Joshua Young Trial

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This is another very sad case.

Joshua is on trial for complicity in the murder of his step-brother who was beaten to death. His father blurted out in court that he killed his step-son, that he acted alone. Some people doubt that & think his son helped.

I found a timeline -

April 2010 -- Angelina Young, Joshua’s mother, dies of a drug overdose.

April 2010-March 2011 -- Joshua Young lives in a series of foster homes, finding a stable home with Susan and Chuck Stoneburger for several months.

September 29, 2010 -- Joshua Gouker, Young's father, is released from prison.

March 2011 -- Gouker regains custody of his son, Joshua Young.

May 10, 2011 -- Trey Zwicker, 14, is beaten to death.

June 23, 2011 -- Joshua Young, 15, is arrested in connection with the death of Trey Zwicker.

November 17, 2011 -- Joshua Young is charged with murder and tampering with physical evidence.

July 26, 2012 -- Joshua Young is charged with complicity to murder and complicity to tampering with physical evidence.

July 26, 2012 -- Joshua Young's father, Joshua Gouker, is charged with murder, wanton endangerment and unlawful transaction with a minor, tampering with physical evidence, torture of a dog or cat and persistent felony offender.

August 15, 2012 -- The prosecutor dismisses murder and tampering charges against Joshua Young, but complicity to murder and complicity to tamper remain.

August 20, 2012 -- Joshua Gouker, is arraigned on a charge of murder. He blurts out to the judge that he killed Zwicker and acted alone.

August 22, 2012 -- Joshua Young pleads not guilty at his arraignment.

May 10, 2013 -- Joshua Gouker pleads guilty to Zwicker’s murder.

July 26, 2013 -- Gouker is sentenced to life for the murder of Zwicker.

July 29, 2013 -- Joshua Young stands trial for complicity to murder and complicity to tampering with physical evidence. Jury selection begins.

Trey's Mom testimony -

The mother of a teenage boy who was beaten to death in May 2011 testified in a Louisville, Kentucky, courtroom Thursday about how she became suspicious that her husband killed her son.

“After Trey had died I locked his room and I took to my bedroom his pillow and some clothes that still smelled like him,” said a composed McFarland. “Josh Gouker told me not to bring my dead son to bed with me every night. So that was another extremely alarming situation that caused a lot of doubt. ”

McFarland said was she intimate with Gouker the night Zwicker died, and that Gouker spent that night in her bed.

“I questioned Josh Gouker once about if there was any possibility that he got out of that bad that night and not woke me up. He became extremely angry that I would doubt him,” McFarland said.

Gouker’s anger would routinely turn into violence, according to McFarland. She said that in December 2010, she aborted Gouker’s baby after he had become violent. McFarland also said that Gouker became enraged when she confronted him about a phone conversation she'd overheard between him and his cousin Cassie Gouker. During that phone conversation, she said she heard Gouker tell his cousin that McFarland was “expendable.”

During his opening statement, defense attorney Peter Schuler accused Josh Gouker of having a sexual affair with his cousin during his marriage to McFarland.

Earlier Thursday, Zwicker’s uncle Jereme McFarland testified that he saw Young at Zwicker's funeral and described his behavior there as "blank, null and void." He said Young did not cry at the funeral.