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Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka
Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka
| Posted By:
Star
@ Jan 13 2007, 03:05 PM |
All for Love
Well, it has been one year since Karla Homolka slipped into obscurity after she had been duped by her employer and by a local Montreal Radio Show. She moved away from her location of the day, to go into hiding.
A year to the day later and after months of being followed, after her comings are goings were being noted and recorded and after closely watching how she interacted with her neighbors within her own community, she was finally approached on the Streets of Montreal by a reporter and she was asked how her life was going.
As with all people who have something to hide, she looked like a deer caught in the headlights and after several seconds of not finding her tongue, she finally donned her oversized sunglasses and iterated that she "had nothing to say". Upon being told that several of her neighbors didn't like having here there, living among them, she was asked to respond and instead she turned on her heel and walked away. The cameras and reporter relentlessly pursued her until she got on a city bus and rolled out of sight.
Karla lives in a decent looking apartment, with a nice balcony. She has a dog. She has no responsibilities, as she is unemployed and for all intents and purposes, she appears to be surviving rather well in this life she continues to maintain is horrific.
Do we care if she is happy? Is it our job to care if she is happy? Is it our responsibility to ensure that her life goes smoothly in order to prevent any ricidivism? If she does reoffend, is the public supposed to be responsible simply because they didn't welcome her with open arms?
When does Karla answer for Karla? When does she bite the bullet, admit to her crimes, show the very people who are supposed to be responsible for her happiness, that she is truly remorseful and when should she start considering possibly moving away? The very Province which she thought would welcome her with open arms or who were just too ignorant and ill-informed is swiftly becoming her worst enemy.
How long do we have to put up with paying her way, feeling sorry for her and feeling guilty for all of her failures in this life? When is the Justice System going to get real? Your guess is as good as mine!
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Story submitted by Star on January 23, 2006
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Two Missing Boys, One Since 2002, Found in Missouri
Two Missing Boys, One Since 2002, Found in Missouri
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LeeAnn
@ Jan 13 2007, 10:05 AM |
TWO MISSING BOYS FOUND AFTER FOUR YEARS IN MISSOURI
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A boy missing since 2002 was discovered living in a Missouri apartment on Friday along with a 13-year-old whose disappearance this week prompted an intense search, and authorities charged a man with kidnapping.
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A tip about a white pickup truck seen in the vicinity of Monday's suspected kidnapping of Ben Ownby led authorities to the suburban St. Louis apartment of Michael Devlin, 41, where both boys were discovered apparently unharmed.
"Both appear to be in good health," said a relieved Gary Toelke, the Franklin County Sheriff.
Shawn Hornbeck, 15, was last seen on October 6, 2002, riding his bicycle in the St. Louis suburb of Richwoods. Toelke said his discovery was a shock to investigators who stormed Devlin's Kirkwood, Missouri, apartment.
A neighbor of Devlin's told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch she had seen Hornbeck for years playing with friends in the neighborhood, and assumed he was Devlin's son.
Devlin was charged with a single count of kidnapping and ordered held on $1 million bond, with more charges likely, authorities said.
A search was launched when Ownby, a straight-A student and Boy Scout, disappeared after getting off a school bus near his Beaufort, Missouri, home.
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Montreal College Shootings
Montreal College Shootings
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@ Sep 14 2006, 07:53 AM |
| MONTREAL, Quebec
(AP) --
Investigators tried to determine Thursday, why a young man in a black trench coat and a mohawk haircut opened fire in a Montreal college, killing one woman and leaving 19 other people wounded. Six victims remained in critical condition, including two in extremely critical condition.
The attacker's name wa Kimveer Gill, 25, of Laval, near Montreal, a police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because police were not ready to announce it publicly yet. The official said they searched his home. Police credited aggressive new procedures with stopping the gunman, who died in a shootout with police.
Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme. said the lessons learned from other mass shootings had taught police to try to stop such assaults as quickly as possible. "Before our technique was to establish a perimeter around the place and wait for the SWAT team. Now the first police officers go right inside. The way they acted saved lives," he said.
Witnesses said the gunman started shooting outside downtown Dawson college Wednesday, then entered the second-floor cafeteria and opened fire without uttering a word. At times, he hid behind vending machines before emerging to take aim -- at one point at a teenager who tried to photograph him with his cell phone.
Police dismissed suggestions that terrorism played a role in the lunch-hour attack. They said the 25-year-old attacker was from the Montreal area, but provided little other information. His car was still at the school, and police were searching his apartment, said Police Sgt. Francois Dore. The young man opened fire haphazardly at no target in particular, until he saw the police and took aim at them, Delorme said.
Police hid behind a wall as they exchanged fire with the gunman, whose back was against a vending machine, said student Andrea Barone, who was in the cafeteria. He said the officers proceeded cautiously because many students were trapped around the assailant, who yelled "Get back! Get back!" every time an officer tried to move closer. Eventually, Barone said, the gunman went down in a hail of bullets. Delorme said some officers were at the school on an unrelated matter when the shooting erupted. He said reinforcements rushed to the scene and took part in the shooting.
Scores of students fled into the streets after the shooting began. Some had clothes stained with blood; others cried and clung to each other. Two nearby shopping centers and a daycare center also were evacuated and subway service was disrupted.
"I was terrified. The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn't care, he was just shooting at everybody," said student Devansh Smri Vastava. "There were cops firing. It was so crazy." Police said the attacker had a rapid-fire rifle and two other weapons. They did not provide details. Although police initially suggested the gunman had killed himself, Delorme later said at a news conference that "based on current information, the suspect was killed by police."
Dr. Tarek Ruzek of Montreal General Hospital said Thursday that two of the 11 people that were admitted to his hospital are in "extremely critical condition." One has head wounds and the other has abdominal wounds. The eleven shooting victims -- six men and five women -- range in age from 17-48.
"Today we have witnessed a cowardly and senseless act of violence unfold at Montreal's Dawson College," Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. "Our primary concern right now is to ensure the safety and recovery of all those who were injured during this tragedy." The school was closed until Monday.
The shooting recalled the 1999 attack at Columbine High School in Colorado, where two students wearing trench coats killed 13 people before committing suicide. Police in Colorado were criticized for moving too slowly to stop those gunmen. Canada's worst mass shooting took place in Montreal when gunman Marc Lepine, 25, killed 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic on December 6, 1989, before shooting himself.
That shooting spawned efforts for new gun laws achieved mainly as the result of efforts by survivors and relatives of Lepine's victims. Dawson, with about 10,000 students, was the first English-language institution in Quebec's network of university preparatory colleges when it was founded in 1969.
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The Girl in a Box
The Girl in a Box
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@ Sep 2 2006, 12:30 PM |
Carol Smith
On Thursday May 19, 1977, 20-year-old Carol Smith (not her real name) left Eugene, Oregon to visit a friend in the Northern California town of Westwood, almost 400 miles away She had no car or money for a bus, but she was used to getting around with her thumb, so she hitchhiked.
"I just decided," Carol later said in an A&E documentary, "that I was going to go down and wish her a happy birthday."
Despite the fact that four years earlier, Edmund Kemper had stalked and killed female hitchhikers in San Jose, California most young women did not give the potential dangers of the practice much thought. Hitchhiking in the '70s was a way of life, part of a statement of freedom that the youth subculture had adopted in recent years. Eschewing material things or simply having no money, they got around based on their belief in the kindness of strangers.
So Carol figured she'd find a ride fairly easily down Interstate 5 into the next state. She never anticipated just what would happen when she did get a ride and was unable to get out. Her benefactors had no plans to kill her. They had something else in mind.
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Story submitted by Star September 2, 2006
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Robert Pickton
Robert Pickton
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Star
@ Jun 4 2006, 10:48 AM |
Low Track
Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is the poorest neighborhood in British Columbia--in all of Canada, for that matter. No other slum or ghetto in the country matches the squalor of this 10-block urban wasteland, with its rundown hotels and pawn shops, stained and fractured sidewalks, gutters and alleyways littered with garbage, used condoms and discarded hypodermic needles. Downtown Eastside has another name as well, used commonly by residents and the police who clean up after them. They call the district "Low Track," and it fits.
Low Track is Vancouver's Skid Row. Its cold heart is the intersection of Main and Hastings, nicknamed "Pain and Wastings" by the denizens who know it best. Low Track is the heart of British Columbia's rock-bottom drug scene, estimates of its junkie population ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 at any given moment. The drugs of choice are heroin and crack cocaine, supplied by motorcycle gangs or Asian cartels that stake out choice blocks for themselves and defend their turf with brute force. Most of Low Track's female addicts support their habits via prostitution, trolling the streets night and day, haunted creatures rendered skeletal by what one Seattle Times reporter has dubbed "the Jenny Crack diet." Safe sex is an illusion in this neighborhood, which boasts the highest HIV infection rate in North America.
Low Track's recent history is a tale of unrelenting failure. Vancouver lured affluent tourists by the hundreds of thousands to Expo '86, but the prospect of easy money brought a corresponding influx of the poor and hopeless, most of them gravitating to Downtown Eastside. Around the same time, competition among drug cartels flooded the district with cheap narcotics, encouraging a new generation of addicts to turn on, tune in and drop out. Surrounding districts passed new laws to purge their streets of prostitutes, driving the women out of Burnaby and North Vancouver, into Downtown Eastside. In 1994, federal cutbacks left welfare recipients short of cash, while mental hospitals disgorged patients onto the streets. By 1997, careless sex and shared needles had taken their toll in Low Track, one-fourth of the neighborhood's residents testing HIV-positive. So far, government needle-exchange programs have failed to stem the plague, despite provision of some 2.8 million needles in Low Track each year.
Low Track is infamous for its "kiddy stroll," featuring prostitutes as young as 11. Some of those work the streets, while others are secured by their pimps in special trick pads. New prospects arrive in Low Track every day, runaways and adventure-seekers dubbed "twinkies" by those already trapped in The Life. A 1995 survey of Downtown Eastside's working girls revealed that 73 percent of them entered the sex trade as children and the same percent were unwed mothers, averaging three children each. Of those, 90 percent had lost children to the state; fewer than half knew where their children were. More than 80 percent of the Low Track prostitutes were born and raised outside Vancouver. In 1998 they averaged one death per day from drug overdoses, the highest rate in Canadian history.
But there were other dangers on the street, as well. Three years before Expo '86 opened its gates, prostitutes began to vanish from Low Track. By the time police noticed the trend, 14 years later, more than two-dozen had already disappeared without a trace.
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Story submitted by Star on June 4, 2006
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