Post by hi224 on Sept 15, 2019 0:05:44 GMT
September 4, 2016: A 28-year-old woman training for a half marathon in Edward Hines Park in the Detroit suburb of Westland, MI, is attacked by an African-American male who tackles her to the ground. The victim asks what he wants and the man responds simply, "I just want sex." The woman tries to buy time by agreeing to the request, hoping someone will find them. The man wants to take her to a secluded area by a nearby river. When she refuses, he punches her and chokes her until she's unconscious. When she regains consciousness, she pleads again with him and he lets her go. After he flees the scene, the woman stops a car and calls 911. The victim gives a detailed description of the suspect to a police sketch artist. Due to the fact that she fought her attacker, police are able to obtain the attacker's DNA from her clothing.
Minutes later, Floyd Galloway Jr., a 30-year-old security guard from Berkley, MI, receives a call on his cell phone from his wife, Eily, who is battling leukemia. His phone connects to a cell phone tower in the immediate vicinity of Hines Park
Galloway had worked at the same building, MetLife Insurance in Southfield, as Danielle Stislicki and her mother, Ann. The two are deemed to be friendly despite an unrequited crush Galloway has on Danielle. Ann Stislicki knew of Galloway's presence when it came to her daughter.
"He also frequently would talk to Danielle. He would go ahead and come up to our fourth-floor cafeteria. I thought it was strange for him to be up there and questioned why he was up there. I’ve never seen any other security guard up in the cafeteria during anyone’s break, let alone the time that Danielle and I were specifically taking our lunch together.”
It is believed that Galloway left flowers and a secret admirer note on Danielle's desk saying, "I hope this makes you smile." It had the opposite affect, according to her mother:
"She was quite disturbed. As much as it was exciting to have a secret admirer, she was concerned and a little creeped out about someone just going ahead and leaving flowers on her desk."
December 2, 2016: A major snow storm was expected to hit Metro Detroit. The major story in the area was that a recount requested by Green Party Candidate Jill Stein in the recent presidential election will be allowed to proceed after the State Board of Canvassers deadlocked in a 2-2 vote along party lines. President-elect Donald Trump won the state by ~10,000 votes of the approximate 4.8 million cast. Danielle went to work as usual and planned to spend the night at the house of her best friend of more than 20 years, Sarah Pollack.
“I was texting to her and asking her if she wanted to get together to do dinner. She said ‘yeah’ (and) that she was going to leave work. She would go home and pack a bag and then come stay the night.”
Evening of December 2, 2016: The last two people believed to see Danielle were two of her co-workers. One will eventually testify that she saw Danielle talking to Galloway in the MetLife parking lot with the hood up on Galloway's car. Another said he saw Danielle leaving in her 2015 Jeep Renegade with Galloway in the passenger seat.
The Renegade is seen on surveillance footage at 5:03 P.M. driving eastbound on 11 Mile Road, a short distance away from Galloway's home on Oxford Road in Berkley. Danielle's cell phone pings near a cell tower by Galloway's home. The Renegade is then spotted driving in the opposite direction, westbound on 11 Mile Road, at 7:56 p.m. Danielle's apartment is approximately a 30-minute drive to Galloway's home.
A cab driver picks up Galloway at a Tim Horton's Cafe and Bake Shop, at 38200 West Mile Road, near Grand River Ave., in Farmington Hills. The coffee shop is approximately three-quarters of a mile, a 10-to-15 minute walk, from Danielle's apartment on Lincoln Court at Independence Green Apartments in Farmington Hills. Danielle's keys and her FitBit would later be found here. The driver describes his demeanor as calm and low-key. He says he’s in the area to visit his girlfriend and that he was having car trouble.
Pollack spent the night waiting for Danielle, texting her often throughout the night, wondering where she was. Pollack went to bed to that night, not realizing she would never speak to her best friend again.
December 3, 2016: The next morning, Pollard and Danielle's parents drove to Danielle's apartment complex and find the Renegade parked. The doors are locked and her purse is inside the vehicle. Her keys and cell phone appear to be missing. A missing persons report is filed and a formal investigation begins.
December 4, 2016: The Detroit area media first reports on the case. Danielle's parents say the behavior is out of character for her.
The co-worker that saw Danielle and Floyd together the day she disappeared tells police. Ann Stislicki tells them about Floyd's "office crush" on Danielle, despite the fact that he is married and his wife has cancer. Police question Galloway in Rochester Hills at his job, where he had been working since October 2016. Any further attempts to question Galloway are thwarted when he retains an attorney and invokes his 5th amendment rights.
December 2016: Galloway is shown on surveillance footage buying a new comforter two days after Danielle’s disappearance. He also rips out a piece of carpet from his bedroom and leaves it in the trash
December 22, 2016: In the first of what would become three searches, police search Galloway's home. Among the items removed are a mattress, floorboards and the discarded swabs. Galloway and his wife Eileen will later move in with her parents due to the unwanted notoriety of Galloway being a person of interest in Danielle’s disappearance.
2017: One person that you might think would have Galloway's back is Elizabeth Newton, whose sister Eileen is married to Galloway. She loves her brother-in-law and thinks this must be all a big misunderstanding and decides the best way to clear his name is to find Danielle. So, she shares a Danielle's missing persons poster on her Facebook page. That's when her worldview of everything changes. She speaks to the Farmington Hills Police and finds out information that leads her to question his innocence.
"The reason they were searching Floyd and (Eileen’s) house was because there had been witnesses that saw Floyd and Danielle at Floyd's house together on the day she disappeared. And then they said that was the last time she had ever been seen." As she leaves the police station, she recalls a conversation that she had had with Galloway in 2015. "It turned into a conversation about sex addiction. He admitted that he had an addiction to porn and had thoughts of cheating, and my sister was just then starting her chemo treatment. I was like 'Just don't cheat on my sister, dude’. He was just waiting for the right victim.”
"That's when a whole mess got started for me. The next morning my sister calls me and she is so upset, she's furious that I shared this flier. My mom called me, furious. And that's when I started thinking differently about it. It was very suspicious to me how my family was behaving, and that's when I started getting the feeling that they knew something that I didn't know."
Police investigating the Hines Park attack begin to notice the similarity between Galloway and the composite sketch the victim provided to police after the attack in September 2016. Unfortunately, the victim fails to identify Galloway as her attacker in two police lineups. Despite that, police use another method. Farmington Hills Police obtained a court order for Galloway's DNA and cell phone records in the Stislicki investigation.
Galloway's DNA matches DNA pulled from the Hines Park victim's clothing and cell phone records have Galloway answering a call from wife that pings off a cellphone tower near Hines Park.
June 28, 2017: Galloway is arrested and charged with four felonies. (kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct-assault with intent to commit sexual penetration and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder by strangulation.) The charges carry up to life in prison. He is ordered held in the Wayne County Jail on $750,000 bond.
July 19, 2017: Following Galloway's arrest, investigators from approximately 20 law enforcement agencies (including the FBI and Secret Service) search Hines Park for clues related to the Stisliki case. They uncover nothing of substance.
August 1, 2017: Galloway appears before for Judge Kathleen McCann in 16th District Court for a preliminary examination in the Hines Park attempted rape case. The purpose of the hearing is for McCann to decide if there is enough evidence that the crime occurred and for the case to be bound over to Circuit Court for trial. The victim testified how Galloway grabbed her from behind with a choke hold.
“When he got on top of me, I started yelling: What do you want? Why are you doing this? What do you want?”
“I thought he was going to rape me."
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office add an additional charge of assault with intent to murder. The case is bound over for trial
August 31, 2017: Eileen Galloway files for divorce.
November 10, 2017: Galloway rejects a plea bargain that would have prosecutors drop the assault with intent to murder charge in exchange for Galloway pleading guilty and spending between 15-35 years in prison. The prosecution declares the case will move on.
"We’ll be taking that offer off the table today and proceeding to trial."
November 21, 2017: Galloway changes his mind and agrees to pleads guilty in exchange for the "assault with intent to murder" charge being dropped. The deal calls for Galloway to spend between 16 to 35 years in prison. Part of the deal is that Galloway had to briefly admit what he was pleading guilty for.
“I saw this woman jogging and when she passed me I threw her to the ground. I did all this in order to have sex with her."
December 8, 2017: Galloway is sentenced to 16 to 35 years in prison.
January 20, 2018: Eileen Galloway dies at the age of 31. Her obituay odes not mention Floyd Galloway or that she had been married
”Eily is the loving daughter of James and Linda Clemens, dear sister of Erin Welch (Dana), Erica Stone, Jeremy (Jody), Joshua (Stephanie) and Elizabeth Newton (Mike) and cherished granddaughter of William Thayer. She is also survived by multiple aunts, uncles and cousins. Eily is also survived by her beloved dog, Blue.”
December 2018: As the 2-year anniversary of her disappearance nears, the Stislicki family copes differently. Her parents, Rich and Ann, acknowledge that Danielle is most likely no longer alive. Yet, their two other daughters, Holly and Jillian, hold out a slim hope for a miracle. They still pay her cell phone bill and buy a ticket for her when they go to the movies. Police are still searching, chasing leads. They search Stony Creek Metro Park, a park that straddles the border of Macomb and Oakland counties. It was the same park where in 2007, after strangling and dismembering his wife Tara, Stephen Grant littered parts of dismembered corpse. Farmington Hills Police have a simple message on the back of their cruisers, #FindDani. Law enforcement will eventually execute 78 search warrants.
Floyd Galloway no longer monitors the security of others, but is watched by prison guards in a maximum security setting. He no longer lives in the upscale suburb of Berkley, but at the Alger Correctional Facility in Munising in Alger County. The facility is located near shores of Lake Superior, near the northern most point of the central part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, some 400 miles away from his former home. He is a prisoner number 442572 and will not be eligible for parole until June 26, 2033.
January 2019: Dana Nessel takes office as Michigan's newest Attorney General, having been elected in a close race the previous November. While never campaigning on solving the case, one of her first acts is to meet with the Farmington Hills Police Department and get a look at the evidence that has been collected. The case had been handled by the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office.
Nessel said the case was challenging for many reasons:
“I was familiar with Danielle’s case and wanted to know what evidence existed, what the status of the investigation was, and what I could do to help,” said Nessel. “That’s why I reached out to the Farmington Hills Police Department and asked them to present the evidence compiled on the case. They did an outstanding job on a very challenging investigation."
Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper has declined comment but speculation is she was hesitant to bring murder charges without a body
March 5, 2019: Nessel's office charges Floyd Russell Galloway Jr. with premeditated, first degree murder, punishable in Michigan by a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. Galloway is arraigned via video conference from prison in Alger County. The 47th District Court where the hearing is taking place is approximately a 10-minute drive from Danielle's apartment. Galloway's attorney professes his client's innocence.
"He would walk people out of the building during dark evenings, do whatever security staffs would need to do... They were friends, they knew each other. Her mother worked there and he knew her mother also."
September 9-10, 2019: Galloway's preliminary begins to see if there is enough evidence to bind the case over to trial. This is the first time the public will hear most of the evidence against Galloway. Including:
A Michigan State Police forensics specialist linked Galloway's handwriting to the secret admirer note that "creeped out" Danielle, according to her mother.
Testimony that the MSP allows believe there is a strong possibility that DNA collected from a piece of carpet removed from Galloway's house belongs to Galloway. That piece of carpet also contains Danielle's DNA.
An FBI agent testified that an analysis of cell phone records puts Galloway's phone near Stislicki's apartment in Farmington Hills and Danielle's phone near Galloway's home in Berkley.
A Farmington Hills detective testifies that Galloway came off as overly nervous in their initial interview. He says that he and Danielle are friends but had not spoken recently and heard that she was missing.
“He was stand-offish and stared at a wall (during questions),” Molloy said, adding when given a business card, Galloway’s “hands were shaking.”
September 10, 2019: Citing "overwhelming" evidence and overwhelming probable cause, Judge James B. Brady binds Galloway over for trial to Oakland County Circuit Court on charges of 1st degree murder. Galloway will be formally arraigned in Oakland County Circuit Court in front of Judge Phyllis C. McMillen on September 19, 2019.
Minutes later, Floyd Galloway Jr., a 30-year-old security guard from Berkley, MI, receives a call on his cell phone from his wife, Eily, who is battling leukemia. His phone connects to a cell phone tower in the immediate vicinity of Hines Park
Galloway had worked at the same building, MetLife Insurance in Southfield, as Danielle Stislicki and her mother, Ann. The two are deemed to be friendly despite an unrequited crush Galloway has on Danielle. Ann Stislicki knew of Galloway's presence when it came to her daughter.
"He also frequently would talk to Danielle. He would go ahead and come up to our fourth-floor cafeteria. I thought it was strange for him to be up there and questioned why he was up there. I’ve never seen any other security guard up in the cafeteria during anyone’s break, let alone the time that Danielle and I were specifically taking our lunch together.”
It is believed that Galloway left flowers and a secret admirer note on Danielle's desk saying, "I hope this makes you smile." It had the opposite affect, according to her mother:
"She was quite disturbed. As much as it was exciting to have a secret admirer, she was concerned and a little creeped out about someone just going ahead and leaving flowers on her desk."
December 2, 2016: A major snow storm was expected to hit Metro Detroit. The major story in the area was that a recount requested by Green Party Candidate Jill Stein in the recent presidential election will be allowed to proceed after the State Board of Canvassers deadlocked in a 2-2 vote along party lines. President-elect Donald Trump won the state by ~10,000 votes of the approximate 4.8 million cast. Danielle went to work as usual and planned to spend the night at the house of her best friend of more than 20 years, Sarah Pollack.
“I was texting to her and asking her if she wanted to get together to do dinner. She said ‘yeah’ (and) that she was going to leave work. She would go home and pack a bag and then come stay the night.”
Evening of December 2, 2016: The last two people believed to see Danielle were two of her co-workers. One will eventually testify that she saw Danielle talking to Galloway in the MetLife parking lot with the hood up on Galloway's car. Another said he saw Danielle leaving in her 2015 Jeep Renegade with Galloway in the passenger seat.
The Renegade is seen on surveillance footage at 5:03 P.M. driving eastbound on 11 Mile Road, a short distance away from Galloway's home on Oxford Road in Berkley. Danielle's cell phone pings near a cell tower by Galloway's home. The Renegade is then spotted driving in the opposite direction, westbound on 11 Mile Road, at 7:56 p.m. Danielle's apartment is approximately a 30-minute drive to Galloway's home.
A cab driver picks up Galloway at a Tim Horton's Cafe and Bake Shop, at 38200 West Mile Road, near Grand River Ave., in Farmington Hills. The coffee shop is approximately three-quarters of a mile, a 10-to-15 minute walk, from Danielle's apartment on Lincoln Court at Independence Green Apartments in Farmington Hills. Danielle's keys and her FitBit would later be found here. The driver describes his demeanor as calm and low-key. He says he’s in the area to visit his girlfriend and that he was having car trouble.
Pollack spent the night waiting for Danielle, texting her often throughout the night, wondering where she was. Pollack went to bed to that night, not realizing she would never speak to her best friend again.
December 3, 2016: The next morning, Pollard and Danielle's parents drove to Danielle's apartment complex and find the Renegade parked. The doors are locked and her purse is inside the vehicle. Her keys and cell phone appear to be missing. A missing persons report is filed and a formal investigation begins.
December 4, 2016: The Detroit area media first reports on the case. Danielle's parents say the behavior is out of character for her.
The co-worker that saw Danielle and Floyd together the day she disappeared tells police. Ann Stislicki tells them about Floyd's "office crush" on Danielle, despite the fact that he is married and his wife has cancer. Police question Galloway in Rochester Hills at his job, where he had been working since October 2016. Any further attempts to question Galloway are thwarted when he retains an attorney and invokes his 5th amendment rights.
December 2016: Galloway is shown on surveillance footage buying a new comforter two days after Danielle’s disappearance. He also rips out a piece of carpet from his bedroom and leaves it in the trash
December 22, 2016: In the first of what would become three searches, police search Galloway's home. Among the items removed are a mattress, floorboards and the discarded swabs. Galloway and his wife Eileen will later move in with her parents due to the unwanted notoriety of Galloway being a person of interest in Danielle’s disappearance.
2017: One person that you might think would have Galloway's back is Elizabeth Newton, whose sister Eileen is married to Galloway. She loves her brother-in-law and thinks this must be all a big misunderstanding and decides the best way to clear his name is to find Danielle. So, she shares a Danielle's missing persons poster on her Facebook page. That's when her worldview of everything changes. She speaks to the Farmington Hills Police and finds out information that leads her to question his innocence.
"The reason they were searching Floyd and (Eileen’s) house was because there had been witnesses that saw Floyd and Danielle at Floyd's house together on the day she disappeared. And then they said that was the last time she had ever been seen." As she leaves the police station, she recalls a conversation that she had had with Galloway in 2015. "It turned into a conversation about sex addiction. He admitted that he had an addiction to porn and had thoughts of cheating, and my sister was just then starting her chemo treatment. I was like 'Just don't cheat on my sister, dude’. He was just waiting for the right victim.”
"That's when a whole mess got started for me. The next morning my sister calls me and she is so upset, she's furious that I shared this flier. My mom called me, furious. And that's when I started thinking differently about it. It was very suspicious to me how my family was behaving, and that's when I started getting the feeling that they knew something that I didn't know."
Police investigating the Hines Park attack begin to notice the similarity between Galloway and the composite sketch the victim provided to police after the attack in September 2016. Unfortunately, the victim fails to identify Galloway as her attacker in two police lineups. Despite that, police use another method. Farmington Hills Police obtained a court order for Galloway's DNA and cell phone records in the Stislicki investigation.
Galloway's DNA matches DNA pulled from the Hines Park victim's clothing and cell phone records have Galloway answering a call from wife that pings off a cellphone tower near Hines Park.
June 28, 2017: Galloway is arrested and charged with four felonies. (kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct-assault with intent to commit sexual penetration and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder by strangulation.) The charges carry up to life in prison. He is ordered held in the Wayne County Jail on $750,000 bond.
July 19, 2017: Following Galloway's arrest, investigators from approximately 20 law enforcement agencies (including the FBI and Secret Service) search Hines Park for clues related to the Stisliki case. They uncover nothing of substance.
August 1, 2017: Galloway appears before for Judge Kathleen McCann in 16th District Court for a preliminary examination in the Hines Park attempted rape case. The purpose of the hearing is for McCann to decide if there is enough evidence that the crime occurred and for the case to be bound over to Circuit Court for trial. The victim testified how Galloway grabbed her from behind with a choke hold.
“When he got on top of me, I started yelling: What do you want? Why are you doing this? What do you want?”
“I thought he was going to rape me."
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office add an additional charge of assault with intent to murder. The case is bound over for trial
August 31, 2017: Eileen Galloway files for divorce.
November 10, 2017: Galloway rejects a plea bargain that would have prosecutors drop the assault with intent to murder charge in exchange for Galloway pleading guilty and spending between 15-35 years in prison. The prosecution declares the case will move on.
"We’ll be taking that offer off the table today and proceeding to trial."
November 21, 2017: Galloway changes his mind and agrees to pleads guilty in exchange for the "assault with intent to murder" charge being dropped. The deal calls for Galloway to spend between 16 to 35 years in prison. Part of the deal is that Galloway had to briefly admit what he was pleading guilty for.
“I saw this woman jogging and when she passed me I threw her to the ground. I did all this in order to have sex with her."
December 8, 2017: Galloway is sentenced to 16 to 35 years in prison.
January 20, 2018: Eileen Galloway dies at the age of 31. Her obituay odes not mention Floyd Galloway or that she had been married
”Eily is the loving daughter of James and Linda Clemens, dear sister of Erin Welch (Dana), Erica Stone, Jeremy (Jody), Joshua (Stephanie) and Elizabeth Newton (Mike) and cherished granddaughter of William Thayer. She is also survived by multiple aunts, uncles and cousins. Eily is also survived by her beloved dog, Blue.”
December 2018: As the 2-year anniversary of her disappearance nears, the Stislicki family copes differently. Her parents, Rich and Ann, acknowledge that Danielle is most likely no longer alive. Yet, their two other daughters, Holly and Jillian, hold out a slim hope for a miracle. They still pay her cell phone bill and buy a ticket for her when they go to the movies. Police are still searching, chasing leads. They search Stony Creek Metro Park, a park that straddles the border of Macomb and Oakland counties. It was the same park where in 2007, after strangling and dismembering his wife Tara, Stephen Grant littered parts of dismembered corpse. Farmington Hills Police have a simple message on the back of their cruisers, #FindDani. Law enforcement will eventually execute 78 search warrants.
Floyd Galloway no longer monitors the security of others, but is watched by prison guards in a maximum security setting. He no longer lives in the upscale suburb of Berkley, but at the Alger Correctional Facility in Munising in Alger County. The facility is located near shores of Lake Superior, near the northern most point of the central part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, some 400 miles away from his former home. He is a prisoner number 442572 and will not be eligible for parole until June 26, 2033.
January 2019: Dana Nessel takes office as Michigan's newest Attorney General, having been elected in a close race the previous November. While never campaigning on solving the case, one of her first acts is to meet with the Farmington Hills Police Department and get a look at the evidence that has been collected. The case had been handled by the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office.
Nessel said the case was challenging for many reasons:
“I was familiar with Danielle’s case and wanted to know what evidence existed, what the status of the investigation was, and what I could do to help,” said Nessel. “That’s why I reached out to the Farmington Hills Police Department and asked them to present the evidence compiled on the case. They did an outstanding job on a very challenging investigation."
Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper has declined comment but speculation is she was hesitant to bring murder charges without a body
March 5, 2019: Nessel's office charges Floyd Russell Galloway Jr. with premeditated, first degree murder, punishable in Michigan by a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole. Galloway is arraigned via video conference from prison in Alger County. The 47th District Court where the hearing is taking place is approximately a 10-minute drive from Danielle's apartment. Galloway's attorney professes his client's innocence.
"He would walk people out of the building during dark evenings, do whatever security staffs would need to do... They were friends, they knew each other. Her mother worked there and he knew her mother also."
September 9-10, 2019: Galloway's preliminary begins to see if there is enough evidence to bind the case over to trial. This is the first time the public will hear most of the evidence against Galloway. Including:
A Michigan State Police forensics specialist linked Galloway's handwriting to the secret admirer note that "creeped out" Danielle, according to her mother.
Testimony that the MSP allows believe there is a strong possibility that DNA collected from a piece of carpet removed from Galloway's house belongs to Galloway. That piece of carpet also contains Danielle's DNA.
An FBI agent testified that an analysis of cell phone records puts Galloway's phone near Stislicki's apartment in Farmington Hills and Danielle's phone near Galloway's home in Berkley.
A Farmington Hills detective testifies that Galloway came off as overly nervous in their initial interview. He says that he and Danielle are friends but had not spoken recently and heard that she was missing.
“He was stand-offish and stared at a wall (during questions),” Molloy said, adding when given a business card, Galloway’s “hands were shaking.”
September 10, 2019: Citing "overwhelming" evidence and overwhelming probable cause, Judge James B. Brady binds Galloway over for trial to Oakland County Circuit Court on charges of 1st degree murder. Galloway will be formally arraigned in Oakland County Circuit Court in front of Judge Phyllis C. McMillen on September 19, 2019.