TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Author: Trench Reynolds

  • Shrink for prosecution testifies in Zarate trial

    Psychiatrist in Zarate slay trial contradicts defense’s mental health expert:

    Yesterday, because I’m always a day late with this story, psychiatrist Daniel Greenfield testified for the prosecution in the murder trial of Jonathan Zarate. He testified that in no way was Zarate in a ‘dreamlike state’ when killed and dismembered Jennifer Parks.

    “He was not in a psychotic state,” psychiatrist Daniel Greenfield said. “He was acting in purposeful and goal-directed ways.”

    He referred to psychiatrist Diana Riccioli’s assertion that Zarate was in a psychotic state as ‘outrageous’.

    Greenfield also said that he found no evidence that Zarate ever used PCP.

    Zarate himself opted not to testify.

  • Trench expounds on Christmas

    This story actually happened last week and really didn’t garner that much attention but It gives me a chance to educate everyone on the sham that is Christmas.

    Anyway, it seems that some people with pre-wadded panties at UNC-Chapel Hill got their noses bent because the school library had a tradition of displaying Christmas trees. They said they were offended at the ‘Christian’ display. Which of course resulted in the Christians being offended over the heathens being offended. Now let this Christian set everyone straight.

    Both sides are 100% wrong.

    How is that possible you ask? Well, there’s more than two sides of a story. In this case, there’s my side, or as I like to call it…the truth.

    Either side who thinks a Christmas tree is a Christian symbol is dead wrong. The decorating of trees was originally a Pagan practice. After the Roman Emperor Constantine embraced Christianity the Empire sought to stomp out other religions. Christmas came about when the Empire decided to celebrate Christ’s birth rather than the Pagan winter celebration so they co-opted many of their winter traditions into Christmas.

    Speaking of Constantine and Christ’s birth, Christ was not born on December 25th. Again the Pagan winter festival was co-opted. One theory even states that December 25th was Constantine’s birthday. Early Christians celebrated the baptism of Jesus on January 6th on the feast of the Epiphany.

    So basically Christians who celebrate Christmas are basically celebrating a Pagan festival or the birthday of Constantine. Take your pick.

    On the other hand, if you’re faithless and you exchange presents with someone on December 25th you really shouldn’t call it Christmas. Say happy winter solstice or something like that since the word Christmas is from Middle English and means Christ’s Mass.

    After the reformation, some Christian faith’s didn’t even celebrate Christmas and Easter was considered the high holy day of Christianity since it was the Resurrection of Christ.

    So in conclusion Christmas sucks, I hate it, bah humbug, and I wished the Grinch had killed the Whos.

    freakin

     

  • Prosecution: Zarate fooled shrink

    Yesterday psychiatrist Diana Riccioli testified in the murder trial of Jonathan Zarate. Riccioli claims that Zarate was psychotic and not responsible for his own actions when he brutally killed Jennifer Parks and that he should not be held criminally liable. Zarate claimed to Riccioli that he entered a ‘dreamlike state’ when he was beating Jennifer Parks. He also told her that he had addictions to PCP, pot, and alcohol.

    The prosecution was having none of that though. Morris County Executive Assistant Prosecutor Robert Lane laid into her stating that Riccioli formed the majority of her opinion from the information she received from Zarate’s parents. I’m sure they would have no reason to lie. 🙄 Lane also mentioned the testimony of a psychiatrist that examined Zarate four months prior to the murder. That psychiatrist said that Zarate’s only problem was a communication problem with his mother.

    It seems that Prosecutor Lane was very good at his job because Dr. Riccioli complained to the judge later that she didn’t appreciate Lane raising his voice to her. Welcome to the real world lady.

    Daily Record

    Star-Ledger

  • Woman who hired accused baby sitter speaks out

    St. Paul woman says she unknowingly hired pornographer to babysit:

    This is an article about a woman who hired craigslist baby sitter/child pornographer Aaron Lemon. Luckily it appears that her child was unharmed but I want to discuss some quotes from the article.

    She said she interviewed him at length and watched him care for her children twice in her home before hiring him.

    “I really never saw any red flags at all,” Bang said.

    That’s the problem. You won’t.

    It seems obvious that Lemon had his ‘skill’ finely honed.

    The woman said that she was desperate for a baby sitter so she turned to craigslist. I wouldn’t personally trust someone from craigslist to babysit a slug. They’d probably molest the slug.

  • Did nurse violate federal law on MySpace?

    MySpace gripe about patient sparks federal privacy complaint:

    I can greatly identify with this story because in my real life I’ve worked in the healthcare industry for the past 2 decades. However, this is also yet another example of nothing being private on the internet.

    Stephanie Sicilia works for an OB/GYN office. That’s a gynecologist for you not in the know. And as everyone does in the healthcare industry she complained about her patients. Her mistake was is that she posted it on her MySpace.

    In one item posted to her MySpace blog in late 2007, Sicilia, then 29, referred to patients at the practice as “the tramp troop,” saying of one: “her stories are entertaining but I’ve only slept with as many people as she has had abortions.” In another post, she mocked a patient who had asked where she could buy the gingerbread cookies the doctor had recommended to remedy nausea, writing: “SOME WOMEN SHOULD NEVER REPRODUCE!!!!”

    While I currently work in a different field than Ms. Sicilia I can definitely commiserate with her. However, with those posts, she may have broken a very serious law in our industry known as HIPAA. In a nustshell, HIPAA defines how a patient’s information needs to be protected. For at least 5 years or more HIPAA has been drilled into our heads with the threat of possible jail time if a patient’s private information is compromised. Since you’re reading this here you can guess what happened to Ms. Sicilia.

    One of the patients she wrote about says she recognized herself in Sicilia’s post and says the other person was a friend of hers. Even though she did not name the patients she could be facing some serious legal ramifications. According to the Ars Technica article, only one practice has ever been fined for violating HIPAA but it’s only a matter of time before the Dept. of Health and Human Services makes an example out of someone.

  • New search for Giovanni Gonzalez

    New Location Searched In Giovanni Case:

    State Police in Lynn, Mass. have searched a new location in the search for Giovanni Gonzalez. Police are keeping quiet about where the location is or if it had anything to with Ernesto Gonzalez’s skeptical confession.

    The place of the search is being kept a secret as to not jeopardize the investigation.

  • Iowa man accused of sexual assault of 12-year-old girl

    Police say Des Moines man met girl on MySpace, assaulted her:

    23-year-old Ryan Joseph Scorpiniti of Des Moines, Iowa has been arrested for having sex with a 12-year-old girl he met over MySpace.

    Again I have to ask why can’t these jackasses have sex with women relatively their own age.

    However, I’m sure we’ll hear from his friends saying things like ‘She said she was 16’ or some crap like that.

    I do have to say though these MySpace molestation stories are starting to become less frequent. I hope it’s because parents are being more vigilant these days and not because these scumbags are getting away with it more.

    It wouldn’t hurt me if better parenting put me out of a job.

  • The craigslist baby sitter who made child porn

    Craigslist baby sitter pleads guilty to child pornography:

    23-year-old Aaron Jay Lemon of Little Canada, MN has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. He answered a craigslist ad for a baby sitter in 2007 but in reality, he was nothing more than a filthy pedophile who likes to make child porn.

    While babysitting for a family in St. Paul he persuaded the child into sexual activity and recorded it. Police say the victim was a 2-year-old girl.

    He’s looking at 30-years behind bars.

    Thanks to Bonnie, Greg and Soobs.

  • Dixie Chick sued over WM3 comments

    New Lawsuit in West Memphis 3 Case Involves the Dixie Chicks:

    Natalie Maines is being sued by the step-father of one of the victims of the West Memphis 3. Back in December of last year, Maines announced her support of the West Memphis 3 after seeing the documentaries. She wrote a letter on her website asking for money for their defense fund. It was that letter that has her in hot water.

    When the much ballyhooed DNA evidence was released, a hair on one of the victims belonged to Terry Hobbs. Hobbs was the step-father of one of the victims. In the letter on Maines’ website, she basically stated that Hobbs is the ‘real murderer…

    In part, she wrote, “he washed his clothes and sheets at odd hours for no other reason than to hide evidence from the crime.”

    Now Hobbs is filing a lawsuit for defamation.

    I said this when the DNA evidence was first released, it doesn’t implicate Hobbs and it doesn’t clear the WM3. For her to go out and unequivocally call Hobbs the killer is reckless and stupid.

  • Zarate parents testify

    Murder suspect’s mother testifies son suffered behavioral problems:

    Yesterday Jonathan Zarate’s parents testified in his defense for the murder of Jennifer Parks.

    Zarate’s mother, Flora Mari, testified that four months prior to the murder she had taken Zarate to a psychiatrist because he was crapping his pants and the bathroom floor. Except, the psychiatrist at the time said it was not any kind of psychosis but a lack of communication between Zarate and his mother. A bizarre way of getting attention maybe?

    John Zarate, Zarate’s father, testified that he went in the basement to do laundry three hours after the murder and claims that he did not notice any blood or bleach while he was down there. He did clean some crap that was on the bathroom floor.

    The prosecuting attorney didn’t believe Zarate the elder and asked him if it was bloody clothes that he was cleaning. The defense objected to that question and the judge sustained the objection.

    The trial will continue Monday when a psychiatrist will testify that Zarate was psychotic at the time of the murder.