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Live coverage: Griego rape trial

Follow The Billings Gazette's live coverage of the Toby Griego trail. Griego is accused of committing a series of home-invasion sexual assaults.

3rd & 7 37yd

Victim 3: He was telling her to "shut up, shut up." And asking her if she would do as he said. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 3:41:48 PM
Victim 3: "I knew it was in my best interest not to fight him." bc she was on her stomach and had a weapon to her back #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 3:42:25 PM
Victim 3: She started vomiting, but the rape continued. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:07:13 PM
hang in there Mr. Gregg...pooor girl :( heart breaking

by jacq 4/9/2014 4:08:00 PM

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The victim is getting emotional. I'm having a hard time not crying right now. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:09:19 PM
Victim 3: She offered her attacker money. She was untied, put on a dress and was taken to a bank. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:10:09 PM
Victim 3: She was too drunk and too scared to try to run as he took her to the bank #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:10:47 PM
Victim 3: He took her to Western Security Bank at Grand and 24th Street. She tried to run once there. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:11:33 PM
Victim 3: She thought that someone might see her and help. She thinks this was at about 3 a.m. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:12:09 PM
Victim 3: She made it 20-30 feet before being tackled from behind. She got scrapes on her hands and arms #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:12:56 PM
Victim 3: She also got a scrape on her face and a big gash on her head #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:13:22 PM
Victim 3: He told her, "You dumb bitch. You're gonna pay now." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:14:00 PM
Victim 3: He put her back in the vehicle. They went to the ATM. But her cards wouldn't work. They weren't at her bank #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:15:18 PM
Victim 3: She could feel "hot liquid" running down her face. But she was so numb she didn't feel much head pain #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:15:53 PM
Victim 3: He drove her to her bank and she tried to withdraw money, but it wouldn't work. He swore at her #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:17:08 PM
Victim 3: She was too drunk to push the buttons correctly. The entire night she was scared she would be killed. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:17:47 PM
Victim 3: She wanted to watch the surveillance video from the banks. "I needed closure," she says, breaking down again. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:19:32 PM
Victim 3: He took her back to her residence and raped her #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:20:28 PM
Victim 3: She was raped with an object, she doesn't know what it was. "It was the worst pain." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:21:06 PM
..this would be a good time to change his plea to GUILTY !! pooor girl!

by jacq 4/9/2014 4:21:19 PM

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Victim 3: "It was terrifying. Very, very scary." There was no way for her to stop it. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:22:11 PM
Victim 3: He used the stun gun on her as he raped her #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:22:53 PM
Victim 3: She did as he told her to because "I was terrified. I didn't want to do." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:23:45 PM
Victim 3: She is confirming to Souza that her roommate had distinctive John Deer bed sheets #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:25:23 PM
Victim 3: She was still bleeding from her head wound and vomiting #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:25:43 PM
Victim 3: At some point he took her to the shower. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:26:16 PM
And we're back in session. Victim 3 has again taken the witness stand. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:47:56 PM
Victim 3: She used her laptop to try to Facebook message her boyfriend that she had been hurt #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:48:53 PM
Victim 3: She went to the kitchen and grabbed a kitchen knife, found a spare key and drove #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:49:53 PM
Victim 3: She was still drunk and was hyperventilating. She wanted to drive to the police station. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:50:27 PM
Victim 3: She couldn't find the police station so she went to the Crowne Plaza and had an employee call 911 #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:51:00 PM
Souza is admitting as evidence surveillance video from the Crowne Plaza showing victim 3 entering the hotel #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:51:57 PM
The surveillance video is being shown to the jury. (can't see it in the gallery). There is no audio with the video. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:52:59 PM
Correction: victim 3 used a phone at the hotel to call 911. As she was calling, a stranger came up & said he would pray for her #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:54:39 PM
Victim 3: The man also gave her money, maybe $100 #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:55:06 PM
Souza is now admitting as evidence a recording of victim 3's 911 call #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:56:22 PM
We're now listening to that 911. Victim 3 sounds frantic. She is telling the dispatcher she was raped #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:58:00 PM
Victim 3: She is telling the dispatcher she doesn't know how the man broke in. He woke her and "tasered" her. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:58:46 PM
Victim 3: She is explaining she was forced to drink alcohol and taken to banks #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 4:59:42 PM
Victim 3: The man took her to the banks in her own car #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 5:00:08 PM
Victim 3: It was just one person who took her. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 5:00:25 PM
Victim 3: She explaining that she didn't get a good look at her attacker #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 5:01:06 PM
Victim 3: She is telling the dispatcher her attacker claimed to have an uncle on the police department and told her not to tell #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 5:02:16 PM
Victim 3: "When he took me to the bank he tackled me me and I hit my head." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 5:02:44 PM
Neiman has left the witness stand. The state's next witness is Andrea Wells the nurse. She did the sex assault exam of victim 3 #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 5:25:41 PM