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  • California craigslist rapist

    Police seek rape clues:

    Let me preface this by saying that this was sent to me by a professional escort.

    Anaheim police arrested Waymon Livingston, 24, of Stanton, charging him with murder and raping three women.

    The murder charge includes a special circumstance for rape, authorities said.

    Authorities believe he could be connected to other assaults and are appealing to the public to step forward with information.

    One woman was raped Aug. 21, 2005 in an Anaheim parking lot, police said. Then another woman was raped in a Stanton hotel room Oct. 25, 2006. The Costa Mesa assault happened May 7, according to authorities.

    Livingston contacted a masseuse through Craigslist for a private session at the Best Western on Newport Boulevard, Costa Mesa Sgt. Bryan Glass said. During the session, Livingston propositioned the woman for sex and she refused.

    Livingston allegedly strangled the woman until she passed out, Glass said. When she woke up hours later she went to Fountain Valley Hospital, Glass said.

    “We collected DNA from her person and crime scene and turned it into the crime lab,” but investigators didn’t make the connection until months later, Glass said.

    After Livingston was arrested in connection with the three rapes, investigators were able to link him to the Sept. 9 slaying in Anaheim of Melissa Ann Gonzalez, 21, of Sacramento, through DNA evidence, authorities said.

    Like I’ve pointed out before, there’s immense danger lurking on both sides of the craigslist erotic services section.

    Let me wrap this up with what the escort sent me in her e-mail.

    Hi,

    i thought you might be interested in this link for your blog. Recently apprehended, this guy was targeting working girls in Orange County California and one of his methods in finding them was though craigslist (he had others).

    this guy attacked many other girls who are not listed in the article and it personally touched my life.

    Stay safe out there ladies.

  • 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?

  • Reno man arrested for luring teen boys

    Police: Reno man used Craigslist to lure boys to home:

    32-year-old Jason Hunter was arrested on Thursday for using craigslist to lure two teen boys to his home before sexually assaulting one of them.

    According to police, the suspect met the two boys, 13 and 15, through Craigslist under the ruse he was a 20-year-old woman.

    During online conversations, the “woman” asked the boys to come over to her cousin’s home where they could party, investigators said.

    One of the boy’s misled his mother into giving them a ride there, saying instead it was a friend’s home.

    Hunter is accused of providing them alcohol. Both boys later passed out on his bed, and the younger boy told police he awoke to find the suspect sexually assaulting him.

    Granted this guy is a piece of trash that should be locked away in a hole somewhere but what parent allows their kids to go on craigslist? Just like everything else I’m guessing that most parents aren’t even aware what lurks on craigslist let alone knowing what it is.

  • Mutant MySpace connection

    The cyber school for killers:

    According to the article not only were Dillon Cossey and Pekka-Eric Auvinen YouTube buddies but it seems they belonged to the same pro-Columbine groups on MySpace.

    Police do not believe this to have been a coincidence. The two youths are thought to have made contact over two MySpace groups, “RIP Eric and Dylan” — a reference to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 12 schoolmates at Columbine — and “Natural Selection”.

    And people wonder why I think that sites like MySpace and YouTube need to shut down what basically amounts to hate groups.

    But like I’ve said before MySpace and YouTube wouldn’t have to if parents just paid better attention to their kids.

    Speaking of parents…

    Auvinen’s parents are regarded as somewhat bohemian in the small dormitory township of Jokela. His father plays part-time in a jazz band and composes his own music; Auvinen’s mother is an activist for the Greens. They are regarded as stalwart members of the community and neighbours describe them as a “normal family”.

    I’ll let you draw your own conclusions on that one.

  • 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.

  • Should YouTube muzzle the mutants?

    Should YouTube play the censor and sentinel?:

    In the wake of the Jokela High School shooting in Finland News.com has written this article asking if YouTube should censor the parent neglected little balls of hate like Pekka-Eric Auvinen. Before I educate people on the definition of censorship my answer is a resounding yes.

    First of all, if YouTube decides to pull any video for whatever reason that’s not censorship. Censorship, in the U.S. at least, can only come from the government. When YouTube does it, which last time I checked they were not a branch of the government, it’s called enforcing their Terms of Service.

    Here are all the reasons a YouTube video can be pulled…

    1. Graphic sexual activity
    “Graphic sexual activity” describes content which contains actual visible or implied sex acts.

    2. Nudity
    “Nudity” refers to exposed or see-through coverage of areas typically covered by a bathing suit or underwear. Sometimes nudity is allowed on YouTube, depending on the context.

    3. Suggestive, but without nudity
    “Suggestive” content refers to materials with sexual themes that do not necessarily depict sexual activity or nudity. Sexually suggestive content may not be suitable for all audiences and may include fetish-related content.

    4. Shocking or disgusting content
    “Shocking or disgusting content” refers to disturbing imagery, such as graphic depictions of violence, accidents or gore, which lack an appropriate context.

    5. Promotes hatred or violence against a protected group
    Hate speech is content that promotes or encourages hatred or violence toward a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity.

    6. Harmful dangerous acts
    “Harmful dangerous acts” may include content which is depicts behavior likely to cause serious injury or death to a third party.

    7. Reveals personally identifying information
    This refers to revealing information that identifies another person against their wishes, such as home address, telephone number, social security number or credit card number.

    I think that the videos that Auvinen and his ilk make fall under several of those guidelines. However, the problem is that YouTube, which is owned by Google by the way, really only wants to police the site for copyrighted content. What they rely on is for users to flag the videos for any inappropriate content. That’s what I like to call letting the inmates run the asylum. Craigslist has a similar policy with its “erotic services” section. The problem is similar as well. People going to YouTube to see funny videos aren’t venturing into the depths where the mutants and their killer tribute videos lurk and the ones that do aren’t going to flag the videos because that’s what they like.

    However, as much as I wish YouTube would shut down these mutants it really comes down to parenting. Where are these kids’ parents when they’re making these hate-filled videos? Probably happy that they’re precious little snowflakes are expressing themselves rather than disciplining them for being the dumbasses that they are.

  • 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.