd pay to do it.

Tundratot

January 3rd, 2011, 03:54 AM

A man facing the death penalty if convicted of capital murder and the aggravated sexual assault of his 3-month-old son is fighting his lawyers’ attempts to have Texas’ death penalty ruled unconstitutional.!!!!!

Travis James Mullis, 24, spoke to The Daily News via videophone during an interview from the Galveston County Jail. Mullis opposes 23 motions by his attorneys, because he doesn’t want the trial to turn into a “dog and pony show.”

In a two-count indictment, Mullis is accused of committing or attempting to commit the offense of aggravated sexual assault of his son, Alijah Mullis.Did we know this?!!

The indictment further accuses Mullis of stomping the boy.

A couple sightseeing for Galveston wildlife found Alijah’s body Jan. 29, 2008, on a hurricane levee off Seawall Boulevard near East Beach.

Galveston County prosecutors will seek the death penalty if Mullis is convicted in a trial scheduled for March in Judge John Ellisor’s 122nd District Court in Galveston.

. . .

Mullis’ attorneys, Robert K. Loper and Gerald Bourque, filed 10 motions that seek to have parts of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure involving the death penalty ruled unconstitutional.

The motions, filed in March, also challenge the humaneness of the chemicals used in the death chamber.

Mullis countered in November with his own motions, seeking to have his attorneys’ motions withdrawn.

Mullis doesn’t want his attorneys’ motions to draw more attention to his already high-profile case.

“I don’t want the situation to turning into, for lack of a better term, a dog and pony show,” Mullis said.
. . .

Mullis compared his case to one involving Loper in Harris County, which drew media attention.

“That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m trying to avoid — all that media spectacle garbage,” Mullis said. “It’s just going to totally cloud over the issue of the situation at hand.

“Because the situation seems like it’s going to become more and more about fighting the death penalty than saving someone’s life.”

Mullis’ mother died shortly after his birth in Charlotte, N.C., in 1986. He was adopted and dropped out of high school in 11th grade. He said he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1999.

After his adopted mother gave him an ultimatum to find work or leave, Mullis moved to Texas and lived with his girlfriend and another friend in Alvin. The morning of Jan. 29, he left with Alijah.

“He was asleep at the time,” Mullis said. “We were having some disputes at the time. I knew I was frustrated. I just needed to get away to calm down.”

. . .

Mullis refused to answer definitively whether he was innocent, saying he couldn’t speak to innocence or guilt.

. . .

“It’s a complicated situation as far as what actually happened,” Mullis said. “Most of what happened I wasn’t aware of until they told me, and then later on certain things that happened came back in memory.”

. . .

Court hearings regarding pretrial motions, including those surrounding the death penalty, are scheduled later this month.

Individual jury selection from a potential panel of 1,600 members is scheduled next month ahead of a March 7 trial.

Mullis has grown weary of his three years in solitary confinement. He said he’s not afraid to die. When asked if he wanted the death penalty if convicted, Mullis said it wasn’t up to him.

“If the justice system and jury believes that’s what I deserve, then that’s what it’ll be,” Mullis said. “But as far as my preference, at this point, I’ve been sitting here three years.

“I’m tired of arguing with it. I just want the situation over with. However it turns out is however it’s going to turn out.” http://galvestondailynews.com/story/202106

OMalley

January 3rd, 2011, 10:11 AM

It'd be nice if it turned out that he died after someone stomped his head. What a great way to have the situation over with!

Shadow

January 3rd, 2011, 10:38 AM

It'd be nice if it turned out that he died after someone stomped his head. What a great way to have the situation over with!

i agree OMalley... this just ... yeah.

~shadow

Silvahalo

January 3rd, 2011, 06:48 PM

When I went to Galveston this past summer with my boys, I made it a point to visit Galveston Bay and the the sea wall levee. I sat on the beach and said a special prayer both for baby Alijah Mullis and baby Riley Sawyers. To be in the place where these children died made it so raw, so real so unfathomable. I'd like their killers to feel 'raw and real' death. I can fathom that.

I live in Texas and I have no doubt this fucker will fry. Maybe twice.

Shadow

January 3rd, 2011, 06:58 PM

silvahalo, this one got to me, just as the Riley Sawyers case did. i can't understand why it was necessary to dump them in the bay. the 'tard that were responsible had to know they'd eventually wash up on shore, and be found. it makes me so angry to see people disregard their children, particularly when there are so many who want children and can't conceive. FFS they could take the child to the nearest Dept of Social Services, or Adoption Agency.. give the kid a chance. geezuz keeriist. :( they could do the right thing for once in their pathetic lives.. the humane thing.. and not end the child's life just because theirs sucks ass.

selfishselfcenterednolifehavingchildhatingbastards onordaughterofBaalzebub... i hope both responsible for these innocent children die horrible, painful deaths, but i also hope that they suffer so much that they beg for death, long before it's granted.

~shadow

tmdgirl

January 10th, 2011, 02:49 PM

walkingeagle

January 10th, 2011, 03:09 PM

Any news on what is going on with the mother of Alijah James? As much as I think Travis should rot in hell for what he did to that poor little boy, I also believe that Caren should also rot for her part in things. What kind of a mother gives her baby to someone who "she fears might hurt them". That subject is a double edged sword! Some people think following the law/court order is the right thing to do, but I just cannot agree with it! I would choose the safety of the baby over the courts. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY!

Tundratot

January 19th, 2011, 06:13 PM

After surrendering to Philadelphia police, a man accused of killing his infant son confessed to the first officer he saw, testimony revealed Tuesday.

In pretrial hearings that began Tuesday, attorneys for Travis Mullis, 24, seek to suppress their client’s statements ahead of a jury trial scheduled March 7. Mullis is charged with capital murder.

Philadelphia officer Michael Munroe testified Tuesday that Mullis approached the thick, bullet-resistant glass at police headquarters, bent to the opening and said he was wanted for kidnapping, murder and a stolen automobile in Texas.

. ..

While at police headquarters, Mullis was calm and spoke in a low tone, Munroe said. After police confirmed Mullis was a wanted man, Munroe walked him into the secured lobby. . . .

Prosecutor Kayla Allen asked Munroe if Mullis made a statement.

“‘I stomped his head, and I kept stomping his head,’” Munroe testified.

Allen asked Munroe what he told Mullis.

“You don’t have to tell me anything, man,” Munroe said.

Mullis repeated the phrase a third time, Munroe said. Mullis then asked if he did the right thing, presumably referring to his surrender to police.

Munroe told him he did.

Defense attorney Gerald Bourque asked Munroe if he read Mullis his rights.

Munroe said no.

“When we take someone in, we don’t arrest them,” Munroe said, noting he merely secures public access to the police department.

Mullis told police he’d parked in a nearby garage, and he gave detective John McNamee a parking stub. McNamee found the car, which appeared as if it had been lived in, and seized a BB gun before having it towed as evidence, testimony revealed.

Shoes were among the evidence brought from Philadelphia to the island, Galveston police crime scene investigator Scott Pena said.

Prosecutor Donna Cameron displayed a photograph of Alijah’s head. The square patterns on the infant’s skull were similar to the square patters found on the shoes in evidence, Pena said. The shoes appeared to be tennis shoes.

. . .

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/205554

Maybe we're going to see a trial on this in March.

badfish76

January 20th, 2011, 01:58 PM

I remember this story well and it makes me want to vomit.

I can't believe that he still hasn't gone to trial.

Tundratot

January 20th, 2011, 03:48 PM

Truly sickening story, don't read it if you're feeling too squeamish. Suffice it to say that Travis Mullis was working hard on being a d***head in more ways than one.

A judge Wednesday watched a video recording of accused child murderer Travis Mullis spelling out in chilling detail the last moments of his infant son’s life.

Judge John Ellisor will have to decide whether jurors in Mullis’ capital murder trial will ever view the disturbing evidence.

. . .

Prosecutors played for Ellisor a roughly 40-minute video of Mullis’ Feb. 2 interview with two Philadelphia homicide investigators.

Loper said interruptions in the video, from police changing videocassette tapes with only 30 minutes of capacity, constituted a second statement, and no warnings of rights were given in the second recording.

In the tape, Mullis describes in precise detail his actions before and after Alijah’s death.

Before being recorded, a detective asked Mullis to remove his shoe laces and anything from his pockets that could be used to harm himself. Mullis then spoke to detective Robert Hesser.

“‘Oh detective, suicide’s not an issue here,’” Hesser said Mullis told him.

. . .

“‘These were the shoes I was wearing when I stomped my son’s head in,’” Hesser said. “He looked at his shoes, and he said: ‘There’s no DNA. The body wasn’t bleeding when I left it.’”

. . .

When asked what happened to his son, Mullis began by saying his girlfriend, Caren Kohberger, who was Alijah’s mother, gave him $20 to buy food and cigarettes about 2 a.m. The three were living in Alvin.

Mullis then woke a friend’s female child in the house and asked her if she wanted to ride with him.

On the way home, the pair stopped at a school, and they walked to the basketball court and playground, Mullis said.

“I asked her to take her pants off, and she said no,” Mullis said. “She started crying, and she got scared. I got startled. I was upset about what I was doing.”

Mullis was charged with enticing a child in Brazoria County, stemming from the incident in Alvin.

Mullis had flashbacks of when he was molested, he said.

“I thought it would get rid of my flashbacks by acting on them,” Mullis said.

Mullis told detectives he wanted to touch the girl and look but stopped, knowing it was wrong.

After arriving home, the girl, who Mullis names, went to bed, and he told Kohberger what happened, saying he apologized to the girl on the way home.

Mullis intended to tell the girl’s mother, but he was scared the woman would order Kohberger and Mullis out of her home, rendering them homeless.

After hours of bickering, Mullis made up a story that he had stocks and showed her a fake account online. He said he needed to leave to retrieve the paperwork. Kohberger wanted to go with him, for fear he wouldn’t return, Mullis said.

Kohberger asked Mullis to take his son with him, figuring he would come back if he had the baby, Mullis said. Mullis said he left because he needed time to think.

With Alijah sleeping and strapped in a car seat, Mullis drove to Galveston and parked Kohberger’s car on an isolated part of the seawall near East Beach.

While in a panic, Mullis was yelling at himself and awoke Alijah, he said. He tried to console Alijah, cradling him, bouncing him on his lap, blowing in his face.

“I hit the breaking point with stress,” Mullis said. “The only way to make him stop crying was to kill him.”

Mullis put Alijah on the back seat, put his hands around Alijah’s throat and applied pressure with his thumbs.

“I heard him begin to gurgle,” Mullis said, noting Alijah wiggled and became more upset. “I let go of him, and he cried even more.”

Mullis put Alijah on the concrete wall, and then stomped on his head three or four times until he felt Alijah’s skull collapse under his shoe. He checked for breathing and a pulse.

Mullis feared the consequences if he took the child to a hospital.

“I threw the car seat on the other side of the curve of the seawall,” Mullis said. “I grabbed both legs and threw (him) the same direction.”

Contemplating suicide by drowning, Mullis drove to East Beach but changed his mind. With $10 in his pocket, he left Galveston, headed north on Interstate 45, headed to see his dad, who he believed lived in Baltimore.

. . .

Once in Maryland, he slept at a park, ate breakfast with a friend and realized his father had moved.

Mullis again contemplated suicide, seeing open water, but proceeded to Philadelphia, where he drove around the city until stopping at a visitors center apparently near a federal building, where he learned where the police department was.

“I was tired of avoiding it,” Mullis said, noting it was “time to man up.”

Mullis confessed to the front desk officer, Michael Munroe, after telling him he was wanted for kidnapping, murder and a stolen automobile, testimony revealed Tuesday.

. . .

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/205798

walkingeagle

January 20th, 2011, 04:12 PM

Nell

January 20th, 2011, 04:39 PM

This whole account is very unclear! I cannot figure out why this person asked him to take the baby? Who the FUCK would do that? His original crime was petty in comparison to the outcome of this! And even that one makes no sense!

Caren would do that. Ask Harley. She is selfish as shit. The only reason she had the baby was because she loved the attention she got from being pregnant. She got a shit ton of attention and gifts from the people on Fubar that knew her. After Alijah was born she whined and complained all the time about him and how she wasn't the center of Travis world now. Travis told her was afraid he would hurt Alijah if he took him, he had admitted trying to molest his roommates kid, and still she made him take the baby so she could sleep and troll for sympathy on the net. She didn't give a shit when the baby died, except for the fact that it momentarily gave her more attention. I can't stand her ass.

Dakota Valkyrie

January 20th, 2011, 05:00 PM

For those folks not around in 2008, this case was wild on the D'D front page:
Dead Baby, Carseat Found On Side Of Road : http://www.dreamindemon.com/2008/01/29/dead-baby-carseat-found-on-side-of-road/
Caren Kohberger Is Back In Texas : http://www.dreamindemon.com/2008/03/09/caren-kohberger-arrested-in-new-york/

Dakota Valkyrie

January 26th, 2011, 01:58 PM

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/168bf183b2abe8bc9188aacc163dd507/-dd-11073.jpg
A jury will hear a 40-minute videotaped interview in which a capital murder defendant tells Philadelphia police he “stomped” an infant’s head because the boy wouldn’t stop crying.

Judge John Ellisor denied a motion to suppress the video in the case of Travis James Mullis, 24, who is accused of the Jan. 29, 2008, slaying of his 3-month-old son, Alijah.

In a court filing obtained Tuesday by The Daily News, Ellisor denied a motion by defense attorneys Robert K. Loper and Gerald Bourque, who sought to have the video and other evidence ruled inadmissible at trial.

Mullis could face the death penalty if convicted during a trial scheduled to begin March 7.
[...]

Ellisor’s ruling also denied the suppression of evidence taken from the search of the automobile Mullis admitted driving to Philadelphia.

Jury selection from a possible panel of 1,600 people is scheduled to begin Feb. 7.
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=4526fbe5799ad8af

impqueen

January 26th, 2011, 02:34 PM

tmdgirl

January 26th, 2011, 03:25 PM

Good for that judge. Very few cases have pissed me off like Alijah's murder.

Caren Fucking Kohberger should be sterilized with liquid nitrogen injections, and Travis Fucking Mullis should be raped with a tree limb and then stomped to death. Then they can spraypaint the outline of his body, so people will know where to spit.

I hope he gets the death penalty for what he did to that poor baby.

As for Caren, from what I can see, her profile is no longer on Fubar. Not sure if she has changed her name on there or if it is truly gone. I figure once the attention died down for her, she had nothing left to do there.

I wish she had been charged with something that would have given her a much longer sentence or the death penalty as well. I say forget the sterilization for her and put the two of them in the middle of a mob and let them both be stomped in the head until they die.

Silvahalo

January 29th, 2011, 02:41 AM

http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s341/silvahalo68/Fallen%20angels/FallenAngels2/AlijahMullis.jpg
Baby Alijah would be 4yo today. I see my boys and think of all that might have been for Alijah....life stolen so selfishly so viciously. I believe that Alijah lives as the soul never dies. Still, what was taken from him was an act so wicked, I can only wonder how it is that baby killers such as this aren't stricken down where they stand. My children, they are everything to me as children are to God. I would kill without hesitation if they were taken from me.

The grace and glory of the heavens are yours Alijah.

Rockin Ma

January 29th, 2011, 06:55 PM

http://www.facebook.com/people/Caren-Kohberger/799285376

is this her?

Strike that. I guess this is her http://www.chron.com/news/photogallery/Images_from_the_case.html

tmdgirl

January 29th, 2011, 07:41 PM

http://www.facebook.com/people/Caren-Kohberger/799285376

is this her?

Strike that. I guess this is her http://www.chron.com/news/photogallery/Images_from_the_case.html

The facebook page is her too. Amazing what taking the pic from above can do for you eh??:crazy:

I swear the pics of her from the memorial make her look like she is pregnant again.

Harley_Tech

January 29th, 2011, 08:44 PM

I now live in the county that he will be tried in. First time in my life I've ever hoped for jury duty. (edit, nope, he's being tried in Galveston county, I thought it would be Brazoria, so I won't be in the jury pool...&^#%$$*(@^!)

In Mullis’ first statement to the media, he told The Daily News last month during a jailhouse interview he opposes his attorney’s efforts to have the death penalty ruled unconstitutional because he doesn’t want to escalate attention to his high-profile trial.

Mullis’ pretrial hearings in Judge John Ellisor’s 122nd District Court in Galveston are scheduled through Thursday.

9:00 am Case # 08CR0333 01 01 - TRAVIS MULLIS JURY TRIAL - PREF SETTING #1

http://www.co.galveston.tx.us/122nd/default.htm

Search for the date March 7th. Not much info at this point, but I'll be watching it as the trial progresses.

R

Silvahalo

January 29th, 2011, 09:06 PM

I now live in the county that he will be tried in. First time in my life I've ever hoped for jury duty. (edit, nope, he's being tried in Galveston county, I thought it would be Brazoria, so I won't be in the jury pool...&^#%$$*(@^!)

9:00 am Case # 08CR0333 01 01 - TRAVIS MULLIS JURY TRIAL - PREF SETTING #1

http://www.co.galveston.tx.us/122nd/default.htm

Search for the date March 7th. Not much info at this point, but I'll be watching it as the trial progresses.
R
Hang 'em Harely I'll provide the rope.

It would be nice to see a monument erected here.
http://images.chron.com/photos/2008/01/30/9829307/600xPopupGallery.jpg
...Alijah was found dead a day earlier on a berm known as Cherry Hill in Galveston.

ImmortalOne

January 29th, 2011, 09:33 PM

This case tore me up then and it does now. The testimony is just heartwrenching. I just pray they murder him.

Harley_Tech

January 29th, 2011, 09:39 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_YcxPzMtGM

R

Harley_Tech

January 29th, 2011, 10:21 PM

I'm going to attempt to go to the trial at least a couple of days. If at all possible, the day his sentence if handed down or when the jury return their verdict. I have a video device that is 1" x 1/2" http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/muvi-micro-dv-cam.html and hope to get video of the verdict and or sentence.

DD's on the scene reporter I hope.

R

Rockin Ma

January 29th, 2011, 11:04 PM

Harley_Tech

January 29th, 2011, 11:12 PM

Careful Harley. There may be rules against that. Don't get caught... but if you do, I think we all got bail!

hence the very tiny camera. :) I did email the court coordinator and ask if there are any special rules I need to be aware of. (left it very open ended and never mentioned cameras) :)

R

ineedanap

January 30th, 2011, 01:02 AM

Harley- Cameras aren't allowed, even on phones, in our court houses, and I am probaby in ass backwards country according to most here. Just show up with your bad self, and a notebook and pen, and report back.

Harley_Tech

February 28th, 2011, 07:03 PM

Crap! my plans may be thwarted....

http://www.co.galveston.tx.us/122nd/documents/TravisMullisMediaPlan.pdf

Also there is a new link on the judges page that links to all posted doccuments surrounding this trial. http://www.co.galveston.tx.us/122nd/TravisMullisDocuments.htm

The Galveston County Daily News is named the Still Camera Pool Photographer in this
trial. In accordance with the Media Plan filed by Judge John Ellisor in this case, the pool
photographer will be permitted 5 minute access, once each day, prior to the jury entering
the courtroom.
The Galveston County Daily News has advised that all photos will be posted with the AP.Link to their home page (http://galvestondailynews.com/)

GALVESTON — The final member of a jury was selected Friday in the capital murder case of a man accused in the stomping death of his 3-month-old son.

There has been a jury selected and is ready for trial to begin. Link to source (http://galvestondailynews.com/story/212462/)

A jury of seven women and five men, along with two alternate jurors, are expected to hear the case against Travis James Mullis beginning March 7 in Judge John Ellisor’s 122nd District Court in Galveston....

The jury pool was expected to include 1,600 people, but prosecutors Donna Cameron and Kayla Allen and defense attorneys Robert K. Loper and Gerald Bourque selected a jury from the first draw of 400 people.

Attorneys questioned jurors for two weeks before finalizing the panel, Cameron said.
Accused child-killer’s statements admissible

By Chris Paschenko (http://galvestondailynews.com/contact/chrispaschenko)
The Daily News
Published January 26, 2011 GALVESTON — A jury will hear a 40-minute videotaped interview in which a capital murder defendant tells Philadelphia police he “stomped” an infant’s head because the boy wouldn’t stop crying.

Judge John Ellisor denied a motion to suppress the video in the case of Travis James Mullis, 24, who is accused of the Jan. 29, 2008, slaying of his 3-month-old son, Alijah.

In a court filing obtained Tuesday by The Daily News, Ellisor denied a motion by defense attorneys Robert K. Loper and Gerald Bourque, who sought to have the video and other evidence ruled inadmissible at trial.R

Harley_Tech

February 28th, 2011, 07:09 PM

By Chris Paschenko (http://galvestondailynews.com/contact/chrispaschenko)
The Daily News

Published January 20, 2011 GALVESTON — A judge Wednesday watched a video recording of accused child murderer Travis Mullis spelling out in chilling detail the last moments of his infant son’s life.

Judge John Ellisor will have to decide whether jurors in Mullis’ capital murder trial will ever view the disturbing evidence.

Mullis, 24, faces the death penalty if convicted in what prosecutors claim was the Jan. 29, 2008, stomping death of Alijah Mullis, who was 3 months old, in Galveston.

Is it admissible?

In Wednesday’s pretrial hearing in Galveston’s 122nd District Court, Mullis’ defense attorneys asked Ellisor to declare the statements to a pair of Philadelphia police detectives inadmissible during the trial, which is set for March 7.

Robert K. Loper and Gerald Bourque, Mullis’ attorneys, are challenging the legality of the waiver of rights and also asked Ellisor to exclude evidence from a search of the vehicle Mullis said he drove from Galveston to Philadelphia, saying police didn’t have a search warrant before entering and seizing a BB gun.

Prosecutor Donna Cameron disagreed, saying Mullis was anxious to speak with police, and he freely and voluntarily waived his rights in writing and on video.

Prosecutors played for Ellisor a roughly 40-minute video of Mullis’ Feb. 2 interview with two Philadelphia homicide investigators.

Loper said interruptions in the video, from police changing videocassette tapes with only 30 minutes of capacity, constituted a second statement, and no warnings of rights were given in the second recording.

‘Suicide’s Not An Issue’

In the tape, Mullis describes in precise detail his actions before and after Alijah’s death.

Before being recorded, a detective asked Mullis to remove his shoe laces and anything from his pockets that could be used to harm himself. Mullis then spoke to detective Robert Hesser.

“‘Oh detective, suicide’s not an issue here,’” Hesser said Mullis told him.

Hesser asked for Mullis’ belt and shoe laces.

“‘These were the shoes I was wearing when I stomped my son’s head in,’” Hesser said. “He looked at his shoes, and he said: ‘There’s no DNA. The body wasn’t bleeding when I left it.’”

After police read Mullis his rights from the states of Pennsylvania and Texas, the video interview began.

‘I Was Upset’

When asked what happened to his son, Mullis began by saying his girlfriend, Caren Kohberger, who was Alijah’s mother, gave him $20 to buy food and cigarettes about 2 a.m. The three were living in Alvin.

Mullis then woke a friend’s female child in the house and asked her if she wanted to ride with him.

On the way home, the pair stopped at a school, and they walked to the basketball court and playground, Mullis said.

“I asked her to take her pants off, and she said no,” Mullis said. “She started crying, and she got scared. I got startled. I was upset about what I was doing.”

Mullis was charged with enticing a child in Brazoria County, stemming from the incident in Alvin.

Mullis had flashbacks of when he was molested, he said.

“I thought it would get rid of my flashbacks by acting on them,” Mullis said.

Mullis told detectives he wanted to touch the girl and look but stopped, knowing it was wrong.

Fear Of Eviction

After arriving home, the girl, who Mullis names, went to bed, and he told Kohberger what happened, saying he apologized to the girl on the way home.

Mullis intended to tell the girl’s mother, but he was scared the woman would order Kohberger and Mullis out of her home, rendering them homeless.

After hours of bickering, Mullis made up a story that he had stocks and showed her a fake account online. He said he needed to leave to retrieve the paperwork. Kohberger wanted to go with him, for fear he wouldn’t return, Mullis said.

Kohberger asked Mullis to take his son with him, figuring he would come back if he had the baby, Mullis said. Mullis said he left because he needed time to think.

With Alijah sleeping and strapped in a car seat, Mullis drove to Galveston and parked Kohberger’s car on an isolated part of the seawall near East Beach.

‘Hit The Breaking Point’

While in a panic, Mullis was yelling at himself and awoke Alijah, he said. He tried to console Alijah, cradling him, bouncing him on his lap, blowing in his face.

“I hit the breaking point with stress,” Mullis said. “The only way to make him stop crying was to kill him.”

Mullis put Alijah on the back seat, put his hands around Alijah’s throat and applied pressure with his thumbs.

“I heard him begin to gurgle,” Mullis said, noting Alijah wiggled and became more upset. “I let go of him, and he cried even more.”

Mullis put Alijah on the concrete wall, and then stomped on his head three or four times until he felt Alijah’s skull collapse under his shoe. He checked for breathing and a pulse.

Mullis feared the consequences if he took the child to a hospital.

“I threw the car seat on the other side of the curve of the seawall,” Mullis said. “I grabbed both legs and threw (him) the same direction.”

‘Time To Man Up’ Much more at link (http://galvestondailynews.com/story/205798/)

R

badfish76

February 28th, 2011, 07:20 PM

Oh this piece of shit makes me so sick!

I hope that he dies in a brutal way before they get a chance to give him a trial.

Thanks for the updates and keep them coming.

Darsa

February 28th, 2011, 07:44 PM

Oh... my God. I am... speechless. Wow, it's pure evil in human form; I'm sitting here stunned after reading that. I hope that he is given the death penalty, and the procedure goes horribly, terribly wrong. He needs to suffer before he leaves this earth and meets his maker.

MadeaBecBec

March 7th, 2011, 11:54 AM

Trial starts today!

Prosecutors intend to call between 10 and 12 witnesses, and documents in Mullis’ case file list for the defense 10 expert witness from five different states.

Psychologists from Ohio, Dallas and North Carolina; a prisons expert from Houston; a neonatologist from California; a forensic DNA expert from Utah; and a New York psychiatrist are among those defense witnesses.

Judge John Ellisor of Galveston’s 122nd District Court will preside over the case in a large courtroom on the fourth floor on the far west side of the Justice Center. A visiting judge will attend to other court matters in the 122nd District Court.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/216406

Harley_Tech

March 8th, 2011, 12:41 AM

Well, I was not able to make it to Galveston today for the trial. Life got in the way.

Update from the link in the last post.

R

UPDATE Noon:
GALVESTON — Police photographs of a baby boy’s lifeless body alone in the grass with his tiny head fractured and face splotched with blood brought tears to the eyes of jurors sitting in judgment of the boy’s father.

Testimony began Monday in the capital murder trial of Travis James Mullis. If convicted, prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Prosecutors showed the jury photographs of 3-month-old Alijah Mullis, whose Jan. 29, 2008, slaying resulted in a capital murder charge against Mullis, the boy’s father.

When Judge John Ellisor asked Mullis how he would plead, Mullis answered, “not guilty, capital murder.”

Jesse Zaro and his wife found the boy’s body while wildlife sightseeing. Prosecutors played the audiotape of Zaro calling police.

“We came up here looking for coyotes with binoculars,” Zaro said.

“I saw it just laying here with a blue Pamper on … I can’t believe this, somebody would do something like this. Oh my God! It’s a baby!”

Police found Alijah wearing only in a diaper on a cool, breezy January morning. Officers found one tiny, blue sock and the boy’s car seat nearby.

Then Galveston police Sgt. Richard Kershaw, who now works for the state attorney general, found Alijah face down in the grass, noticing his torso was warmer than the rest of his body.

With his mouth open, his eyes closed, Alijah had what appeared to be blood that settled to one side of his face. His short arms rested beside his head, and the photograph showed an obvious indention beneath his fair-colored hair.

At least two of the female jurors hearing the case frequently wiped tears from their eyes, as Prosecutor Donna Cameron displayed graphic, crime-scene photographs of Alijah on a projector.

Alijah also had two rectangular indentions on his skull. Upcoming testimony is expected to connect those indentions to a shoe pattern.

Other police officers were present at the scene and are expected to testify after Monday’s lunch break.

Mullis was also charged with aggravated sexual assault, but prosecutors abandoned the charge at trial, saying that if there is a punishment hearing, their evidence would be presented then.

UPDATE 10:30 a.m:
GALVESTON — Prosecutor Donna Cameron walked jurors through the final moments of the life of Alijah Mullis and asked the panel to find his father, Travis James Mullis, guilty of capital murder.

Cameron told jurors about witnesses expected to testify, including the couple that found 3-month-old Alijah Mullis dead near East Beach.

They initially believed the child was a discarded doll. Prosecutors intend to play their 911 call to police.

“It’s chilling, traumatizing,” Cameron said.

The medical examiner will testify Alijah died of blunt-force trauma. His skull shattered like an egg shell.

“He died instantly, because of the devastating nature of those injuries,” Cameron said.

Robert K. Loper, one of Mullis’ defense attorney’s, disagreed with one of the state’s assertions. Mullis didn’t intentionally killed his son, Loper said, which is one of the prerequisites the prosecution would have to prove for a capital murder conviction.

“Is that really what he meant,” Loper said. “It’s not that you wont’ hold him accountable for his actions, but if the evidence creates reasonable doubt of what he meant to do when he did what he did on the seawall (then) it will result in you folks coming back with a verdict of not guilty for capital murder.”

Darsa

March 8th, 2011, 09:02 AM

So, the jury is supposed to believe that him stomping on the infants goddam HEAD multiple times doesn't necessarily mean he wanted to kill him?!?! That's a big ol' neon-lit WTF right there...

badfish76

March 8th, 2011, 10:00 AM

Please keep the updates coming.

If there was ever a case that cried out for the ultimate justice it is this one. EVERY time I read about it I get ill.

I do take a tiny little shred of comfort in the idea that the baby died instantly and didn't linger and suffer on the side of the road after he was tossed away by this bastard.

Harley_Tech

March 11th, 2011, 08:51 PM

GALVESTON, Texas - A man who admitted to police he repeatedly stomped on the head of his three-month old son in 2008 has been found guilty by a jury and could face the death penalty. The hearing to determine if Travis Mullis is sentenced to death will be the first one in Galveston County since the mid-1990s.
The jury, composed of seven women and five men, found Mullis, 24, guilty of capital murder.
More at the Source (http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/110311-travis-mullis-verdict#) link.

The jury took almost an hour to convict Mullis, who admitted on videotape to Philadelphia police that he stomped Alijah’s head three or four times until he felt the infant’s skull collapse.
Source (http://galvestondailynews.com/story/217310)

A Galveston County (http://topics.chron.com/topics/Galveston_County,_Texas) jury took about an hour today to convict Travis James Mullis of capital murder for stomping his 3-month-old son to death more than two years ago.
Mullis, 24, sat with his hand over his mouth as he has for the entire five-day trial, betraying no emotion.
The defense asked that the jury be polled, and the judge asked each juror individually whether they agreed with the guilty verdict. All said yes.
Galveston County District Judge John Ellisor dismissed the seven women and five men on the jury and told them to return Monday for the penalty phase of the trial, where they will decide whether Mullis deserves the death penalty.
Source (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7467876.html)

HAHAHA, almost an hour to convict. Gooooood Jury!!!

R

@Morbid (http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/member.php?u=16) I can't update the front page story because it seems to be locked.

badfish76

March 11th, 2011, 11:32 PM

This is good news.

I bet they decided in the first 30 minutes and decided to wait to announce they reached a verdict so they didn't look too hasty.

Keep us updated on the sentencing hearing.

Angelinfl

March 12th, 2011, 10:25 AM

I think it took almost an hour because they were drinking coffee and saying I don't believe we actually have to decide on someone's obvious guilt. Like the cameras capturing Jared Loughner and he came into court pleading not guilty. Are they going to try an insanity plea? No, they are going to waste a huge bunch of money. Why can't these POS plead out before trial when they admit their crime and there is enough evidence to look at it as a reasonable person and say that's you... you have a gun, you shot, person injured, person died. You shot and killed that person.... There is no excuse for murder.

Our legal system protects all of us... but give me a break with the new technology. Let's not do it for the media... Let's have some swifter justice because there are built in protections of video evidence.. getting caught at the scene and being taken down with the killing weapon in your hand doesn't make for a non-guilty plea either. My .04 ... gotta remember we are in another Depression and there is inflation and we are on the edge of another rise of inflation!

Tundratot

March 13th, 2011, 03:09 AM

Hurray! What will the sentence be? I can't wait.

Harley_Tech

March 13th, 2011, 09:18 AM

The sentencing hearing starts Monday at 9:00 AM.

R

Harley_Tech

March 14th, 2011, 01:01 PM

Travis James Mullis performed a sexual act on his 3-month-old son before crushing the infant's skull with his foot, the prosecution said today in the punishment phase of Mullis' capital murder trial.
Mullis also sexually molested a younger female cousin when he was 12, Assistant Galveston County District Attorney Kayla Allen told the same jury that convicted Mullis on Friday.
In her opening statement, Allen asked jurors to condemn Mullis to death. The only other punishment option is life in prison without parole.
Defense attorney Gerald Bourque told jurors that Mullis was molested by his own parents as early as age 3.
"Inside that family, pedophilia is rampant,” Bourque said.
His mother was obese, smoked four packs of cigarettes a day, drank numerous cups of coffee, and was smoking the day before Mullis was born, Bourque said. His mother's unhealthy habits contributed to Mullis' need to for an operation soon after birth, he said.
“It was a tragic life he was born into,” Bourque said. “It started badly and it just got worse.”

The remainder if the article (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7471329.html) is a basic recap of the story.

I assume that the state would not make a claim of sexual abuse unless they have some sort of evidence to support the claim, I could be wrong.

If it were not for the fact that I'm a lazy bastard and playing poker online, I would have gone over for the hearing. Just knowing the bastard is going to either die or spend the rest of his life in prison is good enough for me.

Since death row inmates have no contact with other inmates and he can't be raped multiple times, I'm hoping for death.

Given the "I was a poor abused child" story the defense is going with, and that the state is showing how he will continue to be a danger to the world, I'd bet on death.

If I happen to live as long as this fucker sits on death row, I'd be a sponsor for a party in Huntsville at Ellis One (houses the death chamber and death row) they day they strap him down and shoot him up.

R

tmdgirl

March 14th, 2011, 02:29 PM

Travis James Mullis performed a sexual act on his 3-month-old son before crushing the infant's skull with his foot

This made me cry. I hope the sick sadistic bastard gets the death penalty.

Silvahalo

March 14th, 2011, 02:40 PM

“It was a tragic life he was born into,” Bourque said. “It started badly and it just got worse.”pfft..I don't give two shits about this woe is me bullshit. He at least had a chance at life, to get help, had choices. He didn't give anything but death to baby Alijah so I hope the fucker is left to rot in prison and killed by someone as evil and useless as him.

Rockin Ma

March 14th, 2011, 08:08 PM

We know offenders like to use the "it happened to me" or "a terrible home life" excuse often, but I wonder, how often is it really taken into consideration?

Tundratot

March 15th, 2011, 03:57 PM

This guy wants to die. He's in Texas, so I imagine he's going to get his wish.

Travis James Mullis covered a wall in his cell in the Galveston County Jail with gang graffiti and a hit list with 62 names, according to testimony today that prosecutors hope will convince a jury to give him the death penalty.

Mullis used ink and toothpaste to cover the walls in the cell he has inhabited since his arrest . . .

Jail Deputy Kenneth Dunn, under questioning by Assistant Galveston County District Attorney Kayla Allen, said he discovered the graffiti.

“Mullis told me those were people who (messed with him) at home,” Dunn testified.

If prosecutors can show Mullis is a future danger, the jury will have a reason to sentence him to death.

. . . Dunn said that Mullis had also covered the wall with graffiti from white racist, black and Mexican-American gangs.

He admitted that gangs kill non-gang members who appropriate their graffiti. Dunn also agreed that Mullis, because he had killed a child, would be at the bottom of the pecking order and his life would be in danger if he were sent to prison

“We are seeing Travis James Mullis create his own death warrant,” Bourque said, noting that if any gang member had seen the graffiti he would have to report it to the gang leadership.

. . .

A 19-year-old woman, Mullis' adopltive cousin, testified Monday that he molested her when she was 8 in the Baltimore suburb where she and Mullis were raised.

Also testifying were a 12-year-old boy and 11-year-old girl, who testified that Mullis had attempted to molest them after their mother and her boyfriend took in the penniless Mullis, his girlfriend Caren Kohberger and their son, Alijah.

The girl testified that Mullis asked her to pull her pants down in the early morning hours before he killed his son.

. . .http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7472900.html

fairewenche

March 16th, 2011, 02:18 PM

http://www.khou.com/news/local/Test-positive-for-seminal-fluid-in-3-month-old-stomped-to-death-by-dad-118076179.html

Tundratot

March 17th, 2011, 03:54 PM

. . . Defense attorneys began calling witnesses Wednesday to demonstrate that Mullis was the product of an extremely dysfunctional family background rife with neglect and sexual abuse.

Court-appointed defense investigator Gina Vitale told jurors Wednesday that Mullis' mother neglected him, visiting him only 10 times in the first 71 days after his birth, until he was adopted upon her death by her half-brother. That uncle later went to prison for sexually molesting Mullis when he was 6.

Vitale told the jury of five men and seven women that from the age of 4, Travis Mullis was treated for homicidal and suicidal behavior. By the time the molestation by his uncle was discovered, Vitale [sic] was 13 and sent to a Maryland school for troubled juveniles until he was 17. . . http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7475463.html

Whisper

March 17th, 2011, 08:09 PM

[QUOTE=Harley_Tech;486353]I now live in the county that he will be tried in. First time in my life I've ever hoped for jury duty. (edit, nope, he's being tried in Galveston county, I thought it would be Brazoria, so I won't be in the jury pool...&^#%$$*(@^!)

I know exactly how you feel I would kill to get on the Tori Stafford Jury and they keep mentioning diff places to move it,,bring it here I would do anything to get on that trial
I am new to this thread and skimmed it so sorry if this already posted,just came across as an update from earlier

Dad Allegedly Molested Baby before Stomping Him to Death
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/031711-Dad-Allegedly-Molested-Baby-before-Fatal-Stomping

Silvahalo

March 18th, 2011, 04:19 PM

I now live in the county that he will be tried in. First time in my life I've ever hoped for jury duty. (edit, nope, he's being tried in Galveston county, I thought it would be Brazoria, so I won't be in the jury pool...&^#%$$*(@^!)

I know exactly how you feel I would kill to get on the Tori Stafford Jury and they keep mentioning diff places to move it,,bring it here I would do anything to get on that trial
I am new to this thread and skimmed it so sorry if this already posted,just came across as an update from earlier

Dad Allegedly Molested Baby before Stomping Him to Death
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/031711-Dad-Allegedly-Molested-Baby-before-Fatal-Stomping

Yeah Harley posted it here...http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/showthread.php?29642-Travis-Mullis-tosses-carseat-with-baby-Alijah-to-the-roadside&p=497728#post497728, tho looks like yours is a diff. source. This shit is something I could have done without knowing. Sick doesn't even begin to cover it.

Alf

March 18th, 2011, 08:17 PM

Sick doesn't even begin to cover it.

To paraphrase Andrew Vachss, sick is a condition while evil is a behavior.

This maggot is evil.

--Al

Tundratot

March 21st, 2011, 02:01 PM

. . .

“The monster is sitting right here in this courtroom and his name is Travis Mullis,” Assistant Galveston County District Attorney Donna Cameron told jurors.

“There is no medication, there is no treatment for the evil that he is.”

Defense attorneys Robert Loper and Gerald Bourque argued to the seven women and five men on the jury that the terrible events in Mullis life, over which he had no contro, were reason enough for his life to be spared.

“He’s an emotional mental health quadriplegic,” Bourque argued. “It’s not that he’s unwilling, it’s that he’s unable” to feel the emotions that others feel.”

Bourque was referring to testimony that Mullis’ mother’s poor health caused problems in the womb that developed into psychological problems.

Testimony also showed that he wasn’t held enough at birth to form the bond necessary to develop empathy and love, was sexually abused by his adoptive father and had numerous psychological problems.

“No one should have to live the life that Travis Mullis has lived and then die and go to hell for it,” Bourque said.

. . .

Before the closing arguments, Elisor removed a woman juror who the defense accused of violating the judge’s order by discussing the case with other jurors before the jury convened for deliberations.

A woman alternate replaced juror No. 8. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7484220.html

I feel tremendous empathy for adult survivors of child abuse and trauma. It breaks my heart to see that this cycle is very much a truth. However, much as I hate it and would give anything to see it stop, allowing monsters to live because they were created by the very sort of treatment they are now dealing doesn't work for me. It doesn't matter to humans how a dog became vicious. They kill it. This guy is a monster and that won't change. Kill him and put him out of his misery.

Harley_Tech

March 21st, 2011, 06:12 PM

GALVESTON, Texas — A Southeast Texas man is going to death row — sent there by a Galveston County jury that convicted him of sexually assaulting his 3-month-old son before stomping him to death in 2008.
The Houston Chronicle reports jurors took three hours Monday to agree on a death sentence for 24-year-old Travis James Mullis of Alvin in the death of his infant son, Alijah.
DNA tests presented during the penalty phase of his trial showed that Mullis sexually abused the child before killing him. Police in Philadelphia, to where Mullis had fled after the death, say he acknowledged stomping the child's skull to stop him from crying.
Source (http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/bd62dff7856e4406a041789c94df02d3/TX--Texas-Infant-Sons-Slaying/)

R

Harley_Tech

March 21st, 2011, 06:18 PM

GALVESTON — A convicted child killer should be put to death, a jury decided Monday in the county’s first death penalty hearing since the mid 1990s.

The jury of seven women and five men that convicted Travis James Mullis on March 11 of capital murder in the stomping death of his son, Alijah, deliberated about three hours before reaching a unanimous decision in favor of the death penalty. :proud2::lollypop::hello:

Source (http://galvestondailynews.com/story/219154)

Can't post enough of these.

R

badfish76

March 21st, 2011, 06:30 PM

“No one should have to live the life that Travis Mullis has lived and then die and go to hell for it,” Bourque said.
He is going to hell when he dies no matter how he gets there.

I am not a huge fan of the death penalty but this case was tailor made for it.

Tundratot

March 21st, 2011, 07:11 PM

Hey, Travis, look who's waiving at you! http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af215/boro_01/littlenicky.jpg

Whisper

March 21st, 2011, 08:03 PM

Hey, Travis, look who's waiving at you! http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af215/boro_01/littlenicky.jpg

Actually I hope this guy is the Greeter
http://i56.tinypic.com/2ni1cfs.jpg
And this guy is his team leader lol or boss
http://i51.tinypic.com/9h4805.jpg

I finally got to use a couple of my devils gathering pics

Morbid

March 21st, 2011, 08:20 PM

Galveston, Texas - I told you this would happen.* There, I’ve said it, we can move on.* Travis James “TJ” Mullis, 24, was sentenced to death today for the murder of his three-month-old son, Alijah James Mullis. On January 29, 2008, Alijah’s tiny body was found lying face up on a berm just above Galveston [...]

This article is from The Dreamin' Demon (http://www.dreamindemon.com), the Internet's self-appointed buzzkill.

More... (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheScreaminDemon/~3/nSLIUWnCkYs/)

impqueen

March 21st, 2011, 08:29 PM

As promised to Harley (who I name-checked while talking about this case on last night's BlogTalkRadio show (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dreamindemon/2011/03/21/the-pulpit-of-doom--come-on-in-the-waters-fine)), I front-paged the bastard. Again.

Travis Mullis Totally Got The Death Penalty (http://www.dreamindemon.com/2011/03/21/travis-mullis-totally-got-the-death-penalty/)

tmdgirl

July 7th, 2011, 08:55 PM

ineedanap

July 7th, 2011, 10:55 PM

Sounds like she's got a huge head start on Casey Anthony. :mad2:

Harley_Tech

July 7th, 2011, 11:01 PM

I seriously hate to bring this one back to the front of the forums...but a "friend" of Caren has posted that Ms. Sporks herself has lost a shit ton of weight, got a trainer, bf, and is planning on having another baby :frown:

I wish someone had ripped that bitch's baby-making parts out so she could never hurt/let someone else hurt, her innocent child/ren.

I'm not really surprised by this. She never believed she was in any way responsible for her child's death.

She proved she in not capable of parenting, and it sickens me to think she will try again.

Yours and my tax dollars will be supporting her and any child she may have in the near future IMO.

R

Silvahalo

July 7th, 2011, 11:19 PM

How I missed this i have no clue.

The Houston Chronicle reports jurors took three hours Monday to agree on a death sentence for 24-year-old Travis James Mullis of Alvin in the death of his infant son, Alijah.
oh, see, now Texans will fry your ass for baby killing. They should have sent us Casey Anthony.

----Travis Mullis hell is stoking it's coals waiting anxiously, get used to the heat.

Dakota Valkyrie

September 22nd, 2011, 01:24 PM

Good. Get it over with.

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/168bf183b2abe8bc9188aacc163dd507/20110922-04.jpg
Texas DOJ photo

A death-row inmate’s decision not to appeal a capital murder conviction could put his execution on a fast track.

If Travis James Mullis passes a psychological examination, then the earliest he could be put to death for the Jan. 29, 2008, stomping death of his 3-month-old son, Alijah, would be April, the inmate said during a Wednesday interview at the Galveston County Jail.

Mullis described the moment he sexually assaulted his son and stomped the life from him as a selfish impulse. A sightseeing couple found Alijah’s lifeless body on a Galveston seawall berm near East Beach.

“The way it ended was not intended,” Mullis said. “It was just more of a holy ... Look what I just did. How am I going to clean this up?”

Mullis left Galveston but surrendered Feb. 1, 2008, and confessed to Philadelphia police that he stomped Alijah until he felt the infant’s skull collapse. It was the only way to stop Alijah from crying, he said. Evidence in his punishment hearing revealed Mullis sexually assaulted Alijah before killing him.

There was no thought process, Mullis said during the videoconference interview with The Daily News. “Then flight took over after that,” he said.
[...]

“I’ve accepted the consequence the jury gave me,” Mullis said. “I’ve accepted the verdict ... I don’t feel it’s necessary to go through it again.”

Mullis doesn’t want to drag his relatives or anyone else through another trial, if it came to that, he said.

“I have a religious and moral belief of an eye for an eye,” Mullis said. “I think the punishment is justified for the crime.”

Is Mullis ready to die?

“I won’t say I want to, but it is the consequence of my actions, and I’m accepting that,” Mullis said.

Mullis urged anyone with emotional instability to seek help.

“Don’t think you can handle it alone, because I couldn’t,” Mullis said. “I could have had just the sexual assault charges, and that by itself. It was unnecessary for any of it to happen.”

If Mullis won’t appeal, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals still would review the trial for constitutional error.

In court documents, Mullis decided to represent himself on an appeal. He has not filed any briefs in the case, First Assistant District Attorney Donna Cameron said. Mullis said he doesn’t intend to.

The court of Judge John Ellisor set a hearing for Mullis on Oct. 11 after a doctor has been able to evaluate Mullis for his competency.

“When I waive my habeas, they’re still going to do the constitutional review on direct appeal,” Mullis said. “Because I’m not filing anything, my habeas will expire Dec. 23. That’s my deadline.”

Anytime after that, Ellisor could affirm his sentence, Mullis said.

“Once it’s affirmed, the judge sets my date, and I can be executed roughly no early than 90 days,” Mullis said. “Which, depending on the court, could be as early as April of next year.”

Mullis explained what it’s like being on death row.

“Despite what I’ve heard from other people, my personal take on it is that it’s really not that bad,” Mullis said. “When I first got there, I had people giving me all kinds of stuff.”

Mullis told them he couldn’t afford to pay them back.

“They’re like, ‘Hey. It doesn’t matter,’” Mullis said. “The next guy that comes to death row with nothing, make sure he has something.”

In his more than three years in jail and state prison, what does Mullis miss the most?

“My son,” he said.
http://galvestondailynews.com/story/259502

Tundratot

September 22nd, 2011, 02:33 PM

Who would have thought? Good for you, Travis. I hope your ending comes swiftly. I'm just sorry it didn't come as quickly to you as it did to your helpless little baby, Alijah, who only lived 3 months. Justice in this country isn't swift -- you waited longer than 3 months to come to trial. It's been longer than 3 months since you were convicted and sentenced. At least now you see that putting your self-pitying brain in neutral while you did whatever the moment led you to was a criminally, tragically, nightmarishly stupid thing to do. Spread the word, sad sack. It's the only good thing you can do with your wasted life.

tmdgirl

September 22nd, 2011, 03:01 PM

Having followed this story from the beginning (and being friends of both Caren and Travis on Fubar), I was extremely happy to see that he got the DP. As much as I hate what he did, and feel that he deserves to die for it, I will say that I think he knows what he did was wrong (and most likely does regret it), and he is taking responsibility for it (like a man).

When his time comes, I hope it is swift.

And as for Caren, I feel she never got what she deserved for her part in Alijah's passing. Hopefully, one day she will.

Harley_Tech

September 22nd, 2011, 08:28 PM

As much as I despise this POS I'll give him credit for taking responsibility for what he did and accepting his just punishment.

I'd give 6 months salary to be the one to slowly push the plungers to inject the drugs in this POS.

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Silvahalo

September 22nd, 2011, 11:09 PM

http://i0.simplest-image-hosting.net/168bf183b2abe8bc9188aacc163dd507/20110922-04.jpg

Mullis described the moment he sexually assaulted his son and stomped the life from him as a selfish impulse.The expression on his face tells it all.
"Selfish impulse". That is something I don't think I have ever read a baby killer say.
I'll give him hope for a swift ending, but he'll have to negotiate with hell on the rest.

badfish76

September 23rd, 2011, 12:04 AM

At least he isn't crying because he got caught like a big, fat, stinky pussy.

I will give him that and we don't have to suffer thru 5 million years of appeals.

He is a special case, IMO, that seriously deserves to die for what he did; no ifs, ands or buts.

Whisper

April 25th, 2012, 03:47 PM

Alvin father who killed 3-month-old son in 2008 wants execution

HOUSTON -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld a Galveston judge's decision that allows a convicted killer to refuse legal help and waive appeals of his death sentence for killing his 3-month-old son in 2008.
The ruling Wednesday by the state's highest criminal court accelerates the execution process for 25-year-old Travis Mullis. He had to undergo a psychological exam to ensure he was capable of making the request.

[...]
Mullis surrendered to police in Philadelphia three days after the attack, confessing that crushing the boy's skull was the only way to make him stop crying. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8635918

Bohring

April 25th, 2012, 04:04 PM

a convicted killer to refuse legal help and waive appeals of his death sentence

Kudos to you, sir.

Dakota Valkyrie

September 15th, 2012, 06:20 AM

As the state prepares to set an execution date for Travis James Mullis, the man condemned for stomping the life from his infant son, has had a change of heart and wants to appeal his death sentence.

Mullis, 25, had adamantly opposed appealing his March 2011 capital murder conviction in the Jan. 29, 2008, death of his son, Alijah, who was 3 months old, in Galveston. But a letter Mullis wrote Aug. 20 from death row says he wants to appeal the verdict — even though he missed the July 2 deadline for an appeal.

In September 2011, Mullis said he accepted the consequences and had a religious and moral belief of an eye for an eye. The punishment was justified for the crime, he said in a jailhouse interview with The Daily News.

Mullis waived the appeal of his death sentence from Judge John Ellisor’s 122nd District Court, a pro se waiver affirmed in April by the state’s highest appeals court. Any death sentence, however, results in an automatic appeal, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reviewed trial transcripts and found no error.

“New evidence has surfaced that was not available at the time I chose to waive my appeal. I hereby request that this court reinstate my appeal and appoint counsel to help me with this appeal,” Mullis’ letter to Ellisor states.

The letter doesn’t give details on the new evidence, but Mullis wrote he would discuss it on the record in court.

Mullis wrote that the decision to waive an appeal was based on misleading and incomplete information.

The appeals court issued an order Wednesday after evaluating Mullis’ letter and the proceedings so far in the case. The court determined that all deadlines for appeals had passed, Galveston County Criminal District Attorney Jack Roady said.
[...]

“We are still communicating about (Wednesday’s) order by the Court of Criminal Appeals,” Roady said. “I anticipate that in the near future, I will be asking the trial court to proceed with scheduling the execution date.”
http://galvestondailynews.com/story/347286