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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-29-Wed-2006/news/6601577.html
Kelly Ryan participated in the brutality that culminated in the death of her personal assistant by using a Taser gun on the victim, beating her and helping to inject the woman with a massive dose of morphine, Ryan's self-described best friend told a grand jury.
In her testimony to the grand jury that indicted Ryan and Ryan's husband, Craig Titus, on murder charges, Megan Pierson, 25, also said Titus demonstrated how he strangled 28-year-old Melissa James, according to the grand jury transcripts.
Pierson told the grand jury that she and her husband, Jeremy Foley, were at Ryan and Titus' southwest valley home on Dec. 13, the same day authorities suspect Titus and Ryan's live-in assistant was slain.
Pierson testified that Ryan told her that a confrontation had occurred between her and James at the home because she and Titus suspected James was stealing from them and was planning to steal their identities.
Ryan is a 33-year-old past Ms. Fitness America and Ms. Olympia runner-up, and Titus is a 40-year-old past place-winner of international Mr. Olympia competitions.
"They had gone into Melissa's room and found, opened up, a lock box that had credit cards, copies of credit cards, a (home equity line of credit) statement ... and copies of IDs," Pierson said.
She said Titus was especially angry at the discovery.
"Very, very pissed," Pierson said, adding that Titus said, "There is three things that you don't mess with. That's friends, family and his money."
Pierson said Ryan told her that during a confrontation with James, she had taken a Taser gun away from James, then used it on James.
"It, I guess, stunned her in the back of her neck, but she (Ryan) didn't have it up high enough, so it just kind of got her attention," Pierson told the grand jury.
"And Kelly tried to do it again, and she, I guess she didn't have the voltage up high enough, so she yelled for Craig, and Craig came upstairs, picked Melissa up, brought her downstairs into the living room and supposedly body slammed her (James) and started beating her up," Pierson testified.
Ryan told Pierson that after the beating, James "took a Xanax" and went to bed, Pierson said.
"While she was sleeping, Kelly went into her room and punched her in the face," Pierson said.
"She (Ryan) said that she punched her a couple of times, she showed me the marks on her knuckles from it, and she said that ... Craig was holding her down and told Kelly to get the morphine and she shot a whole needle of morphine into her leg," Pierson said. "She said she was very resilient because it didn't do anything to her."
Later that evening, Titus demonstrated to Pierson "how you can strangle somebody," and then he demonstrated a chokehold for Pierson.
"He did it on me, and you instantly stop breathing," Pierson said. "It scared me the way that he motioned, the way that he showed it on me.
"Craig just walked in and started talking about it and, that's how, he started talking more about how he said that he killed Melissa," Pierson said.
"He said that he was joking around, but that is how he had killed Melissa, by strangling her," Pierson said.
"I mean, he was laughing, so I really did not believe he was serious," she said.
Pierson said that Titus then mentioned James' body was in his wife's car and that Titus said he was going to drive the vehicle to Red Rock, "scatter clothes around the car and set it on fire and make it look like a rape."
Pierson's testified before the grand jury earlier this month, and the grand jury wound up indicting Ryan and Titus on charges of murder and arson in the death of James.
Twenty-three-year-old Anthony Gross is charged with being an accessory to the killing and with arson.
Authorities allege Titus and Ryan killed James, then burned her body in Ryan's Jaguar off state Route 160 in the desert outside of Las Vegas. The burning car was discovered Dec. 14.
Pierson said when she and her husband left the home of Titus and Ryan the night of Dec. 13, Titus gave the couple a gym bag.
"We said our goodbyes, and there was a gym bag next to my purse," Pierson said. "I grabbed my purse, walked out and Craig said, 'Hey, wait, you forgot this,' and I said 'What is this?'"
"He said, 'Oh, don't worry about it, I talked to Jeremy about it; he said it was OK to have it at your house for a couple of weeks,' " Pierson said.
"He said that he knew the police were going to be coming to his house the next day, and he acted like he just didn't want whatever was in the bag in the house while the police were there," Pierson said.
The following day, she said, she looked in the gym bag and saw "a Taser gun, a stun gun, a gym rope, and something else for one of the Taser guns or stun gun," Pierson said.
Pierson said she turned the items over to police, and according to grand jury transcripts, authorities found other physical evidence that corroborated Pierson's account.
An analysis of the Taser gun indicated it had been fired multiple times on the day James was slain, and Las Vegas police crime scene analysts found remnants from the discharge of a Taser gun inside Titus and Ryan's home.
Also, a medical examiner told the grand jury that James had a high level of morphine in her body at the time of her death.
When questioned by a prosecutor in front of the grand jury, Pierson admitted she did not tell police what she knew when first questioned by police because "at first I was protecting Kelly."
It was all "very upsetting," Pierson said. "It's very depressing. ... I thought I knew her better than this."
Pierson said she was frightened by Titus. Nevertheless, she agreed to meet with Titus and Ryan a few days after Dec. 13 at an acquaintance's house.
"Kelly was playing dumb, saying that 'they (police) think we did it,' and Craig said that they were going to go to Greece," Pierson said. "He said, 'It's no big deal. Kelly is going to continue to compete there, everything will be fine,' and he said he only needed two witnesses to say that she (James) was overdosed in the front seat of the car and that they'd get off."
Ryan's attorney, Tom Pitaro, declined to comment on the grand jury transcripts Tuesday because he had not read them yet.
Titus' defense attorney, Richard Schonfeld, declined to comment on the specifics of the transcripts, but he said the veracity of the evidence is expected to be challenged in District Court. He previously said that Titus' accusers have significant credibility problems.
Authorities allege that Titus and Ryan first told police they did not know what happened to James. They later said they found her dead of a drug overdose, then panicked and burned her body.
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god are they screwed.
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yep!!!!
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yep!!!!
freakin animals!!!! three words "rot in hell"
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In all reality (if there is such a thing). How high could they have both of been to invite friends over to the house and show them everything that happened and give up evidence to take home?
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In all reality (if there is such a thing). How high could they have both of been to invite friends over to the house and show them everything that happened and give up evidence to take home?
When you live a lifestyle where you think everyone idolizes you – they must have felt that their pseudo - celebritism made them untouchable. The carelessness onto which they conducted themselves is unreal. :P
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When you live a lifestyle where you think everyone idolizes you – they must have felt that their pseudo - celebritism made them untouchable. The carelessness onto which they conducted themselves is unreal. :P
good point!
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if melissa was stealing from them (while living at their house!) she got what she deserved .... i would kill someone for stealing from me if i though i could get away with it
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it's worse than I thought...they are both done
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guy ... i havent seen you hear in ages
whats up
(ps its vikingpower ;))
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So, Kelly tasered her and Titus body-slammed her, and then she went to bed? That's just too funny to be true. I've been tasered (by the Fuzz) and I've been body-slammed (more than once, but I always get up), but I've never been tasered & body-slammed and then simply went to bed. That just doesn't happen. I don't know what happened, but that didn't happen.
Thanks for the update.
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they beat the shit out of her and then finished the job. what trash they are.
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Sounds like the truth is just as awful and twisted as we've expected it to be.
Those two are really, really f***** up!!
The trial is going to be interesting when all of their other drug-taking, partner-swapping cohorts show up to shed some light on the reality of C&K's life together over the years.
FYI: Their preliminary hearing was postponed from yesterday, so they should be appearing in court today.
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if melissa was stealing from them (while living at their house!) she got what she deserved .... i would kill someone for stealing from me if i though i could get away with it
So it is ok to brutally murder someone who steal something? How f*uking stupid you can be?!? You must be retarded 12 years old. How about someone killing you for all the software you have stolen? It is clearly visible that you have stolen windows in use right now... ;D :o ::)
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So, Kelly tasered her and Titus body-slammed her, and then she went to bed? That's just too funny to be true. I've been tasered (by the Fuzz) and I've been body-slammed (more than once, but I always get up), but I've never been tasered & body-slammed and then simply went to bed. That just doesn't happen. I don't know what happened, but that didn't happen.
Thanks for the update.
well..the article said that the taser was turned down and it only got her attention......
it also said she took a xanex and went to bed.
taser: too low
body slam by titus: ouch
xanex: night night
that part makes more sense than that she went to bed in that house. if she was busted with all that info in the lock box....got beat up...and then decided NOT to leave the house...but to go to bed????!!!! not a smart move. she should have run out of there immediately and she might ahve still been alive....MAYBE
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f**cker ... i havent seen you hear in ages
whats up
(ps its vikingpower ;))
Hey whas up, man?? yeah I've been here off and on...of course this shit with Craig brought me outta the woodwork!
Buff
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So, Kelly tasered her and Titus body-slammed her, and then she went to bed? That's just too funny to be true. I've been tasered (by the Fuzz) and I've been body-slammed (more than once, but I always get up), but I've never been tasered & body-slammed and then simply went to bed. That just doesn't happen. I don't know what happened, but that didn't happen.
Thanks for the update.
Right on.
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You people listen up aiight. Doesnt you fink you jumpin on top of the gun a bit innit. What if dis James girl killed herself and just framed everyone else, surely no one would eva suspect that!
boo
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You people listen up aiight. Doesnt you fink you jumpin on top of the gun a bit innit. What if dis James girl killed herself and just framed everyone else, surely no one would eva suspect that!
boo
Could you print that in english for the people that don't understand ebonics? Because from I gather your statement is f*king retaded!!!!!!!!!!!
"FRAMED"...Let me guess, you think that melissa dressed up as kelly and went to walmart to buy lighter fluid and then drove out of town to torch herself (!!!! You have to be the most freaking retarded person I have ever heard of!
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You people listen up aiight. Doesnt you fink you jumpin on top of the gun a bit innit. What if dis James girl killed herself and just framed everyone else, surely no one would eva suspect that!
boo
Ronnie?
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Titus and Kelly's logic was utterly warped, kindergarden level. First the body burned in their own car, then tell ALL details to witnesses, then take their time to get out of the country?
Morons. They deserved one another. :P
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You people listen up aiight. Doesnt you fink you jumpin on top of the gun a bit innit. What if dis James girl killed herself and just framed everyone else, surely no one would eva suspect that!
boo
Maybe GAry Coleman did it.!
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Ronnie?
LOL ;D
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Ronnie?
omg,, that's great!
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Hey whas up, man?? yeah I've been here off and on...of course this shit with Craig brought me outta the woodwork!
Buff
not much is new iwth me .... still my same old charming self ;D
if i remember correctly you're a vegas boy?? ..... got any inside stories on crazy titus parties.... did u bang kelly?
let us know ;D
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from titus' cocky self confidence and blase attitude its obvious he is of a personality type that thinks its above the law !
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common in bodybuilding but he took it to the crazy level.
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not much is new iwth me .... still my same old charming self ;D
if i remember correctly you're a vegas boy?? ..... got any inside stories on crazy titus parties.... did u bang kelly?
let us know ;D
Only the "old school" crazy parties...none of this meth head, trolling for strippers,pimping your wife shit
No I never banged Kelly
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I like the fact that Craig was startled when told by James' mother that DNA could be used on the body in the car to ID it. This was news to him! ???
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This gets more and more depressing by the minute.
:(
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You people listen up aiight. Doesnt you fink you jumpin on top of the gun a bit innit. What if dis James girl killed herself and just framed everyone else, surely no one would eva suspect that!
boo
LMAO! Don't you worry East-ender, I get it! (Fuuuuuuug, it's like no one ever watched HBO in 2003)
My favorite one was when G-Man said: "Is it true that we has bones, or is that just a myth?" to
C. Everett Coop! F'ing hysterical.
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LMAO! Don't you worry East-ender, I get it! (Fuuuuuuug, it's like no one ever watched HBO in 2003)
My favorite one was when G-Man said: "Is it true that we has bones, or is that just a myth?" to
C. Everett Coop! F'ing hysterical.
One of the best interviewers out there. Second only to John Romano.
For both, irreverance is bliss.
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only in Vegas
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this doesnt make sense AT ALL...so ok: kelly approached james, james tries to tazer kelly then kelly uses the tazer on her, craig comes in and(carries her back downstairs?) and beats her up, then what?
they just walk off and leave james there, she gets up and GOES TO BED?
then, kelly and craig come back in, inject her with morphine and strangle her?
this story does not make sense at all.
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if melissa was stealing from them (while living at their house!) she got what she deserved .... i would kill someone for stealing from me if i though i could get away with it
And you too would be sitting in jail getting rammed up the ass...
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One of the best interviewers out there. Second only to John Romano.
For both, irreverance is bliss.
God, I knew this was Romano the second I started reading his posts!! <snicker>
You're intelligent and often witty, JR, I'll give you that, but you're not a very good actor. :P
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God, I knew this was Romano the second I started reading his posts!! <snicker>
You're intelligent and often witty, JR, I'll give you that, but you're not a very good actor. :P
are you serious?
ramazon is not john romano. I ain't giving the identity up either.
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this doesnt make sense AT ALL...so ok: kelly approached james, james tries to tazer kelly then kelly uses the tazer on her, craig comes in and(carries her back downstairs?) and beats her up, then what?
they just walk off and leave james there, she gets up and GOES TO BED?
then, kelly and craig come back in, inject her with morphine and strangle her?
this story does not make sense at all.
where does murdering someone make sense anyway?
on a side note, why didnt you kill sally last? couldnt pass up the opportunity?
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Wes Mantooth!! HAHAHA I just love this name.
But my fav is Randy Mantooth from the show "Emergency" that aired back in the 60's..
MANTOOTH RULES!
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And you too would be sitting in jail getting rammed up the ass...
LMAO
I could care less about Craig Titus going to jail and his scum wife - bye bye
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this doesnt make sense AT ALL...so ok: kelly approached james, james tries to tazer kelly then kelly uses the tazer on her, craig comes in and(carries her back downstairs?) and beats her up, then what?
they just walk off and leave james there, she gets up and GOES TO BED?
then, kelly and craig come back in, inject her with morphine and strangle her?
this story does not make sense at all.
that's cause it's bullshit. Melissa was immune to the taser that Kelly pulled on her because she was high on Meth. That's why Craig had to come and body slam her and then choke her out. Kelly is helping him by beating up Melissa too cause she hates her. Then Melissa probably came to and they shot her full of morphine to try and knock her out. But dying people can have alot of strength...that's where the phone cord (that is one of the few things Craig DOES NOT remembers using...yeah right) comes in. He strangles her with it....and then he starts to tie up the body...tape up her face cause he can't stand to see her face..too much guilt...typical of killers who knew their victim...and puts her in the trunk for the last ride
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that's cause it's bullshit. Melissa was immune to the taser that Kelly pulled on her because she was high on Meth. That's why Craig had to come and body slam her and then choke her out. Kelly is helping him by beating up Melissa too cause she hates her. Then Melissa probably came to and they shot her full of morphine to try and knock her out. But dying people can have alot of strength...that's where the phone cord (that is one of the few things Craig DOES NOT remembers using...yeah right) comes in. He strangles her with it....and then he starts to tie up the body...tape up her face cause he can't stand to see her face..too much guilt...typical of killers who knew their victim...and puts her in the trunk for the last ride
i like this post
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Only the "old school" crazy parties...none of this meth head, trolling for strippers,pimping your wife shit
No I never banged Kelly
Did you ever make love to her?
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i like this post
Thanks...It's the way I see it unfolding in my mind that makes the most sense (based on the facts I know of at least)
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Did you ever make love to her?
Uh, that would be a NO on that one too.
Ever only just friends. Never had any other feelings for her. Like a sister really
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You people listen up aiight. Doesnt you fink you jumpin on top of the gun a bit innit. What if dis James girl killed herself and just framed everyone else, surely no one would eva suspect that!
boo
aaiiii...for real.
it iz a possibility innit?
wot if, even, it might be dis pierson did da lot and framed up evryone?...bet ya didnt fink ov dat?
she mightve bin a bit cross wiv dem coz dey got all da bling n fings.
anovver possibility.