TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: stabbing

  • Pity the Nazi?

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    Victim called suspect ‘Nazi’:

    This is more information on the trial of Eric Schorling who is accused of stabbing Nicole Lambert in the back in the halls of Romeo High School in Michigan.

    This seriously can’t be the strategy the defense is using…

    A girl who was stabbed by her ex-boyfriend inside Romeo High School had teased him by calling him a “Nazi” due to his swastika tattoo.

    “You knew it bothered him, that’s why you called him a name, isn’t it?” said attorney Arthur Garton, who is representing Eric Schorling in his attempted-murder trial, to the victim, Nicole Lambert, on the stand in Macomb Circuit Court.

    “Yes,” Lambert, 17, testified.

    “(I) just teased him,” she replied to another question. “People knew he had a swastika tattoo.”

    So we’re supposed to feel sorry for him because Nicole Lambert called him a Nazi when he has a swastika tattoo. If the jackboot fits.

    First off if you do consider yourself a Nazi you’re one of the lowest forms of scum on the face of the planet and you deserve any and all abuse that you get. Secondly, it’s still no reason to plunge a knife into the back of a girl you dated.

    Eric Schorling is obviously a dangerous and deranged individual and needs to be put away for the longest time before he hurts somebody else. And here’s why…

    A male Romeo High student said he saw Schorling “rapidly” move past him in the hallway and said, “Dude, I just f—— stabbed Nicole. I f—— stabbed Nicole. I stabbed her. I gotta go. I gotta get out of here.”

    If this jury doesn’t find Schorling guilty of attempted murder then they’re f—— stupid.

  • Eric Schorling trial starts

    Trial’s focus is teen’s intent in Romeo stabbing:

    Eric Schorling’s trial started yesterday. He is accused of stabbing Nicole Lambert in the back at Romeo High School in Michigan. Schorling’s attorney, Arthur Garton, is arguing that Schorling did not intend to kill Nicole…

    “He never had intent to kill her,” Schorling’s attorney, Arthur Garton, told the jury. “We’re conceding great bodily harm. He did everything he could to avoid this. (But) he acted impulsively. He thinks like a kid. He acts like a kid. And he reacted like a kid.”

    So let me get this straight. By plunging a kitchen knife in almost the dead center of her back meant he wasn’t trying to kill her? In what universe? Is this the best Mr. Garton could come up with? I hope they’re not paying him much. Let’s not forget that he escaped from juvenile detention in order to allegedly finish what he started. But I guess that was just to not kill her some more.

  • 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.

  • Eric Schorling rejects plea

    High school stabbing suspect to fight charge:

    In an act of either defiance or stupidity Eric Schorling, against the advice of his attorney, has opted to go to trial instead of pleading guilty to attempted murder in the stabbing of Nicole Lambert. Why is that a big deal? To refresh your memory Eric Schorling bragged to people that he was going to stab his ex-girlfriend, Nicole Lambert. He then stabbed Nicole in the back in the halls of Romeo High School barely missing her heart. He then bragged to people afterward that he stabbed Nicole. He had made a plea to serve six months but then nullified that plea by escaping from Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center and telling people that he was going to finish the job he started.

    So instead of serving eight years on a guilty plea, he’s taking it to trial where he could end up serving life in prison. The thing is both families had agreed to the eight-year plea. According to the article assistant prosecutor Steven Kaplan said that he’s going to try to garner sympathy from a jury. What possible sympathy could he get? He said he was going to stab Nicole. Stabbed her in front of at least one witness, bragged about it, then tried to escape detention to finish the job. With any luck, the only sympathy he’ll find is in the dictionary and you know where that is don’t you? Between shit and syphilis.

  • 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

    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

    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

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

    I wasn’t going to do anything on 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.

  • Esmie Tseng’s Dad Speaks Out

    If tried as adult, daughter “doomed”: (Log in info)

    Kind of a fitting headline don’t you think? Anyway, Esmie Tseng’s father has spoken out against his daughter being tried as an adult…

    “If my daughter is tried and penalized with hardened criminals and recidivists, she will be doomed,” Tao Tseng said in the statement. “I have already been deprived of my wife. I am afraid I will not survive the loss of my daughter, a more devastating blow.”
    Tao Tseng released the statement after a group that had organized to support his daughter asked him to comment, said Robin Scully, Tao Tseng”s attorney. The group, Concerned Citizens for Esmie, has a Web site at www.esmie.com .

    “He is obviously very, very concerned about his daughter,” Scully said of Tao Tseng. Scully said he was providing Tao Tseng with legal guidance and keeping him updated on the case. “He wants the best for her and wants her to be tried in juvenile court.”

    In the statement, Tao Tseng said he was deeply saddened by the tragedy, but that he continued to love and care for his daughter and will do so for the rest of his life.

    “If Esmie becomes a part of the adult criminal system, it will simply be another tragedy because her wonderful gifts and talents will without question be forever lost,” he said. “She has far too much to give to the world for that to happen.

    “My duty as a husband has been abruptly terminated. I am hanging on only because my duty as a father has yet to be performed.”

     

    Esmie Tseng was due in court today. A ruling on whether or not she will be tried as an adult may not be for another two to three months.

  • Esmie Tseng Still Blogging

    Once again I’m late to the party but hey I run three websites so sue me. Anyway, it appears that Esmie Tseng is still updating her LiveJournal through a friend of her’s on the outside. Here is a copy of her friends only entry dated 9/2/05…

    Hey, Kids—
    Missing you all lots. If you could, Lex, pass this on to the rest of the BVN masses…

    How much drama am I missing out on? If at all possible, fill me in a little…

    The basics are here. Food is great—the JDC is sure to keep our appetites filled to the top.

    A substitute for love? Humans are simple creatures…am I wrong?

    Walls are so bare. No color here, and you know I love those colors…

    The staff is pretty cool. Like mommies and daddies. I’m at a sleep over. I get my own room.

    The nice thing is that there is such a variety of people. I can hear and feel the heart and soul, and I just want to grab each one for a typical philosophical discussion.

    Court is September 13, 2005. There are so many weird and basic restrictions here. Toilet paper, lights, individual voice are all so oppressed…

    I have never been one to complain but it’s almost as though we’re considered less human in the bland walls of the JDC. Humans need to feel to accomplish any of their potential, and if taking that away/limiting that right is called justice, then…? I don’t understand how one can ever assert that what we call punishment is as productive as society has so strongly established.

    Do we become better people after a sentence? How many of us truly learn from our mistakes? Can we really justify assigning the same punishment to two different offenders, so easily and obviously different in history, mindset, loves, habits, intelligence, physique, hindsight, reasoning, Etc.?

    I just don’t understand how society has so easily dumped on its own. All of which are so unique and deserving of any opportunity in such a vast world into such a blue and basic bucket? It seems redemption is an aspect impossible to achieve, no matter which end of the spectrum of extremity that the crime is on. We all have such varying degrees of motive and passion and such, but it just seems that diversity has been ignored.

    I hope I’m blind and only have seen some of this world’s existence. I hope.

    <3 Esmie

    This does not sound like someone who either stabbed their mom to death or someone who is incarcerated. Not that I’m a professional or anything but this seems very sociopathic to me.

    Nod to The Cellar for the tip.