TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Category: Crime

  • Newington plotter pleads

    Student Accepts Plea Deal In School Violence Plot Case:

    It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything on the plot to attack Newington High School. The suspect in the plot, 17-year-old Frank Fechteler, pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree threatening and two felony counts of manufacturing bombs. The plea avoids a life sentence for Fechteler. He’s now looking at a max of 12-years. The suggested sentence seems a little confusing to me.

    In agreeing to plead guilty to first-degree threatening and two felony counts of manufacturing bombs, 17-year-old Frank Fechteler now faces a maximum 12-year prison sentence that will be suspended after four years, followed by five years of probation.

    So really is he looking at 4-years behind bars and 5 years probation? I’m a little rusty on court math.

  • Auvinen’s girlfriend responds

    Ex defends school killer online:

    The former ‘girlfriend’ of Pekka-Eric Auvinen has spoken out online about the tragedy in Finland. I use the quotes because she lives in Australia which the last time I checked wasn’t next door to Finland.

    She posted a video on YouTube in defense of Auvinen and actually belays a certain myth.

    The statement consists of a video entitled “Pekka”, with a metal soundtrack and scrolling text.

    “The reason I have not talked to the press and the rest of you is not because I want to wash my hands of it,” she says.

    “It is because there is no point”

    Ms Scheel then launches into her defence of Auvinen.

    “First, he was not a Nazi. He hated Nazism.”

    “Second, he was not a psychopath or a sociopath. He felt love, he felt guilt, he felt fear.”

    “Third, he was not bullied or picked on, not by you or people in his life.”

    In the video, Ms Scheel refutes the notion that online messages would cause him to go on a shooting spree, and admits that Auvinen was often the initiator of online arguments.

    Ms Scheel also states that Auvinen was not bullied by his classmates, but “had he been, he would have reacted to it instantly”.

    So she claims Auvinen was not bullied. Even if he was her second statement that Auvinen wasn’t a psychopath is incorrect. I would even go as far as to say that he was a megalomaniacal psychopath considering he thought he was better than the rest of the world.

  • Tobin Kerns sentenced

    Teen convicted of massacre plot gets 10 months in jail:

    Tobin Kerns has been sentenced to 10 months behind bars with five months time served for his alleged part in a plot to attack Marshfield High School in Massachusetts. For the first time in my blogging career, I actually mean alleged because it was never proven to my satisfaction that he had an active role in the plot. Unfortunately, I’m not the judge in the case and I think Judge Louis Coffin has been blinded by politics. Like I’ve said numerous times before when discussing the Marshfield plot I think there is definitely some chicanery going on considering that the other suspect in this plot is Joe Nee, the son of the head of the Boston police union. His trial is scheduled to start on Jan 30th. Since Tobin was sentenced to 10 months Joe Nee should be sentenced to 10 years. In my opinion, it’s his fault that Tobin has to spend even a day in jail since I consider him the actual mastermind behind the plot. In my opinion he turned Tobin in to deflect blame from himself. As usual, you can see my previous postings on this in the archives.

    The fact that Tobin has to spend even one day in jail is a travesty of justice.

  • More confirmation in Cossey/Auvinen link

    Teen who killed 8 may have contacted Pa. youth:

    There’s been more confirmation that Dillon Cossey was in fact in contact with Pekka-Eric Auvinen prior to the shooting that killed 8 at Jokela High School in Finland.

    Police said material seized from the computer of Pekka-Eric Auvinen suggests the 18-year-old communicated online with Dillon Cossey, 14, who was arrested in October for allegedly preparing a possible attack at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in suburban Philadelphia.

    I doubt this will result in any additional charges for Cossey as he claims that Auvinen gave no indication that he planned the shooting.

  • Cossey/Auvinen link confirmed

    Teen charged with Plymouth plot communicated with Finnish shooter:

    No this isn’t a repeat. The link between Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen and would be school shooter Dillon Cossey has been confirmed.

    “He recognized the screen name and recalled having contact by email,” said J. David Farrell, who represents Cossey, 14, of Plymouth Valley.

    Farrell said Cossey was “very distressed” to learn that Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, of Tuusula, Finland, had gunned down six students, a nurse and the principal at his high school, located about 30 miles north of Helsinki. Auvinen then killed himself.

    Cossey told Farrell that Auvinen “gave no indication he was going to do anything violent,” and that Cossey “offered nothing in the way of encouragement” to pursue violence.

    The teens shared an interest in a video game called “Hitman,” Farrell said, adding that they may have also had a mutual obsession with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the students responsible for the Columbine massacre.

    Farrell said he believed more information about the time and extent of the communication would be available tomorrow.

    When these mutants congregate they share ideas and encourage each other to commit these acts of violence. For years I’ve been trying to get website hosts to shut these kinds of groups down. They haven’t listened yet. I wonder if they will now. Maybe it’s time to re-start my crusade. Who’s with me?

  • Principal shot execution style

    School massacre: Ninth graders saw killing of school principal:

    Just another disturbing detail of the shooting at Jokela High School in Finland…

    A group of ninth graders at the Jokela School in Tuusula were eyewitnesses to the execution-style killing of their school’s head teacher Helena Kalmi by gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen on Wednesday.

    Watching from their classroom window, they saw Kalmi first fleeing the attacker, but later she went back. Auvinen forced Kalmi onto her knees and then shot her.

    And how fitting is this?

    Finally, Auvinen shot himself in the head. Police found him injured in a toilet at 2:53 PM.

    Exactly where he belonged.

  • 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.

  • Disturbing

    Finnish school killer had enough rounds to slaughter hundreds:

    Some more details about the Jokela High School shooting that I found more than disturbing.

    Disturbing item #1.

    According to the police, the man shot some of his victims almost 20 times.

    Disturbing item #2.

    Chief Inspector Tero Haapala said the gunner had written a suicide note bidding farewell to his family.

    “The family brought it to the police,” CI Haapala added.

    The parents are under police protection after receiving threats.

    The police think the man acted alone and that the parents had no knowledge of his intentions.

    They never do, do they?

    Thanks to Trish for the link.

  • Failure to ignite

    Police Probe YouTube School Gunman’s Suicide Note:

    The article only briefly mentions the suicide note but doesn’t divulge its contents. However, I really want to talk about something else.

    It seems that not only was Pekka-Eric Auvinen a failure in life it seems that he was a failure in his plans as well.

    The killer also tried to start a fire, dousing the floor and walls of the second floor of the school building in a flammable liquid, but failed to ignite it, Haapala said.

    Reminds me of two other failures who tried to blow up their school with propane tanks but the tanks failed to detonate. Just like his heroes, Pekka-Eric Auvinen is a failure in every sense of the word.

  • The Myth Spreads Again

    Finnish school shooter was bullied:

    It was only a matter of time before they trotted “the excuse” out.

    The Finnish teenager who killed eight people in a high school shooting was a bullied social outcast but appears to have picked his victims randomly, a senior police official said Thursday.

    Police spokesman Goran Wennqvist told reporters the gunman, identified as 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, left a suicide note, “saying goodbye to his family and a message … indicating his will against society.”

    Well, when you’re a mutant loser who worships at the altar of cowards you kind of invite trouble on yourself. It’s almost like these kids become mutants first then almost beg to be bullied so they can somehow emulate their cowardly heroes. Except for the fact that scumbags Harris and Klebold weren’t bullied.

    Even if Auvinen was bullied just like his cowardly heroes he picked his victims at random.

    Witnesses described a scene of mayhem in the leafy lakeside community, in which the assailant scoured the school for victims while shouting “Revolution!”

    There is no revolution. The man is not holding you back. The only person holding this assclown back was himself.