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  • Blood drinking goth girl Danielle Black to be charged as an adult

    Daughter of stabbing victim to be charged as adult, state’s attorney says:

    Alleged blood drinking goth girl Danielle Black is going to be charged as an adult in the plot to kill her father.

    If you’ll recall 15-year-old Black asked a classmate to kill her father claiming that her father was abusing her. Instead, a third person, 19-year-old Alec Eger, was the one who stabbed Billy Lee Black to death.

    Allegedly Black was upset that her dad didn’t like her hanging out with her alleged blood drinking friends.

  • Dillard shooter pleads not guilty

    Fla. teen pleads not guilty in school shooting:

    Teah Wimberly pleaded not guilty in court today into the school shooting death of her former friend Amanda Collette.

    She is being tried as an adult and is looking at life in prison.

  • Attorney for Dillard shooter claims mental illness

    Attorney: Mental health issues may have played role in case of teen charged in school shooting:

    The defense attorney for Teah Wimberly notified the court today that he may be pursuing a mental health defense in his client’s trial for the shooting death of classmate Amanda Collette.

    Attorney Larry S. Davis said that a psych eval indicated mental illness.

    She is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday and could face life in prison if convicted for 2nd-degree murder.

  • Teah Wimberly charged as adult

    Report Shows Text Messages Before Dillard Murder:

    Teah Wimberly has been charged as an adult in the shooting death of classmate Amanda Collete at Dillard High School.

    Court documents have revealed the text messages that Wimberly sent to Amanda prior to the shooting.

    “Tomorrow I will shoot myself in the heart.”

    “I just might get arrested tomorrow.”

    “U gon come visit me in jail”

    “Ima shoot somebody”

    “Ima bust a cap in somebody”

    According to the documents Wimberly admitted to the shooting saying that it was because Amanda ended their friendship without reason. However, some students say it may be because Wimberly had romantic feelings for Amanda but the feeling was not mutual.

    Again I have to reiterate kids that there is no boy or girl that’s worth killing over while you’re in high school. Now there are two lives ruined.

  • Goth girl charged with arranging hit on dad

    15-year-old Danielle Black of Hagerstown, Md. has been charged with soliciting a hit on her father by a classmate. Now the Washington Post article claims that she’s suspected of being part of a clique that likes to drink each other’s blood. The WJLA article just states she’s goth. Most of you know how I feel about The Post so I’m more inclined to believe WJLA.

    Anyway, prosecutors say she enlisted the aid of a classmate to kill her father. However, it wasn’t the kid she asked but another classmate, 19-year-old Alec S. Eger that killed Mr. Black.

    She allegedly told her classmate that her father leaves at 5am every day and where he parks his truck. To make the story more convincing it’s alleged that she told the classmate that her father was abusing her and Eger believed it.

    On the morning of Halloween Eger confronted Mr. Black about the supposed abuse. A scuffle ensued which ended up with Eger stabbing Black to death according to police.

    Police say that there was no evidence that Danielle Black was being abused. Police also say, according to The Post, that the only problem Mr. Black had with anyone was with the goth clique that his daughter hung out with claiming they were cutters and drank each other’s blood. To me, that sounds like a motive.

    Here’s the thing, Danielle Black has been charged as a juvenile. Meanwhile, Eger is looking at first-degree murder charges. As far as I’m concerned she should be charged as an adult since she instigated it. I’m not saying that Eger should be let go but she’s as equally culpable as he is.

    She doesn’t even seem the least bit remorseful for what happened…

    The girl says on her MySpace page that she now lives with her mother: “I used 2 live with my father until he was killed on halloween of this ’08.” A more recent posting says: “wats gonna happen now that everything is settling down? everything is becoming clear nd i got the best ppl in the world. i luv you guys. don’t stop bein u. nd don’t give up on ur self or me.”

    If any of this sounds vaguely familiar to you it should because it sounds almost identical to the case of Kyle Hulbert. Hulbert was duped into killing a girl’s father because of claims of abuse and Kyle is serving a much harsher sentence than the girl also in an area near D.C.

    Washington Post

    WJLA

  • Hainstock denied new trial

    No new trial for Hainstock:

    John Klang’s killer will not be receiving a new trial. Sauk County (WI) Circuit Court Judge Patrick Taggart said in a written ruling that Eric Hainstock received a fair trial for the shooting death of Principal Klang in the halls of Weston High School. Judge Taggart said that the jury had plenty of other evidence that showed Hainstock was intent on killing Klang.

    “There is the physical evidence of the multiple shots delivered in close contact to the victim,” he writes. “Hainstock’s statements to others that Klang would not live to see homecoming (that evening), defendant’s statements to the janitor that he was there with two weapons to “(expletive) kill someone.”

    Hainstock, who was 15 at the time of the 2006 murder, is serving a life sentence.

  • E.O. Green shooter to undergo psych eval

    Brandon McInerney’s Mental Health Questioned:

    I guess the defense for Brandon McInerney will be attempting an insanity defense as they have filed a motion to see if their client is mentally competent to stand trial. Two court-appointed psychologists will evaluate the 14-year-old McInerney.

    As you may remember McInerney stands accused in the shooting death of openly gay E.O. Green Junior High student Lawrence King. McInerney has been charged as an adult.

    Anyway, I think this is the first straw his lawyers are grasping at trying to prove that he was insane at the time of the shooting. Because I’m sure it had nothing to do with the philosophy of hate that he more than likely subscribed to.

  • E.O. Green shooter pleads not guilty

    Teen Pleads Not Guilty in Murder of Gay Classmate:

    Yesterday 14-year-old Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty to the shooting death of Lawrence King. As discussed previously King was an openly gay student who was bullied by McInerney and to defend himself King would mockingly flirt with him. McInerney didn’t take kindly to this and shot and killed King in front of a bunch of witnesses at E.O. Green Junior High. Yet he pleads not guilty.

    McInerney has been charged as an adult on first-degree murder charges with a hate crime sentencing enhancement. That means that he’s looking at 51 to life behind bars with no possibility for parole.

    His attorney is calling that a death sentence…

    “This is essentially a death sentence for Brandon McInerney,” said Quest, who is asking that the boy be tried on a lesser charge of manslaughter. “That is the only way Brandon does not die in prison.”

    But it’s ok for Lawrence King to die in school? Manslaughter usually denotes a ‘spur of the moment’ killing if you will. This was no spur of the moment. This was obviously premeditated. If your client didn’t want a ‘death sentence’ he shouldn’t have killed Lawrence King.

    On the other side of the fence, we have a quote from Lawrence King’s father that makes my blood boil…

    King’s parents say they support the adult charge.

    “He went into a classroom in front of other students and shot my son in the back of the head twice,” father Greg King said. “For is age to be taken into consideration – he didn’t take my son’s age into consideration.”

    While I agree with what he’s saying you have to remember that the family kicked Lawrence King out of the house for being gay and are now trying to cash in by suing the school for not preventing the shooting.

    Maybe if you let Lawrence live at home like a family is supposed to none of this would have happened.

  • Was E.O. Green shooter a white supremacist?

    School shooting suspect had white supremacist material:

    To the surprise of no one with a half decent level of intelligence white supremacist materials were found in the home of 14-year-old Brandon McInerney. McInerney is accused of shooting and killing openly gay student 15-year-old Lawrence (Larry) King at E.O. Green Middle school.

    McInerney’s lawyer claims it was just material from studying about WW II in school. However, prosecutors contend that the material written by McInerney contained the number 88 which is code used by white supremacists for ‘Heil Hitler’ since H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. The material also contained references to the ’14 Words’. Neither of those symbols were ever used by Nazi Germany and were created by more modern white supremacists.

    These materials are what prosecutors used in part to establish hate crime charges against McInerney.

  • Brian Draper’s MySpace revisited

    Maintenance of Convicted Killer Brian Draper’s Myspace Page in Question:

    Not too long ago I posted about the MySpace of convicted killer, lifer, and mutant Brian Draper. Draper is one of the teen killers convicted in the 2006 slashing death of someone whom they called their friend, Cassie Jo Stoddart.

    I theorized that his MySpace was obviously written by either a member of his family or an advocate who believes that teens should never be charged as adults. I came to that hypothesis after I noticed the proper grammar which I doubt Draper has and the fact that prison inmates usually don’t have access to the internet. It seems that one of my readers tipped off the local media to Draper’s MySpace.

    We’ve previously reported on a website that supports Torey Adamcik’s innocence called Voices for Torey. Thanks to a viewer, we tracked down a commentary page that negatively outlines the possibility of Brian Draper updating his myspace page from prison.

    Earlier this month, “A Murderer’s Disguise” was posted on the website called The Trenchcoat Chronicles. On it, Trench Reynolds debunks the idea that Draper can access the internet saying, among other things, that the two teenagers have become poster boys for people who believe teens should not be charged as adults. Reynolds simply states that someone else must be maintaining the personal page.

    KPVI then followed up on my assumptions and called the Idaho Department of Corrections. They have confirmed that inmates do not have access to the internet. So is it being maintained by family or an advocate? Is Draper actually in the programs that he claims and is it just for show?

    None of this could have been possible if it wasn’t for the watchful eye of Mr. A who brought my attention to Draper’s MySpace in the first place.