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  • 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.

  • Cook County Sheriffs want erotic services eliminated

    Sheriff wants Craigslist to drop ads for erotic services:

    The Cook County Sheriff’s Department in Illinois wants craigslist to shut down their erotic services section for various reasons. Two of which are…

    When a Cook County sheriff’s investigator posed as a 14-year-old girl looking for sex online earlier this year, this was one of the replies:

    “I’d love to chat with you and set up some fun this afternoon. Do you have a pic of you?”

    And…

    In one case, the prostitute rented one room for her business and another for her children, Mateck said. After the woman was arrested, she failed to tell police her children were staying in another room, Mateck said.

    “Our officer went to the room, knocked on the door, and the woman’s 4-year-old daughter opened it,” Mateck said. “They went in and found the woman’s 2-year old son scooping water out of the toilet to drink.”

    But there are no victims, right?

    Cook County sheriffs have contacted craigslist but as of the time of the article, they have not received a response.

  • Charges dropped against 3 accused in Victoria Lindsay beating

    Charges Dropped Against Three in Teen Beating:

    Charges have been dropped against Cara Murphy, Stephen Schumaker, and Zachary Ashley. Schumaker and Ashley were originally thought to be lookouts.

    A notice for each teenager gave the same explanation: “Further investigation has shown that there is insufficient evidence to proceed with charges against the defendant.”

    The article’s author speculates if they’ll testify as witnesses.

    And remember kids, just because there is insufficient evidence it doesn’t make then angels.

  • 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?

  • New York men arrested for being with Ohio teens

    Two Vermilion teens say they were sexually assaulted by MySpace friends from New York:

    Three men from New York state are being accused of rape by two teenage girls from Vermilion, Ohio.

    Michael Wightman, 18, Anthony Edinger, 19, and James Lass, 21, are have said to met the Ohio girls over MySpace then were invited to visit. That’s a 300 mile trip by the way.

    When Wightman was caught wandering the streets of Vermilion with pot in his possession he led the police to Edinger who was in a nearby car, who then led them to Lass who was at the house where the girls were. The ages of the girls at the house were 15, 14, and 14.

    Two of the girls are claiming rape but for once I’m not so sure…

    Edinger, who had an open can of beer in the car, had bruising on his neck that appeared to be ”hickeys,” the report said. He admitted to having sexual relations with a girl at a nearby house where one of his friends was still located.

    The story unfolded from there. Inside the house, police found the three teenage girls — ages 15 and 14 — and James Lass, 21, of Brattsburg, N.Y., who was sleeping in the master bedroom.

    At first the girls were reluctant to talk to police, but once separated, two of the three girls broke down.

    The 15-year-old had sex with all three males — twice with two of them, but claims it was not consensual, police said. One of the 14-year-old girls, who said she was sleeping in a bathroom, said she was raped by Lass.

    The other 14-year-old was not involved in any of the sexual activity, police said.

    In case you were wondering where the parents were the father of the girl who lived in the house was at work.

    But before everyone gets their panties in a bunch about how these ‘poor boys’ were set up let’s not forget the fact that while the sex may have been consensual they still had sex with minors and provided them with drugs and alcohol. D’oh!

    Enjoy your stay in Ohio boys.

  • Serrano pleads not guilty

    Man enters plea in child molestation, pornography case:

    I originally posted about child molesting and child porn producing scumbag Gregory Scott Serrano here.

    He stands accused of molesting 10 girls ages 13 to 17 and taking pornographic pictures of them. He allegedly posed as a 19-year-old and used MySpace and Netlog to lure them. While in custody he also tried to get a relative of his to destroy evidence. He’s facing municipal and federal charges.

    Anyway, the scumbag pleaded not guilty in Pasadena Superior Court yesterday. I can’t wait to hear the defense on this one. Then again it will probably be just like the comments I get around here. (He was a nice guy, etc.)

    If convicted on the federal charges Serrano will be facing the wrong end of a life sentence.

  • 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.