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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.

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Victim 4: He took her out of the water and took one piece of duct tape off her eye so she could see to walk back to her home #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 8:58:19 PM
Victim 4: He walked her back towards the residence. She saw headlights. They ducked behind a tree until the car was gone. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 8:59:29 PM
Victim 4: They came to a fence. He said, "climb dummy." They climbed the fence and he took her back to her residence. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:00:54 PM
Victim 4: She was still wet. "I remember shivering. I was just freezing." He took her into the shower to wash off #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:01:48 PM
Victim 4: The shower was cold. "I was shivering so hard. It was horrible." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:02:17 PM
Victim 4: He took her back to the bedroom. He tied her up again, with some kind of nylon rope, she thinks. Hands and feet. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:03:09 PM
Victim 4: She was surprised to be back at her home "because I thought he had taken me to the ditch to kill me." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:04:02 PM
Victim 4: He put socks over her hands, maybe because she had scratched him #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:04:51 PM
Victim 4: He tied her hand and foot to the bedposts with scarves #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:05:55 PM
Victim 4: She felt what she thought was a knife to her throat. He beat her with some kind of "flogging device." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:07:36 PM
Victim 4: He said he was getting bored and might just kill her. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:08:39 PM
Victim 4: She was raped again with foreign objects #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:11:41 PM
Victim 4: At some point he blindfolded her again #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:12:29 PM
Victim 4: The ordeal was "disgusting. Really a humiliating thing to sit through." It felt like it lasted "forever." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:13:51 PM
Victim 4: While still bound and blindfolded, he smothered her with a comforter 2-3 times #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:14:50 PM
Victim 4: "I started to almost lose consciousness. I couldn't breath. I thought I was going to pass out." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:15:30 PM
Victim 4: It stopped, he left the room and came back and started wiping her down with some kind of sanitizer #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:16:41 PM
Victim 4: He then cut her bindings, told her to keep her eyes shut and made her face her closet #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:17:32 PM
Victim 4: He made her assure him she wasn't going to tell anyone or go to the cops. He made her go into the bathroom #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:18:21 PM
Victim 4: He made her scrub off and also scrubbed her. #griegotrial "It was very clear to me at that point he was cleaning up his tracks"

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:19:44 PM
Victim 4: She kept her eyes shut, as he told her to do. After she cleaned off, he told her to stay there #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:21:46 PM
Victim 4: She heard the door downstairs. She stayed there because she didn't know if he was coming back #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:22:30 PM
Victim 4: "I didn't know what to think," after he left. She was relieved and in shock #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:23:21 PM
Victim 4: She need to tell someone what happened. Her phone was gone and her purse was gone #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:23:51 PM
Victim 4: She took her keys, and drove to City Brew on Grand Avenue. She was still freezing cold #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:24:43 PM
Victim 4: She realized it was just after 5 a.m. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:25:53 PM
She told the employees at City Brew she needed to use a phone because someone had tried to kill her. She called 911 #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:26:13 PM
Pierce is admitting as evidence that 911 call. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:27:07 PM
We're now listening to the 911 call. Victim 4 sounds calm. "I thought he was going to kill me" #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:27:55 PM
Victim 4 to dispatcher: The man woke her up and gagged her and tied her up "for hours." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:28:33 PM
Victim 4: He was at her home for hours and left just before day light. She never got a good look at him. He a Hispanic accent #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:29:34 PM
Victime 4 to dispatcher: He was average build, maybe 180 lbs., shaved head or short hair and was maybe 5'9" #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:30:31 PM
Victim 4: He made her go to an ATM at First Interstate Bank #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:31:20 PM
Victim 4 to dispatcher: "Apparently he's done this before. He used chemical to wipe me down." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:32:10 PM
Victim 4: She was sexually assaulted. "He told me that if I told anyone he would kill me." #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:32:41 PM
Dispatcher: Officers on the way. That's the end of the recording #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:33:12 PM
Pierce is clarifying a few things with victim 4: She never saw another "partner" in her home during the ordeal. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:34:03 PM
Victim 4: She could not identify her attacker after the assault because she only caught a glimpse of him #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:35:11 PM
Victim 4: She saw he had a shaved head. She could tell he was a smaller man. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:36:11 PM
Victim 4: He had a "very distinctive" Hispanic accent. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:36:56 PM
Victim 4: She did at one point get a whiff of what smelled like marijuana #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:37:52 PM
hope they play a recording of his voice, make him speak, maybe then they can finger point right at him!

by jacq 4/9/2014 9:38:07 PM

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Victim 4: The screen was missing from her kitchen window, where she think the attacker got into her home #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:38:31 PM
The court is now being show photos of the screen and window #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:38:54 PM
Victim 4: She estimates he was with her from 1-5 a.m. #griegotrial

by Eddie Gregg via twitter 4/9/2014 9:40:28 PM