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Category: Crime

  • Ashton Glover’s killer pleads guilty

    Ashton Glover’s killer pleads guilty

    Sugar Land teen pleads guilty in classmate’s killing:

    Matt McCombs, the sick S.O.B. who shot Ashton Glover in the head over morbid curiosity, has pleaded guilty to the crime.

    Under the plea, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison, but he will be eligible for parole in 25 years.

    Ashton’s parents, Terry Glover and Sue Smith, were consulted by prosecutors about the plea arrangement before it was finalized and agreed to the terms. Both, along with other family and friends, were in court today.

    Since it seems like Ashton’s parents agreed to the plea, I’m not going to complain.

    The article states that no court date has been set for McComb’s partner Sean Brown, but as I’ve posted before, an Oct. 2 court date was originally set.

  • More on Devin Moore’s appeal

    More on Devin Moore’s appeal

    Moore’s appeal keys on racial makeup of jury:

    Like I predicted, not that it was that hard of a prediction, Devin Moore’s attorneys are not only using the GTA defense, but they’re also playing the race card.

    Moore was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in the June 7, 2003, shootings of officers Arnold Strickland and James Crump and 9-11 dispatcher Leslie “Ace” Mealer at the Fayette Police Department.

    Angela L. Setzer, his appellate lawyer from the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, told Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals judges that Moore didn’t get a fair trial because the judge had disallowed expert testimony and the prosecutor improperly removed black jurors. She also charges that Fayette County District Attorney Chris McCool inflamed the all-white jury by comparing the crime to Fayette’s own “9-11” terrorist attack.

    Moore, 22, is black and his victims were white.

    He had just turned 18 and was about to be fingerprinted for car-theft charges when he grabbed Strickland’s .40-caliber automatic pistol and shot his three victims before escaping. Moore also tried to shoot out the glass on the police station door so he could re-enter to retrieve his brand-new, $85 K-Swiss sneakers.

    Let me enlighten some people. This was never about race. This was about Devin Moore’s car stealing then subsequent murder of two cops and a dispatcher.

    Would an all black jury bring those people back to life or go back in time and stop Moore from killing anybody? No. Then this appeal has no legs.

    Moore is a cop killer, and he deserves to die.

    Link via GamePolitics.

  • GTA Killer appeals conviction

    GTA Killer appeals conviction

    Appeals court to hear Moore case:

    Devin Moore, aka the GTA Killer, is appealing his conviction in the murders of two Alabama police officers and a dispatcher. When he was arrested, Moore said “Life is a video game. Everybody has to die sometime.”

    Of course, during his trial, The One Who Shall Not Be Named got involved and claimed that Moore’s violence was caused by the infamous Grand Theft Auto video game. The Nameless One went as far as to file lawsuits against the game manufacturer and the game retailer.

    The video game defense wasn’t even allowed into Moore’s trial. Moore was convicted and sentenced to death.

    Now, Moore and his attorneys are appealing his conviction using the video game argument again…

    Moore, now 22, claimed the video game “Grand Theft Auto” and childhood abuse influenced his decision-making. His theory was rejected and the video game defense was disallowed during trial. He was convicted on Aug. 9, 2005, and later sentenced to death.

    Moore’s attorney, James Standridge, had said that his client suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Standridge argued that when Moore was in a Â?dissociative state” he automatically reverted to scripted behavior influenced by his repetitive video game exposure and childhood abuse.

    If the video game defense wasn’t even allowed into the trial, what makes them think it will work in the appeal. If this actually works, then there is no justice anymore.

    Link via Game Politics.

  • Torture victim held captive for a month

    Torture victim held captive for a month

    Police Say Williams Abused for More Than a Month:

    Police are now stating that Megan Williams was held captive for a month, not a week, by the Deliverance Reject Family from West Virginia.

    Megan Williams went into the trailer home in Logan County where police say she was raped, beaten and tortured on Aug. 2, according to court testimony heard on Tuesday. Bobby Ray Brewster, 24, one of the six suspects in the case, got out of jail on Aug. 2 on charges he hit and threatened Williams, according to testimony from a Logan County sheriff’s deputy.

    So the first thing Cletus does is when he gets out of lock-up is to kidnap somebody.

    New charges have been filed as well…

    Besides Brewster, the others charged include his mother, 49-year-old Frankie Lee Brewster. Also on Tuesday, the original charges against suspect Frankie Brewster were amended to include first degree sexual assault, giving false information during the commission of a felony, kidnapping and three counts of misdemeanor battery.

    More details of the abuse…

    During the hearing, prosecuting attorneys presented a fly swatter, a knife and a wooden stick. Lawyers told the court the suspects used the implements to beat Williams. Each impliment had red and brown stains, but they will all be tested to determined what the material is. Deputies also testified that Williams went willingly to the home, but the suspects would later refuse to let her leave.

    And more of the family’s stellar record…

    The suspects had lengthy criminal records In 1994, Frankie Brewster was indicted on first degree murder charges, but pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an 84-year old woman. In March of this year, her son Bobby Brewster, was charged with brandishing a deadly weapon. Last year he was charged with battery on a police officer. Combs’ criminal history includes a malicious wounding charge in 2006. Messer has several domestic violence charges, including second offense domestic assault and burglary. Karen Burton and her daughter Alisha have also been arrested on numerous occasions. Karen Burton has been charged with assault on a police officer. Her daughter was charged with domestic assault in May.

    It’s amazing that this family of scumbags were even out on the streets.

  • I guess this was bound to happen

    I guess this was bound to happen

    Groups press for hate-crime charges in woman’s alleged torture:

    First, let me tell you my stance on hate crime legislation. Personally, I think all violent crimes are hate crimes, but I’m not opposed to any legislation that keeps criminal scumbags behind bars longer.

    Now let’s get to the story.

    Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days.

    Normally, I would agree with them, but this is a special case. Like I’ve mentioned before, the kidnapping and sexual assault charges carry more weight than the hate crime charges. The church leaders should be more concerned about justice being done than having prosecutors file charges that at this point would be nothing more than symbolic in nature.

    While black church leaders are calling for marches and protests, the NAACP is taking a wait and see approach…

    The NAACP said it was monitoring the case. “We expect the authorities to do the right thing in bringing the responsible parties involved in these despicable and heinous events to justice with the full weight of the law,” Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors, said in a statement.

    Remember, the kidnapping charges carry a max life sentence and the sexual assault charge carries a max of 35 years. The hate crime charges only carry 10 years. Let them secure the kidnapping conviction first, then file hate crime charges.

  • WV Torture follow up

    WV Torture follow up

    A ton of news has come out about the kidnapping and torturing of Megan Williams. I’m going to bring you all the “highlights” that I have.

    Brewster relative says Frankie and Bobby have had a hard life:

    I was wondering how long it would take for this one to come out. Like it could possibly excuse what these monsters did.

    Carrie Brewster confirmed that when he was 14, Bobby Brewster was accused of fatally shooting his father, Bisha Tomblin, in 1998. Other than that, the grandmother didn’t want to talk about her grandson’s or daughter’s criminal pasts.

    Boo-freakin’ Hoo. To me, that just means that Bobby Brewster should have been locked up a long time ago.

    Magistrate says torture suspect revealed plans to kill victim:

    Apparently, the Clampetts on Crack were planning on killing Megan Williams.

    One of the six defendants charged in the weeklong torture of a Charleston woman allegedly told a magistrate the group planned to take the woman to an area lake and kill her.

    Logan County Magistrate Leonard Codispoti says 49-year-old Frankie Brewster blurted out the planned killing during her arraignment this weekend.

    Not the sharpest tools in the shed, are they?

    W.Va. Victim Knew Torture Suspect:

    Megan Williams knew at least one of her attackers…

    One of the six suspects arrested in the case, Bobby Brewster, had a previous relationship with the victim, Logan County Prosecutor Brian Abraham told The Associated Press. He said Brewster had been charged in July with domestic battery and assault after a domestic dispute involving the same woman.

    “She obviously had some sort of social relationship,” Abraham said. “That is based on the fact that she was present at his residence on a prior date.”

    I don’t care if they were knockin’ boots. I don’t care that Ms. Williams may not have been willing to get out of an abusive relationship. There is nothing you can say to me that is going to make disparage the victim. What was done to her was not even in the realm of humanity. It was more like being attacked by a pack of wild mangy filthy dogs.

    No Hate Crime Charges in Torture Case:

    Now before everyone gets their panties in a wad, it’s not because authorities believe this wasn’t a hate crime. However, the kidnapping and sexual assault charges carry stiffer sentences.

    While the hate crime statute only carries a max sentence of 10 years, the sexual assault statute carries a max of 35 years and the kidnapping statute carries a max of life.

    Personally, I think these rejects from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre should get death, but WV does not have the death penalty.

    Locals: Torture Suspects Were Trouble:

    Surprise, surprise. The neighbors weren’t too fond of the white trash De Sade family.

    Charlotte and Roy Williams tried to avoid their neighbors, a rowdy bunch who blared music for days on end. But the noise may have been the least of their offenses.

    “If I knowed that was happening up there, I would have gone up there myself to try and help that girl,” said Roy Williams, who is not related to Megan Williams.

    Police tape remained at the scene in Big Creek, and empty beer cans filled a rusting shopping cart next to the mobile home. An empty TV dinner tray collected rainwater near the front door.

    Like many in Big Creek, Roy Williams, 61, and his wife, Charlotte, 49, avoided the property.

    “We know everyone over here in this area – except them,” Charlotte Williams said. “We didn’t want to know them.”

    Since 1991, police have filed 108 criminal charges against the six.

    Frankie Brewster was charged in 1994 with first-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to lesser charges of manslaughter and wanton endangerment. She was released from prison in 2000 after serving five years in the death of an 84-year-old woman, court records show.

    Bobby Brewster was accused in March of attacking his mother with a machete, according to court records. The outcome of those charges domestic assault, brandishing a deadly weapon and obstructing an officer – was not immediately clear.

    He also faces domestic battery and assault charges after a dispute involving Megan Williams in July. A court date has not yet been set.

    The Brewsters were constantly fighting, drinking and disrupting the otherwise quiet hollow in southern West Virginia, Roy and Charlotte Williams said.

    “Sometimes we’d hear music playing really loud,” Charlotte Williams said. “We could tell you what the words to the song was, it was so clear. It would go for three or four days, 24 hours a day sometimes.”

    Quite literally, the neighbors from hell. I hope they go back there soon.

  • Trial date set for Ashton Glover’s murder

    Trial date set for Ashton Glover’s murder

    Murder trial set for Oct. 2:

    A lot of people have been asking me when Matt McCombs and Sean would be going on trial for the murder of 16-year-old Ashton Glover. I originally heard that it was going to be the first week in October. That is still true, but now we have a specific date. It is going to start on October 2nd. Here’s hoping that justice is served with extreme prejudice.

  • WV torture family

    WV torture family


    6 Arrested in West Virginia After Woman Abused, Held Captive in House for a Week:

    LOGAN, W.Va. ” A woman was sexually abused, beaten and humiliated while being held captive in a home for at least a week, sheriff’s officials said Monday after making six arrests and calling the FBI to investigate it as a possible hate crime.

    Those arrested, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, are white. The victim, a Charleston woman who was being treated at a hospital Monday, is black.

    Deputies found the 23-year-old victim Saturday after going to the home in Big Creek, about 35 miles southwest of Charleston, to investigate an anonymous tip. One of the suspects, Frankie Brewster, was sitting on the front porch and told deputies she was alone, but moments later the victim limped toward the door, her arms outstretched, saying “help me,” the sheriff’s department said in a news release.

    Besides being sexually assaulted, the victim was stabbed four times in the left leg and beaten, Porter said. Both of her eyes were black and blue. Deputies said the woman’s wounds were inflicted at least a week ago.

    During her capture, the victim was forced to eat rat and dog feces and drink from the toilet, according to the criminal complaint filed in magistrate court. The woman also was choked with a cable cord and her hair cut, it alleges.

    One of those arrested, Karen Burton, is accused of cutting the woman’s ankle with a knife. She used the N-word in telling the woman she was victimized because she is black, according to the criminal complaint.

    Deputies say the woman was also doused with hot water while being sexually assaulted.

    The six suspects were arrested Saturday and Sunday. Deputies were still trying to determine whether the victim knew her assailants and how she came to be at Brewster’s home, Porter said.

    Frankie Brewster, 49, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and giving false information during a felony investigation. Deputies said she was the woman on the porch.

    Her son, Bobby R. Brewster, 24, is charged with kidnapping, sexual assault, malicious wounding and assault during the commission of a felony.

    Burton, 46, of Chapmanville, is charged with malicious wounding, battery and assault during the commission of a felony.

    Her daughter Alisha Burton, 23, of Chapmanville, and George A. Messer, 27, of Chapmanville, are charged with assault during the commission of a felony and battery.

    Danny J. Combs, 20, of Harts, is charged with sexual assault and malicious wounding.

    Just when you think people like this were a dying breed, some ignorant sadistic fucktards rear their ugly inbred heads.

  • Concussions not steroids

    Concussions not steroids

    Brain Damage May Have Caused Wrestler Chris Benoit to Kill Family, Doctor Says:

    A doctor who examined the brain matter of pro-wrestler turned family annihilator Chris Benoit states that Benoit had brain damage consistent with Alzheimer’s patients.

    The Sports Legacy Institute, an organization that advances health and wellness of athletes, coordinated the testing using samples of Benoit’s brain tissue provided by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation — with the permission of Benoit’s father.

    Despite the results, Dr. Robert Cantu, a member of the institute and chief of neurosurgery service at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., said there was no way to know for sure if the concussions Benoit suffered caused the murder-suicide.

    Cantu did say that the brain injury Benoit suffered can cause depression and irrational behavior.

    Decades of chair shots and flying headbutts can turn the brain to mush. Not that I’m excusing what the Canadian Coward did, but can we finally get off the whole “roid rage” knee-jerk reaction finally?

    This shows that there could have been a number of reasons that led Benoit to kill his family.

  • Cassie Jo Stoddart’s killers sentenced

    Cassie Jo Stoddart’s killers sentenced

    Teens get life sentences for murdering classmate:

    The other day I posted about the brutal murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart. She was brutally murdered by two of her friends, at least one of which is a mutant. Her killers, Brian Draper, and Torey Adamcik were both sentenced to life without parole.

    Adamcik’s uncle gave the following statement during the sentencing hearing…

    “I feel very strongly that Torey is not a malicious person and that his life can yet be salvaged and that he can become a productive member of society,” said David Nelson, Adamcik’s Uncle.

    Does this sound like a productive member of society?

    “Just killed Cassie, we just left her house, this is not a f***ing joke,” says Brian Draper on the homemade videotape. “I’m shaking,” replies Adamcik.”I stabbed her in the throat and I saw her lifeless body just disappear,” says Draper.

    Cassie’s family disagrees as well…

    “I’ve seen no remorse, no tears whatsoever from any of you and then finally when you do say something, ‘Oh we’re sorry about what happened to Cassie.’ It was the most unsympathetic, fake sorry I’ve ever heard in my life,” said Anna Stoddart, Cassie’s mother.

    “You chose to do what you did, you chose not to walk away, you chose to cover the truth of your actions. You chose to leave Cassie dead in that house for days,” said Christie Stoddart, Cassie’s sister.

    Like most mutants, they’re probably only sorry that they got caught.