TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: stabbing

  • No plea for Zarate

    Prosecutor: No plea bargain for murder suspect Zarate:

    The Morris County (NJ) Prosecutors Office has restated their refusal to offer a plea to accused killer Jonathan Zarate. For those of you just joining us, Zarate killed 16-year-old Jennifer Parks dismembered her body and tried to dump the body in the Passaic River.

    At a brief hearing in Morristown, Superior Court Judge Salem Ahto wanted to know where the 27-month-old case stood. Morris County Assistant Prosecutor Ralph Amirata said the only way Zarate would avoid trial is to plead guilty to the July 2005 murder.

    Zarate has already been spared the death penalty.

    Zarate’s attorney is pursuing an insanity defense and expects a psychiatric report in a few weeks.

    Zarate isn’t crazy, he’s inherently evil in my opinion.

  • Odgren’s trial date set

    Trial date set in Sudbury high school slaying:

    You have got to be kidding me.

    A trial date has been set for John Odgren. Odgren is the teen accused of stabbing his classmate James Alenson to death at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts. The thing is the trial date is almost a year away…

    Middlesex Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein yesterday set a Sept. 15, 2008, trial date for John Odgren, 16. Odgren is charged with the Jan. 19 murder of classmate James Alenson, 15, inside the high school.

    Not that I give a damn about Odgren but why so long for a trial? Whatever happened to the speedy part? I want to see this kid get put away as soon as possible.

    Odgren is also one of the kids that the Helen Lovejoy’s are rallying around not only because he was charged as an adult but he also has Asperger’s.

  • Cassie Jo Stoddart’s killers sentenced

    Teens get life sentences for murdering classmate:

    The other day I posted about the brutal murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart. She was brutally murdered by two of her friends, at least one of which is a mutant. Her killers, Brian Draper, and Torey Adamcik were both sentenced to life without parole.

    Adamcik’s uncle gave the following statement during the sentencing hearing…

    “I feel very strongly that Torey is not a malicious person and that his life can yet be salvaged and that he can become a productive member of society,” said David Nelson, Adamcik’s Uncle.

    Does this sound like a productive member of society?

    “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.

    Cassie’s family disagrees as well…

    “I’ve seen no remorse, no tears whatsoever from any of you and then finally when you do say something, ‘Oh we’re sorry about what happened to Cassie.’ It was the most unsympathetic, fake sorry I’ve ever heard in my life,” said Anna Stoddart, Cassie’s mother.

    “You chose to do what you did, you chose not to walk away, you chose to cover the truth of your actions. You chose to leave Cassie dead in that house for days,” said Christie Stoddart, Cassie’s sister.

    Like most mutants, they’re probably only sorry that they got caught.

  • A mutant killed Cassie Jo Stoddart

    State Presents Sentencing Recommendation for Draper:

    I hadn’t heard about the murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart until today. She was a 16-year-old Idaho girl who was brutally murdered by two people she thought were her friends, Brian Draper, and Torey Adamcik. The murder was more than vicious and the two teens actually videotaped the 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.

    Both were tried as adults and convicted. Currently, they are going through the sentencing phase.

    And guess what. It turns out one of them, Brian Draper, is a full-fledged mutant.

    This is a passage written by Draper that was shown in court today. Titled Columbine, it reads: “I am becoming more and more obsessed with Columbine. It seems now that that’s all I think about. I would give anything to go back in time, and be a part of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s lives. They are my heroes. I will follow in their footsteps and maybe I’ll even meet them.”

    A series of some pictures that were also found on the hard drive of Draper’s laptop were displayed.

    Many were from the Columbine shooting; others depicted various ages and types of people holding a gun to their head.

    Too bad he can’t meet his heroes sooner rather than later.

  • Parks family sues Zarates

    Parents of murdered Randolph teen sue:

    It’s been a while since we’ve talked about the murder of Jennifer Parks so I’ll do a brief recap for those of you who are new.

    Jennifer Parks was a 16-year-old girl from Randolph, New Jersey. She was killed by her neighbor Jonathan Zarate. Zarate dismembered her body and stuffed her into a steamer trunk. He then hid her body in his parents’ Jeep for 24 hours while he attended a child’s birthday party. Zarate, his brother James, and a third teen were caught trying to dump Jennifer’s body into the Passaic River.

    That was 2 years ago. In true New Jersey fashion, the trial has yet to commence.

    Now the parents of Jennifer Parks are suing the parents of Jonathan Zarate for negligence.

    An attorney for David and Laurie Parks filed the lawsuit in Superior Court in Morristown, claiming Jonathan and James Zarate were negligent in not stopping the other from committing the brutal murder in their father’s home.

    The lawsuit claims the boys’ parents, John Zarate and Flora Mari, failed to adequately supervise them, knowing they both had bullied 16-year-old Jennifer prior to the July 30, 2005 murder.

    Like I always say in these kinds of lawsuits whatever the Parks get it won’t even be close to what they’ve lost with the death of their daughter.

  • Schorling’s appeal denied

    Romeo: Knife attacker loses his appeal:

    Eric Schorling is the stab-happy Michigan teen who plunged a rather large knife into his ex-girlfriend’s back…at school…in front of witnesses…then bragged about it. Luckily the victim survived and Schorling was convicted.

    Now he’s lost the appeal of his conviction.

    He had appealed the case on the grounds that his Circuit Court attorney was able to introduce evidence that Eric Schorling was bullied and he lacked the mental capacity to form specific intent.

    His bullying is that he was called a Nazi because of his swastika tattoo. I think he brought that on himself. Plus I find it comical that the defense attorney claims that he lacked the mental capacity to form specific intent but had enough mental capacity to escape from a detention center before his trial.

    Schorling is currently serving a 10-15 year sentence.

  • Odgren may recover memory

    Odgren may recover memory

    Lawyer Says Teen Charged In School Killing May Recover Memory:

    Now that he’s been ruled competent to stand trial, John Odgren’s attorney is saying that Odgren’s memory of the murder of James Alenson may return.

    Jonathan Shapiro now tells “The Boston Globe” that the extent and permanence of Odgren’s amnesia is unclear. Last Monday he withdrew a request for a mental competency hearing.

    This is after prosecutors planned to hire their own psychologist to do a comprehensive examination that would give them access to all of Odgren’s medical and psychiatric records.

    It’s funny how things work out that way.

  • Insanity defense for Zarate

    Insanity defense for Zarate

    Zarate to pursue insanity defense:

    I’m surprised it took this long. Anyway, Anthony Fusco, the attorney for accused killer Jonathan Zarate, will be pursuing an insanity defense for his client.

    Jonathan Zarate’s lawyer, Anthony Fusco, told Judge Salem Vincent Ahto in Morristown that he plans an insanity defense and is in the process of hiring a forensic psychiatrist to examine the high school dropout. Fusco, a privately-paid lawyer, also plans to make a petition to the state Office of the Public Defender to help finance the cost of the evaluation.

    Your tax dollars at work.

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the insanity defense basically boil down to knowing the difference between right and wrong? If that’s the case, Zarate’s actions of dismembering Jennifer Parks’ body after killing her, hiding it in a trunk for 24 hours and then trying to dump the trunk in the Passaic River leads me to believe that he what he did was wrong.

  • Steps should have been taken at LSRHS

    Steps should have been taken at LSRHS

    Principal says ‘extra step’ not taken before stabbing:

    Yesterday, the principal of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and the superintendent said at a school board meeting that the school psychologist who confiscated a knife from John Odgren then gave it back at the end of the day should have reported it to authorities. You don’t say.

    John M. Ritchie told the school board in a meeting last night that he didn’t think that there was “flagrant neglect, disregard for the welfare of the school, or irresponsible ignoring of school policy.”

    Still, he said, “Some additional effort had to be made that wasn’t made to determine whether this was a pattern, to call it to someone’s attention, to determine whether it was completely innocent.”

    “That was where people did not execute reasonable expectation on my part,” Ritchie said. “I think that in a school setting with safety being of paramount concern to us, an extra step had to be taken.”

    Ritchie did not single out any school staff, and he declined to say whether disciplinary action would be taken, citing confidentiality.

    If that school employee doesn’t lose his or her job, then there’s seriously something wrong with that school system.

  • Odgren ruled competent to stand trial

    Odgren ruled competent to stand trial

    Doc: Teen stab suspect competent to stand trial:

    John Odgren, the 15-year-old suspect in the fatal Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School stabbing of James Alenson, was ruled competent to stand trial yesterday. A psychiatrist informed the court that Odgren is competent and no longer needs to be housed in a psychiatric facility. Odgren swore at the judge when he was told that he was going back to juvenile lockup.

    “(Expletive) it,” Odgren said. “(If you) send me back to Plymouth, I’m not coming back.”

    Odgren’s attorney, Jonathan Shapiro, argued that Odgren’s Asperger’s puts him at risk in lock up.

    Shapiro argued Odgren’s Asperger’s syndrome puts him at risk in jail because he makes ‘inappropriate comments’ to other boys. “Frankly, it’s dangerous,” Shapiro said.

    Shapiro also states that Odgren is at risk of suicide and that he has, get this, amnesia of the whole stabbing incident. Isn’t that convenient? So you’re going to tell me that someone who was joking with police and offered to assist the crime scene investigators all of a sudden has amnesia of the entire event. Amnesia, it’s not just for soap operas and cartoons anymore.

    Shapiro argued that Odgren should still be kept at the mental facility, but the judge put a quick stop to that.

    Judge Isaac Borenstein responded and said, “The very same doctor you quote said he does not need to be in the hospital.”

    Well, since Odgren allegedly has amnesia, then he won’t remember where he is.

    What a drama queen.