Category: Crime

  • West Memphis 3 victim’s mother speaks on new DNA evidence

    West Memphis 3 victim’s mother speaks on new DNA evidence

    West Memphis 3: Mom speaks out on new evidence found at crime scene:

    Pam Hobbs, the mother of West Memphis 3 victim Stevie Branch and ex-husband to Terry Hobbs, is saying that it is possible that Terry Hobbs could have committed the murders of the three boys.

    “I would say there is a possibility that he could be capable. I hate to say it because I’m going on my thoughts and feelings,” she added.

    Pam Hobbs said she remembers discovering 14 knives owned by her then husband Terry Hobbs.

    “A bunch of knives, a few of them I was aware of but there was quite a few I wasn’t aware of. And Stevie’s knife being in that collection, that really put up a warning sign. What are you doing with Stevie’s knife, it would have been with him,” Pam Hobbs explained.

    Hobbs said Steve’s grandfather gave him the knife. She also said she turned them over to police when she found them.

    Pam Hobbs turned those knives over to defense attorneys in 2002 when she was separating from Terry Hobbs. Terry Hobbs claims that he is innocent and that Pam Hobbs is doing this out of spite.

    Terry Hobbs dismissed the knives as having had “nothing to do with anything.”

    “I’d bought some, and found some and Pam bought me some. I just threw them in a drawer, and that’s where they’d been for years.” He added, “Them knives were stolen out of my home and I’m fixing to try to get them back.”

    Asked whether one of the knives was a pocket knife given to Stevie by his grandfather, Terry Hobbs responded: “I don’t know. It could have been. And it could have been it was in the drawer because we didn’t want him to have it. I didn’t want a kid of mine to go around with a pocket knife — not a kid who was 8 years old. Would you?”

    Terry Hobbs said, “I raised Stevie from the time he was a year and a half, until he was 8. I tried to be a good daddy.”

    As for his ex-wife, he said, “Pam’s got some problems. This thing has taken a toll on her. It’s really hurt her.

    “I don’t think she really supports the idea they [the convicted men] are innocent. I think she’s doing it out of anger. As a matter of fact, I know it’s out of anger. It’s being angry at the world and not knowing how to deal with her anger.

    “It’s kind of sad. And I’m really sorry that people think she supports that theory.”

    Terry Hobbs has said previously that the hair sample that was recovered from the scene could have come from anywhere since all three boys were friends and frequently visited the Hobbs’ household.

    I wonder if the WM3 zealots will now focus their vitriol at Terry Hobbs instead of Mark Byers now.

  • West Memphis 3 DNA evidence

    West Memphis 3 DNA evidence

    Court documents reveal new details in the cast of the “West Memphis 3”:

    Details are being reported about the much heralded DNA evidence that is supposed to exonerate the West Memphis 3 according to their misguided followers…

    New DNA testing by the defense shows that none of the genetic material recovered links Echols, Baldwin, or Misskelley to the crime scene. Instead the defense claims the tests found DNA from Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of the murdered boys.

    Branch (I’m pretty sure that’s a typo and they meant Hobbs) told Action News 5 he didn’t do it. “I’d have to laugh at that and say there’s something wrong with someone who would think that,” he said.

    Hobbs claims a private investigator from the defense team told him one of his hairs was discovered in a knot in one of the shoe laces used to tie up the three eight-year-olds.

    “If Michael Moore or Christopher Byers had a piece of my hair on shoes strings, these little boys came to my home and played with our little boy pretty regularly,” Hobbs said.

    The DNA results also reveal, according to court documents, that most of the DNA at the crime scene came from the victims, but some of it cannot be connected to the victims or the defendants.

    So the DNA evidence I’ve been hearing so much about in the past few months is nothing more than a hair that belonged to the stepfather of one of the murdered boys. Like he said, the boys were at his house all the time. I hardly think this exonerates Echols and his lackeys.

    To those of you who have been blinded by biased documentaries, half-assed celebrities, and the rest of the hype, this does not mean that Echols and Co. were not at the crime scene.

    And Terry Hobbs is not the step-father featured in the documentaries. The toothless bastard you’re thinking of is Mark Byers.

    To me, Damien Echols is the second coming of Charles Manson. Except, Echols succeeded in one area where Manson failed. Echols has a legion of cult-like supporters who blindly follow his every word like it was delivered from God himself as the truth just because you saw some documentary or heard Henry Rollins talk about it. The supporters are nothing more than cultists. They just don’t realize it.

  • Indictments in Dunbar Village gang rape

    Indictments in Dunbar Village gang rape

    Teens ordered held without bond in Dunbar Village rape case:

    Yesterday the three teenage scumbags, Avion Lawson, 14, Nathan Walker Jr., 16, and Jakaris Taylor, 15, were indicted by a grand jury yesterday in the atrocious gang rape at Dunbar Village in West Palm Beach, Florida. The grand jury indicted them as adults. So, according to the article, the judge could not impose a youthful offender sentence. I doubt the judge would anyway unless he wanted to be run out of town.

    Bond was also denied for the little monsters, since they are charged with felonies that carry life sentences.

    This is how hardcore the prosecution is…

    State Attorney Barry Krischer has called the crime the worst he has seen in 35 years, and instructed prosecutors “not to negotiate with the defense and proceed to trial and seek the highest possible sentence,” Krischer spokesman Michael Edmondson said.

    …as it should be.

    Let’s not forget that there are still other suspects still on the loose. I hope the police catch them soon with extreme prejudice.

  • Roid rage inconclusive

    Roid rage inconclusive

    Questions still loom in Benoit case:

    Again, if you won’t believe me that roid rage in the deaths of the Benoit family is not a foregone conclusion, then how about Georgia’s top coroner?

    Pro wrestler Chris Benoit had more than 10 times the normal level of testosterone in his system when he hanged himself in his home after killing his wife and 7-year-old son last month. But did that have anything to do with the slayings?

    “I think it’s an unanswerable question,” said Dr. Kris Sperry, Georgia’s top medical examiner.

    Test results released Tuesday neither bolstered nor entirely debunked speculation that anabolic steroids might have led Benoit, a wrestler with a family-man image, to commit the shocking crimes. Some experts believe steroids can cause paranoia, depression and violent outbursts known as “roid rage,” but Sperry noted that there is no consensus on the issue.

    Even the high levels of testosterone should not be overanalyzed, Sperry warned. They could indicate the wrestler was being treated for “testicular insufficiency,” he said.

    Well, I think we know that Chris Benoit had “testicular insufficiency” because only a nutless coward is capable of killing his family, but I digress.

    In the end, he said, authorities will never know whether the steroid could have caused the murderous outburst.

    Not only that but if roid rage is as prevalent as some people falsely claim, then how come there isn’t a murder a week coming out of Major League Baseball or the NFL?

  • Benoit family toxicology report released

    Benoit family toxicology report released

    GBI: Benoit had steroids in system:

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chris Benoit had steroids in his system. No big shock there. He was a professional wrestler, after all. But before all of you roid rage zealots start pointing fingers at me with your “I told you so” attitudes, you may want to unbunch your panties for a second.

    Chris Benoit also had Xanax and Hydrocodone in his system, a sedative and a painkiller. Now I’m not a doctor, I don’t even play one on the internet, but I’ve been prescribed both drugs, luckily not at the same time. Taking either one has pretty much knocked me on my ass. I’m not a small guy, either. I’m over 6 feet tall, and I hover around the 200 lb. mark. Not as big as Benoit, but not a small guy either. So in my estimation, I think the inclusion of the Xanax and Hydrocodone pretty much precludes any ‘roid rage’ that so many of you have been shouting from the rooftops.

    Nancy Benoit also had Xanax and Hydrocodone in her system as well. Daniel Benoit had Xanax in his system, which leads me to believe that Chris Benoit sedated his son before killing him. What a freakin’ humanitarian.

  • Hainstock may face additional charge

    Hainstock may face additional charge

    Teen may face another charge:

    Prosecutors are trying to get an additional charge of attempted murder pressed against Eric Hainstock. Hainstock is accused of shooting and killing Weston Schools principal John Klang.

    Prosecutors allege that Hainstock also pointed the gun at his own special education teacher, James Nowak, prior to the death of Klang. Nowak is the same teacher who Hainstock allegedly threw a stapler at.

    Of course, the defense is not happy…

    “We have eight business days between now and the day we pick a jury and go to trial,” said Rhoda Ricciardi, one of the Madison-based attorneys representing 16-year-old Hainstock. “And now we are also supposed to defend against an attempted homicide? If that’s not prejudice, sir, I don’t know what is.”

    The prosecution offered this explanation…

    Sauk County District Attorney Patricia Barrett said she previously mentioned the possibility of additional charges to Hainstock’s defense team, but only recently received the transcripts of prior testimony necessary to go forward with the additional charge. She said there is no new evidence defense attorneys must study.

    As much as I’d like to see Hainstock get as much time as possible, I doubt the attempted murder charge will stick or even be allowed.

    The trial is set to start on July 26th.

  • Versace not the only victim

    Versace not the only victim

    Versace’s mansion, 10 years after murder:

    This is something that’s been sticking in my craw for 10 years now.

    Back in 1997, serial killer Andrew Cunanan went on an interstate killing spree. It started in Minnesota when he killed his friend Jeffery Trail. Two days later, he killed architect David Madson also in Minnesota. According to Wikipedia, police recognized a connection, as Trail’s body had been found in Madson’s Minneapolis loft apartment, and started an intensive nationwide manhunt. This barely made a blip in the national media.

    Next, Cunanan killed 72-year-old real estate developer Lee Miglin in Chicago. Cunanan escaped Chicago in Miglin’s car. His next murder kind of hit home for me.

    Cunanan’s next victim was William Reese from Pennsville, New Jersey. In 1997, I was living one county over from Pennsville. The local media exploded all over the story but still hardly anything on the national front.

    Cunanan stole Reese’s truck with which he drove to Miami, where he claimed his most famous victim, fashion designer Gianni Versace. That’s when the story blew up in the national media. Yet, all the focus was on Versace. Very little mention was made of Cunanan’s other victims. Eight days later, Cunanan killed himself in a Miami houseboat.

    All I saw on the national media at that point were stories about other celebrities who lived in the Miami area who feared for their ‘lives’ while Cunanan was on the loose after Versace’s murder. Again, little to no mention of Cunanan’s other victims.

    Fast-forward to today. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the death of Gianni Versace, and nothing has changed. No disrespect intended to the Versace family, but again the article I linked to above made no mention whatsoever of Cunanan’s other victims.

    So what’s my point? Well, besides the fact that the national media obviously doesn’t really care about murder victims unless they’re famous, my point is that not everyone has forgotten the names of Jeffery Trail, Dave Madson, Lee Miglin, and William Reese.

  • Third gang rape suspect arrested

    Third gang rape suspect arrested

    3rd teen arrested in gang rape of mother, son in Florida:

    The other day, I posted about the Florida woman who was gang-raped and forced to have sex with her son. Two teens have already been arrested for the brutal and disgusting attack. Those teens are Avion Lawson, 14, and Nathan Walker, 16. Now a third teen has been arrested.

    Fingerprints in the woman’s house linked 15-year-old Jakaris Sansay Taylor to the June 18 attack, West Palm Beach police spokesman Ted White said.

    The state attorney’s office will be seeking a grand jury indictment for all defendants in the case to ensure they are charged as adults, spokesman Mike Edmondson said.

    Taylor was arrested on charges of home invasion robbery with a firearm, wearing a mask while committing an offense, sexual battery and armed sexual battery with multiple perpetrators. He will be transferred to a juvenile detention center once investigators finish questioning him, police said.

    They shouldn’t even be tried as adults. They should be put down like dogs.

  • Trial set for Ashton Glover’s killers

    Trial set for Ashton Glover’s killers

    A Year After Ashton Glover’s Death, Two Neighbors Face October Murder Trail:

    A lot of people have been asking me lately if I’ve heard about a trial date for Sean Brown and Matt McCombs. They’re the alleged killers of Ashton Glover. They were friends of Ashton, who shot her in the head out of “morbid curiosity”.

    Anyway, the trial is set for the first week of October. They’re both facing first-degree murder charges. I don’t know if prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty or not.

  • Dispelling still more Benoit rumors

    Dispelling still more Benoit rumors

    Investigators in the Benoit Murder Case React to Internet Reports:

    Here we go again. At least investigators are finally speaking out about internet allegations.

    ATLANTA (FOX 5) – Investigators in the Benoit murder case reacted Thursday night to an internet report that Nancy Benoit feared for her life. The report also claimed that Chris Benoit had recently moved out of the family home because of trouble, but investigators said such reports proved to be frustrating.

    Fayette County detectives said there was no truth to a report that was posted on the website, prowrestling.com that said that Nancy had written what the website called, “a strange note” before her death that stated that if something happened to her then Chris would be to blame.

    Investigators said a safe deposit box, which the website reported contained the note, actually held typical documents and had no personal writings from Nancy Benoit in it.

    Detectives say this kind of internet report is typical of what they call conspiracy theories that have been phoned into the Sheriff’s office from as far away as California since the bodies were discovered.

    Got it? There was no strange note written by Nancy Benoit. As much as I love the dirt sheet websites, they are really starting to piss me off.

    Speaking of pissing me off…

    After Nancy, Chris Benoit Drank, Prayed Before Killing Daniel, Mag:

    If you ever thought the National Ledger website was a legitimate news source, you may want to rethink that.

    An investigation by the National Enquirer’s investigative team uncovered what they report as the “real” story of what happened on the tragic weekend that superstar wrestler Benoit snapped – killing his family and then himself. Many have blamed steroids but the report claims that there was booze involved.

    The online item claims that Chris was guzzling beer and wine in agony and the popular grappler made sad, slurred phone calls to friends as he prepared to snuff out his life. “When he killed his wife, his life was over and he knew it,” an insider told the weekly magazine. “But he still had his beloved son, and who would take care of him? That’s why it all ended in the ultimate tragedy.”

    Yeah. When I want the “real story” the first source I go to is the National Enquirer. I guess they figured they can’t be sued by dead people.