TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: charged as an adult

  • A murderer’s disguise

    Mr. A shot me an e-mail the other day saying that he found the MySpace of Brian Draper. For those of you who don’t know Brian Draper and his cohort Torey Adamcik were two teens sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart.

    Draper is not only a vicious killer but he’s also an admitted mutant, the term I use for ‘fans’ of Columbine.

    I figured that the MySpace was probably a leftover before he went into prison and probably contained the incoherent ramblings of a teenage monster. Imagine my surprise when this is what I stumble on.

    Many things have happened since the last time I updated this page: I have moved to the prison in Boise, Idaho, and I am in a transition stage that may last a couple of weeks. Following the transition I will be moved to a new location in Boise.

    I want you all to know that I am hanging in there. Things get rough from time to time, and I don’t go a week without breaking down at least once. But overall my life is ok. I keep busy by going to religious services, attending educational classes (creative writing, computers), writing, reading and playing a lot of chess. I am also able to play the piano down at the chapel. I play piano for church services, and for an hour a week I can play the piano in solitude. I wrote a song dedicated to everything that has happened, called Sorrows and Sunrises.

    Obviously, this wasn’t written by Draper for a number of reasons. The first being I don’t think Draper could form a coherent sentenced if you spotted him the noun and the verb. Secondly, most prisons don’t allow their inmates to have access to the internet. Lastly, Draper and Adamcik have kind of become the poster boys for the people who believe that teens shouldn’t be charged as adults. For example…

    Currently I am in the appeals process, so that maybe someday I can be released and start redeeming myself on the outside, like I am doing now, on the inside. I am in the STOP program here, which is a program that brings kids into the facility, and inmates speak with them about being a good person and staying out of trouble. I am one of those inmates that speak to the kids.

    If my appeal for reduction of sentencing is thrown out, then I will be content with the life I have. We must think about what we do have, not about what we don’t have. We must set goals and strive to meet them. If I spend the rest of my life locked in a prison, I will rise above that. If God wants me to stay here, then this is where I will stay.

    I will leave you with two good sayings: “I wept because I had no shoes till I saw a man who had no feet.” “Two men looked out through prison bars; one saw mud, the other stars.”

    Thanks again for all your support, I hope and pray you are all doing well.

    I love you all, and thank you for believing in me. Never forget Cassie Jo Stoddart.

    Your friend,

    Brian

    Who I’d like to meet:

    Hemingway, Albert Einstein, Richard Wilbur, and James P. Gills

    First off he gave up any right of talking about Cassie Jo Stoddart, especially after he said this on videotape after her murder.

    “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.

    I highly doubt someone who did this is capable of all these ‘feel good’ statements and if he is going through all these programs I’m sure it’s all for show. I also noticed the lack of negative comments on his MySpace. Brutal killers usually get slammed with ‘see you in hell’ kind of comments which leads me to believe that not only was this crap written by someone else but it’s also being severely moderated.

    Lastly, I doubt the people he wants to meet or Hemingway and Einstein. It’s probably more like Manson, Dahmer, Harris, and Klebold.

    Someone who slashes a girls throat just for the thrills and brags about it on tape isn’t going to change his stripes this quickly let alone ever.

     

  • Hainstock hearing scheduled

    Date set for Hainstock’s hearing:

    The first hearing to see if Eric Hainstock’s murder conviction will be overturned has been scheduled for December 10th.

    If you’ll recall Hainstock shot Weston Schools principal John Klang three times. Klang later died from his wounds at the hospital.

    Hainstock’s attorney argues that he was in no mental state to waive his rights at police questioning.

  • Central High shooter may be tried as an adult

    Prosecutors seek to try 15-year-old Central High shooter as adult:

    Prosecutors have filed a petition to have Jamar Siler tried as an adult in the shooting death of Ryan McDonald.

    The decision on whether Siler rates transfer to the adult court system rests solely with Irwin and could mean the difference between a few years of punishment and rehabilitation efforts in a juvenile facility and a minimum 51-year sentence in a state prison.

    Under the law, Irwin must consider two key things – is Siler committable to a mental health facility and, if not, are there programs within the juvenile justice system to rehabilitate Siler.

    No and no. Cue the whiners.

  • Hainstock wants a new trial

    Student wants new trial in Wis. principal’s death:

    Not only does Eric Hainstock want us to feel sorry for him now he also wants a new trial.

    As you’ll recall Hainstock shot and killed Principal John Klang of Weston Schools in Wisconsin.

    His latest attorney has filed a motion stating his counsel during the trial was ineffective. Paul G. Bonneson says that Hainstock wasn’t competent enough to waive his rights before he was questioned.

    That’s strange because he was competent enough to steal, load, and fire a gun killing a father, husband, and principal.

  • E.O. Green shooter pleads not guilty

    Teenager accused of murdering gay classmate pleads not guilty:

    14-year-old Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty this past week to the shooting death of 15-year-old Lawrence King. It’s alleged that McInerney shot and killed King at E.O. Green Junior High School because when McInerney bullied King for being gay King would mockingly flirt with McInerney.

    McInerney has been charged with murder and of course, his defense attorney has a problem with that.

    Yesterday his defence lawyer said the decision to try him for murder and not manslaughter was effectively a “death sentence.”

    Oh you mean like the death sentence McInerney gave King for being gay?

  • E.O. Green shooter to be tried as adult

    Teen accused of shooting gay classmate to be tried as an adult:

    14-year-old Brandon McInerney will be tried as an adult in the shooting death of 15-year-old Lawrence King at E.O. Green Junior High School.

    King was an openly gay student who got back at the bullying from McInerney by mockingly flirting with him.

    27 LGBT activist groups had requested that McInerney not be tied as an adult.

    McInerney faces life in prison if convicted.

  • Eric Hainstock still blaming everyone else

    Eric Hainstock: Free at last:

    This is an article from the alternative weekly in Wisconsin called Isthmus. In it are a series of letters that Eric Hainstock wrote to the publication. For those of you who may not remember Hainstock was 15 when he shot and killed Principal John Klang of the Weston Schools. Hainstock was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole in 2037.

    In his letters Hainstock sort of takes responsibility for his actions…

    Hainstock says some people in prison have told him he’s “cool” for having killed his principal. He corrects them: “No, I’m not. I took a life. He can’t go to his daughter’s wedding. He can’t walk her down the aisle.”

    But for most of the article, as usual, he blames his situation on everyone but himself…

    “When I was 15 years old I shot my high school principal. I never meant for this to happen. He grabbed me from behind and I got scared. I was already pretty stressed, so that freaked me out even more. Please don’t get me wrong, I am not blaming Mr. Klang for grabbing me. But I am blaming him, the teachers, social services and the school as a whole for never listening to me…. No one ever listened.”

    The article goes on about how much he learned in prison but I guess he still hasn’t learned that everyone is responsible for their own actions. The article also says that he likes prison more compared to his old life. I’m glad that was arranged for him.

  • Hostage taker pleads guilty

    Teen pleads guilty to kidnapping classmate at knifepoint:

    Brent Clark is the Mesa, Arizona teen who took a girl hostage at knifepoint. He has pleaded guilty to the kidnapping charges against him.

    Sentencing is June 19th and Clark is facing a possible sentence of 3 1/2 years behind bars.

  • Draper’s reduced sentence request denied

    Convicted Teen Killer Tried to Have Sentence Reduced:

    When Torey Adamcik had his reduced sentence request denied in the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart I knew his cohort would have his request denied too.

    Brian Draper tried to get his life without parole sentence changed to where he would be eligible for parole in 25 years. That request was denied with extreme prejudice…

    In the end, Judge McDermott said Brian Draper can live – Cassie can’t. He went on to say she had the worst punishment compared to the teens.

    Bravo. Justice for once.

  • Hostage taker wants his life back

    When the bullied becomes the bully: What made Mesa teen snap?:

    It’s been almost a year since I’ve posted anything about Brent Clark. He’s the kid from Powell Junior High in Mesa, AZ who took a 14-year-old girl hostage at knifepoint. She’s been mentally scarred but we’re supposed to feel sorry for him because he was allegedly bullied?

    “I’m not a bad kid. I just lost it,” he said. “I just want my old life back.”

    He said he was the victim of nine long months of bullying.

    “I was suffering continuous bullying from a kid. Every once in a while he would say, ‘Sir, yes, Sir,’ because I was in the young marines and it really bothered me.”

    So if you really were bullied and ‘snapped’ as so many people have claimed why did you follow this girl from the school to her apartment complex? That doesn’t sound like snapping to me. That sounds rather methodical. And again why pick a victim that had nothing to do with your alleged bullying?

    The school denies that Clark reported any bullying but his mom sticks up for him…

    “He was screaming for help,” said his mom, Denette Reid.

    “I never thought to address the issue before this happened. My feeling is that if my child has to go to a school, the adults there have a responsibility to him that he feel safe,” said Reid.

    “I don’t think my son is a martyr, ” Reid said. “I do know that taking his entire future away isn’t right. And that’s not opinion. That’s fact. It’s not right.”

    This is why bullying runs even more rampant in schools then it ever has. Parents are not willing to take responsibility when their kids are criminals. They’ve been taught that no matter what they do they’re never wrong.