The evidence that matters is inconclusive.
With the cameras that can not be confirmed and the lack of DNA evidence it really is no wonder that the prosecution is going all out to make it look like Harlow is a hardened criminal. The Beach tapes and the Crab catcher tapes were their big hope of getting Harlow but the truth is Joe and Harlow knew they were being recorded. What is really interesting is the motive for all of this. Joe and Harlow killed Bryan to work with Sean and Cobra Video was their main competition in the gay porn business. Now the settlement did not preclude Sean from working with anyone but Cobra models. The only one named specifically was Brent Everett.
The settlement did have a stipulation that Sean would pay Cobra Video 20% of his fee for the use of the name "Brent Corrigan". Now the fact that Sean and Grant are claiming that they could not work with Joe and Harlow while they were in Las Vegas is strange because at the time there was no signed settlement. The settlement was not signed until the 18Th of January 2007. There were still issues with the settlement while they were in Las Vegas and they did not get ironed out until they were back in San Diego.
Also of note during the civil suit Sean and Grant said that the contract with Cobra could not be enforced. The contract in question that Sean breached would have expired in 2006 anyway. The civil suit was really about the name Brent Corrigan and nothing else. Bryan could not get that contract enforced because Sean could have fulfilled that contract by just showing up and that is all he had to do. You can not enforce a contract for sex, that would be prostitution and that is illegal. Also the production of pornographic material is illegal in the state of Pennsylvania.
Yet the prosecution is trying to use it as means for a conviction. They turned their back on the illegal activities of the victim until he was killed. All of a sudden he was a "business man" and he was killed so that someone could get his "prized actor". Give me a break, this is such a sack of shit. It stinks just like all of the other illegal activity that that court house is famous for. The truth of the matter is that Luzerne County should have removed themselves from prosecuting this case.
They do not have a definite time of death for the victim and every time it is reported it is a different time frame. As far as I am concerned the time frame is between 7:50pm and 8:20 pm on January 24Th. Based on the last time someone spoke to the victim and the time that Amy saw the car leave the scene. That gives the killers 30 minutes to kill Bryan and clean up and loot the house and flee the scene with the items that they are accused of taking. Did the police check the drain traps for blood trace? The killer would have been covered in blood based on the way that the victim was killed. Did they check to see how much blood the victim had lost during the autopsy? Did they check stomach contents of the victim, he supposedly got some food that day.
The police did not find any DNA evidence in the victims house or in the SUV that was rented by Harlow. They can not prove that the video cameras were in fact those of the victim. To tell you the truth they can not really prove that Joe and Harlow were actually at the victims house. That has always been the case. There is a witness sighting of the SUV from earlier that evening but it could that have been the Recon mission. As the email stated that Harlow was not scheduled to arrive until 7:15 pm. So unless Harlow was early then Macias is mistaken about 6:30 being the time that the "model" arrived.
Bryan was not expecting him until 45 minutes later. Perhaps it was just Bryan taking another phone call. Macias did talk to Bryan at 7:50 pm so Bryan was still alive at that time. There are just to many unanswered questions. No real proof that Joe and Harlow were at Bryan's house Just a vehicle that looked like the one Harlow rented. I wonder how many silver Nissan Exterra's there are out there? Did anyone actually see Harlow or Joe at the crime scene?
Is the knife found at the scene the one that Joe and Harlow purchased in Virginia Beach?
Why slash his throat they has a gun they could have shot him. It is January, its cold no one would have any windows open and most houses would have had double pained windows. No one would have heard the gun shot if you used a pillow to muffle it. Why would two crazed killers call Sean and Grant and tell them that they just killed someone. They must have known that Sean and Grant would be blamed for it. Non of this makes any sense to me, it never has.
"Did they check to see how much blood the victim had lost during the autopsy?"
ReplyDeleteThe Medical Examiner reported that due to the charred condition of the corpse of Bryan Kocis, burns over 90% of the body, identification was made by dental comparison, a common method. More importantly, because of the burned condition, bodily fluids, such as blood, such as mucus, such as saliva would have boiled away.
That Harlow called Sean the day after the murder and referred him to WNEP website for news of Kocis' murder is very clear.
ReplyDeleteHarlow and Joe's signature is all over this case.
One of the purchases at the local Wal-mart in PA was lighter fluid. The lighter fluid was the combustible used to ignite the fire in the loveseat with Kocis' body being found in couch.
"The police did not find any DNA evidence in the victims house or in the SUV that was rented by Harlow."
ReplyDeleteThem poor firefighters could have lost their lives trying to rescue that corpse
Rob strangely enough the fire chief said no accellerants were used. Now I know that sounds strange since the prosecution brought up the purchase of lighter fluid. Jarocha said items were placed behind the love seat, and possibly sprayed with lighter fluid. He further said several smoke detectors in Kocis' home were found on the floors and tables, removed from the ceiling prior to the fire.
ReplyDeleteFunny he can not be sure, he testified in the prelim that no accelerants were used.
That is the problem with this case all of the evidence is speculative or circumstantial.
They have not really proved anything conclusively.
True firefighters could have been hurt, that is a risk that comes with the job. The fire chief said that the smoke alarns were taken from their locations but the batteries were not removed.
ReplyDeleteI am finding it strange that the testimony of certain witnesses has changed since the preliminary hearing. the fire could only have been burning no more than 20 munutes.
ReplyDeleteAmy said she saw the vehicle leaving the home 8:20 but she did not say anything about a fire.
The neighbor across the street reported the fire at around 8:30-8:35 the fire department arrives 2 minutes after the call.
The fire was out 10 minutes later. That would be around 25 minutes for the fire to burn unabated.
Time frame of the fire is 8:20 until 8:45. I also recall that someone testified that they heard smoke alarms, I think I read that in the newspaper.
"Why would two crazed killers call Sean and Grant and tell them that they just killed someone."
ReplyDeleteWell, if that were posted as a question? I would have to say my answer is, "Because they were idiots!"
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To tell you the truth I agree with that. The motive that the prosecutions is using would make it appear that they are idiots. For them to think that Bryan was the only competion for them would also make it seem that they were idiots.
ReplyDeleteTo do all of this to work with Sean also makes them seem like idiots. The fact that the only one who has directly benifited from all of this is in fact Sean.
So I guess they were idiots if they thought that doing this would endear them to Sean and he would work with them out of gratitude.
I really think that all of those involved in this mess were idiots in my opinion. All of this crap for a fucking name.
Where were the adults during all of this?
Get a grip Elm. These Harlow and Joe caught themselves in their own net.
ReplyDeleteThe time clock starts ticking with Macias' phone call to Kocis. That phone call is interupted by the doorbell and/or a knock and Bryan Kocis announcing the model has arrived.
The eyewitnesses place the Nissan Xterra in Kocis' driveway. Their statements are not inconsistent and cover a small window of time that place Harlow and Joe on scene at Kocis'.
There is no evidence to back up an elaborate conspiracy. It would have required close cooperation of the parties, close cooperation that certain parties would not have been will to give to one another. Sean would never collaborate with Robert Wagner on a single thing. There is too much animosity for the victimizing Sean suffered through Wagner. Wagner loathes Sean for the age/ID fiasco and the backseat he took when BK was infatuated with Sean. It is very clear that Grant did not care for Kerekes' brusque, boorish, gouche personality.
Other examples abound.
Fire Marshalls are not in the habit of lying about the nature of arson fires, set to cover a capital crime destroy evidence.
There are no inconsistencies. The account of "what happened" is presented very lucidly by Harlow in matter of fact detail on the CCT's and BBT's.
One thing I found interesting was when Justin Hensley stated that Harlow and Joe considered Cobra their rival, over a YEAR before the murder. Even before contact was made with Brent.
ReplyDeleteLooks like this feeling of rivalry which smouldered over such a long amount of time gradually became an pyschological obsession (ie, an idee fixe), with logic and reason thus going out the window.
"That is the problem with this case all of the evidence is speculative or circumstantial."
ReplyDeleteElm, the evidence in ALL murder cases is circumstantial, unless there is a direct eyewitness. A great majority of the people on death row are there because of circumstantial evidence.
To tell you the truth I have no disagreements with any of you. There are some things that I find strange and I will always find them strange.
ReplyDeleteRob, you claim that Sean and Robert Wagner hate each other. That is your opinion, it is clear that you have issues with Wagner. You have shown that since you started posting on the blogs.
Jim, Justin said that Joe and Harlow said that Cobra was their main rival for over a year.
Well that is strange because Joe and Harlow had no contact with Sean and Grant until Grant contacted them. Now when he said a year maybe he was talking about 2006 when they first had any contact. December 2006 if I recall.
If that was the case they had plenty of time to contact Sean and to ask him to work with them. Falcon worked with Sean so why not Joe and Harlow?
Will there are plenty of people in jail on circumstantial cases but that does not make it right or the accused guilty. There have been plenty of cases where the "evidence" that convicted them was wrong. That is why they have the INNOCENCE PROJECT.
As far as this case goes I am just looking at it from a perspective that not all is as it appears.
There are just to many questions that I have with the evidence and the testimony of the witnesses. It really seems that everyone is taking sides. No one seems to be interested in the truth. It really is all about Sean and Grant are innocent and Joe and Harlow did this.
The whole Bryan defense group has all but disbanded. The whole Harlow defense group has done the same. The Sean and Grant team is still out there in full force.
Funny the only one who has benefited from any of this is Sean.
There has been all of this talk about Joe and Harlow wanted Sean to be a escort for their company, that Harlow did this because he was in Love with Sean, that Harlow was going to leave Joe for Sean, Harlow was going to take a plea deal. The prosecution is claiming that Bryan was their main competition and that they wanted to steal Sean away from his company.
To me it is all bullshit.
The settlement is bullshit; the reason behind them signing it is bullshit. Bryan only had one thing that he could use against Sean and that was the name Brent Corrigan.
That is really what this was all about on Sean's end. He wanted that name. Bryan could have taken that name but it would be of no use to him. The name Brent Corrigan was only any good with Sean attached to it.
For Joe and Harlow all they wanted was for Brent to film with their company. They only needed the body and the face, the name is not really all that important to anyone but Sean.
Hell the name Brent Corrigan is tainted anyway.
That is why Falcon did not use it. Fox Ryder work just fine for Falcon and it pissed Bryan off as well.
But Sean and Grant had to let Bryan and Lee get in the middle of it all. Had they used common sense and dropped that name they would have been ok. Bryan would have no grounds to harass them anymore.
"Well that is strange because Joe and Harlow had no contact with Sean and Grant until Grant contacted them. Now when he said a year maybe he was talking about 2006 when they first had any contact. December 2006 if I recall."
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think that's strange? Cobra, Bryan, Brent Corrigan...these were all news stories in early 2006. The Cobra brand was a virtual monopoly in the bareback twink niche. Brent was a very popular star. Wannabe porn producers Harlow and Joe would have to have been living in some underground nuclear vault to have not have heard of any of these three prior to contact.
That's why I KNEW what Harlow wrote in his Harlow blog about not knowing who Brent was, was such utter bullcrap from day one. It was such an obvious lie, that it greatly persuaded me back then that he was a murderer.
"If that was the case they had plenty of time to contact Sean and to ask him to work with them. Falcon worked with Sean so why not Joe and Harlow?"
ReplyDeleteWe'll, LOL, we know how well the Falcon-Brent working relationship turned out! :-)
In fact, now that you mention this...since Harlow and Joe figured that Bryan could screw up the Falcon deal like that...they probably concluded, early on, that Bryan could potentially and easily screw up a Boybatter deal as well? Hence, he was an obstacle best removed?
Hmmmmm....in-ter-est-ing...
"Rob, you claim that Sean and Robert Wagner hate each other. That is your opinion, it is clear that you have issues with Wagner. You have shown that since you started posting on the blogs."
ReplyDeleteWrap your head around this Elm. Robert Wagner was instrumental in victimizing Sean. After publication of the Out article, Sean at Jim's blog, I believe, responded to a statement, obviously from Wagner, regarding the July 4, 2004 NYC trip and stay at the Plaza Hotel. Unless you are wearing blinders and stick your head in the ground there is no way that can be misconstrued as "loving feeling" for Robert Wagner.
More importantly, other statements indicated hostility.
You have proof that Sean and Wagner have regular poker games, and take drinks and Cubans together, put up. Otherwise, your main thread is nothing more than unsubstantiated crap.
Oh so now because I don't agree with all of your crap I'm the new fucking BB? Look Rob you have spent the better part of a year trying your damnedest to get me to believe your crap. It didn’t work then and it won't work now.
ReplyDeleteYou have tried to make it seem like PC was this big bad wolf because he did not believe your crap. You have lied to me from the start and I knew it all along.
I will leave it at that unless you want me to point out specific incidents.
As far as this case goes none of what you are anyone else has said to me has changed my opinion of what really happened. I have always believed that there was more to this than Joe and Harlow wanted to work with Sean.
Grant has admitted under oath in a court of law that he wanted Bryan killed. To bad he did that.
Sean has admitted that he was the one who forged documents to work for Cobra video in a court of law under oath.
Sean did not implicate anyone else in his little scheme. So it does not look like his little "sirens tale" is all that truthful.
So the big question is what else did Sean lie about? Sean hated Bryan with every fiber of his being. Grant hated Bryan as well and it is this hate that drove Sean and Grant apart.
All of those who blindly defend Sean and Grant are just as guilty of the death of Bryan Kocis as the real killers are. Those who defend Sean and Grant have told me lie after lie.
Those who defend Joe and Harlow as well have feed me Lie after lie.
Those who defend Bryan Kocis have feed me lie after lie.
To tell you the truth I think they are all the fucking scum of the earth.
Joe and Harlow were stupid to ever want to get mixed up in this crap. For them to want to “work with Sean” was out of desperation. They needed a big buzz about their little porn company and the name “Brent Corrigan” was surrounded in enough scandal to help them with that. So they all concoct this plan to get rid of Bryan and it backfired on Joe and Harlow. Just like it will backfire on Sean and Grant.
As far as me believing that Joe and Harlow are innocent, they are just as innocent as Sean and Grant. This was all a scheme to get rid of Bryan. Sean wanted the name “Brent Corrigan” and Bryan had a copyright on it. Sean had the ability to take Bryan out of the game by producing his birth certificate but he did not do that. That is a very nagging question that has bothered me from the beginning. Sean could have dropped the name Brent Corrigan but he did not. The whole “problem with Falcon” and the name Brent Corrigan was because Falcon would not get involved in Sean’s fight for the name Brent Corrigan.
Falcon basically told Brent fuck you fight this out yourself and they released the movie with Sean as “Fox Ryder”. There was a huge promotional blitz on that new name and the movie was successful. Sean got paid a good chunk of change for that movie as well. But Sean badmouthed the studio because they would not help him go after Bryan.
This whole thing just plays out like "The Velvet Mafia" in the end Sean runs off with all the money. It really is starting to look that way now is it not.
Show me where I claim anywhere that you are Robert Wagner or BB. Fact is that premise is not there at all. Do not flatter yourself.
ReplyDeleteWe have to assume Harlow and Joe desperately wanted the name "Brent Corrigan" as part of the package too. Their celebratory email blast in January of 2007 trumpeted the name conspicuously. To have it not be part of the Boybatter deal, in their eyes, would have been equal to no deal at all.
ReplyDeleteSince Kocis could screw up the Falcon deal over the name thing, then certainly, he could have screwed up the Boybatter deal as well. This fact must have weighed heavily on Harlow and Joe's mind.
Sarcasm: Oh so now because I don't agree with all of your crap I'm the new fucking BB? Look Rob you have spent the better part of a year trying your damnedest to get me to believe your crap. It didn’t work then and it won't work now.
ReplyDeleteRob you have made this claim since you first started blogging.
Rob said...
"Rob, you claim that Sean and Robert Wagner hate each other. That is your opinion, it is clear that you have issues with Wagner. You have shown that since you started posting on the blogs."
Wrap your head around this Elm. Robert Wagner was instrumental in victimizing Sean. After publication of the Out article, Sean at Jim's blog, I believe, responded to a statement, obviously from Wagner, regarding the July 4, 2004 NYC trip and stay at the Plaza Hotel. Unless you are wearing blinders and stick your head in the ground there is no way that can be misconstrued as "loving feeling" for Robert Wagner.
More importantly, other statements indicated hostility.
You have proof that Sean and Wagner have regular poker games, and take drinks and Cubans together, put up. Otherwise, your main thread is nothing more than unsubstantiated crap.
March 7, 2009 8:56 AM
You have claimed that Robert Wagner abused Sean yet you have never shown conclusive proof of such. You claimed that this happened while they were on a trip to Puerto Rico, you tried to say that pictures of Sean were doctored to hide bruises.
Answer this question Rob why the hell would Kocis put doctored pictures of Sean on his web page?
If as you say they were so obviously doctored that you could still see the bruises from Sean's beating?
Jim you seem to have the right Idea. Joe and Harlow needed the name Brent corrigan just as much as Sean wanted the use of that name. So the killing of Bryan Kocis was benifcial to all of them.
ReplyDeleteJoe and Harlow get to use the cash cow that is Brent Corrigan and Sean gets to use the name. everybody is happy except Lee and Bryan.
Yeah. Of course as you know, a currently "Deflated" Brent tells us he feels not so benefitted in all this:
ReplyDelete"Much like Bryan’s personal home and residence, my world went up in smoke and flames when he was killed. People love to think I had everything to gain and I had the most obvious motive to do this or be involved in this. The truth is, that’s delusional and completely detached from reality. When Bryan was killed, everything in my world crumbled to my feet. All my plans, hopes and aspirations were put on hold until I could get a grip of the situation."
...but then that of course calls on the services of a mind reading machine to verify, which unfortunately has not been invented yet.
But, that's what he says. You can choose to take it or leave it.
The facts do seem to bear him out, however. He essentially lost an entire year of his filmmaking career (2007) over this. Had Bryan not been killed...he would have owed him four measly scenes, which he could have knocked off in a month. And without Bryan even being present.
Doesn't sound he "gained" much, even with the benefit of hindsight.
Elm, I was reading this article from Queerty that Jim linked about Peter Everhard, and it says his "Bitchless Blog" is satire, which was a revelation to me. He always seems dead serious about his conspiracy theories. But now I can see that he is just a comical genius, and my hat's off to him.
ReplyDeleteNow your blog also gets a mention there as another one that presents "alternative" theories about the murder. So I was just wondering if "Rants from a Mysterious Place" is really satire too? Because sometimes I just have to wonder if you're pulling our leg. I think maybe I'm just a little slow in picking up on these things, so hope you don't mind me asking!
To tell you the truth had Bryan lived Brent would have been more screwed. Bryan had other plans for Brent and Lee Bergeron was key in those plans. Now brent could say this if Bryan lived.
ReplyDelete"Much like Brent Corrigan online was my personal home and company, my world went up in smoke and flames when Lee sold me out to Bryan. My dreams were killed when Bryan became the major shareholder. People love to think I had everything to gain and I had the settlement was a obvious thing to do. But for Lee to be involved in this clear deciet has ruined me. The truth is, that’s delusional and completely detached from reality that the settlement would be good for me. When Bryan killed my dream, everything in my world crumbled to my feet. All my plans, hopes and aspirations were put on hold until I could get a grip of the situation".
Will to tell you the truth my opinon on all of this is that it is all bullshit.
ReplyDeleteI always knew the whole Bitchless blog thing was satire with a biting edge. Satire is always based in truth. And the truth is this whole trial and murder investigation is a joke.
Yes Elm, your alternate history may have come to pass.
ReplyDeleteBut we are talking about motive here, and as we both know, the whole back door dealing was a total secret before the murder. So, it does not really factor into our motive question.
It is interesting, however, to consider it all in sort of a "karmic" light.
BTW, totally off topic, but something you might find right up your alley, Elm (heh!):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wylernation.com/2009/03/screwed-loose.html
I also think it's funny, from our perspective, that he considers it to have been "a slow news week."
jim said...
ReplyDeleteYes Elm, your alternate history may have come to pass.
But we are talking about motive here, and as we both know, the whole back door dealing was a total secret before the murder. So, it does not really factor into our motive question.
It is interesting, however, to consider it all in sort of a "karmic" light.
March 7, 2009 7:04 PM
Jim we have been lead to believe that S&G did not know about the backdoor deal before the murder but how can we be sure of this? How can we be sure of anything that has been said in this whole debacle?
There was what seemed to be very much shock and mystery on Brent and Grant's part when Lee Bergeron began screwing Brent over, after the murder. And paying webmaster Jeremy to do nothing. Or perhaps not paying him, who knows? Anyways, Lee was intentionally running LSG into the ground, and no one, especially not Sean and Grant, could figure out why. That was all pretty apparant, based on Brent blog posts back then.
ReplyDeleteSean and Grant even vented their frustration over Lee to the Rolling Stone interviewer. And got smeared by the reporter in the "bulging vein" anecdote for their troubles.
Then the CCTs and BBTs. We've read those transcripts. Sean and Grant seem in genuine surprise what they hear about the Lee and the "BDD."
OK, it could be all be an act you say. But if it is...it's literally an Acadamy Award winning perormance. No slip ups whatsoever.
So, common sense and instinct tells me they never knew.
Jim you can beleve that if you want too.
ReplyDeleteAnd lets say, for the sake of argument, they knew about the BDD.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it have been easier to have just shut the back door? Ie, just walked away from LSG?
In the absense of an operating agreement, all parties were free to do so, at any time.
So again, that tells us they did not know of the BDD.
Question,
ReplyDeleteI know u can't enforce a contract for sex, but how does work in Cal for those doing porn? do the contracts read acting, performing services, what do they say?
and is the filming of porn legal, but not the contraction and payment to persons performing it?
Tks,
elmysterio said...
ReplyDelete"And the truth is this whole trial and murder investigation is a joke."
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You need to go to PA and tell the parents of all parties that this is a big joke, the guy is not the killer, and there has been a mix-up, they do need something to cheer up about. Melnick would also appreciate your checking of the real facts.
Harlow's mother would appreciate your exhaustive research on the topic.
Elm, you would go down in history as an icon of truth and justice, think about it. Do not delay, a young man's life is hanging in the balance here.
Or are you an insult to the criminal justice and court system in the United States of America?
As far as the "porn" contracts go, it is actually quite easy to write them legally, by simply not mentioning sex.
ReplyDeleteA contact might call for "nude video modeling," for example, and prohibit an actor from appearing in any other "nude model videos" until the contracted scenes are complete to the producer's satisfaction.
Since it is difficult to have sex with someone with one's clothes on, you essentially have a valid, enforcable exclusive porn contract w/o mentioning sex.
It looks like it is all over and done with. Harlow has taken the stand and he put the blame all on Joe. I don't know how this will effect the jury. I don't know if it is the truth but there are elements of it that have been told from early on. I was a party to several of the tree way ophone calls and Joe was always comming up with a plan.
ReplyDeleteThe plan all along was for Harlow to take the fall for this. Seems like it just might work. There was realy no way for the truth to come out because of all of the previous lies that were told.
It really is to bad that stupidity and greed came to this.
Elm, I've not understood the whole background here, and ur take on some things, but i guess i'm not supposed to. I enjoyed your blog, your take, although I didn't always agree with it, it still was interesting to see the full spectrum of opinion. But when it's over, I wish you would disclose some background re your warning J&H that the California trip was a set-up, and now your stating that the plan all along was for Harlow to take the fall.
ReplyDeleteI don't consider myself naive, but this story/trial has certainly caused me to reevaluate that. Not the porn/escorting part, but I just have found it incredible that people would conspire, kill, maim to obtain the rights and use of a "big name" escort to broadcast on their website. Now, I apologize if I've gotten the wrong read on this, but this seems to me to be the first case of this kind in the internet age. And factor in the rest of the facts, the past relationship between the parties vis a vis today's absolute gutting of harlow's defense, there's a story here, and i think you are a good one to tell your point of view some day. I don't think any bonds of confidentiality hinder you, considering the circumstances.
Regardless, I for one have found your blog, observations interesting. You've done a lot of work, well written, and as you say, elmysterious.
Thank you Zach. Once this is over I will spill it all. I really don't want to say all that I know now though. I am sure it will piss allot of people off when all is said and done.
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