Hello everyone. I am sorry I haven't posted for the last few days. I found out on Sunday that my younger cousin killed himself, so I have been really upset about that.
My grand daughter Kayli has pneumonia, so we have been back and forth to the doctor for the last two days. She's not feeling very well this morning at all. She had to have two shots today, and the doctor thinks that will help clear up the pneumonia. Hopefully, it will clear up or else she will have to be put in the hospital. So, your prayers would be appreciated!
I am going to blog about the trial that I am following. Hopefully, I can get that caught up today.
Everyone have a nice day!
Tezi
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
An Interesting Trial that I am Following
I am following a really interesting murder trial that is taking place in Fort Collins, Colorado. It has more twists and turns than I can keep up with.
Here is some of the background information:
Here is some of the background information:
Police Officer's Wife Gunned Down At Credit Union
Weld County Deputy's Wife Arrested In Case
GREELEY, Colo. -- The wife of a Weld County sheriff's deputy was under arrest Wednesday after the wife of a Greeley police officer was gunned down and killed as she left work.
Heather Garraus, 37, died 30 minutes after she was shot several times in the parking lot of the Colorado State Employees Credit Union, where she worked as a supervisor.
Garraus, 37, is married to Greeley police officer Ignacio Garraus and has a 9-year-old daughter.
Ignacio Garraus is now on bereavement leave, his chief said.
"I just came from a roll call briefing of our officers and it's a pretty, pretty depressed place around the Greeley Police Department right now, as you would expect it to be ... so it's a pretty sad place," said Greeley Police Chief Jerry Garner.
The Weld County Sheriff's Office's online arrest report identified the woman in custody as Shawna Louise Nelson, 35. She was being held without bond for investigation of first-degree murder.
According to public records, Nelson is married to Ken Nelson, a Weld County Sheriff's Office investigator. Records indicated the two filed for divorce in 2005 but were still married.
The shooting happened about 6:15 p.m. just as Garraus was leaving the bank, which is located near the University of Northern Colorado.
The credit union, at 2505 11th Ave., had just closed. Garraus was the only person shot and died later at North Colorado Medical Center. Witnesses in the bank called police to report the shooting. Her coworkers said she was a great friend and can't believe what happened.
"She was a wonderful mother. She was a wonderful supervisor. We all loved her. We were a family. She was just taken from us," said a sobbing Yvonne Younger, who worked with Garraus. "We're never going to be the same again."
~~~SNIP~~~
"She would do anything for anybody. It doesn't matter if she couldn't do it. She would find a way. She would go out of her way for you if you needed something. If you were upset, she would make you feel better. She didn't have one enemy in the whole world. She didn't have one mean bone in her whole body," said coworker Maria Valdez.
Nelson was brought into the courtroom Wednesday afternoon to be advised of the charges against her. She was handcuffed, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, and hid her face behind her long blonde hair.
It's not known how Nelson knows Garraus, but when asked if prosecutors are confident that they have the right suspect, Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck said, "I'm confident enough to file charges on Monday."
Nelson had been a dispatcher for the combined Greeley-Weld County communications center.
When asked what she thought about the suspect, Garraus' friend, Martha Meyer, said, "I have no word to explain it. She took our best friend away from us. She was wonderful and she took her away from us."
~~~SNIP~~~
A motive for the shooting was unclear and police were tight-lipped. Police said any further information on the shooting would have to come from the Weld County District Attorney's office, who has requested the judge seal all documents in the case.
"This investigation is ongoing and therefore I've decided to request that the court seal and not release to the public all search warrants and affidavits in this matter until the investigation will no longer be compromised by the premature release of this information," Buck said.
Because the case involves the wives of two law enforcement officers from two different departments, some in the legal community believe that a special prosecutor should be appointed to the case. However, Buck does not think there is a conflict in the case.
"We do not have a conflict in this case at this time ... I am elected to ensure public safety in Weld County and to prosecute cases in Weld County ... I intend to stay on this case until we identify that there is a conflict or the court identifies there's a conflict. But I don't see a conflict now," Buck said.
Garner said his officers are investigating the homicide, but don't believe there's a conflict either, even though it involves the wives of one of the officers.
"If a law enforcement agency has one of its officers killed in the line of duty, that agency doesn't call another agency in to investigate it. Obviously, you have the emotions of your people who have lost someone that's a member of their family. But if you have an agency that has integrity, that has professionalism, that follows its ethics of law enforcement -- and Greeley does those things -- you're able to grieve for one of your people and still conduct a professional investigation," Garner said.
~~~SNIP~~~
The community of Greeley is stunned and wonders what would provoke such a shooting.
"It's just unbelievable. You wonder how on earth they could be connected in two such different departments," said Greeley resident Helen Norton.
Customers went to the closed bank to use the automatic teller machine Wednesday and talked about the shooting.
"I thought at first maybe it was robbery and then I heard that it had nothing to do with the bank. It had something to do with people," said a customer of the bank.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10831912/detail.html
Love Affair May Have Led To Ambush Slaying
Suspected Shooter Was Mother Of Officer's Baby
GREELEY, Colo. -- The ambush slaying of a well-liked Greeley woman may have been the result of a three-year love affair between the suspected shooter and the victim's husband, 7NEWS reported.
Sources told 7NEWS that Shawna Nelson had the child of Greeley police officer Ignacio Garraus about 10 months ago. The officer's wife, Heather Garraus, was gunned down Tuesday evening in the parking lot of the Colorado State Employees Credit Union, where she worked as a supervisor.
Police believe Shawna Nelson put on a mask and hid outside in the parking lot as she waited for the bank to close, the Greeley Tribune reported. Nelson was arrested several blocks away after a bulletin describing her car was issued by police.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10839952/detail.html
Shawna Nelson had Ignacio Garraus's child as a result of the affair. After Ignacio told her he wanted to end the relationship and severe his parental rights to the child, Shawna started sending threatening text messages to his cell phone. He then contacted his lawyer who told Shawna to stop threatening the Garraus's. Ignacio never contacted the police department about the threats even though the affair was basically public knowledge.
Shawna Nelson's husband is also a police officer. He has been charged with evidence tampering (I believe that is the charge) for allegedly getting rid of the gun that his wife used to kill Heather Garraus.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14043154/detail.html
GREELEY, Colo. -- A former Weld County sheriff's deputy accused of tampering with evidence has pleaded not guilty to charges of handling a gun that his estranged wife allegedly used in the ambush-slaying of a romantic rival.
Ken Duane Nelson was arrested in late July in Walla Walla, Wash., where he now lives. He appeared in a Greeley courtroom Tuesday morning.
Investigators believe he took the gun used in the slaying after stopping his wife's pickup truck shortly after the ambush-shooting on Jan. 23. According to investigators, Nelson stopped his wife's truck shortly after the shooting -- before she was arrested.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14650061/detail.html
And if that isn't bad enough, Shawna's best friend has also been arrested with conspiracy to commit murder and criminal attempt to commit murder.
Michelle Moore had an opportunity to save Heather's life, but she didn't. She also worked for the Weld County Sheriff's Department! I bet this whole mess is making them quite proud!
The trial has started, and I will be posting updates to the blog.
UPDATE 2:41 p.m.
Here is the link to the Tribune who has all of the case history and everything to do with trial in a special section. It has everything!
http://greeleytrib.com/article20080218/SPECIAL_MEDIA/792557638
Weld County Deputy's Wife Arrested In Case
GREELEY, Colo. -- The wife of a Weld County sheriff's deputy was under arrest Wednesday after the wife of a Greeley police officer was gunned down and killed as she left work.
Heather Garraus, 37, died 30 minutes after she was shot several times in the parking lot of the Colorado State Employees Credit Union, where she worked as a supervisor.
Garraus, 37, is married to Greeley police officer Ignacio Garraus and has a 9-year-old daughter.
Ignacio Garraus is now on bereavement leave, his chief said.
"I just came from a roll call briefing of our officers and it's a pretty, pretty depressed place around the Greeley Police Department right now, as you would expect it to be ... so it's a pretty sad place," said Greeley Police Chief Jerry Garner.
The Weld County Sheriff's Office's online arrest report identified the woman in custody as Shawna Louise Nelson, 35. She was being held without bond for investigation of first-degree murder.
According to public records, Nelson is married to Ken Nelson, a Weld County Sheriff's Office investigator. Records indicated the two filed for divorce in 2005 but were still married.
The shooting happened about 6:15 p.m. just as Garraus was leaving the bank, which is located near the University of Northern Colorado.
The credit union, at 2505 11th Ave., had just closed. Garraus was the only person shot and died later at North Colorado Medical Center. Witnesses in the bank called police to report the shooting. Her coworkers said she was a great friend and can't believe what happened.
"She was a wonderful mother. She was a wonderful supervisor. We all loved her. We were a family. She was just taken from us," said a sobbing Yvonne Younger, who worked with Garraus. "We're never going to be the same again."
~~~SNIP~~~
"She would do anything for anybody. It doesn't matter if she couldn't do it. She would find a way. She would go out of her way for you if you needed something. If you were upset, she would make you feel better. She didn't have one enemy in the whole world. She didn't have one mean bone in her whole body," said coworker Maria Valdez.
Nelson was brought into the courtroom Wednesday afternoon to be advised of the charges against her. She was handcuffed, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, and hid her face behind her long blonde hair.
It's not known how Nelson knows Garraus, but when asked if prosecutors are confident that they have the right suspect, Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck said, "I'm confident enough to file charges on Monday."
Nelson had been a dispatcher for the combined Greeley-Weld County communications center.
When asked what she thought about the suspect, Garraus' friend, Martha Meyer, said, "I have no word to explain it. She took our best friend away from us. She was wonderful and she took her away from us."
~~~SNIP~~~
A motive for the shooting was unclear and police were tight-lipped. Police said any further information on the shooting would have to come from the Weld County District Attorney's office, who has requested the judge seal all documents in the case.
"This investigation is ongoing and therefore I've decided to request that the court seal and not release to the public all search warrants and affidavits in this matter until the investigation will no longer be compromised by the premature release of this information," Buck said.
Because the case involves the wives of two law enforcement officers from two different departments, some in the legal community believe that a special prosecutor should be appointed to the case. However, Buck does not think there is a conflict in the case.
"We do not have a conflict in this case at this time ... I am elected to ensure public safety in Weld County and to prosecute cases in Weld County ... I intend to stay on this case until we identify that there is a conflict or the court identifies there's a conflict. But I don't see a conflict now," Buck said.
Garner said his officers are investigating the homicide, but don't believe there's a conflict either, even though it involves the wives of one of the officers.
"If a law enforcement agency has one of its officers killed in the line of duty, that agency doesn't call another agency in to investigate it. Obviously, you have the emotions of your people who have lost someone that's a member of their family. But if you have an agency that has integrity, that has professionalism, that follows its ethics of law enforcement -- and Greeley does those things -- you're able to grieve for one of your people and still conduct a professional investigation," Garner said.
~~~SNIP~~~
The community of Greeley is stunned and wonders what would provoke such a shooting.
"It's just unbelievable. You wonder how on earth they could be connected in two such different departments," said Greeley resident Helen Norton.
Customers went to the closed bank to use the automatic teller machine Wednesday and talked about the shooting.
"I thought at first maybe it was robbery and then I heard that it had nothing to do with the bank. It had something to do with people," said a customer of the bank.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10831912/detail.html
Love Affair May Have Led To Ambush Slaying
Suspected Shooter Was Mother Of Officer's Baby
GREELEY, Colo. -- The ambush slaying of a well-liked Greeley woman may have been the result of a three-year love affair between the suspected shooter and the victim's husband, 7NEWS reported.
Sources told 7NEWS that Shawna Nelson had the child of Greeley police officer Ignacio Garraus about 10 months ago. The officer's wife, Heather Garraus, was gunned down Tuesday evening in the parking lot of the Colorado State Employees Credit Union, where she worked as a supervisor.
Police believe Shawna Nelson put on a mask and hid outside in the parking lot as she waited for the bank to close, the Greeley Tribune reported. Nelson was arrested several blocks away after a bulletin describing her car was issued by police.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10839952/detail.html
Shawna Nelson had Ignacio Garraus's child as a result of the affair. After Ignacio told her he wanted to end the relationship and severe his parental rights to the child, Shawna started sending threatening text messages to his cell phone. He then contacted his lawyer who told Shawna to stop threatening the Garraus's. Ignacio never contacted the police department about the threats even though the affair was basically public knowledge.
Shawna Nelson's husband is also a police officer. He has been charged with evidence tampering (I believe that is the charge) for allegedly getting rid of the gun that his wife used to kill Heather Garraus.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14043154/detail.html
GREELEY, Colo. -- A former Weld County sheriff's deputy accused of tampering with evidence has pleaded not guilty to charges of handling a gun that his estranged wife allegedly used in the ambush-slaying of a romantic rival.
Ken Duane Nelson was arrested in late July in Walla Walla, Wash., where he now lives. He appeared in a Greeley courtroom Tuesday morning.
Investigators believe he took the gun used in the slaying after stopping his wife's pickup truck shortly after the ambush-shooting on Jan. 23. According to investigators, Nelson stopped his wife's truck shortly after the shooting -- before she was arrested.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14650061/detail.html
And if that isn't bad enough, Shawna's best friend has also been arrested with conspiracy to commit murder and criminal attempt to commit murder.
Michelle Moore had an opportunity to save Heather's life, but she didn't. She also worked for the Weld County Sheriff's Department! I bet this whole mess is making them quite proud!
The trial has started, and I will be posting updates to the blog.
UPDATE 2:41 p.m.
Here is the link to the Tribune who has all of the case history and everything to do with trial in a special section. It has everything!
http://greeleytrib.com/article20080218/SPECIAL_MEDIA/792557638
Friday, February 22, 2008
A Great Blog
Hi everyone! I just wanted to say what a great blog Sprocket has. It is one of the best blogs I have ever read. Great trial coverage and and a lot of humor.
I am truly honored to consider Sprocket one of my dearest friends. Please check out her site. The url is: http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/
Well, I need to catch up on my reading tonight. Hopefully, I will have something interesting to post tomorrow. Everyone have a great night!
Thanks for reading.
Tezi
I am truly honored to consider Sprocket one of my dearest friends. Please check out her site. The url is: http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/
Well, I need to catch up on my reading tonight. Hopefully, I will have something interesting to post tomorrow. Everyone have a great night!
Thanks for reading.
Tezi
Just a Short Post Today...
Just a short post today, both of my daughters have the flu, so I am trying to make sure they are OK and I am keeping Kayli away from them, hoping she doesn't catch it!
I wanted to give a special shout-out to Sprocket and her great blog with its great contributors! They did an excellent job on the Jensen trial that just concluded. I didn't know anything about the case until I read the blog, then I was hooked! The url is: http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/
I wanted to give a special shout-out to Sprocket and her great blog with its great contributors! They did an excellent job on the Jensen trial that just concluded. I didn't know anything about the case until I read the blog, then I was hooked! The url is: http://sprocket-trials.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
I've Changed the Name of the Blog
Hi everyone! I have decided to change the name of the blog to "True Crime Tidbits and Real Life Ramblings." I think that describes the blog better. If you don't like the name, please let me know and give me a suggestion! TIA....
Today, my granddaughter who is seven months old and I spent the day together. She is trying to crawl and she's into everything. Her name is Kayli. She also has decided that sleep is against her religion. She only takes about a 40 minute nap all day long! She gets up at 6 a.m. every morning and by the time bedtime comes at night, she's got me exhausted! She is the highlight of my life. She has brought my husband and me closer together. He enjoys spending time with her also. He still doesn't change diapers but that's ok. He never changed them with any of our children, so I really didn't expect him to suddenly start changing Kayli's diapers.
The murder of Jessie Davis and baby Chloe really bothers me. I guess it's because I realize just how precious babies are. Not that I didn't know this before, but after Kayli was born, my whole outlook on life changed for the better. I try to live each day to its fullest, because you just never know when life is going to end. Kayli has really helped my husband and me get through the death of his youngest brother who was just 23 years old in August. I just don't understand how people like Bobby Cutts and Scott Peterson (just to name a few) could kill their own children and their mothers before they even got a chance to live. I guess that it is a good thing that I don't understand why they killed them.
I am going to put the baby to sleep now and say a special prayer for baby Chloe and Jessie Davis. I hope they are at peace now that the jury has found Bobby Cutts guilty.
Thanks for reading.
Tezi
Today, my granddaughter who is seven months old and I spent the day together. She is trying to crawl and she's into everything. Her name is Kayli. She also has decided that sleep is against her religion. She only takes about a 40 minute nap all day long! She gets up at 6 a.m. every morning and by the time bedtime comes at night, she's got me exhausted! She is the highlight of my life. She has brought my husband and me closer together. He enjoys spending time with her also. He still doesn't change diapers but that's ok. He never changed them with any of our children, so I really didn't expect him to suddenly start changing Kayli's diapers.
The murder of Jessie Davis and baby Chloe really bothers me. I guess it's because I realize just how precious babies are. Not that I didn't know this before, but after Kayli was born, my whole outlook on life changed for the better. I try to live each day to its fullest, because you just never know when life is going to end. Kayli has really helped my husband and me get through the death of his youngest brother who was just 23 years old in August. I just don't understand how people like Bobby Cutts and Scott Peterson (just to name a few) could kill their own children and their mothers before they even got a chance to live. I guess that it is a good thing that I don't understand why they killed them.
I am going to put the baby to sleep now and say a special prayer for baby Chloe and Jessie Davis. I hope they are at peace now that the jury has found Bobby Cutts guilty.
Thanks for reading.
Tezi
Monday, February 18, 2008
One Reason I Am so Interested in True Crime
I guess you could say that I got interested in true crime at a very young age. I always liked watching shows about crime, but when someone I knew came up missing and then later murdered, I was hooked on trying to find out as much as I could about the murder. I am not going to mention any names, because I think the victims of the guilty parties deserve the chance to move on.
This case disturbs me because I knew the accused, the victim, and most of all the children involved.
When I was around 15, a man went missing in the town I lived in. I was very good friends with his step-daughter. However, there were some strange things going on about the time this man disappeared. The strangest thing was my friend's mom was sleeping with her daughter's boyfriend!!! She was around 35 and he was 17. I went to school with this "boy" also. The whole time the man was missing, his brother kept questioning the wife about her relationship with the "boy." Of course she denied there was a relationship, but a blind person could see what was going on.
About two weeks later, the man's body was discovered in an abandoned mine shaft about 80 miles from his home. Someone had beat him to death and tried to set him on fire to destroy his body. His body didn't burn though, so he was identified fairly quickly. After he was discovered the police again questioned his wife, her children, and the other "man." No one said anything about what they might have known about the crime. Basically life went on and this case was shelved.
The mother married the "other man," and they took her children and moved out of the county. Her new husband kept in touch with his family who still lived in the town where the murder occurred. Approximately seven years after the murder, they moved back, mistakenly thinking that the statute of limitations had expired. What they didn't know apparently, was in Colorado, there is no statute of limitations on murder. Around the time they moved back, the eldest daughter (who was my friend in high school), finally told her biological father what happened on that February night back in 1982. Her father then called the police.
The horror of what this "mother" put her children through and the death her then-husband suffered is beyond anything I can imagine.
The murder had been planned for a few weeks. The mother and her new boyfriend wanted to be together, but they didn't want to wait for her to be divorced. They figured the easiest way to get her husband out of the picture was just to kill him. They figured no one would be any wiser. The husband was an over-the-road truck driver, so he was gone a lot and may not have been aware about his wife's affair with her young boyfriend. I don't think if it was ever addressed whether or not the husband knew about the affair.
The husband arrived home one night in February of 1982. He walked into an ambush. The young boyfriend beat him to death with a baseball bat while the wife watched and the children were told to stay in their rooms until they were told to come out. The children heard the murder happen. The oldest daughter described the first hit as "ungodly." After the boyfriend was done beating the man with the bat, the mother made the children come out of the room and clean up the blood and other evidence while she and the boyfriend loaded the body into the car. Then, she made the children get into the car and go with her and the boyfriend to dump the body down the mine shaft.
This poor girl was threatened as were her siblings for years about WHAT would happen if they ever told anyone what happened to the victim. However, in 1989 the eldest daughter could no longer live with the secret and told her father. Both the wife and her husband were arrested very soon after the daughter told her father what happened. Two or three of the children testified at both trials about the horror of that night and the things they lived with since that horrible night.
Both the wife and her "new" husband were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to 20 years to life. Both come up for parole in 2009. They divorced in the early 1990s, and she took the stand in her own defense to directly contradict the statement her "husband" gave to the police. She never once took any responsibility or apologized to her children for what she made them do. At least the "husband" made the effort to ask for the children's forgiveness as well as apologizing to the victim's family.
In 1993, I had the opportunity to talk to the "new husband" while he was in the same prison as a relative of mine was. He admitted to the murder and he told me he didn't think it was fair that he was tried as an adult, since he was only 17 when he killed the man. I told him I thought it was more than fair, and he should be thanking his lucky stars he was sentenced to death! As it stands right now, he has the better chance at making parole his first time before the board. At least he shows remorse for what happened, but I can't say that his ex-wife does. Personally, I think she just needs to stay in prison for the rest of her life. She destroyed her four children's lives because of her selfishness.
I should say there were other witnesses that actually knew what happened but stayed silent until they were told they would be facing charges unless they told the truth. It was amazing to me that these people could actually live with themselves knowing what happened.
My life has since been touched by a close relative dying in a very suspicious manner. I can say that until a family has answers there is no peace. I know I go to sleep wondering what I can do in order to find out what actually happened to my relative. It's almost like banging my head against a brick wall, because I have found out that the police aren't really interested in digging deeper in the case of my relative. Officially, the case is still "under investigation," but I have the feeling it's in the "round" file.
Well, that about sums up how I got interested in true crime.
Tezi
This case disturbs me because I knew the accused, the victim, and most of all the children involved.
When I was around 15, a man went missing in the town I lived in. I was very good friends with his step-daughter. However, there were some strange things going on about the time this man disappeared. The strangest thing was my friend's mom was sleeping with her daughter's boyfriend!!! She was around 35 and he was 17. I went to school with this "boy" also. The whole time the man was missing, his brother kept questioning the wife about her relationship with the "boy." Of course she denied there was a relationship, but a blind person could see what was going on.
About two weeks later, the man's body was discovered in an abandoned mine shaft about 80 miles from his home. Someone had beat him to death and tried to set him on fire to destroy his body. His body didn't burn though, so he was identified fairly quickly. After he was discovered the police again questioned his wife, her children, and the other "man." No one said anything about what they might have known about the crime. Basically life went on and this case was shelved.
The mother married the "other man," and they took her children and moved out of the county. Her new husband kept in touch with his family who still lived in the town where the murder occurred. Approximately seven years after the murder, they moved back, mistakenly thinking that the statute of limitations had expired. What they didn't know apparently, was in Colorado, there is no statute of limitations on murder. Around the time they moved back, the eldest daughter (who was my friend in high school), finally told her biological father what happened on that February night back in 1982. Her father then called the police.
The horror of what this "mother" put her children through and the death her then-husband suffered is beyond anything I can imagine.
The murder had been planned for a few weeks. The mother and her new boyfriend wanted to be together, but they didn't want to wait for her to be divorced. They figured the easiest way to get her husband out of the picture was just to kill him. They figured no one would be any wiser. The husband was an over-the-road truck driver, so he was gone a lot and may not have been aware about his wife's affair with her young boyfriend. I don't think if it was ever addressed whether or not the husband knew about the affair.
The husband arrived home one night in February of 1982. He walked into an ambush. The young boyfriend beat him to death with a baseball bat while the wife watched and the children were told to stay in their rooms until they were told to come out. The children heard the murder happen. The oldest daughter described the first hit as "ungodly." After the boyfriend was done beating the man with the bat, the mother made the children come out of the room and clean up the blood and other evidence while she and the boyfriend loaded the body into the car. Then, she made the children get into the car and go with her and the boyfriend to dump the body down the mine shaft.
This poor girl was threatened as were her siblings for years about WHAT would happen if they ever told anyone what happened to the victim. However, in 1989 the eldest daughter could no longer live with the secret and told her father. Both the wife and her husband were arrested very soon after the daughter told her father what happened. Two or three of the children testified at both trials about the horror of that night and the things they lived with since that horrible night.
Both the wife and her "new" husband were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to 20 years to life. Both come up for parole in 2009. They divorced in the early 1990s, and she took the stand in her own defense to directly contradict the statement her "husband" gave to the police. She never once took any responsibility or apologized to her children for what she made them do. At least the "husband" made the effort to ask for the children's forgiveness as well as apologizing to the victim's family.
In 1993, I had the opportunity to talk to the "new husband" while he was in the same prison as a relative of mine was. He admitted to the murder and he told me he didn't think it was fair that he was tried as an adult, since he was only 17 when he killed the man. I told him I thought it was more than fair, and he should be thanking his lucky stars he was sentenced to death! As it stands right now, he has the better chance at making parole his first time before the board. At least he shows remorse for what happened, but I can't say that his ex-wife does. Personally, I think she just needs to stay in prison for the rest of her life. She destroyed her four children's lives because of her selfishness.
I should say there were other witnesses that actually knew what happened but stayed silent until they were told they would be facing charges unless they told the truth. It was amazing to me that these people could actually live with themselves knowing what happened.
My life has since been touched by a close relative dying in a very suspicious manner. I can say that until a family has answers there is no peace. I know I go to sleep wondering what I can do in order to find out what actually happened to my relative. It's almost like banging my head against a brick wall, because I have found out that the police aren't really interested in digging deeper in the case of my relative. Officially, the case is still "under investigation," but I have the feeling it's in the "round" file.
Well, that about sums up how I got interested in true crime.
Tezi
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Apparently I need to learn how to do this blogging thing! Thanks to Sprocket for pointing out one of the mistakes I already made!!!!
I am going to post about a crime case that is close to home for me later on tonight. It involves two people that I used to be acquainted with. So stayed tuned!
Thanks!
Tezi
I am going to post about a crime case that is close to home for me later on tonight. It involves two people that I used to be acquainted with. So stayed tuned!
Thanks!
Tezi
Saturday, February 16, 2008
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The purpose of this blog is to discuss true crime cases, trials, and missing persons.
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Ms. Kayli's Grammy AKA Tezi
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