Former Miss Ohio testifies in trial over lawyer's slaying
A lawyer shot and killed by his girlfriend never showed up for a date with a beauty queen on the night he was killed.
Audrey Bolte, who was Miss Ohio 2012, testified last week at the trial of Shayna Hubers. Hubers, now 24, claims she shot her 29-year-old lawyer boyfriend, Ryan Poston, in self-defense in October 2012, report the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Daily Mail. Bolte said she was supposed to meet Poston at his condo, but he said he was running late and offered to meet her later at a bar where they could play pool. He never showed up because he had been fatally shot six times.
Poston’s stepfather, Peter Carter, testified that Poston had asked his advice on how to tell Hubers about his date, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. “He said to me, ‘My biggest issue is … Shayna is always around,’ ” Carter testified. “He said, ‘I don’t know what to do to get her to leave.’ “
Neighbors who lived in the condo below Poston’s testified that they heard a woman crying on Poston’s deck, heard the person return to the condo, and moments later they heard two bangs they believed to be fireworks. They heard four more bangs. At that point, they knew it wasn’t fireworks.
Hubers’ cellmate, Cecily Miller, testified that Hubers laughed about the shooting and said she gave Poston the nose job he always wanted. “That’s what bothered me – she cackled,” Miller said.
Miller also said Hubers discussed her legal strategy. “She said she was going to plead insanity, but she was too smart because she has the IQ of Einstein,” she told the jury. “So she was going to plead battered wife syndrome.”
Hubers and Poston had gone to a gun range 10 days before the fatal shooting, according to text messages discussed at trial. A different story by the Cincinnati Enquirer discusses what Hubers texted friends before and after. She had texted friends before about shooting Poston at the gun range and making it look like an accident. Afterward, she wrote in a text, “Part of me wanted to turn around and shoot him.”
The defense begins its presentation on Monday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports in another story. Hubers told police that Poston had pushed, dragged and insulted her before she shot him in self-defense.
