TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

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  • Sean Brown waives extradition

    Sean Brown waives extradition

    Glover Murder Suspect Coming Back To Face Charges In Sugar Land Case:

    The co-conspirator in Ashton Glover’s murder, Sean Huston Brown, has waived extradition back to Texas. For those just joining us, 16-year-old Ashton Glover was killed by her friends Matt McCombs and Sean Brown. McCombs was the triggerman. They killed her for “morbid curiosity”. They tried fleeing to Canada, but they were captured in Michigan before they could reach the border. McCombs admits to being the triggerman and waived extradition immediately. Brown fought extradition at first.

  • Rusty Yates doesn’t know when to shut up

    Rusty Yates doesn’t know when to shut up

    Yates’ ex-husband criticizes prosecutors:

    Can you believe the nerve of this jackhole?…

    Rusty Yates lashed out Thursday at prosecutors who spent five years pursuing murder charges against his ex-wife, saying they misrepresented certain details of the day Andrea Yates drowned their five children.

    Rusty Yates told The Associated Press that Andrea Yates never told him, “I finally did it” in her telephone call to him after the drownings, as a Houston police officer testified during her second trial.

    “It’s been printed in papers as fact, and it’s absolutely not true,” he said. “Much of the state’s case was built on lies.”

    “In the first trial, they said Andrea did this to try to get out, whatever that means, which sounded like she wasn’t happy at home … and this time they said she wanted to run off with me into the sunset,” he said. “Well, which is it?

    “The fact is, they spent five years and still don’t have a reason why she did it because they are unwilling to look at the fact she was psychotic. That’s the only reasonable explanation for her behavior.”

    Yates, an engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, said he plans to visit his ex-wife regularly, but his role in her life will diminish as he moves on with his own. He remarried in March and has now has two stepsons.

    “I don’t forget my children, and I don’t forget Andrea, but I don’t dwell on it either. I try to remember my children fondly,” he said. “I’m building new life … and have a new family and am more focused on them.”

    As far as I’m concerned, this assclown is just as much at fault as his ex-wife. If he didn’t push his wife into being a baby making machine after having been hospitalized with postpartum depression, then we wouldn’t even know who Andrea Yates is.

  • Andrea Yates “Not Guilty”

    Andrea Yates “Not Guilty”

    Yates not guilty by reason of insanity:

    From the “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me” Department…

    HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday in her second murder trial for the bathtub drownings of her young children.

    Yates, 42, will now be committed to a state mental hospital, with periodic hearings before a judge to determine whether she should be released. An earlier jury had found her guilty of murder, but the verdict was overturned on appeal.

    The defense never disputed that Yates drowned her five children one by one in the bathtub of their Houston-area home. But they said she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis and, in a delusional state, believed Satan was inside her and was trying to save them from hell.

    The state’s key witness was Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist who interviewed Yates for two days in May. He testified that Yates killed the youngsters because she felt overwhelmed and inadequate as a mother, not for altruistic reasons.

    Welner said that although Yates may have been psychotic on the day of the murders, it wasn’t until the next day in jail that she talked about Satan, wanting to be executed and saving her kids from hell. He said the hallucination may have been triggered by the stresses of being naked in a cell on suicide watch and realizing what she had done.

    Welner said Yates knew her actions were wrong and showed it in multiple ways: waiting until her husband left for work to kill them, covering the bodies with a sheet and calling 911 soon after the crime.

    ‘They’ should bring back Homes for the Criminally Batshit Crazy and throw her in it. And her dumbass fucking ex-husband Rusty too for making her have more kids after having such problems with postpartum depression.

  • 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.