Opinion ID: 2590211
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Third warrant

Text: While inside defendant's house executing the second search warrant on May 18, 1983, Sidebotham sought a third warrant by telephonic affidavit. The third affidavit incorporated by reference the affidavits in support of the car search warrant and the two prior house search warrants. Sidebotham told Judge Beacom that, while serving the second search warrant, he had observed some blood he had not seen while serving the first warrant on the evening of May 14. Sidebotham also stated that, about half an hour before he made the telephonic affidavit, Detective Sergeant Larry French of Kent County, Michigan, had advised him that, on December 9, 1982, the dead bodies of Dennis Alt and Christopher Schoenborn were found together in Kent County. Both were victims of ligature strangulation, and both had alcohol and diazepam in their systems at the time of death. A pen, inscribed Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, had been inserted into Schoenborn's urethra. The two victims had last been seen alive at that hotel. Defendant had stayed at that hotel from December 5 through December 8, 1982. Detective Sergeant French had described to Sidebotham certain property missing from Alt and Schoenborn. Sidebotham had seen a jacket labeled with the name Chris Schoenborn, as described by French, inside defendant's garage. Based on the foregoing factual recitation, Judge Beacom issued a third warrant authorizing a search of defendant's house for blood and for the missing property of Alt and Schoenborn.