and this is what was read in court yesterday. This is the first time I heard all of the facts. I guess it's public record since it was said in court. :shrug:
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STATEMENT OF FACTS FOR JASON BULMER
On May 10, 2013 at approximately 4:19 am Howard County police were dispatched to 8144 Winding Ross Way in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland for the report of a stabbing. Dispatch advised that a subject had broken into the residence and stabbed a male subject. The suspect was still in the home. Dispatch also advised that the suspects name was Jason and he was last seen struggling with the victim in the upstairs hallway. Dispatch also advised that the suspect was the victim?s daughter?s boyfriend.
Officer Cramer was the first officer to arrive on the scene. Officers Lux and Cramer made entry into the residence through the front door. They observed that there was blood and blood splatter in the entry way. As officers made their way to the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] floor they noticed blood on the carpet and walls of the second floor. The officers entered the first door on the right hand side. Once they entered they saw a white male and white female standing next to each other in the bedroom. The male was later identified as Jason Bulmer, the individual sitting at defense table next to defense counsel. The female was identified as the co-defendant Morgan Arnold. Officer Lux observed that Jason Bulmer was covered in blood and was wiping his hands on a paper towel. Officer Lux observed blood on the carpet from the doorway to inside the bedroom.
Officers asked who the male suspect was. He said ?I?m her boyfriend;? ?I?m the one who did it;? ?I stabbed him;? and ?She told me to do it.? Officers ordered the defendant out of the bedroom and into the hallway. Once in the hallway he was ordered to lay prone on the floor. Officers asked where they knife was and the defendant responded that it was in the kitchen. During a search of the defendant no weapons or contraband were located. Morgan Arnold was also handcuffed and brought to Cpl. Fisher on the first floor. Officers learned that Morgan Arnold was the daughter of the victim, Dennis Lane.
While Officer Lux was dealing with the defendant, Officer Cramer went to locate the victim. He found the victim in the master bedroom with his head towards the center of the bed and his legs hanging off of the right side of the bed. The victim was later identified as Dennis Lane. Mr. Lane was covered in blood as was the night stand and the bed that he was on. Officer Cramer found Mr. Lane to be unresponsive and not breathing. Officer Cramer couldn?t locate a pulse. Howard County Fire and Rescue arrived and began care. Mr. Lane was pronounced dead by Howard County Fire and Rescue at 4:52 am.
Sgt. Eric Kruhm arrived on the scene and observed the defendant handcuffed lying on the floor in the second floor hallway. The defendant saw Sgt. Kruhm and said ?I?m sorry, I?m sorry I did this.? Sgt. Kruhm advised the defendant of his Miranda rights. Sgt. Kruhm gave them verbally and asked the defendant if he understood them. He said he did. Sgt. Kruhm asked if he had any questions and he said no. Officer Lux then took the defendant outside.
Officer Lux sat the defendant on a curb outside. While outside the defendant told Officer Lux that he ?wanted to talk before he would forget what happened.? Officer Lux did not engage the defendant in conversation. At that point Officer Lux was not aware that Sgt. Kruhm had advised the defendant of his Miranda rights. The defendant stated the following: my girlfriend told me to come over and kill her dad because she was sick of him; I almost blacked out but I did it anyways; I wanna get it out now before I change my story; my girlfriend is psychotic; at about 1 o?clock I walked from my house on Town and Country. I went in through a rear door my girlfriend left unlocked. I waited in the bedroom until he came in the room about 4 o?clock and then I started to stab him; I waited because I knew I was caught; I only wanted to say good-bye to my girlfriend.
Sgt. Kruhm then came outside and told Officer Lux that the defendant had been advised of his Miranda rights. Officer Lux asked the defendant if he recalled Sgt. Kruhm advising him of his rights. The defendant advised he did and said he wanted to talk because he didn?t want to forget anything. Officer Lux asked the defendant what he used to stab him with? The defendant stated ?kitchen knife from my house.? The defendant states ?you can go on my i-pod. It has all the texts from my girlfriend. It?s upstairs in the bedroom, it?s not in a case.?
Officer Corey Immer was also one of the first officers to respond to the location. Officer Immer responded to the front of the residence of 8144 Winding Ross Way. He made contact with an individual by the name of Denise Geiger. Ms. Geiger had blood on her shirt, pants, hands and feet. Officer Immer learned that Denise Geiger resided in the home and was the significant other of Dennis Lane. Ms. Geiger provided a written statement to Officer Immer. In the statement Ms. Geiger relayed the following information: On Friday at approximately 4 am I awoke in a private bedroom to the sounds of screaming. When I opened my bedroom door, I could see Dennis covered in blood and wrestling with another man, Jason and Morgan standing very nearby crying. Dennis was saying ?give me the knife? and then to me ?call 911.? I told Morgan to call 911, she said I can?t. After a few more minutes of the wrestling, Dennis was able to hold both of Jason arms and I was able to take the knife from Jason?s hand and drop it over the upstairs banister to the foyer steps below.
Dennis went back into the master bedroom. At this point I was standing in the upstairs hallway with Jason and Morgan. Jason kept repeating ?Morgan told me to do this.? I told Morgan to call 911. She said ?I can?t.? I told Jason I would help him and he asked me to go to the basement to get his clothes. I told them both to go into Morgan?s room. They did. I went downstairs to the powder room to start my call to 911.
The defendant was eventually brought to the Northern District Police Station. Howard County Fire and Rescue responded to treat the defendant for a laceration to his right hand/fingers. The defendant was not transported at that time and signed a release. While the defendant was removing his bandage from his hand he stated ?I?m sorry I did this.? A few minutes later the defendant stated ?Didn?t know what was going through my mind at the time. I wish I did. I would have stopped.?
At the scene Howard County police found a knife with blood on it in the kitchen sink. The kitchen was located on the first floor of the residence. Police also discovered that the basement door was unlocked. Seized from the residence were a computer located in the basement and 2 ipods.
After the defendant was seen by the paramedics he was placed into an interview room at Northern District. Detective Don Guevara assumed responsibility of the murder investigation. Detective Guevara advised the defendant of his Miranda rights and prompt presentment notification. The defendant indicated he understood his rights and agreed to speak with the detective. During the course of the interview the defendant told Detective Guevara that a few weeks before the murder his girlfriend, Morgan Arnold had asked him to kill her father, Dennis Lane. Morgan Arnold told him that she wanted her father dead because she was angry with him. The defendant told police that much of their communication was through skype or i-message and it could be found on their ipods and Morgan Arnold?s computer. The defendant told Detective Guevara that he started dating Morgan Arnold in November of 2012. They went to Mt. Hebron High School together and had some of the same classes. The defendant advised that Morgan Arnold asked him a number of times to kill her father.
The defendant said that he walked from his home in Town and Country to Morgan Arnold?s residence. He brought his own knife because he thought it would be easier than looking for one in the Lane house because it might wake them up. The defendant said he entered the house through an unlocked slider door in the basement. Morgan Arnold had left the slider unlocked for him. He then went to Morgan Arnold?s room. The defendant said he and the co-defendant spoke for a while. While they were speaking Dennis Lane walked into the bedroom. The defendant told Detective Guevara that he didn?t recall much after that. He said he snapped and blacked out. He remembered Denise Geiger calming him down. He remembered asking Ms. Geiger to get his clothes out of his bag in the basement. Later on during the interview the defendant recalled stabbing the victim at least twice. The defendant also told Detective Guevara that he had never been to Dennis Lane?s home. Morgan Arnold had given him the address and a layout of the home. The defendant told detectives he committed the murder to make his girlfriend happy.
As part of the investigation Detective Guevera had the co-defendants ipods and Morgan Arnolds computer analyzed. Investigation revealed that the co-defendants began their relationship on skype on November 7, 2012. On 12/22 at approximately 12:28:20 Morgan Arnold sent the defendant a skype message that she ?wasn?t really depressed. I was actually losing control and was about to kill my dad.? On 3/3 at 19:57 hours Morgan Arnold makes a statement through skpe to the defendant ?if your gonna kill him, make it look like a natural death.? On 4/28 Morgan Arnold says through skype ? I had a dream last night that my dad died.? On that same date at 16:34:51 she says to the co-defendant through skype ?kill my dad instead.? At 17:56:31 Morgan Arnold states through skype ?I need a knife to slice my dad?s head off.? On 4/29 at 21:33:55 the defendant says to Morgan Arnold through skype ?can I plz just kill your dad like planned instead.? At 21:35:09 he says to Morgan Arnold ?no you don?t I just want kill your dad and run off with you.? At 21:36:30 he skypes to Morgan Arnold ?I want to kill your dad and run off with you I promises I will kill him.? At 21:43:23 Morgan Arnold skypes Jason Bulmer her father?s address at 8144 Winding Ross Way, Ellicott City, Maryland. On 5/1 through skpe Jason Bulmer says to Morgan Arnold ?I have a few things to ask if I kill dad tonight.? The co-defendants then talk about how it should happen when everyone in the home is asleep. The defendant asks Morgan Arnold how he should get in the house. She tells him not to use the garage door because it makes too much noise. She tells him to use the basement door and she will unlock it for him. She also tells the defendant her father is a light sleeper and for him to not make noise when opening doors. The defendant then says to Morgan Arnold that he will start stabbing him and his girlfriend when he enters the bedroom. Morgan Arnold tells him not to let them scream. The defendant?s response is ?that?s why I will stab then in the throat.? Later on that evening Morgan Arnold tells the defendant she wants him to kill her dad that night. The defendant responds that he needs a way to get out of the house with being questioned. The two also talk about a getaway plan. They discuss riding the school bus together the next day or drive away in the victim?s car. They talk about heading to California. At 17:41:08 the defendant asks Morgan Arnold how badly she wants him to execute her dad. Morgan Arnold responds ?very badly.? At 17:55:34 the defendant asks if he should possibly look for directions walking to Morgan Arnold?s house. A little later he tells her it should take 2 hours for him to walk. At around 18:26 hours the two begin discussing what they should do with the dead bodies. The defendant asks if they should be left at the house or put in the trunk. Morgan Arnold tells him they should be left in the trunk. At 18:30 hours the defendant asks if the basement door is unlocked. Morgan Arnold tells him that she will unlock it before bed. At 20:05 Morgan Arnold tells the defendant that the basement door is unlocked.
The defendant ended up not going to Dennis Lanes home that night. The next day he skypes Morgan Arnold asking her if she still wants him to kill her dad. She responds yes. Jason Bulmer explains that he can only leave the home if his mother doesn?t sleep in the living room. On 5/5 Morgan Arnold gives Jason Bulmer her father?s full name and tells him she will unlock the door again. The defendant responds that ?I will walk over to your house go in the basement and slowly walk to the kitchen and get a knife and slowly walk up to his room making sure he does not wake up then I will slit his throat then stab him 20 times in the chest then go to his girlfriend and slit her throat then stab her breasts.?
On 5/6 the defendant tells Morgan Arnold ?I will walk to your dads go in at 2 am go to the back door then go to the kitchen and start looking for a knife and walk to your room and open your door and look in on you then walk to your dads room then rush in ninja style and then find dads throat and stab it 3 times then do the same thing to his girlfriend and then slice off her breast then cut your dads dick off and put it in her hand after she is dead. On 5/9 the co-defendants once again begin talking about killing Dennis Lane. The defendant talks about putting a flashlight app on his ipod so he can see in the dark. The two talk about having sex after killing Dennis Lane and Denise Geiger.
On 5/9 the defendant sent to Morgan Arnold a photo of the knife he was going to use.
If this matter had gone to trial Dr. Carol Allan from the medical examiner?s office would have testified as an expert in forensic pathology. Dr. Allen would have testified that Dennis Lane died as a result of sharp for injuries. There were 5 stab wounds and 10 cutting wounds. There were 2 cutting wounds to the face, 4 stab and 2 cutting wounds to the torso, 1 stab and 3 cutting wounds to the right upper extremity and 3 cutting wounds to the left hand. Dr. Allan would have testified that the cutting wounds of the hands were consistent with defense-type injuries. The stab and cutting wounds were associated with extensive injury to soft tissue; injuries to a rib, the right lung and a tendon and a bone of the left hand were also identified. The pallor of the internal organs was consistent with significant external blood loss. Dr. Allan would have testified to a reasonable degree of medical certainty in the field of forensic pathology that the manner of death was homicide.
All these events occurred in Howard County Maryland.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS FOR JASON BULMER
On May 10, 2013 at approximately 4:19 am Howard County police were dispatched to 8144 Winding Ross Way in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland for the report of a stabbing. Dispatch advised that a subject had broken into the residence and stabbed a male subject. The suspect was still in the home. Dispatch also advised that the suspects name was Jason and he was last seen struggling with the victim in the upstairs hallway. Dispatch also advised that the suspect was the victim?s daughter?s boyfriend.
Officer Cramer was the first officer to arrive on the scene. Officers Lux and Cramer made entry into the residence through the front door. They observed that there was blood and blood splatter in the entry way. As officers made their way to the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] floor they noticed blood on the carpet and walls of the second floor. The officers entered the first door on the right hand side. Once they entered they saw a white male and white female standing next to each other in the bedroom. The male was later identified as Jason Bulmer, the individual sitting at defense table next to defense counsel. The female was identified as the co-defendant Morgan Arnold. Officer Lux observed that Jason Bulmer was covered in blood and was wiping his hands on a paper towel. Officer Lux observed blood on the carpet from the doorway to inside the bedroom.
Officers asked who the male suspect was. He said ?I?m her boyfriend;? ?I?m the one who did it;? ?I stabbed him;? and ?She told me to do it.? Officers ordered the defendant out of the bedroom and into the hallway. Once in the hallway he was ordered to lay prone on the floor. Officers asked where they knife was and the defendant responded that it was in the kitchen. During a search of the defendant no weapons or contraband were located. Morgan Arnold was also handcuffed and brought to Cpl. Fisher on the first floor. Officers learned that Morgan Arnold was the daughter of the victim, Dennis Lane.
While Officer Lux was dealing with the defendant, Officer Cramer went to locate the victim. He found the victim in the master bedroom with his head towards the center of the bed and his legs hanging off of the right side of the bed. The victim was later identified as Dennis Lane. Mr. Lane was covered in blood as was the night stand and the bed that he was on. Officer Cramer found Mr. Lane to be unresponsive and not breathing. Officer Cramer couldn?t locate a pulse. Howard County Fire and Rescue arrived and began care. Mr. Lane was pronounced dead by Howard County Fire and Rescue at 4:52 am.
Sgt. Eric Kruhm arrived on the scene and observed the defendant handcuffed lying on the floor in the second floor hallway. The defendant saw Sgt. Kruhm and said ?I?m sorry, I?m sorry I did this.? Sgt. Kruhm advised the defendant of his Miranda rights. Sgt. Kruhm gave them verbally and asked the defendant if he understood them. He said he did. Sgt. Kruhm asked if he had any questions and he said no. Officer Lux then took the defendant outside.
Officer Lux sat the defendant on a curb outside. While outside the defendant told Officer Lux that he ?wanted to talk before he would forget what happened.? Officer Lux did not engage the defendant in conversation. At that point Officer Lux was not aware that Sgt. Kruhm had advised the defendant of his Miranda rights. The defendant stated the following: my girlfriend told me to come over and kill her dad because she was sick of him; I almost blacked out but I did it anyways; I wanna get it out now before I change my story; my girlfriend is psychotic; at about 1 o?clock I walked from my house on Town and Country. I went in through a rear door my girlfriend left unlocked. I waited in the bedroom until he came in the room about 4 o?clock and then I started to stab him; I waited because I knew I was caught; I only wanted to say good-bye to my girlfriend.
Sgt. Kruhm then came outside and told Officer Lux that the defendant had been advised of his Miranda rights. Officer Lux asked the defendant if he recalled Sgt. Kruhm advising him of his rights. The defendant advised he did and said he wanted to talk because he didn?t want to forget anything. Officer Lux asked the defendant what he used to stab him with? The defendant stated ?kitchen knife from my house.? The defendant states ?you can go on my i-pod. It has all the texts from my girlfriend. It?s upstairs in the bedroom, it?s not in a case.?
Officer Corey Immer was also one of the first officers to respond to the location. Officer Immer responded to the front of the residence of 8144 Winding Ross Way. He made contact with an individual by the name of Denise Geiger. Ms. Geiger had blood on her shirt, pants, hands and feet. Officer Immer learned that Denise Geiger resided in the home and was the significant other of Dennis Lane. Ms. Geiger provided a written statement to Officer Immer. In the statement Ms. Geiger relayed the following information: On Friday at approximately 4 am I awoke in a private bedroom to the sounds of screaming. When I opened my bedroom door, I could see Dennis covered in blood and wrestling with another man, Jason and Morgan standing very nearby crying. Dennis was saying ?give me the knife? and then to me ?call 911.? I told Morgan to call 911, she said I can?t. After a few more minutes of the wrestling, Dennis was able to hold both of Jason arms and I was able to take the knife from Jason?s hand and drop it over the upstairs banister to the foyer steps below.
Dennis went back into the master bedroom. At this point I was standing in the upstairs hallway with Jason and Morgan. Jason kept repeating ?Morgan told me to do this.? I told Morgan to call 911. She said ?I can?t.? I told Jason I would help him and he asked me to go to the basement to get his clothes. I told them both to go into Morgan?s room. They did. I went downstairs to the powder room to start my call to 911.
The defendant was eventually brought to the Northern District Police Station. Howard County Fire and Rescue responded to treat the defendant for a laceration to his right hand/fingers. The defendant was not transported at that time and signed a release. While the defendant was removing his bandage from his hand he stated ?I?m sorry I did this.? A few minutes later the defendant stated ?Didn?t know what was going through my mind at the time. I wish I did. I would have stopped.?
At the scene Howard County police found a knife with blood on it in the kitchen sink. The kitchen was located on the first floor of the residence. Police also discovered that the basement door was unlocked. Seized from the residence were a computer located in the basement and 2 ipods.
After the defendant was seen by the paramedics he was placed into an interview room at Northern District. Detective Don Guevara assumed responsibility of the murder investigation. Detective Guevara advised the defendant of his Miranda rights and prompt presentment notification. The defendant indicated he understood his rights and agreed to speak with the detective. During the course of the interview the defendant told Detective Guevara that a few weeks before the murder his girlfriend, Morgan Arnold had asked him to kill her father, Dennis Lane. Morgan Arnold told him that she wanted her father dead because she was angry with him. The defendant told police that much of their communication was through skype or i-message and it could be found on their ipods and Morgan Arnold?s computer. The defendant told Detective Guevara that he started dating Morgan Arnold in November of 2012. They went to Mt. Hebron High School together and had some of the same classes. The defendant advised that Morgan Arnold asked him a number of times to kill her father.
The defendant said that he walked from his home in Town and Country to Morgan Arnold?s residence. He brought his own knife because he thought it would be easier than looking for one in the Lane house because it might wake them up. The defendant said he entered the house through an unlocked slider door in the basement. Morgan Arnold had left the slider unlocked for him. He then went to Morgan Arnold?s room. The defendant said he and the co-defendant spoke for a while. While they were speaking Dennis Lane walked into the bedroom. The defendant told Detective Guevara that he didn?t recall much after that. He said he snapped and blacked out. He remembered Denise Geiger calming him down. He remembered asking Ms. Geiger to get his clothes out of his bag in the basement. Later on during the interview the defendant recalled stabbing the victim at least twice. The defendant also told Detective Guevara that he had never been to Dennis Lane?s home. Morgan Arnold had given him the address and a layout of the home. The defendant told detectives he committed the murder to make his girlfriend happy.
As part of the investigation Detective Guevera had the co-defendants ipods and Morgan Arnolds computer analyzed. Investigation revealed that the co-defendants began their relationship on skype on November 7, 2012. On 12/22 at approximately 12:28:20 Morgan Arnold sent the defendant a skype message that she ?wasn?t really depressed. I was actually losing control and was about to kill my dad.? On 3/3 at 19:57 hours Morgan Arnold makes a statement through skpe to the defendant ?if your gonna kill him, make it look like a natural death.? On 4/28 Morgan Arnold says through skype ? I had a dream last night that my dad died.? On that same date at 16:34:51 she says to the co-defendant through skype ?kill my dad instead.? At 17:56:31 Morgan Arnold states through skype ?I need a knife to slice my dad?s head off.? On 4/29 at 21:33:55 the defendant says to Morgan Arnold through skype ?can I plz just kill your dad like planned instead.? At 21:35:09 he says to Morgan Arnold ?no you don?t I just want kill your dad and run off with you.? At 21:36:30 he skypes to Morgan Arnold ?I want to kill your dad and run off with you I promises I will kill him.? At 21:43:23 Morgan Arnold skypes Jason Bulmer her father?s address at 8144 Winding Ross Way, Ellicott City, Maryland. On 5/1 through skpe Jason Bulmer says to Morgan Arnold ?I have a few things to ask if I kill dad tonight.? The co-defendants then talk about how it should happen when everyone in the home is asleep. The defendant asks Morgan Arnold how he should get in the house. She tells him not to use the garage door because it makes too much noise. She tells him to use the basement door and she will unlock it for him. She also tells the defendant her father is a light sleeper and for him to not make noise when opening doors. The defendant then says to Morgan Arnold that he will start stabbing him and his girlfriend when he enters the bedroom. Morgan Arnold tells him not to let them scream. The defendant?s response is ?that?s why I will stab then in the throat.? Later on that evening Morgan Arnold tells the defendant she wants him to kill her dad that night. The defendant responds that he needs a way to get out of the house with being questioned. The two also talk about a getaway plan. They discuss riding the school bus together the next day or drive away in the victim?s car. They talk about heading to California. At 17:41:08 the defendant asks Morgan Arnold how badly she wants him to execute her dad. Morgan Arnold responds ?very badly.? At 17:55:34 the defendant asks if he should possibly look for directions walking to Morgan Arnold?s house. A little later he tells her it should take 2 hours for him to walk. At around 18:26 hours the two begin discussing what they should do with the dead bodies. The defendant asks if they should be left at the house or put in the trunk. Morgan Arnold tells him they should be left in the trunk. At 18:30 hours the defendant asks if the basement door is unlocked. Morgan Arnold tells him that she will unlock it before bed. At 20:05 Morgan Arnold tells the defendant that the basement door is unlocked.
The defendant ended up not going to Dennis Lanes home that night. The next day he skypes Morgan Arnold asking her if she still wants him to kill her dad. She responds yes. Jason Bulmer explains that he can only leave the home if his mother doesn?t sleep in the living room. On 5/5 Morgan Arnold gives Jason Bulmer her father?s full name and tells him she will unlock the door again. The defendant responds that ?I will walk over to your house go in the basement and slowly walk to the kitchen and get a knife and slowly walk up to his room making sure he does not wake up then I will slit his throat then stab him 20 times in the chest then go to his girlfriend and slit her throat then stab her breasts.?
On 5/6 the defendant tells Morgan Arnold ?I will walk to your dads go in at 2 am go to the back door then go to the kitchen and start looking for a knife and walk to your room and open your door and look in on you then walk to your dads room then rush in ninja style and then find dads throat and stab it 3 times then do the same thing to his girlfriend and then slice off her breast then cut your dads dick off and put it in her hand after she is dead. On 5/9 the co-defendants once again begin talking about killing Dennis Lane. The defendant talks about putting a flashlight app on his ipod so he can see in the dark. The two talk about having sex after killing Dennis Lane and Denise Geiger.
On 5/9 the defendant sent to Morgan Arnold a photo of the knife he was going to use.
If this matter had gone to trial Dr. Carol Allan from the medical examiner?s office would have testified as an expert in forensic pathology. Dr. Allen would have testified that Dennis Lane died as a result of sharp for injuries. There were 5 stab wounds and 10 cutting wounds. There were 2 cutting wounds to the face, 4 stab and 2 cutting wounds to the torso, 1 stab and 3 cutting wounds to the right upper extremity and 3 cutting wounds to the left hand. Dr. Allan would have testified that the cutting wounds of the hands were consistent with defense-type injuries. The stab and cutting wounds were associated with extensive injury to soft tissue; injuries to a rib, the right lung and a tendon and a bone of the left hand were also identified. The pallor of the internal organs was consistent with significant external blood loss. Dr. Allan would have testified to a reasonable degree of medical certainty in the field of forensic pathology that the manner of death was homicide.
All these events occurred in Howard County Maryland.
