Months before Crystal Rasch vanished, someone was searching her husband's phone for a gun silencer. Then gunshot wounds. Then whether a 9mm could kill. Day 3 of the Missing Wife Burn Pit Trial, the State of Wisconsin v. Zachariah Rasch in Dodge County. Crystal Rasch was 37, a mother who had filed for divorce to get away from her husband. She vanished in June 2024, and what was left of her turned up as bone and a tooth in a burn pit. The state cannot prove how she died, so it is building its case one piece at a time. Detective Kasey Young is the witness who opened the inside of Zachariah Rasch's phone to the jury. Young pulled that phone off Zachariah the night the search warrant came down, and it was logged into his own Google account. Watch the defense work the other side of it. The gun was never hidden. A search history is a window into a mind, not a cause of death. And the two of them were together in the days before she disappeared. None of these searches is how Crystal died, and the defense will keep the jury fixed on that gap. --- WATCH WITH JUSTICE 4:15 to 8:35 - Detective Young takes the stand and pulls Zachariah Rasch's phone off his body the night of the search warrant. Almost everything the state shows next comes off that one device. 16:25 to 31:32 - Inside the bedroom: a loaded 9mm sitting in the open, hollow-point rounds, $1,800 in cash, and an envelope with Crystal's name on it holding her medical records. 53:40 to 56:55 - The phone is logged into his own Google account, and the extraction pulls roughly 1,655 searches the state says are only a fraction of what the phone held. 1:20:00 to 1:49:28 - Months before she vanished, the searches build: a silencer for his exact gun, how to disguise his voice, how to track a person, the satellite view of Crystal's home, then whether a gunshot to the head kills instantly. 2:15:27 to 2:24:13 - After she is gone, the phone asks whether raccoons and possums eat bones, how to clean a car interior with cold water, and whether sulfuric acid is flammable. 2:24:41 to 2:38:02 - The day after a deputy comes to his door, the phone studies Sunday search warrants. Then a tip puts Crystal in Minnesota, minutes after the phone searches Walker, Minnesota street names. 2:40:23 to 3:06:07 - On cross, the defense gets Young to agree the gun sat in plain sight even after the deputy's visit, that Zachariah never ran, and that he had $74.81 to his name. --- DAY 3 ANALYSIS https://justiceisaprocess.com/desk-2026-06-03-day-3-searches-spending-remains SUBSCRIBE for daily trial coverage and hit the notification bell so you never miss testimony. JOIN to unlock the Case Notebook powered by NotebookLM, where you can chat with the evidence, ask questions about testimony, and go deeper than any comment section allows. CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: https://justiceisaprocess.com/wi-v-rasch-case-background Complete case overview including the charges, the timeline, the key players, and the legal analysis. Crystal Rasch vanished after a June 2024 trip to a Goodwill with her estranged husband and was later found as remains in a burn pit. Zachariah Rasch is charged with her murder and with hiding her body, and is presumed innocent. PLAYLISTS AND RESOURCES Website: https://justiceisaprocess.com/coverage-rasch Full Trial Live Broadcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM7CqGppYvXenay85W5Yiyw0gKBJn9w8- No Breaks Edition: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM7CqGppYvXdL0iwmnqbyk-3MBpM6OM3K Trial Analysis Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM7CqGppYvXe1i1Hfn6TAwlNJ6w6yYPUm Key Moments and Testimony: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM7CqGppYvXcBcnSU5d-x5ZZFQ6wKluTO Subscribe for Daily Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOyS97z2Kium7iDV6wwctUg FAIR USE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. #JusticeIsAProcess #RaschTrial #CrystalRasch
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For months before Crystal Rasch ever went missing, somebody was sitting on her husband's phone typing questions no innocent reason explains easily. A silencer for the gun in his bedroom. Whether a gunshot to the head kills you instantly. The jury read every one of them today, and the defense had an answer ready: a search history is a window into a mind, not proof of what a man's hands actually did. 💭 Do those searches sound like a man planning to kill his wife, or a man who just went somewhere dark in his own head? /watch?v=jjMZKgsO_qc Every search, with timestamps, is in the description if you want to walk the whole timeline yourself.