TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: Texas

  • Morbid Curiosity

    Morbid Curiosity

    Sheriff: ‘Morbid Curiosity’ Given As Motive For Killing Teen:

    I’ve been blogging about various crimes for 6 years now. I’ve become almost detached from my emotions when writing about these stories. Until I read this article. I almost flung my laptop across the room. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I have a (step)daughter her age…

    RICHMOND, Texas — Morbid curiosity was given as the motive by one of two suspects charged with killing 16-year-old Ashton Glover, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday.

    Matthew McCombs arrived in Fort Bend County Monday afternoon after he waived extradition from Michigan, where he and Sean Brown were captured while trying to cross the U.S.-Canada border into Ontario.

    McCombs and Brown, both 18, were charged with murder in the death of Glover on Wednesday.

    McCombs has given a statement,” Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright said. “We think the statement, at this point, is pretty accurate because it’s collaborated by some of the facts that we have.”

    Wright said McCombs implicated Brown in the killing but admitted to pulling the trigger.

    “The pistol that we recovered in the search warrant at McCombs’ house is indeed the murder weapon,” Wright said. “Mr. McCombs pulled the trigger (with a) 22-32. It’s an old model replica, a frontier model, an old pistol. You can still buy ammunition for it, I think, but those guns have been out of production for some time.”

    He said that McCombs stole the gun from a friend’s grandmother’s house in Kerrville.

    Wright did not elaborate on the statement or motive in order to not jeopardize the case. He also would not say why Glover was the victim.

    “I’ll have to stop with the statement made — morbid curiosity. Of course, there are more answers to that, but, after conferring with the district attorney and others, they requested that we not go beyond that,” he said.

    Matthew McCombs, may God have mercy on your soul.

  • Pistol found at McCombs home

    Pistol found at McCombs home

    Glover Murder Suspect Admits Part In Killing; Pistol Found At His Home:

    Just a brief update…

    Matthew McCombs, one of two suspects in the murder of Sugar Land teenager Ashton Glover, has given detectives a “self-implicating statement,” Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright said Monday morning.

    Investigators also have discovered a pistol at McCombs’ home in Sugar Land, the sheriff said. However, test results are not yet available that could indicate whether or not the weapon was used in Glover’s death.

  • McCombs confesses

    McCombs confesses

    Police: Teen admits being involved in Sugar Land murder:

    One of Ashton Glover’s killers has confessed…

    RICHMOND–One of the teens charged in the slaying of Ashton Glover has given police a statement admitting his involvement in the killing, Fort Bend County officials said today.

    Investigators were preparing to bring Matthew R. McCombs, 18, from the St. Clair County jail in Port Huron, Michigan to Texas when the teen told police he wanted to talk, Chief Deputy Craig Brady of the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s office said today.

    ”Ultimately he gave confession admitting his involvement in the murder,” Brady said.

    Brady declined to provide any details about McComb’s statement other than it took several hours.

    Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright said the statement greatly strengthens the state’s case against the pair.

    “It makes the case. We had a good case, I think now we have an airtight case,” Wright said.

    Wright said the statement corroborates evidence already collected in the probe.

    McCombs and Sean H. Berry, 18, both of Sugar Land, were arrested Wednesday night trying to enter Canada from Port Huron.

    From the impression I get, it sounds like he’s rolling over on his partner, Sean Brown. I also get the impression that Brown is the “ringleader”.

  • Sean Brown

    Sean Brown

    Earlier today, I told you about Matt McCombs and Sean Brown, who were arrested in the murder of Ashton Glover.

    Thanks to Steve Huff, I was able to bring you McCombs’ MySpace.

    Now, thanks to an e-mail I received from a reader, I can now bring you Sean Brown’s MySpace. One of Brown’s Top 8 friends has changed her screen name to R.I.P. Ashton and left the following comment on Brown’s MySpace…

    I hope you rot in hell for this Sean Brown! I knew there was a reason why I didn’t want to be with you anymore.

  • Matt McCombs

    Matt McCombs

    Matthew McCombs & Sean Brown Arrested in Murder of Ashton Glover:

    Crimeblogging’s founding father Steve Huff has written another excellent article. This time it’s about the murder of Ashton Glover and her two killers…

    Two men, friends of slain student Ashton Glover, who vanished last week just hours after the teen’s partially buried body was recovered in Sugarland, Texas, have been arrested nearly 1,500 miles away in Michigan after trying to slip across the Canadian border.

    Matthew Ross McCombs, an 18-year-old who once boasted on his MySpace Page that he aspired to be a killer and that his goal for this year was to “not get caught,” was arrested Wednesday along with Sean Huston Brown, also 18. Both are charged with murder and are awaiting extradition from Michigan, authorities said.

    Steve also brings us Matt McCombs’ MySpace.

    I urge you to read all of Steve’s article to see just how callous these scumbags are.

  • Texas AG joins the list

    Texas AG joins the list

    AG wants MySpace.com to make Web safer for kids:

    Add Texas to the list of states whose Attorneys general want MySpace to crackdown on predators. The other states so far have been New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

    AUSTIN — An investigator posing as a 13-year-old girl with a profile on MySpace.com helped officers nab a man for the second time in five months on charges that he was using the Internet to solicit sex from a minor.

    The second arrest of John David Payne prompted Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to urge MySpace and other social networking Web sites to increase efforts to protect children and teenagers from explicit images and sexual solicitations.

    “This shows how aggressive and how dangerous these child predators are,” Abbott said Monday at a summit he hosted to discuss online criminal activity. “Even a one-time law enforcement arrest is not going to stop predators like this.”

    About 300 government officials, law enforcement officers and representatives from technology companies attended the summit to talk about ways to make the Internet safer.

    Payne was arrested in December after he arrived in Bastrop for an alleged sexual rendezvous with what he thought was an underage teen he met on the Internet.

    While he was awaiting trial, he was arrested again May 10, after he allegedly engaged in graphic sexual conversation with an investigator posing as a teen on MySpace. He also solicited sex from a different investigator posing as another girl in a separate chat room.

    A spokeswoman for Abbott said their office has had MySpace profiles for some time, but Payne’s arrest was one of the first to stem from that site.

    Abbott said Web sites like MySpace, a social networking hub with more 72 million members, should make it harder to find profiles belonging to underage youth and should use software that automatically scans all uploaded photographic images and blocks those that are pornographic.

    A spokesman for Myspace did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.

    The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has been working with MySpace to identify ways to make it more difficult for young people to put up too much information about themselves, said Michelle Collins, director of the center’s exploited children unit.

    The center also has partnered with the site for a campaign to teach teenagers how to protect themselves online.

    “There isn’t any one solution that’s going to solve the problem,” she said. “It’s really going to be by joining collective forces that we can have the biggest impact.”

    At least they’re not making ridiculous demands like Massachusetts.

  • Yates’ Husband

    Yates’ Husband

    Check out this article from CNN where Andrea Yates’ husband blames the government, the insurance companies, the judicial system, and everyone else for what his wife did. Maybe he should try looking in the mirror. After each child, she had, she suffered from postpartum depression. And after each child, he wanted another one. Even after the doctor strongly advised her not to have any more children because her depression was so bad. But he kept insisting on more children. He’s as much responsible for the deaths of his children as she is. But in today’s society, no one is to blame. It’s always someone else’s fault. If it were up to me, they’d both be strapped to the table with a needle in their arms.