TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Crime

  • Psych exam ordered for Thomas White

    Mental exam ordered for school-gun teen:

    A judge has ordered Thomas White to undergo a mental examination to see if he is competent enough to assist in his own defense.

    If you’ll recall White is accused of discharging an assault rifle in Memorial Middle School in Joplin, MO. He is also accused of trying to shoot the principal but the gun jammed.

    His defense is now claiming that White has schizophrenia. If it didn’t work for John Jason McLaughlin I seriously doubt it will work for White.

    The judge did turn down a request for White to be released into the recognizance of his parents. You know, where his ex-drug dealer dad had the gun just lying around. That was probably a good idea.

  • DNA doesn’t clear Echols

     

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    State: Latest DNA doesn’t clear Echols:

    The Arkansas state Attorney General’s office is saying that the DNA of Terry Hobbs does not clear the West Memphis 3 of the murders they’ve been convicted of. Something that I said almost a year ago. Or should I say it doesn’t clear Damien Echols because let’s be honest, that’s who this is really about. But that’s a rant that I’ve gone on before.

    “Those unremarkable results do not (and cannot ) demonstrate his actual innocence,” state the court documents, filed May 30 in Craighead County Circuit Court by Assistant Attorney General Kent Holt and Craighead County prosecutors.

    The article then goes on to recant the WM3’s defense team’s ludicrous fish theory. You know the one. It said that aquatic life caused the post-mortem trauma and genital mutilation of the eight-year-old victims. But yet they refuse to accept the theory of how the water could have possibly washed away the rest of the DNA that more than likely belonged to their victims.

    That’s what happens when you become a zealot. You lose all sense of perspective.

  • More lies from a shooter

    School Shooter: ‘I Didn’t Realize’ They Would Die:

    So last night I watched the abomination of a news program that they call Nightline. Ted Koppel must be rolling in his grave. Hold on a sec….Wikipedia says he’s still alive..anyway he must not have been happy with this episode.

    Like I posted yesterday most of the program focused on Bethel High School shooter Evan Ramsey. As expected he blamed everyone but himself for the shootings. He blamed bullies, he blamed the kids that gave him the gun, he blamed the kid that taught him how to shoot the gun, he blamed a video game, more than likely Doom, for his alleged idea that death wasn’t permanent, he blamed people who he told that he was going to shoot up the school. He blamed everyone except the guy who did the actual killing, himself.

    “I honestly believed that if you shoot somebody, that they would get back up,” Ramsey told ABC News in a recent interview at the Arizona prison where he is serving a 210-year sentence. It’s hard to accept, he admits, but Ramsey said his naiveté left him unable to grasp that firing a gun in the real world is different from firing one in a video game: “I didn’t realize that you shoot somebody, they die.”

    “If somebody had said something,” he insisted, “my crime wouldn’t have happened.”

    I honestly believe that you’re full of crap.

    They also had some twatwaffle on there who did a study about school shootings and did basically the same thing that Ramsey did, blamed everyone but the shooter themselves. He made this quote about bullying in schools…

    But the work of prevention should start well before plans for violence take hold, said Pollock. Ramsey, like most shooters, was bullied, and until teachers and counselors deal seriously with bullying and other problems by creating “an emotional connection” with students, Pollock said, schools will suffer from the violence of “a meaner, more vicious society.”

    I notice he didn’t mention the parents that are responsible for enabling their bully children. In my opinion, the schools don’t deal with the bullies because their parents get all bent out of shape that someone would have the nerve to accuse their precious crotchfruit of being a bully.

  • School shooter thought death wasn’t permanent

    School shooter: I could have been stopped:

    To be honest I never heard of Evan Ramsey or the Bethel High School shooting until today. It happened back in 1997 before I was the crime blogger that you see today. To sum up in February of 1997 Ramsey shot and killed a student and his principal at his school in Bethel, Alaska when he was 16.

    According to the Wikipedia entry, the Bethel High shooting may have been even more preventable than Columbine.

    Reports say over 20 people knew of Ramsey’s plan to shoot up the school, and two actually helped him. One, named James Randall, taught him how to use a shotgun, and the other told Ramsey of the infamy that would come. Reports say one student even brought a camera to school on the day.

    Now fast forward to today, or tonight to be specific. Ramsey is set to appear on Nightline tonight on ABC. Currently, he is serving two 99 year sentences. On Nightline tonight he’s going to claim that he thought death wasn’t permanent.

    “I honestly believed that if you shoot somebody, that they would get back up,” he said.

    What a load of crap that is. If you don’t know that death is permanent by the age of 16 then you’re a complete moron who probably couldn’t tie his own shoes. Two things betray his idiotic school of thought. The first is that most reports say that Ramsey was above average intelligence. The other is that after he killed his principal he stuck his shotgun to his chin but said: “I don’t want to die”. So right there to that shows that he knew death was permanent.

    Now he’s probably going to try to garner some sympathy on TV tonight or maybe he’s trying to get the notoriety he’s never had outside of Alaska.

    I’ll watch but I’m sure I’ll be disgusted.

  • Penn High plotter pleads guilty

    Teen accused in Columbine-style plot pleads guilty:

    Russell James Frantom has pleaded guilty to a juvenile count of conspiracy to commit murder. As you may know Frantom was arrested for plotting an attack against Penn High School in Indiana. Frantom could be held until his 21st birthday.

    Frantom’s mom tried to get him released into her custody but the judge was having none of that.

    She told Brueseke the teen had moved out of her house after an argument and first moved in with her father, then stayed with his uncle after her father died.

    She said she was unaware he had illegal snakes or had been spending so much time on the computer.

    “A lot of things were going on I didn’t know about,” she said.

    “So a little too much freedom and lack of supervision,” Brueseke asked.

    “Way too much,” the mother replied.

    When did parents give up control?

  • Jonesboro gunman approved for psych eval

    Judge OKs mental exam for Jonesboro school shooter:

    A judge has approved defense’s request for a mental evaluation on Jonesboro gunman Mitchell Johnson.

    For what? I didn’t know you could claim insanity in a theft trial.

  • Ryan Schallenberger pleads not guilty

    SC teen accused in school bomb plot pleads not guilty:

    Ryan Schallenberger was in court today and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. Schallenberger has a three-count federal indictment against him of receiving an explosive, attempting to destroy property by explosive and possessing an unregistered destructive device.

    Schallenberger allegedly plotted to set off explosives at Chesterfield High School in South Carolina. He received a delivery of the infamous fertilizer/explosive ammonium nitrate in the mail.

    Schallenberger is looking at a max of 40 years in federal prison.

  • Hans Reiser tries to make deal

    Hans Reiser Offers To Lead Cops to Nina’s Body:

    I love how a metric assload of people said that there was no way they could convict Hans Reiser because there was no body. I love how they said how that he didn’t do it. I love how they said that he was convicted solely because he’s a geek.

    Now they’re all silent because their hero is now trying to make a deal to get his sentence reduced if he shows them his wife’s body.

  • The Smoking Gun on Lee Billi and Russel Frantom

    “I Wanna Break The Current Shooting Record”:

    The Smoking Gun has pictures of the search warrant affidavit used to seize evidence from Lee Billi. It also lists evidence that was seized from his MySpace pal Russell Frantom.

    The page that particularly drew my attention was this one that has some of Russell Frantom’s ramblings from his journal. Typical ravings from a mutant.

  • Instant Recognition

    Boy wrote of desire to kill many at Indiana school:

    The teen accused in the plot against Penn High School, Russell Frantom, wrote in his notebook that he wanted instant recognition for breaking the “school shooting record”.

    “I wanna break the current shooting record. I wanna get instant recognition. The only thing that stops me is the fact of being put in jail forever, or having to kill myself, or getting killed by an officer. I could kill anyone without feeling sorry because society sucks!!!”

    According to the article, he started having these kinds of violent thoughts after his girlfriend broke up with him.

    Just like every shooter and would be shooter before him he’s a selfish prick with the emotional stability of a marshmallow and an inflated sense of entitlement. When parents and educators coddle kids like Frantom they end up believing that nothing bad is ever supposed to happen to them. When it finally does this the result.

    Life is hard and it’s not fair, deal with it.