Tag: Scott Dyleski

  • Dyleski enters plea

    Dyleski pleads not guilty: (Log in info)

    Nearly four weeks after his arrest, Scott Dyleski pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder in the killing of Pamela Vitale, a former high-tech executive and the wife of a well-known local defense attorney.

    The 17-year-old, who has been charged as an adult in the crime, entered his plea as he stood in “the cage,” a metal and glass structure that is reserved for defendants in custody.

    The District Attorney’s Office has charged Dyleski with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. He faces up to 26 years to life in prison if convicted.

    Outside the courtroom Wednesday, three friends of Dyleski said they had showed up to support him. Immediately surrounded by cameras and reporters, they described him as kind and said they were shocked when they heard about his arrest.

  • Scott Dyleski Round Up

    I’m technically still on vacation but I’m on some downtime right now so I thought I’d post updates on the Scott Dyleski situation. One report states that Scott Dyleski went to his girlfriend’s to have sex after the murder. So if he did commit the murder of Pam Vitale that would go along way in showing his callousness towards the crime.

    Then Scott Dyleski’s mother, Esther Fielding, was arrested on accessory to murder charges. Then the charges were dropped after Fielding agreed to testify against her son. Which leads me to believe that there must be something to the charges against Dyleski since his own mother has agreed to truthfully testify against him.

    Another report states that one of Esther Fielding’s acquaintances, Kim Curiel, says that Scott Dyleski committed the murder because Dyleski’s 13-year-old border collie was struck and killed by a driver in the area and that Dyleski may have mistaken Pam Vitale for the driver that killed his dog. Even if that is true that’s even worse than the marijuana equipment/stolen credit card allegations prosecutors are using. A mistaken identity revenge killing over a dog makes him an even more mentally disturbed and dangerous individual than the original accusation.

  • Evidence Found at Scott Dyleski’s home

    MORE DETAILS RELEASED IN VITALE CASE:

    I know I’m supposed to be on vacation but I thought this was important…

    Detectives found a blood-stained glove in a vehicle parked in front of the home of Scott Dyleski, the 16-year-old charged with murder, court documents say.

    The county crime lab determined Oct. 17 that Vitale was stabbed and bludgeoned by somebody wearing gloves. Investigators found the glove after Dyleski’s arrest Oct. 19.

    The warrants say investigators also found clothes soaked in “red-tinted” water in the home of a neighbor, Gerald Wheeler. He and another neighbor, Joseph Lynch, gave investigators samples of their hair.

  • Scott Dyleski questions

    I have some questions in regard to Scott Dyleski…

    1. For those of you who say I’m condemning Scott Dyleski because he’s “different” then why are you defending him just because he’s “different”?
    2. More than one angst-ridden teen killer that I’ve discussed (Esmie Tseng, Jeff Weise, etc.) have had LiveJournals. I know that there was a fake MySpace attributed to Scott Dyleski but I wonder if he had a LiveJournal. If anyone knows if he did please let me know. I wouldn’t mind the URL to the fake MySpace either.
  • Long-distance healing

    Long-distance healing

    The other day I briefly touched on Scott Dyleski’s upbringing and family life.

    I had speculated that it sounded like he lived on some kind of commune with few rules or boundaries. I also mentioned that local media were saying that Scott Dyleski’s mom was “a long-distance healer who believes that DNA strands can be activated to alleviate disease”.

    If you wondered what that means, wonder no more. Steve Huff was kind enough to send me the link to Scott Dyleski’s mom’s commercial website. It may give somewhat of an insight into the family life of Scott Dyleski. Let me give you some choice quotes from the website…

    Activating the ten latent strands of DNA opens the door to self-healing and self-actualization. Core beliefs can come from many sources. Statements that we heard as children can stay with us for years. You’re lazy, selfish, useless, a failure. Beliefs held by our parents, grandparents back seven generations. Women must be subservient, money is bad, being overweight is safer, non-threatening and people will like me better. Core beliefs can be changed on four levels; programs can be rewritten. Emotional Gene Replacement enables us to actually replace genes that hold fears we have not only developed in our lifetime but, inherited from our ancestors. Gene Replacement occurs both through the Core belief work as well as through separate replacement for eliminating inherited conditions or diseases.

    Fears, blocks, programs, negative self-images can act as bars on a cage to keep us from fulfilling our full potential and living our dreams. Fears and blocks can numb our brain so that we can’t even see the bars. Negative programs can make us believe that we only deserve pain and illness, we aren’t worthy of health, joy, or love.

    It doesn’t say how DNA activation is achieved, but I wonder how they view the treatment of depression. I wonder if “long-distance healing” was used locally instead of legitimate professional help.

  • Scott Dyleski to be tried as adult

    Scott Dyleski to be tried as adult

    16-Year-Old Charged As Adult In Vitale Murder Case:

    A 16-year-old boy facing charges as an adult in the alleged murder of Pamela Vitale, the wife of prominent defense attorney Daniel Horowitz, was held in lieu of $1 million bail Friday.

    Scott Dyleski appeared briefly in a Contra Costa County courthouse for the first time since his arrest for allegedly beating Vitale to death in the hilltop estate where the couple were building their dream home in the wealthy suburb of Lafayette, about 20 miles east of San Francisco.

    If Dyleski is convicted of murder, he would face up to life in prison. He’s too young to face a possible death penalty.

  • More on Scott Dyleski

    More on Scott Dyleski

    Murder suspect described as bright, drifter:

    Usually, in cases of violent crimes involving teenagers, I usually ask where were the parents. In the case of Scott Dyleski killing Pamela Vitale, we now know the answer…

    The crowded home, shared by three families and recently, invaded by mice, is just down the one-lane rural road from the modular home where Vitale lived with her star-attorney husband, Daniel Horowitz, next to the palatial house they have been building.

    Dyleski and his mother moved from Sebastopol to the Lafayette hills about six years ago and set up a lean-to on her friends’ property.

    Dyleski slept on a thin mattress on pallets through his middle school years, until the landowners, Kim and Fred Curiel, built a house using ecological materials in 2002 and they all moved inside, Marcus said.

    A family friend said the family is very tolerant and gave Dyleski space.

    “They wanted to give him that freedom,” he said.

    The words “hippy commune” leap immediately to mind.

    16-year-olds shouldn’t have unlimited “freedom” as they say. It doesn’t matter how smart the kid may be. 16-year-olds need boundaries and guidance. It seems like to me that Dyleski was allowed to roam free without any fear of parental reprisal. Sounds like another case of the parent wanting to be a friend rather than a parent.

    Yesterday I wondered how Dyleski went from a relatively normal kid to the dark and foreboding figure he has become…

    Friends said Dyleski started to change about the time his father’s daughter, Denika Dyleski, and a 19-year-old boy were killed in a car crash while driving on Ygnacio Valley Road. A 17-year-old friend was driving too fast and flipped the car on a curve, hitting two other vehicles.

    After that Dyleski started wearing dark clothing, entered a gothic, Marilyn Manson phase and stopped talking openly, Marcus said.

    Why is it when anything “goth” makes the headlines, the media automatically points to Marilyn Manson? While I’m no fan of Manson, he’s not goth his music is considered industrial, but I digress.

    It’s obvious he was suffering from depression. Was any professional help sought out or did the commune try some new age approach considering Dyleski’s mom is “a long-distance healer who believes that DNA strands can be activated to alleviate disease”, whatever that means.

    And as usual, a recurring theme rears its ugly head…

    Everyone seems to agree that Scott stood out, and got picked on for being different.

    And why, you might ask?

    Some students said Thursday they had long considered him “weird” or “creepy,” and not only for the black trench coat he wore nearly every day.

    One remembers him coming to school one day in full face paint, dressed up as a sort of gothic clown with a top hat. The student also mentioned his dark personality, evidenced by charcoal drawings of “people with their mouths sewn shut and eyes with nails through them dripping blood.”

    I’m all for the idea of individual expression, but when you stick out so much you’re bound to invite trouble from the more ignorant parts of society.

    What’s my point? My point is this. All the things I’ve mentioned above will be used as a defense when Scott Dyleski comes to trial. All these things will be used as an excuse. I’ll even go as far as to predict that there will be people who support him just because he’s different. None of that excuses what he did.

    Ultimately, Scott Dyleski is responsible for his own actions and hopefully, a California jury will realize that.

  • Scott Dyleski

    Scott Dyleski

    16-year-old male arrested in brutal Vitale slaying:

    I wasn’t going to do anything about the brutal murder of Pamela Vitale, wife of well-known defense attorney Daniel Horowitz.

    It’s such a high-profile case, I felt that it was going to be over-blogged. That was until they arrested a suspect, one 16-year-old Scott Dyleski. Here’s what piqued my interest in this…

    Authorities believe Dyleski killed Vitale, 52, on Saturday by striking her 39 times in the head with a piece of crown molding, then carved some kind of gothic signature into her back, the source said.

    Now, read that with a grain of salt. We all know how people unfamiliar with the goth scene mistakenly assume something is goth when it isn’t. But after seeing the kid, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

    One student who knows Dyleski said the teenager was a typical kid until the eighth grade, when his personality and demeanor darkened noticeably.

    I’m curious as to know why.

    The motive for the killing appears to stem from a credit-card theft scheme allegedly carried out by Dyleski and another teenage friend, who has not been implicated in the killing, one source said on condition of anonymity.

    Investigators believe Dyleski and his friend planned to start a marijuana-growing operation, with Dyleski in charge of raising money, one source said. Dyleski is believed to have stolen credit card bills from several mailboxes and used the cards to order supplies, the source said.

    According to the article, sources are saying Dyleski will be tried as an adult. Instead of doing maybe two years in juvenile detention for fraud, he could be looking at least life behind bars.

    I’ll be posting more on Scott Dyleski as more details become available.

    Nod to Steve Huff.