Todd Willingham murdered my 3 daughters
Todd Willingham murdered my 3 daughters
statement from Stacy Kuykendall, Cameron Todd Willingham's then wife (1)
RE: "Stacy Kuykendall, the ex-wife of Cameron Todd Willingham, offers her first detailed account of the 1991 fire that claimed the lives of her three daughters and led to Willingham’s execution in 2004.
“Todd set our house on fire then stood outside and watched it burn,” Kuykendall asserts, saying she agrees with Gov. Rick Perry’s portrayal of her husband as “a monster.” "
"Before Todd was executed he confessed to his family that he never went into the twins room at all to try and save them, that he had lied about it. Actually, he stood outside of our home as the house engulfed in flames knowing his three daughters were inside."
"Todd set our house on fire then stood outside and watched it burn. He knew our three daughters were inside this home taking there last breath. He watched them die."
"(Reporters) Mills, Possley (of the Chicago Tribune) and Grann (of the New Yorker) have all come to my home uninvited to ask me questions about my ex-husband. I told them all that I no longer believe that Todd was innocent, that he did murder my daughters and I did not want to talk about that which had to deal with him."
statement from Stacy Kuykendall, then wife to Cameron Todd Willingham and mother to Amber Louise, Karmon Diane and Kameron Marie.
(1)"Stacy Kuykendall's statement about the 1991 fire", Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10/25/09
http://www.star-telegram.com/texas/story/1709042-p3.html
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/10/25/stacy-kuykendalls-statement-about-the-1991-fire-fort-worth-startelegram-102509.aspx
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on: February 14, 2013, 12:30:10 PM 1 General Death Penalty / Executed Offenders (Graveyard) / Todd Willingham murdered my 3 daughters
on: February 14, 2013, 12:21:09 PM 2 General Death Penalty / Women on Death Row / Former death row inmate back in court--Cathy Lynn Henderson
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Cathy Lynn Henderson walks away from the bench during a pretrial hearing at the Travis County district court 299th at the Thurman-Blackwell Criminal Justice Center this morning.
By Jazmine Ulloa
American-Statesman Staff
A defense team has been assembled and attorneys are ready to begin the discovery process for a new trial in the case of Cathy Lynn Henderson, a former babysitter once on death row for the 1994 death of an infant.
Henderson, now 56, appeared with her attorneys in a routine hearing Thursday before before District Court Judge Karen Sage.
She spent nearly two decades incarcerated for the death of 3-month-old Brandon Baugh before a sharply divided Court of Criminal Appeals overturned her capital murder conviction and sentence in December.
The court upheld a recommendation by District Judge Jon Wisser that she have a new trial based on new scientific discoveries into the nature of head injuries.
“Testimony of the state’s chief experts was, at bottom, scientifically flawed,” Wisser wrote in findings dated May 14 and delivered to the appeals court last year.
After the Thursday’s hearing, Eryn and Melissa Baugh said it has been a confusing and frustrating journey through the legal system, though they are confident in Travis County district prosecutors in the upcoming retrial. Friday will be the 19th-year anniversary of when their son was found.
They feel they are back at square one, the couple said.
“It has been a living hell,” Eryn Baugh said of the process. “Now the wounds are back open again.”
Henderson claimed that Baugh died after slipping from her arms and falling about four feet to the concrete floor in her home in the Pflugerville area. She said she panicked, burying the boy’s body in a Bell County field before fleeing to Missouri, where she was found and arrested 11 days later.
The search for the boy’s body and hunt for Henderson dominated headlines in February 1994.
Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg has said the new charge Henderson will face will be determined after a review of court records, evidence and the new testimony from Wisser’s hearings. If the charge is capital murder, an additional determination will be made on whether to seek the death penalty, Lehmberg has said.
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Posted by FullGrownBear at 12:05 p.m. Feb. 10, 2013 Report Abuse
If it was truly an accident, you don't "panic" and bury a body. Send her to Hell!!!
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/cathy-lynn-henderson-in-court-in-advance-of-new-tr/nWJFq/
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Deborah Cannon
Cathy Lynn Henderson walks away from the bench during a pretrial hearing at the Travis County district court 299th at the Thurman-Blackwell Criminal Justice Center this morning.
By Jazmine Ulloa
American-Statesman Staff
A defense team has been assembled and attorneys are ready to begin the discovery process for a new trial in the case of Cathy Lynn Henderson, a former babysitter once on death row for the 1994 death of an infant.
Henderson, now 56, appeared with her attorneys in a routine hearing Thursday before before District Court Judge Karen Sage.
She spent nearly two decades incarcerated for the death of 3-month-old Brandon Baugh before a sharply divided Court of Criminal Appeals overturned her capital murder conviction and sentence in December.
The court upheld a recommendation by District Judge Jon Wisser that she have a new trial based on new scientific discoveries into the nature of head injuries.
“Testimony of the state’s chief experts was, at bottom, scientifically flawed,” Wisser wrote in findings dated May 14 and delivered to the appeals court last year.
After the Thursday’s hearing, Eryn and Melissa Baugh said it has been a confusing and frustrating journey through the legal system, though they are confident in Travis County district prosecutors in the upcoming retrial. Friday will be the 19th-year anniversary of when their son was found.
They feel they are back at square one, the couple said.
“It has been a living hell,” Eryn Baugh said of the process. “Now the wounds are back open again.”
Henderson claimed that Baugh died after slipping from her arms and falling about four feet to the concrete floor in her home in the Pflugerville area. She said she panicked, burying the boy’s body in a Bell County field before fleeing to Missouri, where she was found and arrested 11 days later.
The search for the boy’s body and hunt for Henderson dominated headlines in February 1994.
Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg has said the new charge Henderson will face will be determined after a review of court records, evidence and the new testimony from Wisser’s hearings. If the charge is capital murder, an additional determination will be made on whether to seek the death penalty, Lehmberg has said.
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Posted by FullGrownBear at 12:05 p.m. Feb. 10, 2013 Report Abuse
If it was truly an accident, you don't "panic" and bury a body. Send her to Hell!!!
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/cathy-lynn-henderson-in-court-in-advance-of-new-tr/nWJFq/
on: January 23, 2013, 02:02:58 PM 3 Off Topic / Off Topic- News / Police: Man broke into home to see girl
Police: Man broke into home to see girl
Jan 1, 2013
Ouachita Parish deputies arrested a man early Tuesday accused of breaking into a home to visit a girl.
Caleb Hester, 20, of 100 Laura Wilkes Road, West Monroe, was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on a charge of unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling.
An arrest affidavit stated Hester climbed into the second story window of his home to visit the victim's daughter. The victim said Hester had no permission to be in his home.
The daughter told deputies she had not spoken to Hester for two days and she did not give Hester permission to be in her room.
Hester told deputies the victim's daughter called him around 7 p.m. Monday and told him to climb in the window. However, he refused to allow deputies to check his phone to verify his story.
Bond was $5,000.
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20130102/NEWS01/301020319/Police-Man-broke-into-home-see-girl+caleb+dylan+hester+ouachita+parish+sheriff&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Jan 1, 2013
Ouachita Parish deputies arrested a man early Tuesday accused of breaking into a home to visit a girl.
Caleb Hester, 20, of 100 Laura Wilkes Road, West Monroe, was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on a charge of unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling.
An arrest affidavit stated Hester climbed into the second story window of his home to visit the victim's daughter. The victim said Hester had no permission to be in his home.
The daughter told deputies she had not spoken to Hester for two days and she did not give Hester permission to be in her room.
Hester told deputies the victim's daughter called him around 7 p.m. Monday and told him to climb in the window. However, he refused to allow deputies to check his phone to verify his story.
Bond was $5,000.
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20130102/NEWS01/301020319/Police-Man-broke-into-home-see-girl+caleb+dylan+hester+ouachita+parish+sheriff&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
on: January 04, 2013, 09:52:15 AM 4 Off Topic / Off Topic- News / 'Alien-Like' Skulls Found During Mexico Dig
'Alien-Like' Skulls Found During Mexico Dig
Researchers believe the deformations of human skulls were part of ancient ritual practice.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/video/alien-skulls-found-mexico-dig-18038744
Researchers believe the deformations of human skulls were part of ancient ritual practice.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/video/alien-skulls-found-mexico-dig-18038744
on: January 04, 2013, 09:40:59 AM 5 General Crime / U.S. Crime Related News / ICE Agents Arrest 245 Alleged Pedophiles; 44 Children Rescued
ICE Agents Arrest 245 Alleged Pedophiles; 44 Children Rescued

"Unknown Suspect 1" is seen here in this undated handout photo from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, who released this photo to the public seeking information about this individual who is wanted in connection to child exploitation and the sexual abuse of a minor. (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
By JASON RYAN (@JasonRyanABC) and JACK DATE
Jan. 3, 2013
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents announced today they have rescued 44 children from sexual abuse as part of a child pornography investigation that netted 245 arrests over five weeks late last year.
Agents have identified an additional 79 individuals who have been abused as children including 24 victims who now may be adults and are seeking the public's help to identify individuals who are alleged to be sexually abusing young children, with the images posted on the Internet.
"Many times, our investigations into people who possess and trade child pornography reveal new material that points to the ongoing sexual abuse of children. In these cases, our primary objective is to rescue the victim from their horrific situation. And our next step is to arrest and seek prosecution for their abusers," said ICE Director John Morton in a statement.
See photos of the pedophile suspects being sought.
Among those arrested: Bradley Vaine from Fresno, Calif., who was allegedly abusing a 7-year-old girl who suffered from mental disabilities. Also arrested was Samuel Gueydan from Clovis, Calif., who allegedly had over 1.2 million images and 7,000 videos of child pornography on his computer, ICE said.
The investigation was dubbed "Operation Sunflower" to commemorate the anniversary of a case where agents discovered evidence that a child was in imminent danger of being raped by a relative. According to ICE, the tip initially came from Dutch investigators who found Internet postings suggesting the girl was in imminent danger.
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Investigators turned up an image of the girl taken in a moving vehicle. The image held a critical clue -- a road sign in the background containing an image of a sunflower. A sharp-eyed agent discovered the sunflower emblem was unique to road signs in Kansas. ICE agents spent several days combing Kansas highways to find the exact spot where the photo was taken. Eventually they traced the location, which led them to the girl, sparing her from being further victimized, the agency said.
As part of "Operation Sunflower" agents have sought a Jane and John Doe warrant for an unknown man and woman who are depicted in a video sexually abusing a young girl who appears to be 13 years old. Agents, who believe the video is about 11 years old, said they want to solve the case to identify the abusers. Jane Doe is believed to be 35 to 45 years old in the video, which depicts her with several tattoos including a butterfly on her right hip and a blade tattoo on her right shoulder along with a curled up cat. Based on forensic analysis, agents believe the abuse occurred in the Los Angeles area, ICE said.
Agents said they are also seeking an unidentified white male with gray and white hair, a full beard and wearing wire-framed eyeglasses, who was sexually abusing a toddler in Internet images. A second suspect being sought by Homeland Security Investigations agents out of Portland, Ore., is a white male with a tattoo on his right tricep who was allegedly sexually abusing a young male child.
ICE's efforts in recent months to identify unknown abusers led to agents arresting two suspects who were allegedly molesting young girls on the internet. Last September, Michael Serapis Freeman and Michelle Lee Freeman turned themselves in to local police in Oregon after a media campaign resulted in tips identifying Michelle Freeman as the Jane Doe suspect.
Last month Corrine Danielle Motley of Okaloosa County, Fla., was arrested and charged with the production and distribution of child pornography. Motley, 25, was arrested by the Northwest Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force members and Homeland Security Investigations special agents.
Calls to the suspects named in this story and emails to their lawyers weren't immediately returned.
More from ABC News
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Pedophile Priest's Confessions Released
American Pedophile Slips Through Cracks
An Internet Map for Pedophiles
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NYU Law's Amy Adler and ABC's Brittany Bacon discuss pedophilic speech online
http://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-agents-arrests-245-alleged-pedophiles-44-children/story?id=18122701&goback=.gde_2289662_member_200987663#.UOcQ3Xeui9u

"Unknown Suspect 1" is seen here in this undated handout photo from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, who released this photo to the public seeking information about this individual who is wanted in connection to child exploitation and the sexual abuse of a minor. (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
By JASON RYAN (@JasonRyanABC) and JACK DATE
Jan. 3, 2013
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents announced today they have rescued 44 children from sexual abuse as part of a child pornography investigation that netted 245 arrests over five weeks late last year.
Agents have identified an additional 79 individuals who have been abused as children including 24 victims who now may be adults and are seeking the public's help to identify individuals who are alleged to be sexually abusing young children, with the images posted on the Internet.
"Many times, our investigations into people who possess and trade child pornography reveal new material that points to the ongoing sexual abuse of children. In these cases, our primary objective is to rescue the victim from their horrific situation. And our next step is to arrest and seek prosecution for their abusers," said ICE Director John Morton in a statement.
See photos of the pedophile suspects being sought.
Among those arrested: Bradley Vaine from Fresno, Calif., who was allegedly abusing a 7-year-old girl who suffered from mental disabilities. Also arrested was Samuel Gueydan from Clovis, Calif., who allegedly had over 1.2 million images and 7,000 videos of child pornography on his computer, ICE said.
The investigation was dubbed "Operation Sunflower" to commemorate the anniversary of a case where agents discovered evidence that a child was in imminent danger of being raped by a relative. According to ICE, the tip initially came from Dutch investigators who found Internet postings suggesting the girl was in imminent danger.
Pedophile Priest Confesses to Abusing Boys Watch Video
American Pedophile Slips Through Cracks Watch Video
An Internet Map for Pedophiles Watch Video
Investigators turned up an image of the girl taken in a moving vehicle. The image held a critical clue -- a road sign in the background containing an image of a sunflower. A sharp-eyed agent discovered the sunflower emblem was unique to road signs in Kansas. ICE agents spent several days combing Kansas highways to find the exact spot where the photo was taken. Eventually they traced the location, which led them to the girl, sparing her from being further victimized, the agency said.
As part of "Operation Sunflower" agents have sought a Jane and John Doe warrant for an unknown man and woman who are depicted in a video sexually abusing a young girl who appears to be 13 years old. Agents, who believe the video is about 11 years old, said they want to solve the case to identify the abusers. Jane Doe is believed to be 35 to 45 years old in the video, which depicts her with several tattoos including a butterfly on her right hip and a blade tattoo on her right shoulder along with a curled up cat. Based on forensic analysis, agents believe the abuse occurred in the Los Angeles area, ICE said.
Agents said they are also seeking an unidentified white male with gray and white hair, a full beard and wearing wire-framed eyeglasses, who was sexually abusing a toddler in Internet images. A second suspect being sought by Homeland Security Investigations agents out of Portland, Ore., is a white male with a tattoo on his right tricep who was allegedly sexually abusing a young male child.
ICE's efforts in recent months to identify unknown abusers led to agents arresting two suspects who were allegedly molesting young girls on the internet. Last September, Michael Serapis Freeman and Michelle Lee Freeman turned themselves in to local police in Oregon after a media campaign resulted in tips identifying Michelle Freeman as the Jane Doe suspect.
Last month Corrine Danielle Motley of Okaloosa County, Fla., was arrested and charged with the production and distribution of child pornography. Motley, 25, was arrested by the Northwest Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force members and Homeland Security Investigations special agents.
Calls to the suspects named in this story and emails to their lawyers weren't immediately returned.
More from ABC News
Rape Suspect Wants Victims to See Vids
Pedophile Priest's Confessions Released
American Pedophile Slips Through Cracks
An Internet Map for Pedophiles
Pedophiles on the Web
NYU Law's Amy Adler and ABC's Brittany Bacon discuss pedophilic speech online
http://abcnews.go.com/US/ice-agents-arrests-245-alleged-pedophiles-44-children/story?id=18122701&goback=.gde_2289662_member_200987663#.UOcQ3Xeui9u
on: January 04, 2013, 08:59:08 AM 6 Across the Globe / World Crime Related News / Australia Warns America: Don’t Let Them Take Your Guns!
Australia Warns America: Don’t Let Them Take Your Guns!
Posted on: August 20th, 2012
Government officials and citizens in Australia speak out to warn America “Don’t Let Them Take Your Guns!” According to reports when the Gun Ban went into effect in Australia the crime rate spiraled out of control. The police officers are overwhelmed and are unable to protect the citizens due to so much crime.
When the forced gun ban (buy back program) went into effect law abiding citizens had to turn in their semi automatic firearms, pump action rifles, and shotguns or face going to jail. Six hundred forty thousand conventional firearms were taken out of the hands of law abiding citizens, confiscated and destroyed. Law abiding citizens followed the law and turned in their weapons. Citizens were promised safety in return for turning in their guns. Does any of this sound familiar, like UN Gun Treaty perhaps?
http://patriotoutdoornews.com/2653/australia-warns-america-dont-let-them-take-your-guns
Posted on: August 20th, 2012
Government officials and citizens in Australia speak out to warn America “Don’t Let Them Take Your Guns!” According to reports when the Gun Ban went into effect in Australia the crime rate spiraled out of control. The police officers are overwhelmed and are unable to protect the citizens due to so much crime.
When the forced gun ban (buy back program) went into effect law abiding citizens had to turn in their semi automatic firearms, pump action rifles, and shotguns or face going to jail. Six hundred forty thousand conventional firearms were taken out of the hands of law abiding citizens, confiscated and destroyed. Law abiding citizens followed the law and turned in their weapons. Citizens were promised safety in return for turning in their guns. Does any of this sound familiar, like UN Gun Treaty perhaps?
http://patriotoutdoornews.com/2653/australia-warns-america-dont-let-them-take-your-guns
on: December 22, 2012, 10:02:59 AM 7 General Death Penalty / Stays of Execution / MOVED: Larry Swearingen - TX - 08/18/11-Stayed AGAIN!
on: December 17, 2012, 11:09:31 AM 8 General Crime / U.S. Crime Related News / San Antonio elementary school on lockdown December 17, 2012
San Antonio elementary school on lockdown
Posted: Dec 17, 2012 12:25 PM CST Updated: Dec 17, 2012 12:25 PM CST
By Ashley Paredez - email
KFDA - NewsChannel 10 / Amarillo News, Weather, Sports
San Antonio, TX - An elementary school in San Antonio has now been placed on lockdown.
Cambridge Elementary School in the Alamo Heights Independent School District is on lockdown Monday after they received a threatening phone call this morning.
Officials stayed on the phone with the caller and simultaneously alerted the police.
Officials say all students are safe, but the campus remains on a precautionary lockdown while police question the caller.
No one is being allowed into the school.
Several worried parents gathered at a nearby coffee shop to wait for more information.
All other campuses within the school district in San Antonio are on modified lockdown, meaning nobody can leave or enter the schools.
http://www.newschannel10.com/story/20363913/san-antonio-elementary-school-on-lockdown
Posted: Dec 17, 2012 12:25 PM CST Updated: Dec 17, 2012 12:25 PM CST
By Ashley Paredez - email
KFDA - NewsChannel 10 / Amarillo News, Weather, Sports
San Antonio, TX - An elementary school in San Antonio has now been placed on lockdown.
Cambridge Elementary School in the Alamo Heights Independent School District is on lockdown Monday after they received a threatening phone call this morning.
Officials stayed on the phone with the caller and simultaneously alerted the police.
Officials say all students are safe, but the campus remains on a precautionary lockdown while police question the caller.
No one is being allowed into the school.
Several worried parents gathered at a nearby coffee shop to wait for more information.
All other campuses within the school district in San Antonio are on modified lockdown, meaning nobody can leave or enter the schools.
http://www.newschannel10.com/story/20363913/san-antonio-elementary-school-on-lockdown
on: December 17, 2012, 08:25:08 AM 9 Off Topic / Off Topic- News / 25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA' Crime rate plummeted after law required f
25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'
Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents

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Kennesaw, Ga., City Hall
As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.
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In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of “Wild West” showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.
The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.
Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city’s crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township’s crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
In a column titled “Gun Town USA,” Art Buchwald suggested Kennesaw would soon become a place where routine disagreements between neighbors would be settled in shootouts. The Washington Post mocked Kennesaw as “the brave little city … soon to be pistol-packing capital of the world.” Phil Donahue invited the mayor on his show.
Reuters, the European news service, today revisited the Kennesaw controversy following the Virginia Tech Massacre.
Police Lt. Craig Graydon said: “When the Kennesaw law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime … and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then. We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area.” Kennesaw is just north of Atlanta.
The Reuters story went on to report: “Since the Virginia Tech shootings, some conservative U.S. talk show hosts have rejected attempts to link the massacre to the availability of guns, arguing that had students been allowed to carry weapons on campus someone might have been able to shoot the killer.”
Virginia Tech, like many of the nation’s schools and college campuses, is a so-called “gun-free zone,” which Second Amendment supporters say invites gun violence – especially from disturbed individuals seeking to kill as many victims as possible.
Cho Seung-Hui murdered 32 and wounded another 15 before turning his gun on himself.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2007/04/41196/#B5rMj2HuKdt0c3Eo.99
Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents

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Kennesaw, Ga., City Hall
As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.
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In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw – responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. – unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of “Wild West” showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting – as a victim, attacker or defender.
The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.
Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available – for the year 2005 – show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city’s crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township’s crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
In a column titled “Gun Town USA,” Art Buchwald suggested Kennesaw would soon become a place where routine disagreements between neighbors would be settled in shootouts. The Washington Post mocked Kennesaw as “the brave little city … soon to be pistol-packing capital of the world.” Phil Donahue invited the mayor on his show.
Reuters, the European news service, today revisited the Kennesaw controversy following the Virginia Tech Massacre.
Police Lt. Craig Graydon said: “When the Kennesaw law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime … and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then. We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area.” Kennesaw is just north of Atlanta.
The Reuters story went on to report: “Since the Virginia Tech shootings, some conservative U.S. talk show hosts have rejected attempts to link the massacre to the availability of guns, arguing that had students been allowed to carry weapons on campus someone might have been able to shoot the killer.”
Virginia Tech, like many of the nation’s schools and college campuses, is a so-called “gun-free zone,” which Second Amendment supporters say invites gun violence – especially from disturbed individuals seeking to kill as many victims as possible.
Cho Seung-Hui murdered 32 and wounded another 15 before turning his gun on himself.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2007/04/41196/#B5rMj2HuKdt0c3Eo.99
on: December 17, 2012, 07:46:05 AM 10 Off Topic / Off Topic- News / Ad war erupts over meaning of 'jihad' in U.S. 'It's reprehensible to put a happy
Ad war erupts over meaning of 'jihad' in U.S.
'It's reprehensible to put a happy face on mass murder'
Published: 17 hours ago
An advertising war has erupted over just what the Muslim word “jihad” means in America and why it’s important not to let the term be sugarcoated.
And the latest volley in the battle is both sly and stunning.
The most recent flare-up began with a controversial series of advertisements from the American Freedom Defense Initiative on New York subway station clocks. The ads depicted the burning towers of 9/11 and a Quran quote: “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers” (3:151).

Pamela Geller, the group’s executive director, believes the clock ads convey an important message about the immediate danger of jihad.
“Metaphorically it’s so powerful,” she explains in a new column on WND. “The clock is ticking, from a civilizational point of view. Bombs, at least in movies, tick and are set off by clocks. The urgency of our message is mirrored in the placement.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, however, called the ads “Islamophobic” and “bigotry” and responded with a series of bus advertisements of its own designed to put a more America-friendly spin on the Islamic practice of jihad.
When asked by WND if she was spreading Islamophobia, Geller said, “Truth is not a phobia. As soon as Muslims stop quoting the Quran and invoking Islam’s traditional doctrine of jihad to justify violence, I will stop calling attention to what they do.”
CAIR’s advertisements link to a site called MyJihad.org and portray “jihad” as merely a person’s goal or ambition, showing smiling Muslims and such innocuous struggles as staying fit or building friendships.
“My jihad is not to judge people by their cover,” states one ad. “What’s yours?”

Geller, however, claims the CAIR ads are “designed to distract from and obscure the true meaning of jihad.”
The word “jihad” is defined by Muslim apologists as the personal struggle of the individual believer against evil and persecution, yet it is also the term for a religious war against infidels undertaken by Muslims, a holy obligation often cited by terrorists as the reason for their violence.
“Freedom fighters have successfully educated the American people about the most brutal and extreme system of governance, the Shariah: Americans know how inhuman it is, and Muslim Brotherhood operatives are still reeling from that stunning defeat,” Geller explains. “So now they hope to whitewash jihad? That’s oceans of blood they would have to conceal. Oceans of blood.”
Now Geller announces the latest volley in the advertising war, a series of bus ads that will recast the “MyJihad” banners according to the word’s other definition.
“‘Jihad, holy fighting in Allah’s cause, with full force of numbers and weaponry, is … and obligation and duty in Islam on every Muslim’ – Times Square bomber Faisal Shazad,” reads one of the new AFDI ads. “That’s my jihad. What’s yours?”
Another pictures Osama bin Laden, accompanied by one of his quotes: “‘The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.’ That’s my jihad. What’s yours?”
Still another variation in includes a victim’s description of the Fort Hood mass murder by Major Nidal Hassan: “Reloading, firing again, reloading, firing again, while screaming Allahu Akbar.’ That’s my jihad. What’s yours?”

These new ads direct people to MyJihad.us, a web address that redirects to a page on Geller’s Atlas Shrugged site.
“Our new ads depict actual jihadists carrying out their own jihads and is a truth antidote to CAIR’s deceptions,” Geller states. “This usage of jihad is much more influential and widespread among Muslims worldwide than the benign and whitewashed understanding of it being pushed by Hamas-tied CAIR, and the fact that some Muslims don’t think of jihad as involving violence does not cancel out the fact that many do.
“It is reprehensible to put a happy face on mass murder, ethnic cleansing, honor violence and religious persecution,” she continues. “Our AFDI campaign shines the light of truth to break through the fog of CAIR’s deceptions.”
As WND has reported, AFDI has run advertisements on buses and other public areas before in a effort to educate Americans about violent nature of jihad and the dangers of “Islamization” in America, but efforts to have them banned by court order have been defeated.
Get Pamela Geller’s “Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance,” from the WND Superstore!
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/ad-war-erupts-over-meaning-of-jihad-in-u-s/#cDH5FhLUocsCFMCJ.99
'It's reprehensible to put a happy face on mass murder'
Published: 17 hours ago
An advertising war has erupted over just what the Muslim word “jihad” means in America and why it’s important not to let the term be sugarcoated.
And the latest volley in the battle is both sly and stunning.
The most recent flare-up began with a controversial series of advertisements from the American Freedom Defense Initiative on New York subway station clocks. The ads depicted the burning towers of 9/11 and a Quran quote: “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers” (3:151).

Pamela Geller, the group’s executive director, believes the clock ads convey an important message about the immediate danger of jihad.
“Metaphorically it’s so powerful,” she explains in a new column on WND. “The clock is ticking, from a civilizational point of view. Bombs, at least in movies, tick and are set off by clocks. The urgency of our message is mirrored in the placement.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, however, called the ads “Islamophobic” and “bigotry” and responded with a series of bus advertisements of its own designed to put a more America-friendly spin on the Islamic practice of jihad.
When asked by WND if she was spreading Islamophobia, Geller said, “Truth is not a phobia. As soon as Muslims stop quoting the Quran and invoking Islam’s traditional doctrine of jihad to justify violence, I will stop calling attention to what they do.”
CAIR’s advertisements link to a site called MyJihad.org and portray “jihad” as merely a person’s goal or ambition, showing smiling Muslims and such innocuous struggles as staying fit or building friendships.
“My jihad is not to judge people by their cover,” states one ad. “What’s yours?”

Geller, however, claims the CAIR ads are “designed to distract from and obscure the true meaning of jihad.”
The word “jihad” is defined by Muslim apologists as the personal struggle of the individual believer against evil and persecution, yet it is also the term for a religious war against infidels undertaken by Muslims, a holy obligation often cited by terrorists as the reason for their violence.
“Freedom fighters have successfully educated the American people about the most brutal and extreme system of governance, the Shariah: Americans know how inhuman it is, and Muslim Brotherhood operatives are still reeling from that stunning defeat,” Geller explains. “So now they hope to whitewash jihad? That’s oceans of blood they would have to conceal. Oceans of blood.”
Now Geller announces the latest volley in the advertising war, a series of bus ads that will recast the “MyJihad” banners according to the word’s other definition.
“‘Jihad, holy fighting in Allah’s cause, with full force of numbers and weaponry, is … and obligation and duty in Islam on every Muslim’ – Times Square bomber Faisal Shazad,” reads one of the new AFDI ads. “That’s my jihad. What’s yours?”
Another pictures Osama bin Laden, accompanied by one of his quotes: “‘The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.’ That’s my jihad. What’s yours?”
Still another variation in includes a victim’s description of the Fort Hood mass murder by Major Nidal Hassan: “Reloading, firing again, reloading, firing again, while screaming Allahu Akbar.’ That’s my jihad. What’s yours?”

These new ads direct people to MyJihad.us, a web address that redirects to a page on Geller’s Atlas Shrugged site.
“Our new ads depict actual jihadists carrying out their own jihads and is a truth antidote to CAIR’s deceptions,” Geller states. “This usage of jihad is much more influential and widespread among Muslims worldwide than the benign and whitewashed understanding of it being pushed by Hamas-tied CAIR, and the fact that some Muslims don’t think of jihad as involving violence does not cancel out the fact that many do.
“It is reprehensible to put a happy face on mass murder, ethnic cleansing, honor violence and religious persecution,” she continues. “Our AFDI campaign shines the light of truth to break through the fog of CAIR’s deceptions.”
As WND has reported, AFDI has run advertisements on buses and other public areas before in a effort to educate Americans about violent nature of jihad and the dangers of “Islamization” in America, but efforts to have them banned by court order have been defeated.
Get Pamela Geller’s “Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance,” from the WND Superstore!
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/ad-war-erupts-over-meaning-of-jihad-in-u-s/#cDH5FhLUocsCFMCJ.99
on: December 17, 2012, 07:29:50 AM 11 Off Topic / Off Topic- News / L.A. County sheriff's jailer charged with assaulting 2 inmates
L.A. County sheriff's jailer charged with assaulting 2 inmates
The deputy is on leave without pay pending the outcome of the case, the first prosecution since abuses in the jails were first alleged more than a year ago.

An inmate eats dinner in his cell at the Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles. A Los Angeles County sheriff's jailer has been charged with assaulting two inmates, including one in the Twin Towers. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / November 23, 2012)
By Jack Leonard and Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
December 13, 2012, 9:30 p.m.
A Los Angeles County sheriff's jailer was charged Thursday with assaulting two inmates and falsifying police reports afterward, the first prosecution since abuses in the jails were first alleged more than a year ago.
Jermaine Jackson, a five-year veteran of the department, is accused of assaulting two inmates using "a deadly weapon" — his feet. At least one of the incidents was caught on tape, a sheriff's spokesman said.
The deputy was being booked Thursday into the jail system he once policed and was ordered held on $100,000 bail. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Jackson is on leave without pay pending the outcome of the case. He has not yet entered a plea.
The arrest comes more than a year after the FBI began an investigation into deputy misconduct within the L.A. County jail system, the largest in the nation. This arrest, however, resulted from an internal sheriff's investigation.
One of the alleged assaults that Jackson, 35, was charged with was described in a declaration filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
In a sworn statement, inmate Derek Griscavage said he was housed in the Twin Towers jail in downtown L.A. on Christmas Day 2010 when Jackson shouted profanities at him because he did not drop to his knees fast enough during a routine search. Griscavage said he flashed his middle finger at the jailer, whom he described as a bulky, 6-foot deputy with a shaved head.
About 20 minutes later, the deputy ordered him to face a jail window and then kicked the insides of Griscavage's ankles hard with his boots, according to the declaration. Jackson, Griscavage said, handcuffed him and "savagely pushed my cuffed hands up so my arms resembled chicken wings, straining my shoulders and handling me with enough force that my face was pushed into the pod window."
Jackson then forced Griscavage to walk to an area of the jail where four or five deputies were waiting, and "everything went black," the declaration said.
Griscavage said he woke up in the hospital "with a stabbing pain in my head ... undoubtedly the worst headache I have ever felt." He said there was blood on his bare chest, and his eyes were "swimming with blood flowing out of the cuts on my face and head."
He said he suffered a broken nose, black eyes, a cut to his ear, a swollen head and a chipped tooth.
Inmates later told him that Jackson had punched him while he was handcuffed and then kneed and kicked his head and face, according to the declaration. Other inmates, he said, were ordered to mop up a pool of blood after the assault.
Griscavage said a sheriff's detective visited him about the incident but that her focus was not whether the deputy assaulted him but whether he attacked the deputy and caused a scratch to Jackson's hand. He said the detective told him he needed to give a blood sample to ensure that the deputy had not been exposed to any infectious diseases but did not ask any other questions about the incident. Griscavage alleged that another deputy snickered at him, saying, "I heard you got knocked out."
The incident was among dozens of abuse allegations the Sheriff's Department began reexamining last year amid public criticism of jail conditions.
Prosecutors charged Jackson, of Corona, with assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, assault by a public officer and filing a false report in connection with two separate incidents. He is also accused of assaulting Cesar Campana, an inmate at the Compton courthouse lockup, in December 2009.
"The sheriff is taking this very seriously," Whitmore said. The incidents, he added, were isolated with no other employees involved.
Peter Eliasberg, legal director of the ACLU of Southern California, said he was pleased that the Sheriff's Department had taken action in response to his organization's complaints, but questioned why more hadn't been done when the incident first occurred.
"Why wasn't this arrest made in 2011? The answer is, because very likely the first investigation was cursory, sloppy and a whitewash," he said.
jack.leonard@latimes.com
robert.faturechi@latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jail-abuse-20121214,0,243619.story?track=lanowpicks
The deputy is on leave without pay pending the outcome of the case, the first prosecution since abuses in the jails were first alleged more than a year ago.

An inmate eats dinner in his cell at the Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles. A Los Angeles County sheriff's jailer has been charged with assaulting two inmates, including one in the Twin Towers. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / November 23, 2012)
By Jack Leonard and Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
December 13, 2012, 9:30 p.m.
A Los Angeles County sheriff's jailer was charged Thursday with assaulting two inmates and falsifying police reports afterward, the first prosecution since abuses in the jails were first alleged more than a year ago.
Jermaine Jackson, a five-year veteran of the department, is accused of assaulting two inmates using "a deadly weapon" — his feet. At least one of the incidents was caught on tape, a sheriff's spokesman said.
The deputy was being booked Thursday into the jail system he once policed and was ordered held on $100,000 bail. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Jackson is on leave without pay pending the outcome of the case. He has not yet entered a plea.
The arrest comes more than a year after the FBI began an investigation into deputy misconduct within the L.A. County jail system, the largest in the nation. This arrest, however, resulted from an internal sheriff's investigation.
One of the alleged assaults that Jackson, 35, was charged with was described in a declaration filed last year by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
In a sworn statement, inmate Derek Griscavage said he was housed in the Twin Towers jail in downtown L.A. on Christmas Day 2010 when Jackson shouted profanities at him because he did not drop to his knees fast enough during a routine search. Griscavage said he flashed his middle finger at the jailer, whom he described as a bulky, 6-foot deputy with a shaved head.
About 20 minutes later, the deputy ordered him to face a jail window and then kicked the insides of Griscavage's ankles hard with his boots, according to the declaration. Jackson, Griscavage said, handcuffed him and "savagely pushed my cuffed hands up so my arms resembled chicken wings, straining my shoulders and handling me with enough force that my face was pushed into the pod window."
Jackson then forced Griscavage to walk to an area of the jail where four or five deputies were waiting, and "everything went black," the declaration said.
Griscavage said he woke up in the hospital "with a stabbing pain in my head ... undoubtedly the worst headache I have ever felt." He said there was blood on his bare chest, and his eyes were "swimming with blood flowing out of the cuts on my face and head."
He said he suffered a broken nose, black eyes, a cut to his ear, a swollen head and a chipped tooth.
Inmates later told him that Jackson had punched him while he was handcuffed and then kneed and kicked his head and face, according to the declaration. Other inmates, he said, were ordered to mop up a pool of blood after the assault.
Griscavage said a sheriff's detective visited him about the incident but that her focus was not whether the deputy assaulted him but whether he attacked the deputy and caused a scratch to Jackson's hand. He said the detective told him he needed to give a blood sample to ensure that the deputy had not been exposed to any infectious diseases but did not ask any other questions about the incident. Griscavage alleged that another deputy snickered at him, saying, "I heard you got knocked out."
The incident was among dozens of abuse allegations the Sheriff's Department began reexamining last year amid public criticism of jail conditions.
Prosecutors charged Jackson, of Corona, with assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, assault by a public officer and filing a false report in connection with two separate incidents. He is also accused of assaulting Cesar Campana, an inmate at the Compton courthouse lockup, in December 2009.
"The sheriff is taking this very seriously," Whitmore said. The incidents, he added, were isolated with no other employees involved.
Peter Eliasberg, legal director of the ACLU of Southern California, said he was pleased that the Sheriff's Department had taken action in response to his organization's complaints, but questioned why more hadn't been done when the incident first occurred.
"Why wasn't this arrest made in 2011? The answer is, because very likely the first investigation was cursory, sloppy and a whitewash," he said.
jack.leonard@latimes.com
robert.faturechi@latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jail-abuse-20121214,0,243619.story?track=lanowpicks
on: December 17, 2012, 07:26:23 AM 12 Off Topic / Off Topic- News / Judge who said rape victim should have 'put up a fight' is rebuked
Judge who said rape victim should have 'put up a fight' is rebuked
December 13, 2012
The state agency that monitors judicial misconduct has publicly admonished an Orange County judge, saying his remarks in a sexual assault case breached judicial ethics and created an impression of bias against the victim.
At a June 2008 sentencing hearing, Superior Court Judge Derek G. Johnson denied a prosecutor’s call to impose a 16-year prison term on Metin Gurel, who had been convicted of rape, forcible oral copulation, domestic battery, stalking and making threats against his former live-in girlfriend.
On the day he raped her, prosecutors said, Gurel had threatened to mutilate her face and vagina with a heated screwdriver.
Johnson decided to impose a six-year sentence.
“I’m not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something,” the judge said, according to documents released Thursday. “If someone doesn’t want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage in inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case.
"That tells me that the victim in this case, although she wasn’t necessarily willing, she didn’t put up a fight.”
The judge, who has been on the Orange County Superior Court since 2000, also declared the rape “technical,” and not “a real, live criminal case.”
The San Francisco-based Commission on Judicial Performance said that Johnson’s remarks flew in the face of California law, which does not require proof that a rape victim tried to resist an attack.
“In the commission’s view, the judge’s remarks reflected outdated, biased and insensitive views about sexual assault victims who do not ‘put up a fight,’ ” the agency said in a news release Thursday.
“Such comments cannot help but diminish public confidence and trust in the impartiality of the judiciary. In his response to the commission and at his appearance, Judge Johnson conceded his comments were inappropriate and apologized.”
Johnson remains on the bench.
“Neither Judge Johnson nor I will be making comment,” said Johnson’s attorney, Paul S. Meyer, when reached by phone Thursday.
The commission, which comprises judges, lawyers and members of the public, voted 10-0 that Johnson deserved a public admonishment.
The commission said it did not learn of the judge’s remarks until May 2012.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/judge-slammed-for-outdated-and-biased-remarks-on-rape.html?goback=.gde_2289662_member_196252090
December 13, 2012
The state agency that monitors judicial misconduct has publicly admonished an Orange County judge, saying his remarks in a sexual assault case breached judicial ethics and created an impression of bias against the victim.
At a June 2008 sentencing hearing, Superior Court Judge Derek G. Johnson denied a prosecutor’s call to impose a 16-year prison term on Metin Gurel, who had been convicted of rape, forcible oral copulation, domestic battery, stalking and making threats against his former live-in girlfriend.
On the day he raped her, prosecutors said, Gurel had threatened to mutilate her face and vagina with a heated screwdriver.
Johnson decided to impose a six-year sentence.
“I’m not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something,” the judge said, according to documents released Thursday. “If someone doesn’t want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage in inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case.
"That tells me that the victim in this case, although she wasn’t necessarily willing, she didn’t put up a fight.”
The judge, who has been on the Orange County Superior Court since 2000, also declared the rape “technical,” and not “a real, live criminal case.”
The San Francisco-based Commission on Judicial Performance said that Johnson’s remarks flew in the face of California law, which does not require proof that a rape victim tried to resist an attack.
“In the commission’s view, the judge’s remarks reflected outdated, biased and insensitive views about sexual assault victims who do not ‘put up a fight,’ ” the agency said in a news release Thursday.
“Such comments cannot help but diminish public confidence and trust in the impartiality of the judiciary. In his response to the commission and at his appearance, Judge Johnson conceded his comments were inappropriate and apologized.”
Johnson remains on the bench.
“Neither Judge Johnson nor I will be making comment,” said Johnson’s attorney, Paul S. Meyer, when reached by phone Thursday.
The commission, which comprises judges, lawyers and members of the public, voted 10-0 that Johnson deserved a public admonishment.
The commission said it did not learn of the judge’s remarks until May 2012.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/judge-slammed-for-outdated-and-biased-remarks-on-rape.html?goback=.gde_2289662_member_196252090
on: December 11, 2012, 10:53:41 AM 13 ACTION CENTER / Parole Protest Requests / Parole Protest Letter--Alva Hank Worley was an accomplice of Kenneth McDuff
Parole Protest Letter--Alva Hank Worley was an accomplice of Kenneth McDuff
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
PAVC is asking that you consider taking action and making a difference with writing a Protest Letter to protest any possible parole for the Aggravated Sexual Assault of Colleen Reed. Attached is a sample protest letter that you may copy and paste or you may choose to write your own individual words. Please do not forget to date and sign before you send. Please forward to anyone you feel may help write a protest letter to keep this violent offender in prison.
Brief Summary:
On the evening of December 29, 1991, Alva Hank Worley was an accomplice with Kenneth McDuff for the kidnapping of 28 year old Colleen Reed from a car wash in Austin. Colleen for several hours was sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered within hours of her abduction. Worley is a coward and to save his own life he entered a 40 year plea agreement shortly before jury sentencing with a plea of guilty to Aggravated Sexual Assault. If Worley is ever released he would be a great danger and a threat to society. (McDuff received the Death Penalty and was placed to death in 1998)
Mail, email or fax Protest Letter to:
US Mail:
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Victim Services Division
Attn: Angie McCown, Director TDCJ-Victim Services
8712 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 265
Austin, Texas 78757
(If mail, please mark on outside envelope – (PROTEST LETTER)
Fax: 512-452-0825
E-mail: victim.svc@tdcj.state.tx.us Subject Line: Protest Letter
Protest Letters are Confidential
Government Code 508.313 (a) lists protest letters as confidential and privileged information.
Sec. 508.313. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. (a) All information obtained and maintained, including a victim protest letter or other correspondence, a victim impact statement, a list of inmates eligible for release on parole,
and an arrest record of an inmate, is confidential and privileged if the information relates to:
(1) an inmate of the institutional division subject to release on parole, release to mandatory supervision, or executive clemency;
(2) a releasee; or
(3) a person directly identified in any proposed plan of release for an inmate.
Sample protest letter
(DATE)
TDCJ Victim Service Division
Attn: Angie McCown, Director
8712 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 265
Austin, Texas 78757
Re: Alva Hank Worley, TDC# 00685668
Dear Honorable Parole Board Members:
This letter is being written to protest any forthcoming parole or any form of release of the above-named inmate. As a concerned citizen I am writing to protest any parole of Alva Hank Worley, TDC# 00685668.
Worley has been able to exercise all his rights under our state’s constitution. When Worley appears before you during his parole review, I trust that the resources you have about what a heinous crime he committed, each Board Member will truly hear Colleen Reed’s voice. We are asking that any and all of the resources your office has is used to keep this inmate incarcerated for as long as his sentence dictates.
Worley was responsible, along with Kenneth Allen McDuff, for kidnapping, torturing and rapping Colleen Reed for several hours. Colleen was murdered the night of December 29, 1991. Worley is a coward and to save his own life he entered a 40 year plea agreement shortly before jury sentencing with a plea of guilty to Aggravated Sexual Assault.
Worley helped McDuff sentenced Colleen to death and he sentenced her family and friends to a living death. He is a great danger to society and has proven himself to be a threat. Anyone capable of perpetrating a crime of this nature must serve their just sentence in its entirety. I ask that due to the violent nature of Worley, that you consider putting parole review off 5 years.
We appreciate that we live in a state where we have the opportunity to voice our protest to the Texas Board of Pardon when it comes to the safety of society. Thank you for your consideration that parole is denied for Hank Worley, TDC# 00685668.
Sincerely,
(NAME)
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
PAVC is asking that you consider taking action and making a difference with writing a Protest Letter to protest any possible parole for the Aggravated Sexual Assault of Colleen Reed. Attached is a sample protest letter that you may copy and paste or you may choose to write your own individual words. Please do not forget to date and sign before you send. Please forward to anyone you feel may help write a protest letter to keep this violent offender in prison.
Brief Summary:
On the evening of December 29, 1991, Alva Hank Worley was an accomplice with Kenneth McDuff for the kidnapping of 28 year old Colleen Reed from a car wash in Austin. Colleen for several hours was sexually assaulted, tortured and murdered within hours of her abduction. Worley is a coward and to save his own life he entered a 40 year plea agreement shortly before jury sentencing with a plea of guilty to Aggravated Sexual Assault. If Worley is ever released he would be a great danger and a threat to society. (McDuff received the Death Penalty and was placed to death in 1998)
Mail, email or fax Protest Letter to:
US Mail:
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Victim Services Division
Attn: Angie McCown, Director TDCJ-Victim Services
8712 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 265
Austin, Texas 78757
(If mail, please mark on outside envelope – (PROTEST LETTER)
Fax: 512-452-0825
E-mail: victim.svc@tdcj.state.tx.us Subject Line: Protest Letter
Protest Letters are Confidential
Government Code 508.313 (a) lists protest letters as confidential and privileged information.
Sec. 508.313. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. (a) All information obtained and maintained, including a victim protest letter or other correspondence, a victim impact statement, a list of inmates eligible for release on parole,
and an arrest record of an inmate, is confidential and privileged if the information relates to:
(1) an inmate of the institutional division subject to release on parole, release to mandatory supervision, or executive clemency;
(2) a releasee; or
(3) a person directly identified in any proposed plan of release for an inmate.
Sample protest letter
(DATE)
TDCJ Victim Service Division
Attn: Angie McCown, Director
8712 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 265
Austin, Texas 78757
Re: Alva Hank Worley, TDC# 00685668
Dear Honorable Parole Board Members:
This letter is being written to protest any forthcoming parole or any form of release of the above-named inmate. As a concerned citizen I am writing to protest any parole of Alva Hank Worley, TDC# 00685668.
Worley has been able to exercise all his rights under our state’s constitution. When Worley appears before you during his parole review, I trust that the resources you have about what a heinous crime he committed, each Board Member will truly hear Colleen Reed’s voice. We are asking that any and all of the resources your office has is used to keep this inmate incarcerated for as long as his sentence dictates.
Worley was responsible, along with Kenneth Allen McDuff, for kidnapping, torturing and rapping Colleen Reed for several hours. Colleen was murdered the night of December 29, 1991. Worley is a coward and to save his own life he entered a 40 year plea agreement shortly before jury sentencing with a plea of guilty to Aggravated Sexual Assault.
Worley helped McDuff sentenced Colleen to death and he sentenced her family and friends to a living death. He is a great danger to society and has proven himself to be a threat. Anyone capable of perpetrating a crime of this nature must serve their just sentence in its entirety. I ask that due to the violent nature of Worley, that you consider putting parole review off 5 years.
We appreciate that we live in a state where we have the opportunity to voice our protest to the Texas Board of Pardon when it comes to the safety of society. Thank you for your consideration that parole is denied for Hank Worley, TDC# 00685668.
Sincerely,
(NAME)
on: December 10, 2012, 12:58:36 PM 14 ACTION CENTER / Parole Protest Requests / Murderer Parole Review Process--Earl Wayne Kissinger TDCJ ID: 621222
Murderer Parole Review Process
Brief Background: On December 28, 1989 Earl Wayne Kissinger “who was out on parole at the time” took upon himself to murder Stephen Barbour with a hatchet and severed his spinal cord. Kissinger knew his victim, Stephen Barbour. Kissinger pled guilty to a charge of Murder with a Deadly Weapon and received a “Life” sentence. Earl Wayne Kissinger is where he should be, incarcerated in TDCJ for the remainder of his “LIFE”.
. Your Voice can make a difference!
Immediate Action…..
Protest the Parole of murderer…
Earl Wayne Kissinger TDCJ ID: 621222
Cathy, her family members and the friends of Stephen Barbour who was murdered by Earl Wayne Kissinger are seeking your help with writing a “protest letter”. Protest Letters need to be mailed, emailed or faxed as soon as possible. With an abundance of protest letters on file, hopefully the Parole Board will keep Kissinger in prison for as long as his sentence dictates, “LIFE”.
What You Can Do!
Mail, email or fax a letter protesting the parole of Kissinger as soon as you can.
You may write in your own words or use the attached sample protest letter. Please do not forget to date and sign before you send. Cathy is asking your help to please forward to colleagues, family and friends you feel would write a letter.
Send Protest Letter - US Mail, email or fax
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Victim Services Division
8712 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 265
Austin, Texas 78757
(If mail, please write in red ink on outside of letter – PROTEST LETTER)
Fax: (512) 452-0825
E-mail to: victim.svc@tdcj.state.tx.us Subject Line: PROTEST LETTER
Protest Letters are Confidential
Government Code 508.313 (a) lists protest letters as confidential and privileged information.
Sec. 508.313. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. (a) All information obtained and maintained, including a victim protest letter or other correspondence, a victim impact statement, a list of inmates eligible for release on parole,
and an arrest record of an inmate, is confidential and privileged if the information relates to:
(1) an inmate of the institutional division subject to release on parole, release to mandatory supervision, or executive clemency;
(2) a releasee; or
(3) a person directly identified in any proposed plan of release for an inmate.
Verna Lee Carr
People Against Violent Crime
P.O. Box 92621
Austin, Texas 78709
512-837-PAVC (7282)
512-947-5951 Cell (Verna Lee)
866-593-4808 Fax
pavc@peopleagainstviolentcrime.org
www.peopleagainstviolentcrime.org
www.treeofangels.net
(DATE)
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Victim Services Division
8712 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 265
Austin, Texas 78757
Re: Earl Wayne Kissinger TDCJ ID: 621222
Dear Honorable Parole Board Members:
As a concerned citizen of the state of Texas please consider this as an official request to not grant parole to murderer Earl Wayne Kissinger. I am emphatically protesting any form of parole release and asking the Texas Board of Pardon and Parole to deny parole to this offender.
Please carefully review the file on this case before you make a decision. Kissinger is and will remain a threat to society. Kissinger pled guilty to a charge of Murder with a Deadly Weapon and received a “LIFE” sentence. Being placed on parole for such a heinous crime is a luxury that Kissinger does not deserve. The only possible thing Kissinger is sorry for, he got caught
Kissinger’s victim Stephen Barbour had a daughter; after her daddy was murdered it took many years of intense counseling for her to go forth in life. Kissinger tried to contact her while in prison, very scary, one can never under estimate a sociopath. Kissinger’s extreme violent actions are a confirmation he has a total disregard for another person’s life and has never ever have shown remorse. When considering this parole review, please do not forget the victim and how it has had a life long lasting impact with Stephen’s family and friends. No matter how many years have gone by, grief has no timetable for the family members. Texas must keep in mind Kissinger made a choice to impose his own life sentence on Stephen Barbour.
Due to the violent nature of the crime and interests of PUBLIC SAFTEY, justice demands that Kissinger spends his entire sentence behind bars. To lesson the emotional trauma the parole review process has on Stephen Barbour’s family please consider the maximum set off before any future parole reviews. Earl Wayne Kissinger is where he should be, incarcerated in TDCJ for as long as his sentence dictates, “LIFE”.
I appreciate Texas is one of the State’s where we have the opportunity to voice our protest to the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles. Thank you for your consideration of this request to help keep the citizens of Texas safe.
Respectfully,
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Brief Background: On December 28, 1989 Earl Wayne Kissinger “who was out on parole at the time” took upon himself to murder Stephen Barbour with a hatchet and severed his spinal cord. Kissinger knew his victim, Stephen Barbour. Kissinger pled guilty to a charge of Murder with a Deadly Weapon and received a “Life” sentence. Earl Wayne Kissinger is where he should be, incarcerated in TDCJ for the remainder of his “LIFE”.
. Your Voice can make a difference!
Immediate Action…..
Protest the Parole of murderer…
Earl Wayne Kissinger TDCJ ID: 621222
Cathy, her family members and the friends of Stephen Barbour who was murdered by Earl Wayne Kissinger are seeking your help with writing a “protest letter”. Protest Letters need to be mailed, emailed or faxed as soon as possible. With an abundance of protest letters on file, hopefully the Parole Board will keep Kissinger in prison for as long as his sentence dictates, “LIFE”.
What You Can Do!
Mail, email or fax a letter protesting the parole of Kissinger as soon as you can.
You may write in your own words or use the attached sample protest letter. Please do not forget to date and sign before you send. Cathy is asking your help to please forward to colleagues, family and friends you feel would write a letter.
Send Protest Letter - US Mail, email or fax
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Victim Services Division
8712 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 265
Austin, Texas 78757
(If mail, please write in red ink on outside of letter – PROTEST LETTER)
Fax: (512) 452-0825
E-mail to: victim.svc@tdcj.state.tx.us Subject Line: PROTEST LETTER
Protest Letters are Confidential
Government Code 508.313 (a) lists protest letters as confidential and privileged information.
Sec. 508.313. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. (a) All information obtained and maintained, including a victim protest letter or other correspondence, a victim impact statement, a list of inmates eligible for release on parole,
and an arrest record of an inmate, is confidential and privileged if the information relates to:
(1) an inmate of the institutional division subject to release on parole, release to mandatory supervision, or executive clemency;
(2) a releasee; or
(3) a person directly identified in any proposed plan of release for an inmate.
Verna Lee Carr
People Against Violent Crime
P.O. Box 92621
Austin, Texas 78709
512-837-PAVC (7282)
512-947-5951 Cell (Verna Lee)
866-593-4808 Fax
pavc@peopleagainstviolentcrime.org
www.peopleagainstviolentcrime.org
www.treeofangels.net
(DATE)
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Victim Services Division
8712 Shoal Creek Blvd., Suite 265
Austin, Texas 78757
Re: Earl Wayne Kissinger TDCJ ID: 621222
Dear Honorable Parole Board Members:
As a concerned citizen of the state of Texas please consider this as an official request to not grant parole to murderer Earl Wayne Kissinger. I am emphatically protesting any form of parole release and asking the Texas Board of Pardon and Parole to deny parole to this offender.
Please carefully review the file on this case before you make a decision. Kissinger is and will remain a threat to society. Kissinger pled guilty to a charge of Murder with a Deadly Weapon and received a “LIFE” sentence. Being placed on parole for such a heinous crime is a luxury that Kissinger does not deserve. The only possible thing Kissinger is sorry for, he got caught
Kissinger’s victim Stephen Barbour had a daughter; after her daddy was murdered it took many years of intense counseling for her to go forth in life. Kissinger tried to contact her while in prison, very scary, one can never under estimate a sociopath. Kissinger’s extreme violent actions are a confirmation he has a total disregard for another person’s life and has never ever have shown remorse. When considering this parole review, please do not forget the victim and how it has had a life long lasting impact with Stephen’s family and friends. No matter how many years have gone by, grief has no timetable for the family members. Texas must keep in mind Kissinger made a choice to impose his own life sentence on Stephen Barbour.
Due to the violent nature of the crime and interests of PUBLIC SAFTEY, justice demands that Kissinger spends his entire sentence behind bars. To lesson the emotional trauma the parole review process has on Stephen Barbour’s family please consider the maximum set off before any future parole reviews. Earl Wayne Kissinger is where he should be, incarcerated in TDCJ for as long as his sentence dictates, “LIFE”.
I appreciate Texas is one of the State’s where we have the opportunity to voice our protest to the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles. Thank you for your consideration of this request to help keep the citizens of Texas safe.
Respectfully,
(SIGNATURE)
on: December 04, 2012, 07:57:28 AM 15 General Crime / U.S. Crime Related News / Indiana police find decomposing body in freezer
Indiana police find decomposing body in freezer
AP 21 hr ago By Associated Press
Police are investigating whether the remains are of a 29-year-old man who was reported missing Saturday morning by his mother who said she had not seen him since Nov. 8.
KOKOMO, Ind. — An Indiana man faces charges that he killed a friend and hid the body in his basement freezer.
Police in Kokomo say they found a badly decomposed body Sunday in the freezer at a house where they were looking for 29-year-old Alex Shipp. Shipp's mother reported him missing Saturday and told police she hadn't heard from him since Nov. 8.
Police Maj. Brian Seldon says investigators determined that Shipp was last seen at the house in the city about 40 miles north of Indianapolis. Seldon told The Indianapolis Star the freezer wasn't turned on and that an autopsy was planned Monday to identify the remains.
The resident of the house, 51-year-old Walter Logan, was being held on a preliminary murder charge. It wasn't immediately clear whether he had an attorney.
http://news.msn.com/us/indiana-police-find-decomposing-body-in-freezer
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