TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Author: Trench Reynolds

  • San Antonio victim met attacker on craigslist

    Assault Victim Met Attacker Through CraigsList:

    This is the most disturbing craigslist story I’ve posted so far…

    In an arrest warrant obtained by KXAN NBC Austin, a 23-year-old man told police that he was raped after answering an ad on CraigsList — the popular Internet community.

    The victim says he answered an ad offering “partying and hanging out with other men and women.”

    He says after talking through e-mail and by phone with a man identified as Ernest Lamey, the pair made arrangements to meet in person.

    The most disturbing part is police say he could have more victims.

    Details found in the warrant show that Lamey gave the victim some sort of alcoholic beverage. Police believe it was laced with sleeping pills.

    After falling asleep, the victim woke up to Lamey sexually assaulting him and called 911. A search on Lamey’s home uncovered the sleeping pill Ambien, a pill crusher and powder in a kitchen cabinet.

    If you think you may be a victim, contact Austin police.

    Is anyone else having flashbacks of Pulp Fiction and ‘The Gimp’?

    Anyway if you’re looking for friends, with benefits or otherwise, you may want to look somewhere else besides craigslist.

  • Colleen Grear

    Scripps worker charged with seducing 14-year-old via the Internet:

    JUPITER A 22-year-old woman was arrested at her Scripps job on Tuesday and charged with sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy she’d met on the Internet at MySpace.com, deputies said.

    Colleen N. Grear, of Singer Island, was charged with one count of using a computer to seduce or solicit a child and three counts of sexual assault of a child under age 18, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office said.

    Detectives said Grear contacted the 14-year-old through MySpace.com early in the summer. She met with the child three times, PBSO said.

    PBSO also said Grear confessed to having oral sex and intercourse with the boy, who is from northern Palm Beach County.

    Recently, the boy’s mother discovered what was going on and contacted PBSO.

    Grear is a divorced mother of a 2-year-old child. In addition to working at the Scripps lab, she is a student at Florida Atlantic University and is a cheerleading coach at a local high school, PBSO said.

    It was not immediately known what Grear does at Scripps at its Jupiter operation.

    But since she’s a woman she’ll probably get no time.

    I have no access to MySpace right now so if anyone wants to post the link to her’s in the comment section they may.

  • Joseph Colasacco given 10 years

    MySpace predator sentenced to 10 years:

    Joseph Colasacco, who I originally posted about here, has been sentenced to 10 years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy he met through MySpace.

    He was arrested in February after the 14-year-old’s step-father found him in bed with the boy with a pornographic DVD playing on a television and pornographic magazines scattered about the boy’s room.

    Have fun in prison scumbag.

  • Parenting, what a concept

    The Return of the School Shooting:

    This is an opinion piece from Blogger News Network about school shootings which also come to the most logical conclusion about them…

    However, I think it’s important to note that kids getting picked on doesn’t explain the totality of the issue. Something had to make school shootings start in the first place in the mid-to-late ’90s — bullying has been going on for ages — and analyses of Columbine showed the shooters did not concentrate on those who’d picked on them, opting instead for “Doom”-style random violence.

    My preferred explanation — one that ruffles feathers — is parenting. Many of these kids had plenty of time alone in their houses (Harris and Klebold made pipe bombs), and in most cases I can recall, the parents could easily have afforded quitting one job or working fewer hours. It’s also a parent’s job to monitor his/her children’s mental health issues, and keep guns away from the offspring if need be.

    I think it’s the only explanation that stands up to scrutiny, as it’s one of the few explanations that changed markedly between my parents attending high school in the ’70s (much bullying, lots of access to guns, no shootings) and now. Other factors can make it wax and wane, but as long as parents let a violent media raise their kids, the shootings won’t disappear.

    I’m glad to see that I’m not going crazy by having the same opinion.

  • Blame only one

    Kimveer Gill — perhaps he was just evil:

    Kimveer Gill is not society’s victim:

    The first article is from a right-wing Canadian website. Wait, there are right-wingers in Canada? Just kidding Canucks. And the second article is from Kimveer Gill’s high school English teacher. Both articles are along the same lines.

    First from the right-wing article. While I don’t agree necessarily with how they got their point across I do agree with their point…

    More importantly, Kimveer Gill will never be blamed for the actions of Kimveer Gill. The notion that Gill was just an evil man and that he and not the gun registry, violent video games and the Goth culture were responsible for the carnage will be rejected by the masses as being too simplistic; too George Bush-like. In a society where many people can’t recognize the evil of Islamofascism, it is too much to expect people to recognize the evil of what was once Kimveer Gill.

    In the end, all that was responsible for the actions of Kimveer Gill was Kimveer Gill.

    And now the article from Gill’s teacher, one Ms. Freda Lewkowicz…

    But the litany of blame omitted someone, and there’s only one person who should be blamed for Kimveer Gill’s school rampage on Sept. 14.

    Only one angel of death can dance on the head of this pin of sorrow and that is Kimveer Gill.

    He is responsible for shooting 20 students and killing 18-year-old Anastasia De Sousa. He should not be permitted to become a victim.

    It’s great to see that some people still actually believe in personal responsibility.

  • Murder groupies

    Even campus killers have their groupies:

    This is an interesting article about a reporter’s first encounter with mutantdom.

    As a matter of fact, it’s such a good article I can’t pick what to quote. So I’ll give you just a brief taste.

    “You wanna know why there has only been three school shootings in Quebec? It’s because the people here don’t have the balls to do it, as much as they want to … as much as they plan it all … make `hit lists’ and just wish they had the guts that Eric and Dylan had … you know … the real victims of Columbine! They are looked up to by many bullied high school students … and many believe that the bullies got what they deserved on April 20th, 1999.

    “Kimveer will be greatly missed by the people who actually understood him … the people who don’t have their heads up their asses.”

    Welcome to my world. I get e-mails like this all the time.

    Hopefully, this article will be read by parents and others to let them know that these kinds of murderer worshipping people exist and one of them may be a family member. And if it is please get them the help they need.

  • Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare

    Gun control won’t protect us from the losers:

    This is actually an article about Canadian gun control but I couldn’t resist these quotes…

    Here he is again, the loser with a grudge and a gun slithering up from the basement of a middle-class home where he fermented his immaturity, anger and resentments to full and deadly potency “interacting” with like creatures on the Internet.

    His mom says he was “a good son.”

    The neighbours’ comments — the banality of this would be screamingly funny were it not for the horror of the event — amount to this: He was quiet and kept to himself.

    Aren’t they always.

    His resentment and anger are perfectly understandable.

    He’s a loser and losers spend their lives being angry and resentful.

    It’s one of the reasons they’re losers. Life is something that happens to them. They aren’t something that happens to life.

    They aren’t achievers.

    Worst of all, he knows he’s a loser, but failing the courage or will to do something about it and actually change, he decides to write his name in the pages of our times with gunfire, and paint a final statement with the innocent blood of students — young people working toward successful futures.

    His victims are everything he is not.

    The ultimate proof he’s a loser: His final statement, his final moments in life are desperately unoriginal. Just another loser in a long list of losers. The perpetrators of Columbine and Taber and all the others.

    He was 25 years old.

    Who among us is still so much an angry adolescent at 25?

    He’s a loser baby, and somebody killed him.

    Don’t be a loser.

  • More on Kimveer Gill posting here

    Postings sympathized with school shooters:

    This is nothing that I haven’t already posted about. Just an interview I did with the Montreal Gazette about Kimveer Gill leaving comments on my site.

  • Kimveer Gill’s former classmates speak

    A killer’s dark mind:

    Kimveer Gill’s high school classmates paint a different picture of him than the one we know…

    Former high school classmates described him as normal — “nothing out of the ordinary, just a regular high school kid,” said Anthony Proce, who, like Gill, graduated from Rosemere High School in 1998.

    Friends said he never dated in high school.

    Mr. Proce and others said, far from the impression the six-foot tall Gill left on his Web site, he wasn’t the victim of bullying.

    “He wasn’t a guy that got picked on, not at all — who picks on a tall, big guy who could kick your ass if you picked on him?” said Dennis Pavia, another classmate who now plays drums for heavy metal band Diecast.

    “He didn’t dress like a rapper or a Goth or anything like that, more like jeans, T-shirts and sneakers,” said Mr. Pavia, who said he usually saw Gill every day at school but wasn’t close to him. “I remember Kimveer just being a friendly guy, always smiling. However he came to do something like [the shootings at Dawson] I wouldn’t say is because of high school.”

    Alex Hullar, another former classmate, said he was shocked when he heard Gill’s name on the radio yesterday.

    “He was a pretty calm, relaxed guy,” he remembered. “He had at least eight close friends and they always hung around together in high school. They were all very good students, very good grades.”

    He said Gill dressed normally, “never a trench coat and all that kind of stuff. I don’t know where that came about.”

    He said he had not been in touch with Gill since graduation.”It’s going to be one hell of a high school reunion, I can imagine,” he added.

    Gill left few other marks. His graduation yearbook had a blank entry beside his photo.

    So he wasn’t bullied in high school. If he was bullied after that it’s because he allowed it to happen. How many more nails in the coffin does the bullying myth need?

    Thanks to CC for the link.

  • A view inside Gill’s mind

    Blogs reveal a deteriorating mind, police say:

    This article states that not only did Kimveer Gill keep a written journal but he also scouted Dawson College prior to the shooting. But first, let me get this out of the way…

    But his online musings do not refer specifically to Dawson or his violent plans. However, he repeatedly emphasized that people planning a crime would be stupid to outline their agenda on the Internet.

    The comments, made on a Livejournal site called The Trenchcoat over a number of months, included references to various school shootings in the United States and caused him to be banned from writing on the site.

    In one, he defends the young people who were charged after a school shooting plot in Riverton, Kan.

    “They wern’t [sic] going to do it for real,” Gill wrote. “They’re just kids having a little fun. If they were really going to do this, they would not be posting messages on MySpace and telling people in their school about it.”

    You can see what they’re talking about here. I do crosspost at LiveJournal but all comments are only on this site. Now back to the matter at hand…

    Kimveer Gill did not restrict his violent thoughts to the blog he kept on VampireFreaks.com. He posted disturbing comments on other Web sites and allegedly jotted them down in a diary, where the entries indicate his mind was deteriorating.

    Police investigators found the journal either at the scene of the shooting at Dawson College on Wednesday or while executing a search warrant at his parent’s home in the Fabreville district of Laval.

    “From what he wrote, you could tell that he basically hated humanity as a whole. He hated everybody. He hated black people, white people, rich people. He hated everybody,” a police source said.

    “It was very obvious his state of mind was deteriorating greatly over the last three weeks.”

    But the documents reportedly offer no indication as to why Gill chose to carry out a shooting rampage at Dawson College, killing 18-year-old student Anastasia DeSousa and wounding several other victims.

    TVA reported last night that security cameras on the nearby Alexis Nihon Plaza captured Gill scouting out the scene of his attack on Aug. 10, a month before his rampage. Police are viewing the tapes.

    So it seems that he did not “snap” like so many people are saying. When someone snaps the reaction is immediate. Gill was nothing more than a cold-blooded, calculating killer.