Mystery in #FreeKate Case: What Does Kaitlyn Hunt’s BFF Julia Gilmore Know?

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An intriguing detail I reported last week on the Kaitlyn Hunt case:

[Assistant state attorney Christopher] Taylor also recounted a May incident in which Hunt violated the no-contract order by communicating with the victim “through a third party, Julia Gilmore.” In May, Gilmore told a local TV station she “has been friends with Hunt for five years” and, at a Wednesday [Aug. 14] hearing in the case, Hunt’s attorney attempted to compel the prosecution to provide Gilmore’s address, but prosecutors said they don’t intend to call Gilmore as a witness.

Amid all the shocking allegations in the prosecutor’s petition for revocation of bond, the mention of Julia Gilmore seemed trivial, but I was intrigued by the description of the Aug. 14 hearing:

8/14/2013 DEF/ATTY GRAVES/ASA WORKMAN PRESENT FOR STATE’S MOTION FOR PARTIAL CLOSURE OF COURTROOM GRANTED, ONLY IMMEDIATE FAMILY WILL BE ALLOWED IN COURTROOM, DA [defense attorney] MOTION TO COMPEL ADDRESS OF JULIA GILMORE HEARD, SA [state’s attorney] ARGUES THAT THEY DONT HAVE THE ADDRESS OR INTEND TO USE HER AS A WITNESS, COURT ADVISES THE SA IF THEY DECIDE TO USE HER THAT THEY NEED TO SUPPLY DA WITH THE ADDRESS 30 DAYS BEFORE TRIAL DATE, DA RULE TO SHOW CAUSE ON CYNTHIA VOEGTLIN AND ON MIAH SHEPHERD HEARD, DA TO RESET DEPOS, CASE CONTINUED UNTIL 9/26/13 @ 9:00 **CARD GIVEN**

Kaitlyn Hunt’s attorney asked the prosecution to provide Julia Gilmore’s address. I’ve seen evidence Gilmore was in regular communication with Kate Hunt as recently as July, so why would Hunt’s lawyer need the prosecution’s help to find Gilmore now?

This is a question to which I don’t know the answer. Nor do I know why Hunt’s lawyer was so interested in finding Gilmore or why the lawyer thought she was important to the prosecution’s case. But there are dots here, and these dots seem to form a non-random pattern.

Meanwhile there is gossip that “LT,” who was mentioned in testimony by Detective Jeremy Shepherd during Tuesday’s hearing, is Kaitlyn’s new girlfriend Latasha Thomas, 27, who was arrested in 2006 for a traffic violation and marijuana possession and arrested again last year on a felony domestic battery charge.

During Tuesday’s hearing, Detective Shepherd described text messages sent by Kaitlyn Hunt to her underage victim, now 15, boasting that someone had asked whether Kaitlyn shared the younger girl’s . . . uh, companionship with “LT,” to which Kaitlyn replied no, that the younger girl was “all mine.” Watching that testimony, I was not sure about the relevance, but the gossip I’ve heard (and this is only gossip so far) is that Kaitlyn had moved in with Thomas after her arrest, and that Gilmore was reportedly also one of their roommates at some point.

OK, that’s the gossip. Now we return to the prosecutor’s petition for bond revocation, which describes a  May 21 text exchange between Kaitlyn Hunt and her younger victim, “CS”:

CS: “[The prosecutor] asked me today if anyone saw us in the bathroom when we would do stuff. Should I have said names?”
KH: “No! Say nobody.”

There has been speculation that perhaps this other person “in the bathroom when we would do stuff” was Julia Gilmore, but that’s just speculation, of course. However, it would make sense that Gilmore, Kaitlyn’s best friend, who purportedly acted as go-between in Kaitlyn’s violation of the no-contact order, was aware all along of the nature of Kaitlyn’s involvement with the underage victim.

Much about this situation remains mysterious. For example, given that Latasha Thomas has a criminal record, including for drug use and domestic violence, why would Kaitlyn Hunt’s parents — knowing that Kaitlyn was out on bond — permit their daughter to associate with someone like that? And why was Kaitlyn’s lawyer so interested in Gilmore, if Gilmore was not a prosecution witness? Is it possible that there has been some sort of falling-out between Kaitlyn and her best friend, raising concern that Gilmore might testify against Kaitlin?

Anyway, here’s video of a local TV report about Tuesday’s hearing. Notice that Kaitlyn’s dad walks out of the court with his second wife.

In many of their public appearances in May, Steve and Kelley would appear together as if they were still married, when in fact they’ve been divorced for at least five years, and both have remarried. In fact, Kelley’s current husband is actually her third husband, because her second marriage, to an immigrant from the Caribbean, was reportedly annulled.

Because the dysfunctionality of the Hunt family didn’t fit the desired “wholesome all-American” media narrative, their divorce was never mentioned, and Kaitlyn’s stepparents were kept out of the picture.

The whole “Free Kate” myth was a gigantic lie from the start.




 

UPDATE: Thanks to the keen-eyed readers who spotted Latasha Thomas in the video above, leaving the courtroom after Tuesday’s hearing. Furthermore, video from WPEC-TV shows that LT arrived with Steve Hunt and his wife. Here are two screen-caps:

The WPEC-TV story notes that Kaitlyn’s mother, Steve’s ex-wife Kelley Hunt Smith, did not attend Tuesday’s hearing, perhaps because she didn’t want to answer questions about prosecution charges that she assisted Kaitlyn’s violation of the no-contact order.

UPDATE II: OK, now it gets weird. A search of court records for Latasha Thomas’s October 2012 case, when she was charged with domestic battery, shows that at her first court appearance, Thomas was ordered to have no contact with Katlin Sanders. According to the Palm Beach Post, Katlin Marie Sanders graduated from Sebastian River High School in June 2012. So, in October 2012, there was a “domestic violence” case in which Thomas, 26 at the time, was accused of attempting to strangle a girl who had just graduated from high school four months earlier? And now, less than a year later, we find Thomas in a relationship with the most famous teenage lesbian in Indian River County Florida America human history?

Anybody got any thoughts on this? It’s just weird, like Sebastian River High School is some kind of lesbian magnet.

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178 comments

  1. Is Kelley Hunt Smith’s third (and current) husband related to the victim in any way? They share the same last name.

    We need to get the Conservative Treehouse on this case; those guys are dogged investigators.

  2. Who is the woman walking along to the right of Steven Hunt and Marie Hunt? She comes into view at around 0:50 in the video and passes by the camera. Is that Latasha Thomas?

  5. Before Gilmore protected her tweets, she had a photo of a function with Kate and Latasha Thomas side by side in the front row. One of tour readers probably has it.

    If one did not know better, based on pictures such as the selfie at the top of your post, Kate has been acting like a debutante making her debut. Also, Trayvon Martin’s parents are pulling the same “cohesive family” stunt even though they divorced when he was three or four and the dad had custody.

  6. Julia Gilmore is actually an admin in the official Free Kate group, so she clearly has an “in” with the family, and I’m fairly certain she is/was still in contact with Kate.

  8. Why would Kelley Hunt permit her daughter to associate with someone like that, you ask?

    Because LS is just a kid in love! Probably supplied mommy dearest with drugs.

  10. Looks like LT. So the 19 y.o. Hunt is hanging with a 27 y.o. who has a criminal record. There seems to have been more going on than we had been led to believe.

  12. Graves was fishing. She may have gotten what she wanted as now the SA must notify the defense if they wish to use Julia as a witness.

  13. She flashes past so quick I’m having trouble freezing it at the right place for a screen-cap, but yeah, I can about 99% say that’s her.

  15. I bet the state’s attorney knows why they were fishing. I would guess that after the detective began investigating the bond violations (Aug. 7), he questioned Gilmore, who tipped the Hunts that something was up in the case. Gilmore didn’t know why the detective was asking her questions, but it was enough to make Kaitlyn advise her lawyer that there was investigative interest in Gilmore.

  18. Hmmm…you might be on to something. A No Contact Order was issued to Latasha Thomas on 10/31/2012. The person she was ordered not to contact appears to be a 2012 graduate of Sebastian River High School.

  20. With the introduction of the 27 y.o. we have new potential. Drugs. Maybe, prostitution. Perhaps, there was an undercover investigation and the police weren’t ready to reel Kate in. Hypotheticals for sure, but ready explanations for why the SA took so long to revoke the bond.

  22. Florida cops and State’s Attorney investigators have been working on many sting operations for pedophiles (both gay and straight) as well as breaking several recruitment rings in the past few years. The recruitment rings typically work the high schools.

  24. This fake family meme is getting out of hand!
    First it was Trayvon whose birth mother Sybrina Fulton couldn’t muster a tear for Trayvon if you hit her with a bag of onions but was constantly being shoved in front of the cameras along with Tracy Martin. They can’t stand each other but they’re arm in arm all the time. You can’t hardly find Alicia Stanley who actually raised TM in a google search much less the news.

    Now its the fake Hunt’s.
    If a story is favored by the programmers they’ll keep shoving until it finally goes into one of our orifices.

  25. Looks like that Krazy Kid Katie hooked up with her cellie ahead of time. LaTrasha or LaTrannie or whatever homegirl’s name is looks like the next chapter in Kate’s tell all bio, “From Trailer Trash to Cellblock Vixen: an American Story”

  26. I notice the report mentioned Kate and the victim “meeting on a dirt road.” How did the victim get there? She’s not old enough to drive. Did someone pick her up? Kate? Someone else? Curiouser and Curiouser.

  28. The Battle Cry is bearing fruit. You can just feel this story busting open at the seams, and a lot of filth is going to co e spilling out.

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