TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Crime

  • McCombs says Brown not part of murder

    McCombs says Brown not part of murder

    Fort Bend girl’s killer tells court he acted alone:

    The convicted killer of 16-year-old Ashton Glover testified in court that his cohort had nothing to do with her murder. You should remember Matt McCombs. He’s the teen that confessed to shooting Ashton in the head because of ‘morbid curiosity. Now he’s saying that his partner, Sean Huston Brown, had no part in the actual murder.

    He testified that codefendant Sean Brown had no idea he was going to kill anyone.

    Prosecutor Sherry Robinson asked McCombs if he and Brown had ever talked about killing anyone.

    McCombs, 19, answered,”No, ma’am.” This was the first time he had publicly commented about the night he fatally shot Glover, a classmate at Clements High School.

    “(Brown) was about 150 to 200 feet in front of me. I pulled the pistol from my waistband and fired at Ashton Glover, who was about 25 feet from me,” McCombs said.

    “It had nothing to do with Ashton. In fact, Ashton has always been nice to me and I do not have anything against her. It just happened to be her that was there when I decided to see what it would be like to kill someone,” McCombs said in his statement.

    That still doesn’t change the fact that Brown allegedly helped McCombs hide her body after McCombs and Brown went out to eat after McCombs killed Ashton. It also doesn’t change the fact that he fled from police, trying to escape to Canada along with McCombs.

    He may not have had a hand in her murder, but it sounds like Brown is guilty of being an accessory after the fact. At any time, he could have gone to the police to turn McCombs in. Instead, he acted like a coward and helped try to cover up his friend’s act of murder.

  • Matthew Murray: Full-Blown Mutant

    Killer posted Web links to Columbine videos:

    I’m officially going to declare cowardly scumbag church shooter Matthew Murray a mutant. It seems he took a page out of the Cho Seung-Hui handbook and posted links to pro-Columbine videos from YouTube between shootings.

    Eleven messages posted between Sunday’s attacks by “nghtmrchld26” spoke of abuse at the hands of Christians, of leaving this nightmare behind to a better place, and quoted liberally from the hate-filled screeds of Columbine High School killer Eric Harris.

    Two of the posts also included links to videos featuring Harris and fellow Columbine killer Dylan Klebold that are posted on the Web site YouTube.com.

    One five-minute video features still images of Harris and Klebold as well as actors who played them in a movie about the April 20, 1999, attack on the high school. As the pictures flick through in slide show fashion, the song Anarchy from the band KMFDM plays.

    A poster for KMFDM hung on the wall in Harris’ bedroom the day of the Columbine killings.

    Another message has a link to a video called Hitmen for Hire – a project Harris and Klebold did for a marketing class. In the video, they pose as hit men who get even with students who bully others.

    He also posted a link to a video about Ricky Rodriguez, who was allegedly abused in a cult before stabbing and killing a big wig in the church before killing himself.

    Apparently, Murray thought he was abused by his strict religious upbringing. Do you know how he was abused? He wasn’t allowed to listen to rock music or play video games or stuff like that.

    On another website, a poster named nghtmrchld26, believed by police to be Murray, said he rebelled against an upbringing that forbade him from buying rock music, video games and popular DVDs.

    He writes that he felt oppressed by the restrictions. The hypocrisy of religious leaders, he wrote, prompted him to rebel, although he feared “returning back to what is at least ‘familiar,’ into a system I at least know how to behave in.’ “

    And here’s some more mutant activity from the same article…

    DyingChild_65 did not feel loved. He wrote that he was angered by being rejected by various groups over the years.

    “I hate you people for leaving me out of so many fun things,” one post said. “Never inviting me to all your fun parties, never inviting me to hang out.”

    As I’ve posted before, he’s not even an original mutant. Those are the exact words of his cowardly scumbag hero Eric Harris.

    DyingChild_65 ends his rant by saying: “Like Cho, Eric Harris, Ricky Rodriguez and others, I’m going out to make a stand for the weak and the defenseless this is for all those young people still caught in the Nightmare of Christianity for all those people who’ve been abused and mistreated and taken advantage of by this evil sick religion Christian America this is YOUR Columbine.”

    If he hated the Christian life so much, why was he still living with his folks at 24? I’ll tell you why. Because just like his heroes Cho and Harris, he’s a loser.

    Matthew Murray, you’re not famous, you’re not great, you’re not a martyr. You’re just another name to add to the pantheon of cowards that preceded you. The only thing you’ll be remembered for is making the flames of hell burn a little more yellow.

  • Church shooting mutant?

    Web posting replicates Columbine shooter’s manifesto:

    If you’ve been following the church shootings in Colorado, you know that the gunman, Matthew Murray, posted violent anti-Christian diatribes on a website that’s dedicated to people who’ve left the evangelical life. He also copied almost word for word one of Eric Harris’ rants and posted it.

    I’m coming for EVERYONE soon and I WILL be armed to the @#%$ teeth and I WILL shoot to kill. ….God, I can’t wait till I can kill you people. Feel no remorse, no sense of shame, I don’t care if I live or die in the shoot-out. All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you … as I can especially Christians who are to blame for most of the problems in the world.

    Well all you people out there can just kiss my (expletive removed) and die. From now on I don’t give a @#%$ about what all you (expletive removed) have to say, unless I respect you which is highly unlikely, but for those of you who do happen to know me and know that I respect you, may peace be with you and don’t be in my line of fire, for the rest of you, you all better @#%$ hide in your houses because I’m coming for EVERYONE soon, and I WILL be armed to the @#%$ teeth, and I WILL shoot to kill and I WILL @#%$ KILL EVERYTHING! No I am not crazy, crazy is just a word, to me it has no meaning, everyone is different, but most of you @#%$ heads out there in society, going to your everyday @#%$ jobs and doing your everyday routine (expletive removed) things, I say @#%$ you and die, if you got a problem with my thoughts, come to me and I’ll kill you, because……..God (expletive removed), DEAD PEOPLE DON’T ARGUE! My belief is that if I say something, it goes. I am the law. If you don’t like it, you die. If I don’t like you or I don’t like what you want me to do, then you die. If I do something incorrect, oh @#%$ well, you die. Dead people can’t do many things, like argue, whine, @#%$, complain, name, rat out, criticize, or even @#%$ talk. So that’s the only way to solve arguments with all you (expletive removed) out there, I just kill. God I can’t wait till I can kill you people, I’ll just go to some downtown area in some big city and blow up and shoot everything I can.

    So far, that’s his only mutant tendency, well, that and taking the coward’s way out. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a full-blown mutant.

  • Dixie Chick supports West Memphis 3

    Dixie Chick supports West Memphis 3

    Dixie Chicks Start Defense Fund for Murderers:

    Another celebrity has fallen under the spell of the West Memphis 3 propaganda machine, but this one isn’t too surprising.

    Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks is CONVINCED that the WM3 are innocent after seeing the documentaries on them. The sure sign that your cause is doomed is when Natalie Maines signs on. Maines has started a defense fund for the WM3. Like they needed another one because the ones they’ve had so far have worked out really well for them.

    Here’s her heartfelt plea…

    “I’m writing this letter today because I believe that three men have spent the past 13 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit,” Maines’ message begins.

    “On May 5, 1993 in West Memphis, Ark., three 8-year-old boys, Steve Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were murdered.

    “Three teenage boys, Damien Echols, Jesse Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin were convicted of the murders in 1994. Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley received life sentences without parole, and Damien Echols sits on death row.

    “I encourage everyone to see the HBO documentaries, ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Lost 2’ for the whole history of the case.”

    So she sees two movies that have an obvious agenda, and she’s convinced the three are innocent. Whatever. Ringing celebrity endorsements haven’t done squat for the WM3 yet. This one won’t either.

  • Plea reached in Dunbar Village rape case

    Plea reached in Dunbar Village rape case

    Dunbar rape suspect pleads guilty, gets 20 years:

    Well, I knew it was only a matter of time before one of the suspects in the horrendous Dunbar Village gang rape case would turn on his homeboys.

    16-year-old Jakaris Taylor pleaded guilty to charges of burglary and two counts of armed sexual battery. To refresh your memory, Taylor and his cohorts are accused of storming the apartment of a woman and her son, gang-raped the woman and forced her to have sex with her son.

    In the plea, Taylor was sentenced to 20 years behind bars, sparing him three consecutive life sentences. Part of the plea requires him to testify against the other suspects.

  • Guardian sought for Megan Williams

    Guardian sought for Megan Williams

    Prosecutor requests guardian for Megan Williams:

    Prosecutors in the West Virginia torture case have requested that a legal guardian be appointed to the victim, Megan Williams.

    Citing records of special education classes, Logan County Prosecutor Brian Abraham requested a guardian ad litem for 20-year-old Megan Williams on Wednesday.

    “She may not be competent and realize what is going on,” Abraham told The Logan Banner.

    Carmen Williams, Megan’s adoptive mother, has said that her daughter is “slow.”

    Abraham also is wary of further media attention, voicing objection to Carmen Williams’ decision to speak to the media from the hospital soon after her daughter’s Sept. 8 rescue. The family also went against his advice and participated in a hate crimes awareness march in Charleston on Nov. 3.

    I haven’t been concerning myself over issues of race in this case because to me, I just see six criminals who tortured a victim.

    However, if you have been following the race issues in this case, like Belch has, you’ll know that Megan Williams’ mother has not been acting in Megan’s best interest, at least in my opinion.

    When you go against the wishes of the prosecutor like she has, you have a great chance of tainting the jury pool in either direction.

  • New York cop unmasked as major drug dealer

    New York cop unmasked as major drug dealer

    Veteran cop unmasked as a major marijuana dealer:

    When I was but a lad in my 20s, I wanted to be a cop. I had cops as friends, I have cops as relatives, and I wanted to make a difference. However, two things prevented me from doing so. One, I didn’t possess the physical prowess it took to pass the physical test and two, I heard too many stories of guys who were just in it to collect a paycheck or worse. This is one of the stories about the worse.

    37-year-old Glen Smokler was a 13-year-veteran of the NYPD. He was arrested this past Wednesday and uncovered as a major marijuana dealer. He allegedly belonged to a ring that smuggled millions of dollars in reefer from Canada to Long Island. Police were tipped off when someone reported that Smokler robbed from the ring leaders.

    Apparently, he never figured that even criminals call the cops sometimes.

    Thanks to Jim for the link.

  • Mark Byers supports the WM3

    Mark Byers supports the WM3

    Father of Victim to Convicted Killer: ‘I’m Here for You’:

    For 14 years, Mark Byers was convinced that the West Memphis 3 killed his son Christopher Byers. For those same 14 years, the WM3 supporters have accused Mark Byers of being the “real killer”. Now at least half of hell has frozen over because now with the new DNA evidence that’s been released, Byers is now saying that the WM3 did not kill his son.

    “I didn’t want to see it,” he said of learning of the new evidence. “I felt like Benedict Arnold. I’m going against everything I believed for 14 years.

    “I want these three men to know I’m here for you,” said Byers, who had himself been suspected of involvement in the murders by some people in West Memphis. “I hated you for years. I believed with all my heart you killed my son — and I’m sorry for that.”

    Authorities have never called Byers a suspect.

    Byers told ABC News that he now wants “justice” for his son and the other boys.

    “They let down not just me and two other family members,” he said of the government officials who handled the case. “They let down every citizen who pays their salary.”

    I wonder how this is going over with the “Free the WM3” crowd. From what I’ve seen without going to the WM3 website, most supporters are still convinced that Byers did it.

    Now I’ve made my thoughts known on this case that the right men are in jail. However, Byers does have a certain air of suspicion swirling around him. I just don’t think it’s for killing those kids.

    Honestly, I don’t think Byers really believes what he’s saying. It seems like to me, since some of the suspicions have been taken off of him with the DNA evidence, he’s cuddling up to the WM3 supporters to get all the suspicion off him.

  • Dunbar Village suspect trying to cut a deal

    Dunbar Village suspect trying to cut a deal

    Suspect, 14, offers to tell all in West Palm Beach rape:

    One of the suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape case is trying to cut a deal with prosecutors. 14-year-old Avion Lawson is trying to say that his life was threatened by one of the other suspects if he didn’t help rape the victim.

    Lawson, who was arrested July 3, denied involvement in the crime before DNA evidence on a condom linked him to the June 18 rape. In his letters he said he, too, was a victim and blamed the attack on another suspect, Tommy Lee Poindexter, 18.

    “He had a gun to my head and I couldn’t do nothing,” Lawson wrote. “If I would of ran I would of got shot or be dead. So I had no choice. He put it to my head and said ‘Do it.’ And when I stopped I tried to leave. He told me to get back down or he’ll kill me.”

    Lawson was apologetic in one of the letters to Belohlavek and said it was “stupid of me doing that.”

    “If you would of seen what happened, it’s like your worst nightmare,” Lawson wrote. “Especially what happened to the boy. And it seems like they were having fun. They were laughing and videoing.”

    Lawson wants to go home. He said in letters that he is only allowed three showers a week and stays in his jail cell 23 hours a day.

    “I cry every night,” he wrote. “I just want to go home. I just want to go home.”

    You should have thought of that before you and your friends decided to break in to that woman’s home.

  • Arkansas says be patient to WM3

    Arkansas says be patient to WM3

    AG spokesman: Review in West Memphis appeal will take time:

    The Arkansas State Attorney General’s Office said that it would take some time for the DNA “evidence” that has been presented with regard to the West Memphis 3 case to be processed.

    In a statement, a spokesman for Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said state officials are seeing the evidence put forward by lawyers representing Damien Echols for the first time.

    “As litigation goes, this process will likely take months and possibly years,” spokesman Gabe Holmstrom said. “Indeed, counsel for Echols has taken years to develop these claims so it will take the state a fair amount of time to properly respond.”

    And for those of you that keep calling the trial a witch hunt…

    The state Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the Baldwin and Echols’ convictions in 1996, citing what it called substantial evidence of guilt.

    In 2002, the state Supreme Court authorized further DNA testing in the case. In 2005, the high court rejected an effort by Echols to reopen the case so he could argue that his trial lawyers mishandled his defense.

    The State Supreme Court isn’t a bunch of country bumpkins that got their law degrees from a box of Moon Pies. But since most of y’all have a prejudice against the south, you think they are. Little Rock is a far cry from West Memphis.

    But hey, keep drinking the Kool-Aid if it makes you feel better. Just know that you’re giving a convicted killer exactly what he wants.