A lead investigator in the contributing factors to the Rachelle Waterman murder case trauma: early sexual was accused of lying on the development, being raped by a witness stand by a retired stranger at age 13, and the trooper who testified for the disapproval of her mother, defense Friday. Lauri Waterman. Mark Habib, a Craig police Rachelle Waterman told the officer, reportedly told doctor her mother didn't former Alaska State Trooper believe her claim that she Anna Goemer that he fluffed had been attacked and raped his reports and lied under on her way home one night. oath because he felt Waterman Her father said Waterman "deserved to go to jail." became estranged from her As a lead investigator in the mother that year, and tension case, Habib interrogated continued to build the summer Jason Arrant, one of the men before Lauri Waterman's convicted of the murder. The murder. defense suggests Habib led As a result of Rachelle Arrant to believe he would Waterman’s trauma and general benefit from turning in teenage immaturity, Beyer Waterman. says she sought approval and The admission bothered Goemer was easily flattered by older so much she marked it on her men, namely Arrant and Brian calendar and wrote herself a Radel -- the men convicted of letter about it. She claims killing her mother in 2004. she sent e-mails to According to Beyer, Waterman prosecutor Stephen West about felt she was simply venting Habib’s alleged lies, but to Arrant when she said she never recieved a response wished her mother was dead or back. She eventually gone. Beyer says it's common contacted the defense because for adolescents to fantasize she said she felt a about hurting someone while responsibility to bring the never intending to act on information forward. those emotions. In other testimony Friday, a "Rachelle didn't understand clinical child psychologist the dangers of dating older who evaluated Rachelle men," Beyer said. "She Waterman in the months dismissed Jason‘s ideas (to following her mother's death murder Lauri Waterman) as said she was traumatized from stupid fantasies." an early age. Contact Ashton Goodell at Dr. Marty Beyer listed three agoodell@ktuu.com
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