TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Author: Trench Reynolds

  • Jamie Rose Bolin’s autopsy results

    Jamie Rose Bolin’s autopsy results

    Report: Okla. Girl Died of Lack of Oxygen:

    The autopsy results of Jamie Rose Bolin have been made public. You may not want to read this, as some of the details are quite disturbing…

    OKLAHOMA CITY — A 10-year-old girl who prosecutors say was killed by a neighbor who wanted to eat human flesh died from a lack of oxygen but also suffered other injuries, the medical examiner’s office said.

    Jamie Rose Bolin was struck in the head, her neck was cut to the bone from ear-to-ear and she was sexually assaulted, according to an autopsy report released Thursday.

    Prosecutors have charged her neighbor, 26-year-old Kevin Ray Underwood, with first-degree murder. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for August.

    Police and prosecutors allege Underwood abducted the child as she was going to the library and killed her to fulfill a fantasy of becoming a cannibal. Law enforcement officers found her body unclothed April 14 in a plastic storage tub in a bedroom closet of Underwood’s apartment.

    According to a police affidavit, Underwood confessed that he killed Jamie.

    Police and prosecutors allege Underwood struck Jamie in the head with a cutting board, then smothered her with his hand and duct tape. They also accused him of trying to decapitate and possibly molesting her corpse.

    The autopsy report supports all the descriptions but the post-mortem sexual assault, which a deputy state medical examiner said would be difficult to determine.

    Dr. Inas Yacoub found that the girl suffered blunt force trauma to the back, right arm, right thigh, left thigh and left ankle, as well as the top of the head.

    Underwood’s trial can’t come soon enough.

  • Cleveland area predators

    Cleveland area predators

    Broadview Heights men accused of raping girls met on MySpace:

    CLEVELAND — Two Broadview Heights men are accused of raping young girls they met on the web site MySpace.

    Channel 3 News first told you about 21-year-old Albert Azolino back in March.

    He is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old Strongsville student lured to his home through internet chat.

    Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason says Azolino and 33-year-old friend Timothy Norman face rape, unlawful sexual contact with minors, and pandering charges.

    The prosecutor warns parents to be leery of the kids spending time on this web site.

    “It’s like a catalogue for predators,” Mason said. “It’s got the pictures of the kids so anybody who wants to get online — they go on to myspace.com, look at the pictures and click on it. Up comes the profile of the person they just click on.”

    Mason says the suspects would offer alcohol to the kids then photograph them during sex acts.

    If convicted the two could face life in prison.

    I was unable to find the MySpaces of either suspect. If you know of them, please let me know.

  • Pine Middle prosecutor upset over sentence

    Prosecutor calls house arrest in Reno school shooting ‘crazy’:

    Washoe County (Nev.) District Attorney Richard Gammick had some things to say about the light sentence Pine Middle School shooter James Scott Newman received…

    Gammick said the sentence undermines efforts to keep guns out of schools.

    “It sends an absolutely terrible message,” he told The Associated Press.

    “Factually, this is a simple case. A kid takes a gun to school and shoots somebody he doesn’t even know and injures another kid and he gets put on house arrest? Give me a break,” he said.

    “House arrest was not even on my radar scope,” Gammick said.

    Gammick said his office has received a number of calls from parents concerned that Newman will end up at an area high schools next year.

    “We have been preaching anti-guns and no weapons in school in all facets of law enforcement and in the school districts, and then we get a slap on the wrist for what happened here. This is crazy,” he said.

    Of course, the criminal defense attorney sees it a different way…

    David Houston, Newman’s lawyer, said Gammick was ignoring the facts.

    Newman “was incarcerated for 2 1/2 months, so to suggest that he was being released with no consequences is absurd,” Houston said.

    “We’re talking about a boy who never had so much as a sleep-over away from his house,” he said.

    Houston said Newman made significant progress in counseling in past weeks, receiving therapy at least two times a week with a psychologist his parents hired.

    “The state’s own experts said he moved from being a high risk to a low risk during that period of time,” he said.

    This case has been a travesty of justice from the beginning. First, Newman was tried as a juvenile. Secondly, the parents are facing no charges because the gun was allegedly secured. And lastly, house arrest and community service for shooting two people is a joke.

    Mr. Gammick is absolutely right. This is crazy.

  • No fun at all

    No fun at all

    Columbine game no fun at all:

    Here we have another review of the video game abomination that is Super Columbine Massacre RPG. This time from a Virginia Tech student newspaper. So you know it’s being reviewed by someone of relative gaming age who “gets” video games…

    Although the game is not very graphic when compared with titles like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it still sends a strong message to users. While it may seem to be nothing more than a Super Nintendo Mystic Quest-style pixellated RPG, the reality remains that it was created as a form of mockery of a very serious event.

    The fact that this RPG exists says a lot about the lack of respect society gives to present-day situations. Although this Columbine incident occurred over five years ago, problems similar to these are still a concern in the public school system. If children download this game and go about playing it as if it’s all a funny joke, the message being given to them implies it’s OK — and even a bit funny — to go into their school and kill 13 people.

    While some may argue that the game is actually enlightening because it lets outsiders see the emotions and logic behind the killers’ motives, it does not make up for the fact that, with a click of the mouse, a person can kill pixellated versions of the real victims involved that day. This game laughs in the faces of the friends and families of victims killed that day and utterly disrespects anyone who may have been in any way affected by the incident.

    What more needs to be said?

  • 666-II

    666-II

    This Can’t go on
    I must inform the law
    Can this still be real
    Or just some crazy dream
    -“Number of the Beast” by Iron Maiden

    Satanic references on myspace lead to precautions at Pisgah:

    Here we go again…

    Students at Pisgah High School are being kept inside all day after a rumor sparked by a threat made it on to the Web site, myspace.com.

    “We had word that circulated about somebody that was going to come here and commit a crime,” Principal Danny Miller said Tuesday afternoon.

    Miller said the school was not on lockdown, but was following a pre-determined safety plan.

    School officials located the source of the rumor. Miller said it involved an adult from out-of-town who made no reference to Haywood County or Pisgah High School.

    The rumor began after a Pisgah student talked to someone on myspace.com who mentioned that June 6, 2006, might be a good day to miss school. The date, 06-06-06, was presented as a time when satanic groups could become active. School officials couldn’t discern how that date sparked rumors about potential events taking place at the school today.

    I’m glad that the school was prepared, and I’d rather have a school over-react than under-react but come on. We can’t lock down every school at the mere mention of 666. But I wouldn’t be surprised if some idiot did try something on that date. I’ll be glad when it’s 6/7/06.

  • Interview with TheTrench

    Interview with TheTrench

    I want to thank author Sandra Ruttan for conducting an interview with me over at her blog.

  • Trench in TIME

    Trench in TIME

    The Thin Blue Line at MySpace:

    How’s your Memorial Day? Mine is kicking ass. Why, you ask? Well, in case you didn’t click the link, yours truly has made the pages of Time Magazine. I haven’t read the entire article myself, but so far, it looks promising. So be sure to pick up the June 6th issue of Time.

  • Pine Middle School shooter sentenced

    Teen Gets House Arrest in Nev. Shooting:

    RENO, Nev. — A 14-year-old boy who shot and injured two fellow middle school students was sentenced Friday to house arrest until he completes 200 hours of community service.

    Prosecutors had recommended James Scott Newman, who pleaded guilty to battery with a deadly weapon, be placed in a state juvenile facility.

    Washoe County Juvenile Court Master Janet Schmuck acknowledged she struggled with the sentence before she ordered to him to have electronic monitoring and 24-hour supervision at his parents home in Reno.

    “If it does not work to the court’s satisfaction, James will be committed,” Schmuck said. “But I want to give James and his family an opportunity to make it work.”

    Deputy District Attorney Jo Lee Wickes immediately appealed the sentence, saying it was not proper given the seriousness of the crime.

    He shot two people and all he gets is an ankle bracelet and community service. The judge is living up to her last name.

  • It’s about time

    It’s about time

    Game Creator Says Columbine Was A Wake-Up Call:

    To be fair, I want you to read the entire article and form your own opinion. However, read this quote from mutant Super Columbine Massacre RPG designer Danny Ledonne…

    Ledonne still remembers vividly his reaction to Columbine back in 1999 when it shocked him out of his downward spiral.

    “My reaction sort of had the same duality that a lot of people, or at least some people, had to 9/11, and that would be: I can’t believe this is happening and it’s about time,” he said.

    And yet, you still insist your game does not glorify Harris and Klebold.

  • More feedback on the Columbine RPG

    More feedback on the Columbine RPG

    The Register’s Young Adult Board of Contributors Weighs In:

    Here’s what a young contributor to the Des Moines Register had to say about Super Columbine Massacre RPG…

    It has recently been in the news that a computer game entitled “Super Columbine Massacre RPG” is gaining popularity. The game mimics such events as the 1999 Columbine School shooting. Containing actual footage of the shooters, players are put in the shoes of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in an attempt to kill as many students and teachers as possible. While victims’ parents and the public are outraged and appalled, not everyone is reacting negatively to this ignominy. Richard Castaldo, a paralyzed victim of the incident, claims to have played the game. While he says some parts were difficult to get through, in the end he didn’t think it was all that bad-“it might even be helpful,” he says. Though I’m no foe of video games, the level of disrespect and heartlessness in this game is astonishing. The game makes a sick mockery of a tragedy that affected not only the residents of Littleton, Colorado, but also the nation. It desensitizes people to such calamities and underestimates the devastating effects. We need to distinguish between fiction and reality-the horrors of school shootings are no game.

    -Jo Gruenewald, Ames

    I agree with her 100% except that, in Richard’s own words, he did not give the game a “thumbs up”.