Death In A Basement

Gertrude Baniszewski

Introduction
Sylvia Likens lied dead in a basement after being subjected to daily torture that was brutal in nature. She was tortured by other teenagers and it was masterminded by Gertrude Baniszewski, who had children of her own and multiple failed marriages. What drove Baniszewski to commit one of Indiana’s most heinous crime. Was she subjected to abuse or consumed with paranoia and self hatred, that she needed to blame someone for her own failings in life?

Gertrude van Fossan
Gertrude van Fossan was born on September 19, 1929 to Hugh M. and Mollie M. van Fossan in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was the third child out of six children in her family. When she was 11, her own father die in her own arms from a heart attack. She was very close to her father. It most likely devastated young Gertrude and changed her. Her relationship with her mother was rocky and marked by frequent conflicts. The constant conflicts with her mother must have had a negative influence on Gertrude later in life.

By the time she was 16, she dropped out of school to marry Gertrude met John Baniszewski, who was 18 years old. John Baniszewski was a sheriff deputy. They were married and had four children together. Gertrude stayed with John for 10 years despite the fact that he had a volcanic personality. Gertrude would divorce from John Baniszewski in 1963. She would be involved in a relationship with 23 year old Dennis Lee Wright, while she was 37 years old. They would have a son out of wedlock named Dennis Jr. and another child that stillbirth, the first of the seven she would have in her life. While they lived together, Wright often abused Baniszewski and one day he left her and never came back. Afterwards, Baniszewski re-married John Baniszewski.

All the abuse, having a child out of wedlock, and six miscarriage most likely added to Gertrude’s ever building up rage. On top of it, she looked old for her age. On top of it, she was thin, sickly, asthmatic from smoking too much, and often nervous and on the edge. Baniszewsk pented up her rage, until the Likens came to live at the Baniszewski residence at 3850 East New York Street.

Sylvia Likens

Sylvia Marie Likens
Sylvia Marie Likens was born on January 3, 1949 in Lebanon, Indiana to Betty and Lester Likens, who were traveling carnival workers. Sylvia had four siblings from two sets of twins, Diana and Daniel and Jenny and Benny and was the middle child. Her family was unstable and often moved around and living at different houses.

She earned money by babysitting and ironing clothes, the same job that Baniszewski. Sylvia was a typical teenager. Her father in July of 1965, Lester Likens wanted Gertrude Baniszewski to “straighten” her daughter out and also babysit Jenny Likens, who was crippled from polio. However, Lester Likens knew Baniszewski for about a couple of days. Also, he did not get a good look insider the Baniszewski residence, which was bad condition and filthy. Lester Likens paid $20 to Gertrude Baniszewski, who was poor and living with seven children: Paula Baniszewski, Stephanie Baniszewski, John Baniszewski Jr., Marie Baniszewski, Shirley Baniszewski, James Baniszewski, and Dennis Lee Wright Jr. On top of it, she had no husband.

Paranoia And Rage

Gertrude Baniszewski's House

The relationship between the Likens girls and Baniszewski were good at first. They got along well at one point. They started school at Arsenal Technical High School and attended a fundamentalist church, led by Rev. Roy Julian. By the second week, Baniszewski’s pent up rage begin to show because she was not receiving her payment. She would yell at the Likens girls, “I took care of you two bitches for nothing!” and would make them lie in bed to spank them with their buttocks exposed. However, the next day, she did receive her payment from Lester Likens. It was only a start of Baniszewski’s festering rage manifesting into violence.

Baniszewski would start paddling the Likens daughter after she accused them of stealing from stores. This is despite the fact that they or their parents paid for it. Besides her rage, Baniszewski’s paranoia also begin to emerge. This sickly and thin woman was becoming increasingly paranoid and volcanic and was projecting it through the Sylvia and Jenny Likens.

There were three kinds of accusations that Baniszewski would level against Sylvia in an attempt to cover up her own shortcomings. They were dishonesty, physically unclean, and sexually promiscuous. Baniszewski accused Sylvia Likens of being dishonest, yet she was being dishonest by going by the name Mrs. Wright, to cover up an illegitimate son she had. As for being unclean, her house was a mess because she lived with seven children and no husband. It was probably true that Sylvia was dirty herself, but Baniszewski was a “cesspool”. As for being sexually promiscuous, Baniszewski was sexually promiscuous herself. She bore a child out of wedlock. Also, Paula, was sexually promiscuous and was pregnant herself. Baniszewski was deeply worried about her reputation and feared Sylvia might destroy it. One could assume Baniszewski was afraid that she could be exposed as having a child out of wedlock, which carried a heavy stigma back than.

Trouble Is Brewing
If the abuse heaped on Sylvia were bad. It was just the beginning and would get worse as time progressed. To Sylvia at first, she thought she was being disciplined for behaving bad, which she never got from her parents. However, Baniszewski’s festering rage begin to flare up. In one instance in August, Sylvia went under the bed covers with her boyfriend. Baniszewski saw them and angrily shouted, “You’re going to have a baby!” She than kicked Sylvia in the crotch, which would be the first of the many attacks she would receive.

Sylvia imagined that she was pregnant, when in reality she was not. This made Paula resentful and she attacked Sylvia out of anger. Paula yelled at Sylvia, “You ain’t fit to sit in a chair.” Sylvia decided to fight back by spreading rumors at Tech High School that Paula and Stephanie were prostitutes.

However, Stephanie’s boyfriend, Coy Hubbard, heard about this and got enraged. She came up to Sylvia and brutally beat her up. Coy was 14 years old, but very large for his age and had frequent disciplinary problems at school. This would be the first beating Hubbard would do to Likens, but it was the start for him.

Gertrude Baniszewski encouraged other children to believe that Sylvia Likens was bad and to beat her up. One of Sylvia’s friends, Anna Siscoe, who was 13 years old turned against her after Baniszewski told her she was a prostitute. Baniszewski was trying everything to stop the rumor about her own daughter being a prostitute and whore. From there, Anna attacked Sylvia and Sylvia yelled, “Oh, my baby!” Sylvia’s delusions about being pregnant was from others saying that she was pregnant. Also, Gertrude would whispered sexually tinged into Paula and Judy Duke, which resulted in more fights.

Everything Is Getting Worse
Sylvia was not realizing the abuse she was getting was getting worse. She probably did not feel that way. One day in October, Sylvia needed her gym suit for her Physical Education class, which she did not have. Baniszewski refused to give any money to Sylvia. In the afternoon, Sylvia came home with the gym suit she found, but Baniszewski was enraged and believe she stole it. A recurring theme that Baniszewski would heap against Sylvia. Baniszewski kept harassing Sylvia that she stole the gym suit. Eventually, Sylvia gave in and said she stole it after being verbally abused. Baniszewski kicked and slapped and than belt snapped Sylvia until she on the ground groaning in pain.

A new torture method was introduced to Sylvia and it involved fire. Baniszewski’s pent up rage showed when she was herself burned with cigarettes by her boyfriend, Dennis Wright. The gang would use matches and lit cigarettes to burn Sylvia. Sylvia became their punching bag and for some, their hobby. An evil hobby that was turning into a deadly addiction.

Sylvia had extra money and Baniszewski was really enraged about it because as usual she thought she had stolen money. Sylvia made the money by selling used bottles. Baniszewski forced an empty Coke bottle up Sylvia’s vagina, while she was weeping. Than Stephanie saw Sylvia naked with a bottle up her vagina. At the time, Stephanie did not know that her mother was the one who ordered it to happen. Stephanie angrily rushes to Sylvia and viciously slaps her.

One night, Sylvia wet the bed because of constant anxiety attacks and the persistent injuries she received from all the blows. Baniszewski was really angry at Sylvia for wetting herself and she and forced her to live in the basement with the dog. They saw Sylvia as too dirty, even though the house was dirty as it is. Paula deprived Sylvia of the toilet in response to her bedwetting.

Gates Of Hell

The basement that Sylvia Likens was held.

The basement would Sylvia’s new home. Also, the worst of her torture were coming. The torture Sylvia endured was typical of people at Soviet GULAGS and Nazis Death Camp prisoners had to endure. They would fill the bath tub with hot and scalding water and dunk Sylvia in it in a form of sadistic bathing to “clean her”. It was often carried out by Gertrude and Paula Baniszewski. Other times, Richard Hobbs would come and do the vile bath on Sylvia. Paula would rub salt on Sylvia’s raw wounds.

Sylvia would be nude and be a target of other neighborhood children. They would burn, kick, punch, push, and throw her to the ground. They were told it was okay to do it because an adult was there, Gertrude Baniszewski. Sylvia was famish and would eat soup with her fingers. She would be forced to eat her own excretion.

Things were looking good for Sylvia or were they? Diana Shoemaker, the older sister of Sylvia came to visit the Baniszewskis. Gertrude Baniszewski let her in, but on one condition, she could not see her sister and for obvious reasons. Shoemaker would see what happened to Sylvia and she would rescue her and call the police. Shoemaker kept insisting on seeing Sylvia, but Baniszewski denied her that opportunity. Also, Baniszewski threatened to call the police on Shoemaker and have her arrested for trespassing.

A public health nurse came on reports that a girl had sores on her body. While the nurse came, Jenny was scared and at the same time feeling a sense of relief. She thought this could be a rescue from the brutal chain of torture. Gertrude Baniszewski, showing her raging psychopathic side, yelled at Jenny about saying anything about her sister, she would get the same treatment. Baniszewski ordered Jenny to clean the dishes in the kitchen, which she did. Jenny knew that she could have the same fate as her sister, Sylvia. Than Baniszewski told the nurse that Sylvia was out and she had kicked her out of the house for being dirty and a prostitute. However, Sylvia was languishing in the basement under them. The nurse left the Baniszewski house and filed it as a “one time” visit. There would be no follow up. This would prove tragic. Jenny’s sense of rescue was dashed.

I Am A Prostitute And Proud Of It
It is now Saturday in late October and Baniszewski let her sleep upstairs with one condition. Baniszewski instructed John and Stephanie Baniszewski and Coy Hubbard to tie her up to the bed in hopes she will not wet herself. In any case, Sylvia did wet the bed. The next morning was not any better either. They forced another empty bottle up Sylvia’s vagina. Gertrude Baniszewski wanted revenge and teach Sylvia Likens a lesson for spreading rumors about her daughter, Paula and Stephanie, being prostitutes and was doing it to her.

Baniszewski orders Hobbs to put a tattoo on Sylvia. Hobbs eagerly accepted it and tied Sylvia up and had her gagged. Baniszewski heated a sewing needle and carved on Sylvia, “I’M”. Than he hands it to Hobbs to finish the vile tattooing job. Hobbs asked how to spell prostitute, in which she wrote “I’m A Prostitute” on a piece of paper. Than Paula and ten-year-old Shirley Baniszewski came wanted to brand Sylvia with a “S”. It was likely the “S” was for “slave”. Hobbs than burns the first curb of “S” and called on Jenny to finish it. She was horrified to see her sister being tortured and branded like this. Jenny too was participating in the torture of her own sister and realizing she had to get out of this. Jenny decided not to brand her own sister, despite fears that she too could end up as her sister. Shirley burned the “S”, which looked like a “3”.

Gertrude Baniszewski taunted Sylvia Likens about the words tattooed to her stomach, which was “I’m A Prostitute”. She yelled, “What are you going to do now Sylvia?” “You can’t get married now, you can’t undress in front of anyone. What are you going to do now?” in front of Randy Leeper, Shirley Baniszewski, Richard Hobbs, and Jenny Likens. The youths probably started to realize this was going too far and they wanted to stop this, but feared they might be next. Sylvia started weeping in fear and was deeply afraid. In between sobs, she said, “I guess there’s nothing I can do. It’s on there.”

Sylvia was sent back to the basement, where Coy Hubbard violently abused her. Jenny Likens went down and told her sister, “I’m going to die. I can tell.” Than they allowed her to sleep upstair. Also, they gave her a bath, which was not a brutal bath, but a normal bath. Were things about to end for Sylvia. Or something worse would happen?

Final Blow
Gertrude and Paula Baniszewski forced Sylvia to write a letter to her own parents. The letter is unsigned and goes:

To Mr. and Mrs. Likens:

I went with a gang of boys in the middle of the night. And they said that they would pay me if I would give them something so I got in the car and they all got what they wanted … and when they got finished they beat me up and left sores on my face and all over my body.

And they also put on my stomach, I am a prostitute and proud of it.

I have done just about everything that I could do just to make Gertie mad and cause [sic] Gertie more money than she’s got. I’ve tore up a new mattress and peaed [sic] on it. I have also cost Gertie doctor bills that she really can’t pay and made Gertie a nervous wreck and all her kids. . . .

Gertrude Baniszewski thought of dumping Sylvia at a waste lot. John Baniszewski and Sylvia’s sister, Jenny planned to take and dump her. However, despite Sylvia being severely injured and mutilated, she somehow managed to make a break from the “House of Pain”. Gertrude Baniszewski chased Sylvia as she headed towards the front door. Sylvia made it to the front porch, but Baniszewski caught her. She than took Sylvia to the kitchen to offer her some good. Sylvia was badly injured and could not swallow and eat anything. Baniszewski found a curtain rod that had fallen off from her dilapidated home and brutally beat her with it out of anger. Baniszewski’s rage was exploding like a bomb and she could not contain herself.

Meanwhile, John Baniszewski, who had tied up Sylvia in hopes she did not die in the house. Gertrude Baniszewski went down to the basement to offer Sylvia crackers. Sylvia told Baniszewski to give the crackers to the dogs. Perhaps she did it in defiance, knowing that she might die.

The Last Days

The mattress where Sylvia Likens' body was found.

It is Sunday October 24, 1965, which was any other day for Sylvia and the Baniszewskis. Sylvia would be subjected to abuse as usual. Gertrude and John Baniszewski brutally attacked Sylvia. Gertrude Baniszewski found a chair and violently tried to swing it at Sylvia. The chair broke before it could even hit Sylvia. A testament to how rageful Gertrude Baniszewski was. Her rage was getting uncontrollable that Gertrude found a paddle to hit Sylvia. However, she ended up hitting herself and received a black eye. From there, she yells that Coy Hubbard come down to beat up Sylvia, since she hurt herself. Hubbard found a broomstick and went down the basement to whack Sylvia.

That Sunday night, Sylvia somehow found a shovel, which was likely to be used to beat her. This time Sylvia pounded the floor in hopes of getting attention. The neighbors heard it and were disturbed. They even thought of calling the police, but they never did. That could have been one glimmer of hope for Sylvia. She was getting closer and closer to her death.

It is now Monday October 25, 1965 and Sylvia was taken upstairs for a bath. She was fully clothed this time. However, she was not breathing once the bath was over. Stephanie Baniszewski and Richard Hobbs noticed Sylvia was no longer breathing and they frantically did mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on her.

Sylvia Likens died in the bath tub.

Gertrude Baniszewski told Hobbs to call the police. Hobbs went to a nearby pay phone, since she did not have a phone in the house. Hobbs called the police to inform them that Sylvia had died. The police arrived to a scared and frantic Gertrude Baniszewski, who was trying to shift the blame away from herself from the murder of Sylvia Likens. Baniszewski handed the letter that Sylvia wrote in hopes of not being arrested. Jenny Likens whispered to a police’s ear and said, “Get me out of here and I’ll tell you everything.”

The police searched the house and to their shock, found Sylvia’s body. Even season police officers were horrified at the sight of Sylvia’s severely mutilated body. A child had died a horrible death. The police than arrested Gertrude, Paula, Stephanie and John Baniszewski, Richard Hobbs, Coy Hubbard, Mike Monroe, Randy Lepper, Judy Duke, and Anna Siscoe. They were sent to off to jail. As they were in the back of the police car, the children were likely all feeling scared and some were crying about what will happen next. They were held without any bail. It is likely while in jail, they encountered a lot of hostile inmates, since a child was killed. Inmates consider other inmates who harm and/or kill children as bottom of the hierarchy. They are often targets of brutal attacks from other inmates.

The State Of Indiana Vs. Gertrude Baniszewski
The Baniszewski trial would also be one of the largest with many defendants, all who were minors. However, murder charges were dropped against the minors, while it stood for Gertrude Baniszewski. The prosecutor was Leroy New, who was seeking the death penalty for Gertrude Baniszewski. New was assisted by Marjorie Wessner. The judge in the case was Judge Saul Rabb. Gertrude Baniszewski’s lawyer was William Erbecker. Gertrude Baniszewski planned to plea “not guilty” on grounds of insanity.

Gertrude Baniszewski was finding herself as a public enemy for the heinous crime. It was called “the single worst crime perpetrated against an individual in Indiana’s history”. She was not aware that she is one of the most hated person in America and she was facing trial in Indianapolis. She is sharing it with the likes of Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas and Charles Starkweather, who killed 11 people in a multi-state killing spree in late 1957 to early 1958.

The trial of Gertrude Baniszewski and company was sensationalized and followed by many people. People testified about the horror of what Sylvia Likens went through. The star witness for the prosecutor was Jenny Likens, who would often break down and sobbing as she detailed the gruesome treatment she and Sylvia received from Gertrude Baniszewski.

Gertrude Baniszewski would testify in her own defense. However, she testified against Sylvia Likens and was not helping her own case. The attorneys for the minors tried to shift all the blame to Gertrude Baniszewski because she was the one who instigated the torture of Sylvia Likens. The defense attorney for Gertrude Baniszewski would call 10 year old Marie Baniszewski to testify. She was tearful the whole time when she testified. Marie would be questioned by by New. Marie admitted to heating the needle used to brand Sylvia. As she was being questioned by New, Marie yelled, “Oh, God, help me!” as she was being questioned.

Once the defense and prosecution were done, the case went to the jurors. Despite the passionate argument from New that Gertrude Baniszewski deserve the death penalty did not sway the jurors. She was convicted on first degree murder, but received life in prison with no parole. This was a surprise of the public.

Gertrude Baniszewski was sent to prison for the rest of her life. She appealed as usual on grounds that the trial was prejudiced. She was granted a new trial, but sentenced to 18 years to life in prison again.

For the accomplices, the penalties widely varied. Paula Baniszewski was convicted of second-degree murder, but she somehow manged to plea to manslaughter. A few years later, she was released. Stephanie Baniszewski had murder charges dropped against her. As for Anna Siscoe, Judy Duke, Randy, Lepper and Mike Monroe, the injury to person charges were dropped as well. John Baniszewski, Coy Hubbard, and Richard Hobbs were convicted on manslaughter charges and served a total of 18 months.

Parole
Gertrude Baniszewski was in prison for nearly 20 years at the Indiana Women’s Prison. She was granted parole, but the courts declared it invalid. The reason was that it was not open to the public. It was a setback for Gertrude Baniszewski or was it? Protect the Innocent and Society’s League Against Molestation (SLAM) stepped in and managed to get 4,500 signatures. Gertrude Baniszewski’s name was mud and was the “boogeywoman of Indianapolis”. She would be the most hated person in the state of Indiana. Jenny Likens appeared on television making a plea that Gertrude Baniszewski stayed lock up for life.

Baniszewski stated at her parole hearing:

“I’m not sure what role I had in it … because I was on drugs. I never really knew her … I take full responsibility for whatever happened to Sylvia.”

In the end, Gertrude Baniszewski was paroled on December 4, 1985. This was despite a public opposition, petitions, and pleas. She moved to Indiana and changed her name to Nadine Van Fossan. She likely got nasty looks from people, who recognized her. She lived a lonely and sad person with no friends.

Karma Strikes
Her freedom would be short lived in Iowa. Gertrude Baniszewski died of lung cancer from smoking a lot at the age of 60 on June 16, 1990.

John Baniszewski changed his name to John Blake and became a truck driver and realtor and served as a lay pastor. He felt that his punishment was too light and deserved a harsher one. He lived with the guilt of the crime. As of today, he has diabetes and many health problems related to it, from vision and walking. John Baniszewski could die at any moment.

Richard Hobbs, who did most of the dirty work died of cancer at the age of 21.

Coy Hubbard went to prison for burglary and was released. Hubbard became a mechanic and was charged for two counts of murder. However, he got by being acquitted.

Stephanie Baniszewski became a schoolteacher and got married. Paula Baniszewski also got married and lived in a farm in Iowa, likely isolated from other people who shun her. They likely were lonely, which they rightfully earned for their crime.

Indianapolis’s Daughter

Sylvia Likens Memorial.

Life was not any better for the Likens after Sylvia died. Jenny Likens entered the Job Corps. In 1966 and got a job at a bank. Jenny also got married. Their parents, Betty and Lester Likens divorced in 1967, likely from the stress of losing their daughter to murder. Jenny’s twin brother, Benny, developed mental illness while serving in the US Army. He worked as a cook at various restaurants.

Betty Likens died in 1999 at the age of 71, which would be followed by Benny. Betty Likens had Gertrude Baniszewski’s obituary along with a note saying:

“Some good news. Damn old Gertrude died. Ha ha ha! I am happy about that.”

Jenny Likens died of a heart attack in 2004.

The people of Indianapolis did not forget Sylvia Likens. In fact, she became Indianapolis’s daughter and a memorial was erected in her memory in 2001 at Willard Park. It said on the memorial:

I see a light
Hope.
I feel a breeze;
Strength.
I hear a song;
Relief.
Let them through for they are the welcome ones.

It is from a poem written by Ivan Rogers. On the back of the memorial it says:

This memorial is in
memory of a young
child who died a
tragic death as a
result, laws changed
and awareness
increased.

This is a commitment
to our children, that
the Indianapolis Police
Department is working
to make this a safe city
for all our children.

On the other hand, Gertrude Baniszewski, was a person that everyone loved to hate. Her name would arouse anger and horror and joined other evil and infamous figures like Ted Bundy, Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold, and Osama bin Laden. A name that would be infamous for many years to come. Her crime would inspire novels and movies.

The Baniszewski house was recently torn down in April of 2009. It was to become a church parking lot. It stood empty and run down after the murder of Sylvia Likens. It likely was a tourist spot for people to see since it was a sight of an infamous crime.

Links
TruTV-A Young, Tortured Girl is Dead
TruTV-Baniszewski’s Background
TruTV-Foster Care
TruTV-Who Was Sylvia Likens?
TruTV-A Dubious Start
TruTV-”Was She a Masochist?”
TruTV-The Slow Descent into Horror
TruTV-The Sexless Sex Crime
TruTV-The Brutality Escalates
TruTV-No Rescue in Sight
TruTV-A Few Close Calls
TruTV-Sylvia’s Last Weekend
TruTV-The Letter Before End
TruTV-The Torture Killers on Trial
TruTV-Blaming the Victim
TruTV-Drama in the Courtroom
TruTV-1985: SLAM into Action
TruTV-In Memoriam
Wikipedia-Sylvia Likens
Wikipedia-Gertrude Baniszewski
Secret Service-National Threat Assessment Center
Secret Service-Final Report and Findings
BehaveNet-Narcissistic Personality Disorder
BehaveNet-Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Cleveland Clinic-Paranoid Personality Disorder
Mayo Clinic Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Mayo Clinic Anti-Social Personality Disorder
BPD Today-Borderline Personality Disorder DSM IV Criteria
The Chronicle of Higher Education-Virginia Tech Gunman Was ‘Collector of Injustice,’ Analysis Finds
Indy
Best Stuff-Sylvia Likens
The Cabinet-Sylvia Likens Memorial
Books Google-Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal, and Violent Behavior

My Comments

Holocaust, Purge, and September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks.

I have heard of the Likens case, but did not give much thought to this until the Megan Meier Suicide Case broke in 2007. I know this case occurred in 1965, which is a long time ago. It happened at a time, when America was getting turbulent because of Vietnam War and the Counterculture Movement. It happened before Charles Manson and his cult went on their infamous killing spree. The torture and murder of Sylvia Likens is galling. It is truly cowardly, vile, and evil. It is proof that evil exists. If you do not believe there is evil, get help and a reality check while you are at it. The murder of Likens is up there with the Manson murders, Jonestown Massacre, Jeffrey Dahmer Murders, Columbine High School Massacre, and September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. Gertrude Baniszewski heinous act would make Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and Saddam Hussein proud. They would employ her as their henchwomen along side with Heinrich Himmler, Lavarentii Beria, and Uday Hussein. This is truly a unthinkable case, especially the fact that a mother was the mastermind and was over a perceived slighting. Even more unthinkable that it was a mother who masterminded this vile crime. Granted, most of the dirty work was done by her children and other children as well. Gertrude Baniszewski evokes image of a witch and banshee because she looks ugly and I mean REALLY ugly. I think she is one of the ugliest person I have seen besides Lori Drew, Fred Phelps and his followers, Michael Crook, and Charles Manson. She looked really old for her age. Probably from all that smoking and pent up rage she had.

Lori Drew and Megan Meier

The torture and murder of Sylvia Likens eerily is similar to the Megan Meier Suicide Case. Both of them died in October, on a Monday, and happened in the Midwest, Indiana and Missouri. The torture, whether it was physical or mental were carried out over time. The masterminds of the crime were psychopathic, self hating, and vindictive mothers whose lives are empty, but the dirty work was carried out by someone else, usually teenagers or adult. The motives in both cases were over slighting on their children, in both cases, their daughters. In Drew’s case, it was being called a “Lesbian”, while Baniszewski’s case it was being called a “prostitute”. Both Gertrude Baniszewski and Lori Drew are universally reviled for their crimes, along side with Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden. Gertrude Baniszewski is still really hated even in death, which will likely befall Lori Drew.

There are differences between the two. Lori Drew mentally tortured Megan Meier over the Internet, while Gertrude Baniszewski physically tortured Sylvia Likens. Gertrude Baniszewski was poor with barely a high school education and had been married twice to the same man and lived with another. Lori Drew was well to do with a college education and married once. Baniszewski was largely unemployed and barely getting by. LOri Drew ran a successful coupon business called The Drew Advantage, which is now defunct, while Curt was a real estate agent. The Likens were a traveling carnival families. The Meiers were well to do with a real estate agent wife and machinist husband.

Top Right to Left: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Pol Pot. Bottom Left to Right: Osama bin Laden, Jim Jones, and Casey Anthony

Baniszewski’s mentality is no different from Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, and Osama bin Laden. In fact, I consider Gertrude Baniszewski one of the worst person in the world. Torturing and killing a child, whether is physically and/or mentally is obviously abhorrent. Gertrude Baniszewski is certainly one of the most hated person of the 1960s, post-World War II, and probably in history. I put her right up there with the likes of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Osama bin Laden, Jim Jones, and Casey Anthony, all of them are the personification of evil. Of course, mass murder and genocide is very atrocious and horrid. That being said, I am not in any ways trivializing the horrid acts of 9/11, Holocaust, and Purge. 3,000 people killed on live television, 30 million killed in the Holocaust, 60 million killed in the Purge. Baniszewski did not commit genocide, crash airplanes into buildings, or murder people to start a race war. They felt persecuted and they lashed out in the form of mass murder, terrorism, or genocide. Families losing loved ones and survivors bearing the scars and live to tell about it. Yes, I did see the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack unfold and I was horrified and has a profound impact on me. All are extremely horrifying and rightfully those responsible should be hated no matter what.

Gertrude Baniszewski lashed out at Sylvia Likens to teach her a lesson. She justified it because Likens was spreading rumors of one her daughters being a whore. That same justification is what Lori Drew, Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold, Osama bin Laden/September 11 Terrorists, and Adolf Hitler used. Drew was upset that Meier was spreading rumors about Sarah. Harris and Klebold felt they were bullied, even though they were bullies, when they attacked Columbine High School. Osama bin Laden and Mohammad Atta and 18 hijackers felt America and the West were persecuting Muslims and supporting Israel when they crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and near Shanksville on September 11, 2001. Hitler felt the Jews screwed Germany over during World War I and were behind the Treaty of Versailles and various woes that plagued Germany during the Great Depression. He rises to power in 1933 and wages war and exterminates two-thirds of the European Jewish population and killing untold millions in death camps. Is this in any way equating the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens with the Columbine Massacre, September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, and Holocaust? No, I am not trying to trivialize them because it would be extremely offensive. Gertrude Baniszewski did not kill many people and cause much destruction, but she is just as evil as they are.

No one will argue that Gertrude Baniszewski is evil and Machiavellian because she did use deception, like what Jim Jones, Osama bin Laden, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler used. Jones led people of all races that there would be a utopia. In the end, there was mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978. Bin Laden recruits Muslims into thinking terrorism will send them to Heaven with 72 virgins. Hitler and Stalin had good intentions which resulted in millions dead in war and genocide. Also, they had other people do their dirty work in the form of henchmen, terrorist cells, and brainwashed followers.

I do not understand why Baniszewski was not even given the death penalty. Quite frankly, she should have been executed for the crime. Also, why was she paroled? Seriously, I am sick and tired of all those bleeding heart excuses that she has changed. Psychopaths DO NOT change. They need to be put down for good like a rabid animal and for the safety of humanity. Quite frankly, I consider bleeding hearts just as bad as criminals and worthy of exterminating from this planet. Bleeding hearts deserve the same treatment that Augusto Pinochet, Suharto, or Park Chung-Hee gave to the left. They brutally tortured and killed them off and brought stability and prosperity, which are a good thing.

If the Internet existed back than or if Baniszewski did the crime today, I am pretty sure that she would be viciously and endlessly harassed, like what befell Lori Drew. Not surprisingly, since Baniszewski harmed a child, it makes her very despicable. I am pretty sure she is one of the most hated person in history, right next to Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Osama bin Laden/September 11 Terrorists. That would make Baniszewski a public enemy, which she rightfully deserves. I am pretty sure Baniszewski would be compared and lumped with other infamous figures like Charles Starkweather and Lee Harvey Oswald and would be attacked for looking ugly and thin, which is the worst insult one can heap, especially at a woman. Same thing happened to Lori Drew when she was lumped with the likes of Osama bin Laden/September 11 Terrorists and Charles Manson and attacked her for looking ugly and fat. Baniszewski is certainly the most evil woman in history besides Elizabeth Bathory, Mary Tudor, Diane Downs, and Aileen Wuornos.

Now one wonders what kind of person is Gertrude Baniszewski is. She is known to have a history of depression. Also, she likely paints herself as a good Christian and is a very self-righteous person. Gertrude Baniszewski and Likens went to a fundamentalist church. Something we have seen too many times. Just because one goes to church every Sunday DOES NOT make one a good Christian. In fact, most who go to church are not even that religious. Wanda Holloway was a church organ player and she hired a hitman to kill Shanna’s friend’s mother, which failed. In fact, I do recall learning in Bible study that going to church does not make one a Christian, let alone a good Christian. The sad fact that churches are just another social organization goes against what the Bible teaches. Also, the church that Baniszewski and Likens went did not intervene soon enough. The same thing can be said about other religions as well. How many people in the Muslim or Hindu world are really Muslims and Hindus. It is likely that most people go to their mosque or temple are not what they are. They just say they are because they want to be accepted. Also, many religious places are often the center of the community and life. It should also be pointed out, that Muslim terrorists come from families that are not that religious and are often well to do. The terrorists themselves are not very religious and only become one because their life is empty. Well, this is another topic of its own.

Bansiewski was abused by her husbands, had seven miscarriages, and a wedlock child. She was sickly, thin, looked old for her age, smoked a lot, asthmatic, and often prone to nervous attacks. It is true that many people come from that background and do not turn out to be her. This would mean one thing, Bansiewski is born evil and is a raging psychopath. She is an injustice collector, internalizer, and consumed with paranoia and self hate. Here is why I think she is that.

Baniszewski has a lot of issues of self hate because she accused Sylvia of being sexually promiscuous and pregnant. Yet she herself was sexually promiscuous and bore two children out of wedlock. Well, one of them was a stillbirth. Also, her daughter Paula was herself sexually promiscuous and pregnant after having an affair with a married woman. Baniszewski is over compensating her own short coming by going after Sylvia.

Baniszewski is an internalizer and injustice collector because she pent up her rage at every slighting. She blamed Sylvia Likens for her problems in life. All of Baniszewski’s rage exploded on Sylvia Likens in the form of abuse and torture. Gertrude Baniszewski is similar to Seung-Hui Cho and Lori Drew. They are internalizers and pent up their rage at every slighting, but never show their rage. They are vindictive and resentful at the world. Over time, their pent up rage explodes either by harassing a 13 year old girl to suicide or massacring 32 people on college campus. Cho sent his profanity filled video and manifesto to NBC. He expressed a lot of hatred and sense of being persecuted. Drew was angry that Sarah was not being friends with Megan Meier and blamed her for all the problems. Drew likely had some issues with her childhood that were festering in her. However, Cho was psychotic, while Drew is a psychopath.

Bansiewski is paranoid because she thought Sylvia Likens was spreading rumors that her daughter Paula was sexually promiscuous and pregnant, which was in fact true. Also, Sylvia spreaded rumors that Stephanie and Paula were prostitutes. I notice that paranoia is a recurring theme among evil people. We see that from Fred Phelps, Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold, and Saddam Hussein. Baniszewski is not all that different from evil figures in history. In fact, she is not all that different from school shooters that have plagued America. The Secret Service conducted a study after the Columbine Massacre about what kind person is a school shooter. They did not find one clear profile. However, they did share one thing in common, the sense of feeling persecuted and taunted, which Baniszewski clearly exhibited.

Bansiewski is a narcissist because she showed lack of empathy and has issues of jealousy. Bansiewski showed no remorse for the crime she did. She did understand the magnitude of the crime. Also, she was jealous about Sylvia in every aspect. Bansiewski was really enraged when Sylvia had extra money because Bansiewski was often broke. Her house was run down and dirty. In addition, Sylvia was seen as more attractive, while Bansiewski is seen as ugly and thin. Seeing Sylvia, must of made Bansiewski really jealous. It is true that everyone is jealous, which is human nature. At the same time, we control our jealousy. For some, they cannot control it and becomes part of them. It consumes them like a wildfire.

Bansiewski meets all nine criteria for narcissism personality disorder:
1.) Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements).
2.) Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
3.) Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).
4.) Requires excessive admiration.
5.) Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable. treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations.
6.) Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends.
7.) Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
8.) Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
9.) Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.

Bansiewski meets all seven for paranoid personality disorder:
1.)Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her.
2.)Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates.
3.)Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her.
4.)Reads benign remarks or events as threatening or demeaning.
5.)Persistently bears grudges, i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights.
6.)Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack.
7.)Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner.

Bansiewski meets five of the seven for anti-social personality disorder:
1.) Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
2.) Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.
3.) Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
4.) Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.
5.) Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
6.) Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
7.) Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.

Bansiewski meets five of the nine for borderline personality disorder:
1.) Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2.) A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3.) Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
4.) Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., promiscuous sex, eating disorders, binge eating, substance abuse, reckless driving).
5.) Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, threats or self-injuring behavior such as cutting, interfering with the healing of scars (excoriation) or picking at oneself.
6.) Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
7.) Chronic feelings of emptiness
8.) Inappropriate anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
9.) Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation, delusions or severe dissociative symptoms.

Characteristics of Gertrude Baniszewski:
Internalizer
Injustice Collector
Persecution Complex
Paranoid
Inferiority Complex
Borderline
Narcissistic
Anti-Social

Gertrude Baniszewski is a malignant psychopath.

Gertrude Baniszewski and all involved have a spot in the worst layer of Hell, which is reserved for evil and worthless scumbags of the lowest denominator like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and 9/11 Terrorists. She is being tortured endlessly in Hell by fire and brimstone. She feels constantly thirsty and cannot quench no matter what she does. I assume she is in a love triangle with Mohammad Atta and Pol Pot and is not going too well. She is a worthless scumbag of the lowest denominator like they were. On the other hand, Sylvia Likens is getting their laughs in Heaven watching Gertrude Baniszewski and Richard Hobbs getting tortured and mixed with the likes of the 9/11 Terrorists and Hitler in the worst layer of Hell. Lori Drew, Diane Downs, and Casey Anthony are next in line.

See Also:
Casey Anthony
Lori Drew
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
Fred Phelps

Bring The Children Around Me In A Circle!

Paul Orgeron

Introduction
Police arrived to a scene of carnage at Poe Elementary School in Houston on September 15, 1959. Bodies were mangled and there was a crater in the center of the carnage. Just moments ago, a bomb had exploded that claimed five people, mostly children. The bomber, Paul Orgeron was among the killed with his seven year old son, Dusty Paul. What drove Orgeron to use a bomb to kill people on a schoolyard?

Paul Harold Orgeron
Paul Harold Orgeron was born sometimes in 1909 or 1910. Not much is known about Orgeron’s parents, family, and life. It is probably safe to assume, he came from a dysfunctional family. Orgeron had a criminal record dating back to 1930 in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. He have been in and out of prison, illiterate, and had lived in Althus, Oklahoma. His wife, Betty, who had been divorced because of his abuse and married twice . He also abused his own children, Dusty and Zelda. Orgeron had been convicted three times for cracking into safes in hopes to get money.

Enrollment
Paul Orgeron and his son Dusty lived at an apartment at 2720 LaBranch Street in Houston. He lived under the pseudonym Bob Silver. The landlord, E.C. Adamses, described as quiet and not troublesome. This is despite the fact that Orgeron was a convict. On the morning of September 15, 1959, Paul Orgeron and his son drove the 1958 green and ivory Chevrolet station wagon to Poe Elementary School near Rice University. He was prepared with everything he needed. He parked his car near the school and with his son went to the office at around 10:00 AM.

Orgeron went to the front desk to talk to a clerk. The clerk at the desk, Juanita Weidner as usual asked for documents for Dusty. Paul Orgeron forgot them despite the fact that he was well prepared. Or was he really prepared? Those documents range from birth certificate, health certificate, or report cards from a previous school Dusty went. Also, when Weidner asked Orgeron what elementary school his son went, he could not recall. While Orgeron was there, the principal of Poe Elementary School, Mrs. R. E. Doty happened to be there because it was the second week of school. Orgeron politely asked, “Where is the second-grade classrooms?” Afterwards, he said he will come back the next day with proper documents for Dusty. However, Orgeron would return with his son in a few minutes with death on mind. Looks like he was more prepared for something worse…….

The Brown Suitcase
Paul Orgeron went to the station wagon and got his brown suitcase and it was quite large and heavy. As Orgeron and his son are walking towards the school, they approach second grade teacher, Patricia Johnston, at the playground, where children are playing. She is watching the children play kickball. There are about 125 people on the playground when Orgeron arrives with his heavy suitcase.

Orgeron yells out to Johnston, “Bring the children around me in a circle!” and “I have power in this suitcase. It’s the will of God!” Johnston thought to herself, “What is this strange man doing here? I don’t recognize him.” Afterwards, he hands out two rambling notes that are written childishly, but is very ominous in nature. The first note contents are:

Please do not get excite over this order I’m giving you. In this suitcase you see in my hand is fill to the top with high explosive. I mean high high. Please believe me when I say I have 2 more (illegible) that are set to go off at two times. I do not believe I can kill and not kill what is around me, an I mean my son will go. Do as I say an no one will get hurt. Please.

P. H. Orgeron

The second note contents are:

Do not get the Police department yet, I’ll tell you when.—

Please do not get excite over this order I’m giving you. In this suitcase you see in my hand it fill to the top with high explosive. Please do not make me push this button that all I have to do. And also have two 2 more cases (illegible) high explosive that are set to go off at a certain time at three different places so it will more harm to kill me, so do as I say and no one will get hurt. An I would like to talk about god while waiting for my wife.

Johnston could not read the two notes that Orgeron held. Johnston noticed a doorbell on the suitcase that Orgeron was holding. She must of felt scared by what the notes was saying. Oregeron claimed that the suitcase would go off if it touched the ground and he was waving it around. As Johnston was reading the note, another teacher, Jennie Kolter approached Johnston. Johnston handed the rambling note to Kolter and told all the children to to head into the building. Johnston alerted the principal of Orgeron’s presence.

Meanwhile, back at the playground, kept Paul Orgeron occupied. Principal Doty and school custodian James Arlie Montgomery arrived as all the children and teachers were leaving the playground. Doty demanded that Paul Orgeron leave and told him “You must leave.” However, Orgeron ignored Doty’s demands and said, “I have to get to the children, I have to follow the children to the second grade.”

Ambulance arrive at the scene.

Terror Strikes
Orgeron slipped his foot around the suitcase and Montgomery lunged at him. The suitcase fell to the ground and detonated under a maple tree after Orgeron pulled out a .32 caliber pistol and shot at it. The suitcase goes KABOOOMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Body parts, debris, and asphalt flew all over the playground. The debris hit people who were still at the playground. There was thick black smoke everywhere and silence. There are many people who are injured from the explosion. One girl was blown over 100 feet away from the powerful explosion.

A woman from nearby was handing out peppermint candy in hopes to calm the already scared children at the school. It was a frantic scene with screaming children and scared teachers and staff. They did not know who were killed and injured. People inside the school and nearby houses call the police after hearing the explosion. They realized something bad happened.

When parents got the word that there was an explosion at Poe Elementary School, they raced as soon as they can. They were obviously and understandably frantic since they had children at school. Parents were frantically searching for their children. They were nervously wondering if their children were alright, injured, or worst of all, killed. Ambulance arrived at the scene to help the casualties.

Houston Police managed to get to where the explosion. They arrived to find a 6 inch hole in the asphalt. The suitcase exploded with great force that dead bodies were horribly mangled and had their clothing ripped off of them. Also, the heat of the explosion burned the corpses. Among the killed were Kolter and Montgomery, who heroically tried to stop Orgeron. Tragically, three children were killed in the explosion as well, including Orgeron’s own son, Dusty. Nineteen people were injured including Principal Doty, which were mostly burns and projectile related injuries.

To make matters worse, Houston Police thought the bomber might of gotten away. Classes were called off for the day and everyone was evacuated from the building. Police did a sweep for bombs inside the school. Thankfully, there were no bombs found inside the school. Once that was done, teachers did a roll call of all students that were not injured and killed in the bombing. School would be back in session the next day. Also, threats were being made that bombs were placed in other Houston schools, which resulted the Texas National Guard being deployed to protect the schools. Threats were made as far as San Antonio, three hours away from Houston.

Investigation

A stick of dynamite.

Turns out, the bomber was among the killed. The police were able to recover small body parts from nearby hedges, houses, and playground. Lloyd Frazier, a lead investigator for Harris County Sheriff Department would identify fingerprints and explosives used. Orgeron’s left hands was recovered from a hedge. Police used what remains of his hand to identify him based on fingerprints, which he was required to submit as a criminal. It was determined that six sticks of dynamite went off inside the suitcase.

Police also found his station wagon, which he already had parked. They found another stick of dynamite and an receipt from August 25, 1959. It had detonators and 150 sticks of dynamite from Bond Gunderson Company in Grants, New Mexico. Also, before Orgeron arrived to Houston, he was in Grants. His knowledge of dynamite and explosives came from his experience in safe cracking, which got him in prison. One has to wonder where did all the other dynamite went. Likely, Orgeron gave them to fellow safecrackers.

Victim List
Dusty Paul Orgeron, 7
Jennie Katharine Kolter, 54
James Arlie Montgomery, 56
William S. Hawes Jr., 7
John Cecil Fitch Jr., 8

Legacy
Houston Independent School District (HISD) named two elementary schools after Jennie Kolter and James Arlie Montgomery, which are both elementary schools. They were built as Houston was growing in the 1970s and 1980s. As of today, Poe, Kolter, and Montgomery Elementary School are thriving elementary schools in Houston.

Sadly, the Poe Elementary School Bombing would not be the last schoolyard massacre. Tragically, there would be more of them, some would be much more deadlier. Seven years later on August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman sniped from the tops of the University of Texas at Austin Clocktower. Whitman claimed a total of 16 lives before police came and shot and killed him.

Misogynist Marc Lepine attacked École Polytechnique de Montréal on December 6, 1989 in Montreal, Quebec. He killed 14 people after he was angered that woman were given more preferential treatment in admissions to that school. Lepine was rejected from École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attacked Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. They had intent on destroying the school on April 20, 1999. Once the massacre was over, 13 people died and Harris and Klebold committed suicide. The Columbine Massacre occurred at a time when there were strings of school shootings from 1996 to up to April 20, 1999, which plagued Jonesboro, Thurston, Pearl, and Moses Lake.

The deadliest mass shooting in American history occurred on April 16, 2007. Seung-Hui Cho killed two people at West-Ambler Johnston hall, than stormed Norris Hall to massacre 30 people. The police arrived and Cho committed suicide. Cho sent a rambling manifesto filled with profanity. He referred to Harris and Klebold as “martyrs”.

Links
Houston Chronicles-Fire destroys 7 classrooms at Poe school
Houston Chronicles-BACK TO SCHOOL/Local heroes immortalized by schools
Houston Chronicles-Day of terror, day of heroism
Houston Chronicles-School rampage / THE DAY TERROR STRUCK HOUSTON SCHOOL / Victim in ‘59 blast never saw the man whose suitcase Bomb cost him a leg
Houston Chronicles-Tragedy in ‘59 still haunts her
Houston Chronicles Blogs-Bayou City History-Then & Now #21: St. Anne’s Catholic Church
West University Examiner-Finally, a time to remember Poe bombing
Time-TEXAS: That Man Has Dynamite
MSNBC-Community Remembers School Bombing
Google Books-Ed Gooding: Soldier, Texas Ranger
Google Books-School Shootings: What Every Parent and Educator Needs to Know to Protect
Wikipedia-Poe Elementary School attack

My Comments
I have never heard of this crime until right after the Columbine Massacre happened in 1999. Schoolyard massacres happened before the 1990s and the age of video games, which were the subject of blame following those school shootings from 1996 to 1999, most notably following Columbine. I have seen Poe Elementary School before. It looks very different today. I am surprised many locals in Houston do not know about this incident. Like I said, I knew about it after the Columbine Massacre.

Funny thing is there was no “blame game”, which plagues every school shooting since the late 1990s. One thing is that the perpetrator and father, who was an adult. Orgeron was a career criminal and sleaze bag. In addition, he was a drifter. Most school shootings since 1996 were committed by students and their own peers. People knew who they were, ranging from Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Red Lake. In addition, most those killers, were 18 or under, basically minors. Since minors were involved in those killings, it likely triggered more outrage.

There was no blame the victim following the Poe Elementary School Bombing, which is all too common following school shootings and crimes. Following Columbine, some people blamed the victims for bullying Harris and Klebold. In reality, Harris and Klebold were bullies and felt they were being persecuted. This type of mentality is Fascist and vile. Anyone who thinks that should seek help and get a MRI and x-ray on their heads to see if they have a brain and spine. They are spineless and cowards of the lowest denomination.

It is strange that there was no lawsuit filed after the Poe Elementary School Bombing. Think about the bombing happening today. There would be lawsuits against Bond Gunderson Company, HISD, and police for various reasons ranging from dynamite used, police did not act sooner enough, or the school did not provide enough security. In addition, all HISD and Houston area schools would be called off for the day and probably for the rest of the week. Who could remember what happened after Columbine Massacre? I remember my school had threats of a shooting days after the massacre.

Seriously, why would a man, let alone a father, kill children at a school. A school is a place to learn. At least Paul Orgeron is dead and rotting away in the worst layer of Hell with other schoolyard killers like Andrew Kehoe, Charles Whitman, Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold, Beslan Terrorist, and Seung-Hui Cho. He is in good company with them.

See Also:
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
Ronald O’Bryan

High School Massacre

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

Introduction

It was past noon on April 20, 1999, a Tuesday, in a unincorporated area of Jefferson County called Columbine. It was a partly cloudy day in this Denver area suburb. The Denver area is surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains. It was also one day after the anniversary of the Branch Davidian inferno and Oklahoma City Bombing, which claimed a total of 250 lives. Two killers lied dead in the library at Columbine High School, where ten people had died. The killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had shot up their school claiming a total of thirteen lives. It was unfolding on local and national news. What drove Harris and Klebold to shoot up their own high school? Was it bullying or were they protesting the government and making a political statement by attacking Columbine High School?

Eric David Harris

Eric David Harris was born on April 9, 1981 in Wichita, Kansas. Eric was the son of Wayne and Katherine Harris. Wayne Harris served in the U.S. Air Force as a transport pilot, while Kathy was a homemaker. Eric had an older brother named Kevin. Since, Harris was in a military family, they had to move frequently to different areas from Plattsburgh, New York to Oscoda, Michigan, before moving to Littleton. This would later be a source of Harris’s rage.

People who knew Eric Harris described him as a shy kid, but well liked and at times sociable, especially when he lived in Plattsburgh. Harris was in many ways contradictory. Despite the fact that he was known to admire Nazis, his best friends was Asian and Black. Harris played for the Little League baseball team. During a trip to Boston, Harris and his classmates visited a pizza joint. After he ate pizza, he played video games and one that he really liked was Lethal Enforcer.

The Harrises moved from Plattsburgh to Littleton in 1993. Than the Harrises would settle into their current home in 1996. Wayne Harris got employed by Flight Safety Services Corporation, while Kathy Harris worked for a catering company.

Dylan Bennett Klebold

Dylan Bennett Klebold was born on September 11, 1981 in Lakewood, Colorado. His birthday was exactly 20 years before the horrific terrorist attacks in New York, Arlington, and Shanksville that claimed 3,000 lives. Dylan was the son of Thomas and Susan Klebold. He also had an older brother named Byron. Dylan was named after the writer, Dylan Thomas and he had an older brother named Byron. Thomas Klebold was a geophysicist for a small petroleum company. He had his own business out of his home named Fountain Real Estate Mortgage Management. Susan Klebold was the assistant director to Access to Employment Projects for the Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System in Denver. She also worked with disabled students at nearby Arapahoe Community College.

Thomas Klebold was from Toledo, Ohio and both his parents died before he hit the age of 13. He was raised by his half brother Donald Klebold. Susan Klebold came from a prominent Jewish family, the Yassenoffs of Columbus, Ohio. Despite Susan Klebold identifying herself as a Jew, they went to a Lutheran church. Klebold having dual religious identity must of put a lot of confusion into Dylan. It could of driven Dylan to hate religion, which would later be revealed. The Klebolds were liberal families and Thomas Klebold was a strong supporter of gun control. They even banned toy guns in the household.

Columbine High School

Columbine High School

Columbine High School was first opened in 1973, a time when America was in turmoil from a recession, oil embargo, Yom Kippur War, and the ongoing Watergate Scandal which plagued the Nixon White House. The ill-fated World Trade Center would be opened in Downtown Manhattan in April of that year. The late and great World Trade Center towers eclipsed the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan.

Columbine High School is in the 80123 zip code, which is shared by Littleton in neighboring Arapahoe County, hence the Littleton, Colorado address. Columbine High School is actually part of the Jefferson County Public Schools in the Denver area. Columbine High School is located in a unincorporated area of Jefferson County called Columbine. It is a mile west of Littleton and a half mile south of the City and County of Denver, Colorado’s state capital and largest city.

Trouble Brewing

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold met each other and became friends in 1996 when they went to Ken Caryl Middle School. Harris and Klebold and sometimes Brooks Brown would make fun of teachers and students behind their back or in some cases in front of them for being computer illiterate. Klebold had a penchant for putting nasty notes in people’s lockers. He would hack into the school’s computer system to get the locker combination to open it. Perhaps, Klebold stole stuff from lockers.

It is known that Harris and Klebold felt they were bullied, but in reality, Harris and especially Klebold were bullies and liked to pick on Freshmen and students they viewed as “fags”, which was their term for effeminate males. Perhaps, Harris and Klebold were virulently anti-gay and hated them with a passion to be driven to harass anyone they saw as “gay” and “effeminate”. They gleefully bragged about their bullying adventures in their diary.

It is a Friday night on January 30, 1998, Eric and Dylan were hanging out near Chatfield Reservoir. They were listening to music in Eric’s Honda Prelude. They set off fireworks and broke bottles out of boredom. Than either Eric or Dylan thought it would be cool to steal objects in a white van that is nearby. They decide to proceed and break into the van and open themselves to a briefcase, electrical gear and sunglasses. Afterwards, they thought they had succeeded in their theft by stuffing into Harris’s car and fled.

They fled to Deer Creek Canyon Road, where they parked to check the loot. However their luck ran out, a Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy saw them and decided to confront them. A big mistake on Harris and Klebold’s part because they would be arrested for theft, criminal mischief, and criminal trespassing. As they are being held by police, Harris and Klebold are arguing why they did this. They are likely cursing out each other and blaming each other for the mess they got themselves into. Their parents were not too pleased about their son’s crime. In fact, Wayne and Kathy Harris grounded Eric for the crime. One has to assume that their arrest likely triggered their rage that would slowly build up over time.

Two months after their arrest, Harris and Klebold appeared before Jefferson County Magistrate John DeVita with their fathers. Harris spoke with confidence, while Klebold was fumbling with lack of confidence. Harris told the Judge DeVita that he was an A and B student, while Klebold told the judge he made C’s. The judge told Harris, “I bet you’re an A student if you put your brain power to paperwork.” Klebold continued to fumble while speaking to Judge DeVita. Harris and Klebold claim it was their first crime, which both their fathers backed it up. Afterwards, Judge DeVita sentences Harris and Klebold to a diversion program, a mix of community service and counseling. As Judge DeVita meted out the sentence, he was not given any information about more crimes committed by Harris and Klebold. In fact no one bothered to forward the report, reasons unknown. If Judge DeVita received the report, he probably would given Harris and Klebold harsher sentence, likely jail time.

Brooks Brown

The Bully

The relationship between and Harris and Brown had hit a sour note. In fact, Judy Brown, had grown suspicious about Harris because of increasingly anti-social behavior. Harris had vandalized another classmates house by rapping it with toilet paper, setting fires to brushes, which could lead to brush fires, and gluing the locks to doors. Judy Brown contacted the homeowner whose house got vandalized and said it was Harris who did it. Brown called he police and said he would talk to the Harrises. Harris was really enraged from there.

Eric confronted Brooks when he drove by the bus stop. Harris picked a up ice from the ground and chucked it at the windshield, which damaged it. Brooks rushed home to tell his mother about what Eric did. Judy Brown was clearly angry at Eric Harris for what he had done to her son. She goes out of the house and sees Eric Harris and grabbed him by the backpack. She tells Eric that she will talk to his mother. As Harris was being dragged into Judy Brown’s car, he was screaming and his face was red with extreme anger. He acted like an animal going really wild. Brown drove to the Harrises residence and saw Kathy Harris on the driveway. Harris was very upset and her eye teared up when Brown described how Eric bad was behaving. Brooks would also tell Kathy how Eric would sneak out of the house at night to pull pranks and set off fireworks. Wayne Harris took Eric to the Browns to apologize. Judy and Randy Brown warned Eric that if he came close to them, they will call the police. They thought their troubles with Harris was over. It was far from being over. It got worse.

One day, Brooks came home telling them that Eric made webpages threatening Brooks. He found out about it from Dylan Klebold. It also had other people that Harris wanted to kill like meteorologists, stupid people, and Star Wars fans. Eric Harris maintained a website that was dripping with hate and anger. Here is what he said on his anger filled webpage:

Hellloooooo everyone. These are the words of wisdom from REB.

This page explains the various things in the world that annoy the SHIT outa me. God i just LOVE freedom of speech. Keep in mind that these are just my point of views, and may or may not reflect on anyone else. I do swear a lot on this page. so fuck off if your a pussy who cant handle a little god damn bad language. heeeheee. And now to get started:

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YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—When im walking around in a mall and there is this SLOW AS SHIT person walking in front of me!! Goddamnit im trying to get somewhere! So move it or loose it BITCHES!

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—When there is a group of assholes standing in the middle of a hallway or walkway, and they are just STANDING there and talking and blocking my fucking way!! Get the fuck outa the way or ill bring a friggin sawed-off shotgun to your house and blow your snotty ass head off! YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—When people dont watch where THEY ARE FUCKING GOING! Then they plow into me and say “oops, sorry.” or “watch it!” NNNYAAAA!!! Next time that happens i will rip out 2 of your damn ribs and shove em into your fuckin eye balls!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE!!?

—When some rich ass stuck up piece of shit white trash person gets in a car wreck with their brand new car! YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE!!?

—When some stupid ass kid blows his fucking hand off because he couldnt figure out that a lit fuse means that the firecracker is going to go off soon!! HAHAHA!DUMBASS!!

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—OOOOOOOOJAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!! GOD I FUCKING HATE THAT WORTHLESS TRIAL!!Who in their right feeeeearrrRIGIN mind would care about that trial??!? its not any different from any other murder trial! Tell those fucking reporters to get a life! And what the fuck do we have to gain by watching that stupid trial anyway? Its not news! its a trial! not news!trail!trialX=Xnews!

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I HATE!!?

—Jon binay however the fuck you spell her spoiled ass name Ramsee!!! We dont care! Good fucking riddens!! What the fuck do you expect if you fucking put your kid in all these beauty pagents when shes 4 years old!! SLUUUUUUUUUUUT!!!! I bet her damn dad did it. Fuckin perrrv.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!?

—STUPID PEOPLE!! Why must so many people be so stupid!?

YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE!!?

—Making fun of stupid people doing stupid things! Like one time when i was watching this freshman try to get on a computer that needed a password….he typed in the password……..and waited. The retard didnt press enter or anything. He just waited. Then he started cussing at the computer saying it was screwed up. Then the freshman went and got a teacher and the fucking teacher could not figure out why it wasnt going anywhere!!! JESUS!! Personaly i think they should be shot.

YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE!!?

—Natural SELECTION!!!!! God damn its the best thing that ever happened to the Earth. Getting rid of all the stupid and weak orginisms……..but its all

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natural! YES!I wish the government would just take off every warning label. So then all the dumbasses would either severely hurt themselves or DIE! And boom, no more dumbasses. heh.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—ASSHOLES THAT CUT!!!! Why the fuck cant you wait like every other human on earth does. if you cut, you are the following: Stuck up, self centered, selfish, lazy, impatient, rude, and……damn i ran out. anyway. Every fucking line i get into i end up having to wait a fucking hour when there WAS only me and 1 other person in the line!Then the queer sucking asshole lets all his/her so called friends cut in behind em! If that happens 1 more time i will have to start referring to the Anarchists cookbook (bomb section).

YOU KNOW WHAT I REALLY HATE!!?

—LIARS!!! OH GAWWWWWWD I HATE LIARS. And living in this fucking neighborhood there is thousands of them!! Why the fuck must people lie so damn much! Especially about stupid things! Like “Yeah, I just bought 5 cases of M-80’s in Oklahoma for about $5. And they are legal there and everything. Yeah my parents buy most of my guns, every once in a while ill use my 4,000 dollar paycheck and buy a shotgun or 2. And my brand new hummer just broke down on the highway when i was going 250mph. Stupid cars.” like that, now, what fucking part if any would a norman human being believe? And thats just one person!! Another BIG example is Brooks Brown(# removed for privacy’s sake). Now, according to him, he has a 215 IQ, 5 other homes (2 in alaska, and 3 in Florida), 95mph fast ball(he is only 16), runs a mile in about 5 minutes, has an uncle thats the former head of all the armed forces and has access to…..Theee Button…, his other uncle is a multi-millionare that lives in downtown detroit, and his neighbors are the chick that sang “r.e.s.p.e.c.t.” and the lead singer of Aerosmith. And that same uncle owns 30% of the stock of that tylenol company. And his grandparents give..GIVE…him about 1000 dollars for each month, and his other Grandpa can blow up every house in America because all the houses have C-4 in the foundations. Again, according to Brook Brown. OK, when people lie like that, its not impressive, noone believes it, it sounds just plain stupid, and its a fuckin waste of my time.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—R rated movies on CABLE! My DOG can do a better damn editing job than those dumbshits!! For the sake of all television they can atleast try to make it sound like actual words the person would say! If you have ever seen Aliens or Predator youll know what im talking about.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—Windows Keys!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE!!?

—WAREZ!! Why pay when its free? YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—People who think they can forecast the weather!! Then they think that everyone else will think that they are cool just because you said that we were gonna have a 4 foot blizzard starting today! like just the other day, this punk i know was saying..”Yeah tomorrow we are gonna get like, 2 feet of snow in just a few hours. They were saying its gonna be the biggest snow in ten years. Yeah itll be about -60 outside too.” And that day we get an inch of snow and its 26 out. I feel like getting a baseball bat, breaking it over his head, and then STABBING him with the broken end!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!?

—Country music!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE!!?

—Zippo lighters!!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—People who say that wrestling is real! now, im talking about the matches like hulk hogan or undertaker. If you think that these matches arent fakes and that these guys are REALLY punching and breaking arms, then please email me. I would love to know where you live so i can BOMB your fucking house and ACTUALLY BREAK YOUR ARMS!

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YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—YOUNG SMOKERS!they think they are so god damn cool with their big bad ciggarettes and their “sooo cool” attitude. I cant wait until they are about 25 and have they have to breathe through their fucking necks and talk with a computer hooked up to their X-vocal cords.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—PAYING FOR MY CAR INSURANCE!

YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE!!?

—FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—Freedom of the press. I hate that part of the Bill of Rights.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—People who are against the death penelty!!! i think the courts should fuckin fry convicts even if all they did was unarmed robbery!

YOU KNOW WHAT I LOVE!!?

—SCHOOL!

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—SCHOOLWORK!

YOU KNOW WHAT I REALLY HATE!?

—COMMERCIALS!! OH GAWWD I HATE COMMERCIALS!!! The only ones i MIGHT like are previews and some car commercials. But jesus christ, all those Lotion, PERFUME, Makeup, JCPENNYS, Jostins, food, coffee, or advertisement commercials! Please! Destroy them all! never record another! They suck! They are only funny the first time! Think up other stuff! They suck! They are stupid! We get sick of them VERY FAST! VERY! VERY FAST!

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—People who dont believe in personal hygiene. For the love of god, and for the sake of god, CLEAN UP! Fucking people with 2 inch fingernails and a whole fucking pot full of dirt under them and raggy ass hair or shirts stained to hell. Or people that just plain stink, and they dont do anything about it. Now, im not making fun of anyone if they cant help it, or afford it or anything like that, thats not their fault, but if your some kid drivin a ford explorer and have yellow teeth, then thats just plain unhuman.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—People who use the same word over and over plain! Like, “actually”, or “fuck you”, or “bitch”. Read a fuckin book or two, increase your vo-cab-u-lary ya fucking idiots.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—People who try to impress me by TRYING to brag about the militaries weapons! Now, to some of you this might seem, wierd, but its happened. Like this, “dude, they just came out with this new chemical that can destroy denver only by using a cubic inch of it. The military is keeping it all locked up because if it gets to close to water it explode, and the force would create a cresent earth, maaan.” Yeah, right, bullshit, or like this, “Dude, the air force has tracked santa clause for like, 10 years now, and he is a real man. its all a cover up.” or “The air force just made a plane that can bend light man, its completely invisible.” now, this is just some of the shit i’ve heard. it makes me SICK. And they arent even in the fucking military nore do they know anyone that is!

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I HATE!!?

—People who THINK they are martial arts experts! They are all cocky and thinkin that they are all big and bad, saying bullshit like, “yeah if you snap your fingers right here the sound waves will melt the brain and youll die rom your own brain poring out your ears.” or “if you flick someone right here their arteries will burst and they will drown in their own blood.” fuckin hate it when they keep saying “your own”, like it would be someone elses!?!? then when these shitheads get in real fights the get their fuckin asses wooped all over the place by some little girl.

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YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—STARWARS FANS!!! GET A FRIKIN LIFE YOU BORING DICKHEADS!

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!

—RACISM!!Anyone who belives that blacks, asians, mexicans, or people from any other country or race besides white-american….people who think that should be drug out into the street, have their arms ripped off, be burnt suht at the stumps, then have every person of the race that YOU hate come out and beat the shit out of you. and if you are female, then you should be raped by a male from the race you hate and be forced to raise the child! You people are the scum of society and arent worth a damn piece of worm shit. You all are trash. And dont let me catch you making fun of someone just because they are a different color because i will come in and break your fucking legs with a plastic spoon. i dont care how long it takes! and thats both legs mind you.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!?

—THOSE FUCKING ADVERTISING OR CHARITY CALLS! People saying “Hi, im not selling anything but”. good, now shut the fuck up and go get a real job!”well! you are so rude!” damn strait bitch and if you dont get off my line ill come down to your building and shove that phone list up your ass and take the phone and shove it up your bosses ass! “click” heeeheeee, i love that.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!?

—When people mispronounce words!and they dont even know it to, like ofTen, or acrosT, or eXspreso, pacific (specific), or 2 pAck, learn to speak correctly you morons.

Thats all for now folks, hope you enjoyed! If i think up any more things, ill put em on here!And sorry if i offended you, but, if i did, that means that you are one of the people that i mentioned that i hate, so i guess im not sorry, you asshole.

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Best viewed with Netscape 3.0+. Because AOL’s browser sucks nuts.

His webpage showed somewhat of a contradictory side of Eric Harris. On the one hand, he hates liars, yet he is a pathological liar. He also likes freedom of speech, but not freedom of the press. Most people thought Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were geeks and nerds, but his webpage contradicts it and rails against them. His webpage comes to show more proof that Harris was a bully and bragged about harassing Freshmen for being stupid.

One can say that Eric Harris is one of the first case of cyberbully and in some ways would had been associated with it, besides Lori Drew. He wrote on his website (Ed’s note: It is the way it is written):

i don’t care if I live or die in the shootout, all I want to do is kill and injure as many of you pricks I can, especially a few people. Like brooks brown.

Eric and Dylan would brag about going out at night to set off pipebombs. Eric’s name is REB and Dylan’s name is VoDkA. They wanted to find a place to set off bombs, which he dubbed “ground zero”. The Browns call the police again and they even the address of Harris and Klebolds. The Browns never received any follow up call from the police. However, Brooks told his family to take it easy and saw him as a “keyboard commando”. However, Brooks’s brother Aaron was scared and slept next to a baseball bat just in case if Eric Harris snuck into their home. The Browns also trusted Dylan Klebold and told them what Eric Harris had done. A trust that would turn deadly. Over time, Harris and Brown would reconciliate.

Road To Graduation?

Harris and Klebold had to do community service for the break in back in January of 1998. They also had to take anger management classes and submit to random urine drug test. Their community service was spending 45 hours helping at a local recreation center. Harris and Klebold were let go of early because they impressed their counselors on February 3, 1999.

Harris’s counselor had their report for him:

“Eric is a very bright young man who is likely to succeed in life.”

Eric impressed the counselor with his intelligence.

Prognosis: Good.

Klebold’s counselor had their report for him:

Dylan, likewise, made a good impression on the counselor. “He is intelligent enough to make any dream a reality but he needs to understand hard work is a part of it.”

Prognosis: Good.

From there, Harris and Klebold decided to go to the mountains and forests of Colorado. They used the sawed off shotgun, TEC-9 and Hi-Point Carbine rifle for target shooting. They fired their guns at trees. Harris and Klebold were doing it with Robyn Anderson, Mark Manes, and Philip Duran. The shooting would be filmed.

April 19, 1999

April 19, 1999 would be Harris and Klebold’s last full day, which is a Monday. It also was the anniversary of the Branch Davidian Inferno and Oklahoma City Bombing, that claimed a total of 250 lives. Both were connected to each other because Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in retaliation against the Branch Davidian Fire. Harris and Klebold ditched Creative Writing and Psychology. Instead, they planned on going to McDonald’s for lunch, but Harris and Klebold wanted to drop by Harris’s house. Harris and Klebold planned to meet with Becca Heins and Brooks Brown at McDonald’s.

However, Harris and Klebold were in the garage of Harrises’ home. They were breaking glass to make bombs. Also, they were stuffing explosives into bottles and pipes. Sometimes explosions could be heard from the home. Harris and Klebold were making bombs for the next day. Also, they were making carbon dioxide bombs. Meanwhile, Harris asked Manes to buy him 100 rounds of bullets, even though Harris was old enough to buy it himself. Manes went to a nearby K-Mart to buy the bullets for Harris. Later that day, Harris drove to Manes’ home to pick up the bullets. Manes asked if Harris was going target shooting, which he was not. Manes should of noticed something was not right with Harris. We will never know if Manes knew what Harris’s intent was with the bullets. Also, some of the bombs they made delayed their attack, which would have been that Monday…………..

11:10 AM

Harris and Klebold arrive at 11:10 AM in their own car and parked in different parking lots. Before they arrived, they placed a bomb at a nearby field, which was set to go off at 11:14 AM. Klebold goes to Harris’s car to pick up the 20 pound propane bombs, which were inside of duffel bags. They carried the propane bomb into the cafeteria, as lunch was beginning for the students. It must have been quite a task for them because carrying a large propane tank is quite heavy, especially walking from the parking lot into the cafeteria. Also, people would of noticed them carrying something large. Than again, people would of thought they could be athletes because they often carry duffel bags. Once they place the propane bombs inside the cafeteria, they return to the parking lot. They wait for it to exploded. Meanwhile, the bomb at the field exploded at 11:14 AM, which started a fire. It was placed there to distract emergency responders when the school was attacked. Harris and Klebold patiently wait for the propane bombs to explode. They wait and wait and nothing happens.

The injured getting helped.

Plan B

Realizing their two propane bombs failed to go off at 11:17 AM, Harris and Klebold probably said to themselves, “What the fuck? The bombs did not go off! What the hell do we do?” They debate what to do next and after likely some arguing, they decide to attack Columbine High School. Had both of these bombs went off, it would of destroyed the cafeteria and bring down library from the second floor. It would of resulted in hundreds being killed from the explosion, collapse, and resulting stampede. However, that did not happen, so Harris and Klebold decided to get out of the car and walk towards Columbine High School. They encounter Brooks Brown and Harris tells him, “Brooks, I like you now. Get out of here. Go home.” Brown was frightened and was fleeing the high school. Brown went to find a place with a phone to call 911.

Than at 11:19 AM, Eric Harris could be heard yelling “Go! Go!” They pulled out their shotguns and started shooting people. The first people to be shot were Rachel Scott and Richard Castaldo. They were sitting on a grassy knoll eating lunch and enjoying the nice Colorado spring day. Scott was killed, while Castaldo was seriously injured. Harris than remove his trench coat and pulls out his 9 mm carbine rifle and heads for the West Staircase. Daniel Rohrbough, Sean Graves, and Lance Kirklin were walking on the stair when Harris and Klebold came and sprayed them with bullets. All three of them were shot. Graves and Kirklin were lying on the floor bleeding.

Students fleeing the cafeteria.

Harris and Klebold start shooting to the south towards the grassy knoll. This time Michael Johnson and Mark Taylor were shot. Johnson fled despite being shot, while Taylor played dead. There were three other people at the knoll and they escaped unharmed. Meanwhile, Graves limped his way towards the cafeteria and fell on the door step. Klebold walked towards Kirklin and shot him in the fact. As Kirklin was shot, Rohrbough was struggling towards the floor and away from the stair case, Klebold came and shot him at point blank range, which was the fatal shot. Klebold walked over Graves as they entered the cafeteria. Klebold likely checked the cafeteria to see why the propane bombs did not go off. As Klebold is entering the cafeteria, Harris is shooting at the steps of where students sitting near the entrance. Anne-Marie Hochhalter was shot as she tried to flee the killers.

Klebold makes the rendezvous with Harris at the staircase. They decide to go to the soccer field and shoot at people. However, no one got hit by the bullets. Harris and Klebold threw three pipe bombs, in which none of them exploded. Meanwhile, art teacher Patti Nielson with student Brian Anderson, saw all the commotion after Harris and Klebold caused and told them to knock it off. At the time, she thought it was an end of year Senior prank. However, this was no prank, but a massacre starting to happen at Columbine High School. As Anderson opened the door to head back to class, the killers shot at the windows creating shrapnel. The resulting shrapnel injured Anderson and Nielson and they realized this was no prank. She fled towards the library and alerted that all students hide under the desk. Nielson also hid under a desk and called 911. Here is an excerpt of Nielson’s call to 911:

Dispatcher: Jefferson County 911.

Patti: Yes. I am a teacher at Columbine High School. There is a student here with a gun. He has shot out a window. I believe one student– uh.. um.. um.. I’ve been–

Dispatcher: Columbine High School.

Patti: Um.. I don’t know if it’s.. I don’t know what’s in my shoulder.. if it was just some glass he threw or what.

Dispatcher: Okay.

Patti: I am–

Dispatcher: Has anyone been injured, ma’am?

Patti: Yes! Yes!

Dispatcher: Okay.

Patti: ..and the school is in a panic and I’m in the library. I’ve got– Students down, under the tables, kids!! Heads down under the tables!! Um, kids are screaming, the teachers, um, are, y’know, trying to take control of things. We need police here…

Dispatcher: OK, we’re getting them there.

Patti: Can you please hurry?

Dispatcher: Who is the student, ma’am?

Patti: I do not know who the student is.

Dispatcher: Okay.

Patti: I saw a student outside, I was in the hall– [sound of shots being fired out in the hall; Patti begins to panic] Oh, dear God! Okay! I was on hall duty, I saw a gun. I said “What’s going on out there?” And the kid that was following me said it was a film production, probably a joke, and I said “Well, I don’t think that’s a good idea and I went walking outside to see what was going on. He pointed the gun straight at us and shot and, my God, the window went out and the kid standing there with me, I think he got hit.

Dispatcher: Okay.

Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy Neil Gardner was finished with his lunch break when he got a radio call that there was a shooting at Columbine High School. Than on 11:24 AM, Harris and Klebold are in a shoot out with Deputy Gardner. Harris fires ten rounds from the carbine, but none of them hit Gardner and his squad car. However, two cars are hit by Harris’s gun. Gardner screams into the radio “Code 33!”, a police code for officer in need of emergency assistance. Gardner was going to really need emergency assistance as things were getting worse at Columbine High School. The killers go down the North Hallway and shoot and throw bombs at anyone they saw. A student was a unfortunate victim of this, Stephanie Munson, who was shot in the ankle. She managed to limp her way out of the school and towards a house across the high school. They continued shooting in an attempt to shoot and kill people.

Sign that indicated that Coach Sanders was injured.

Meanwhile, back at the cafeteria, people were realizing this Senior Prank was no laughing matter, but a deadly rampage at their school. As Harris and Klebold are killing people, Columbine was becoming part of a string of school shootings that plagued America’s school since 1997 and this one was no exception. Coach William David Sanders was helping the mass exodus from the cafeteria. He led them through a staircase to the second floor, which happened to be near the library. Harris and Klebold shoot at Sanders and another student who was with him. They managed to hit Sanders in the chest, while another student was unharmed and managed to flee. That student later ran to the science room and alerted the teacher of the shooting and Sanders being shot. Sanders was seriously injured and struggled to his science area where 30 students were taking an exam. Students started to apply first aid in attempts to save Sanders’s life. Also, a sign that said, “1 bleeding to death”. was placed on the window to let authorities know that Sanders was seriously injured. A teacher and student was in contact with the police and were able to escape safely. Sanders and a couple students remained behind as the students and teachers fled. Meanwhile, Harris and Klebold were wondering what to do next and where to go. One of them or both thought they should head to the library and start killing people there.

Library Of Death

Harris and Klebold decided to go to the library at 11:29 AM, where there were 56 people, mostly students and two librarian manning it. Harris shot at a display case, which created wooden debris. The wooden debris hit Evan Todd, who was hiding near the copy machine. Harris than loudly yelled, “Get up!” When no one got up, he reportedly said, Everyone with a white cap or baseball cap, stand up!” and “All jocks stand up! We’ll get the guys in white hats!” However, still no one got up, Harris said, “Fine, I’ll start anyway!”

Kyle Velasquez was curled up under the computer desk, which gave Klebold the opportunity to shoot him in the back and neck. Velasquez was killed instantly from Klebold’s gunfire. As they looked at the window, they noticed police helping students escape the high school. They say to themselves, “There are pigs! Let’s shoot them!” Harris ad Klebold open fire on the cops and they fire back. Realizing that they did not hit the police, they decide to shoot people inside the library.

Klebold uses his shotgun and starts blasting Patrick Ireland, Daniel Steepleton, and Makai Hall, who were sitting at a nearby table. Harris goes to a computer desk and starts firing the shotgun underneath and not looking. He manages to shoot Steven Curnow and Kacey Ruegsegger. Curnow was shot to death, while Ruegsegger was injured. Harris plays a sadistic form of “Peek-a-boo” by slapping the top of the tables. A student comes out and Harris says, “Peek-a-boo!” and shoots and kills Cassie Bernall, who was hiding. After Harris shot and killed Bernall, the recoil from his shotgun broke his nose. Harris must of said, “Oh shit! My gun hit my face!” That did little to stop Harris’s rampage in the library.

Klebold asked if Valeen Schnurr believed in God and she was believed to answer yes and he shot her with the shotgun. Harris than turns to his next victim, Bree Pasquale, who could not hide because there were not enough space to hide. Harris asked if Pasquale wanted to die and she was pleading for her life. Harris’s injury begin to make him disoriented as he continued taunting Pasquale. Ireland came to the aid of Hall and Klebold shot him again, this time on the head and feet. The gunfire knocked Ireland to the flood in a pool of blood. Klebold than went to another tables and saw Isaiah Shoels, Matthew Kechter, and Craig Scott hiding. Craig was the brother of Rachel, who was already dead. At the time, he was not aware that his sister was dead and first to die at the hand of Harris and Klebold.

Klebold tried to pull Shoels out, but to no avail and decided to call Harris, who was still insulting Pasquale. Harris walks towards Klebold and they start taunting Shoels. They start yelling at Shoels, “Oh look, it’s a nigger.” Shoels shouted “No!” Harris blasted Shoels in the chest at close range killing him. Klebold blasted Kechter with the shotgun killing him. Craig Scott was injured and lied among the pools of blood to look like he was shot. Harris threw a CO2 bomb at the table where Hall, Steepleton, and Ireland lying. The bomb landed on Steepleton’s leg and Hall threw away from the shooter to avoid drawing their attention in possibility they might be shot at again.

Harris and Klebold start shooting at bookcases and turns towards the closest table. Mark Kintgen is hiding near the table and Klebold shoots and injures him. Klebold than turns around and shoots Lisa Kreutz and Schnurr. Klebold turns to another table and shoots Lauren Townsend multiple times killing her. Harris went around tables and saw two students, but for some unknown reason spared them because he thought they were not worthy of death. Than Harris turns to another table and two students are hiding, Nicole Nowlen and John Tomlin. Harris blasted both of them with his shotgun. Nowlen was badly injured and Harris angrily asked her “Are you breathing?” while she was lying on the floor playing dead. Tomlin tried to crawl out, but he was shot to death by Harris. Than Harris starts to shoot with his carbine right at Kelly Flemming. Flemming died from a gunshot to the back as she tried to flee the killers. As Harris is shooting, he manages to hit Townsend and Kreutz. Jeanna Park is also wounded by Harris’s gunfire.

The killers reload their weapons and see John Savage, who knows Klebold. Savage asks what Klebold is doing. Klebold calmly replies, “Oh, just killing people.” From there, Savage asks if they were going to kill him and Klebold told them to leave the library which he promptly did. Harris and Klebold shoot under the tables again hitting Jennifer Doyle and Austin Eubanks, and killing Corey DePooter. DePooter was the last victim of the massacre and he managed to keep people calm as the killers were attacking the library. Harris and Klebold begin to realize that shooting people was no longer fun. Klebold suggested to Harris that they should attack people with knives. He said to Harris, “Maybe we should start knifing people, that might be more fun.” As they move away, Harris throws a Molotov cocktail, which failed to explode. The shooters see Evan Todd again and taunt him. Klebold asks Todd why he should not be killed. Todd is very scared and replies “I don’t want trouble”. Harris and Klebold continue to taunt Todd and debate whether to kill him or not. In the end, they decided not to kill Todd. Klebold out of anger fired a shot at the television and slammed a chair down on top of the computer terminal on the library counter. By 11:42 AM, the killers ended their killing in the library.

Right after the killers left, a total of 44 people, including 10 injured people evacuate the library through the north door. However, Ireland and Kreutz were not able to leave due to serious injuries they received from the shooting. Ten people are lying dead in pools of blood. Meanwhile, the only living people are Nielsen and Anderson and three other library staff stayed behind and hid in the break room and locked the door in hopes the killers would not return and get them.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the cafeteria.

The End

Harris and Klebold go to the science area and throw a fire bomb at a storage room, likely out of frustration that there were no more people to kill. The bomb explodes and they flee after a teacher managed to put the fire out. They likely fled perhaps because they did not want to get caught or they had no interest in killing in the teacher. The killers than head to the South Hallway and shoot at an empty science room. The killers realize the room was likely empty and decided to head to the cafeteria, where the propane bombs were placed.

Now, it is 11:44 AM and they killers are at the empty cafeteria. Harris and Klebold decide that they shoot at the propane bombs in hopes of detonating it. Harris kneels down and fires at the propane bomb, but once again it fails to explode. Harris tells Klebold to go check the bomb out, while Harris find a cup to drink, which was left by a fleeing student. Klebold decides that the way to detonate the propane bomb is to throw a Molotov cocktail. As the killers leave the cafeteria, the Molotov cocktail explodes and the propane bomb is partially detonated. However, a fire sprinkler puts the fire out unbeknownst to Harris and Klebold.

Harris and Klebold head to the stairs again and wonder through the hallways shooting at anything. They are walking through the social studies wing of the high school and main office where a unarmed guard and secretary are hiding in fear. They go to the Art Hall and shoot the ceilings likely out of frustration at the sense of failure. They peered through the windows of the classrooms where people were hiding in fear from them, but never bothered to enter the rooms. They even walked up to the bathroom entrance, where people were hiding and they taunted them. The killers yell out “We know you’re in there!” and “Let’s kill anyone we find in here!” However, they never bothered to go inside the bathroom, like the classrooms they ran into to kill more people. We will probably never know why they did not attack those classrooms and bathrooms. Perhaps they realized they felt defeated because the police had surrounded the place and they could get caught at any moment. Also, the classrooms had windows and the police could see what they are doing and that could get the snipers to shoot Harris and Klebold. Or, Harris and Klebold felt they failed.

They decide go back to the cafeteria and kitchen to see if their propane bombs exploded. To their disappointment, their bomb failed to explode. Harris and Klebold decide to head back to the South Hallway and to the now nearly empty library. There is blood and dead bodies all over the library. Harris and Klebold open fire at the paramedics and police entering the school through the window out of anger at law enforcement. They failed at hitting any police officers. Now it is 12:08 PM and Harris and Klebold decide they will kill themselves. Likely they did this because they had no plans on getting caught by the police or coming out of the school alive. From there, Harris uses the shotgun and points it to roof of his mouth and blows his head off. Klebold uses the TEC-9 and shoots himself in the temple on the right side of his head. Both of them lie dead in a pool of blood. Harris and Klebold fired a total of 188 rounds inside the school. The massacre is over or is it? The police and news media are not aware that the killers are dead and drama is now unfolding.

Students embracing each other after they evacuated.

A Possible Hostage Situation?

Harris and Klebold are dead and the situation in some ways has gotten worse despite the end of the massacre. The media was in the area in hopes to get new information about the ongoing Jon Benet Ramsey case in nearby Boulder. Instead, they were getting reports of a school shooting at Columbine High School and it was becoming news.

The Columbine attack is now breaking news and anyone who is watching television is seeing this massacre unfold. One unforgettable scene is Denver SWAT team trying to enter the school behind a fire truck. Paramedics with police escort managed to enter the perimeter and find Sean Graves, Lance Kirklin, and Anne Marie Hochhalter, who were seriously injured. Paramedics find Dan Rohrbough’s body and decide to leave it there as a result. News helicopters are now buzzing over Columbine and filming it for everyone to see. The aerial view reveals SWAT team entering the school, with the first ones entering the southeast side of the attacked high school. The first team was Jefferson County SWAT, led by Deputy Allen Simmons with five other men.

On the roof, there was an air conditioning repairman, who took cover when Harris and Klebold shot up Columbine. He was removed for his own safety by the police. Some people thought the air conditioning repairman was the so-called “third shooter”. In fact, witnesses claimed there was a third shooter besides Harris and Klebold. This so-called “third shooter” would be subject of debate and sprung up conspiracy theories about it.

Jefferson County SWAT commander Lieutenant Terry Manwaring led a team of 5 people from the western entrance and through the upper level. They thought they were dealing with a hostage situation, which compounded the situation. They would stopped at the closed doors of the science wing, choir room, and shot up library. Twenty people were freed despite the fear that there maybe booby traps left by Harris and Klebold. As Lieutenant Manwaring and his team proceeded deeper into the school, they noticed an undetonated bomb in front of a door, they decided to use a firetruck to ram it open. However, it got stuck in the mud and did no good.

Sergeant Barry Williams of the Jefferson County SWAT Team smashed a window near the teacher’s lounge and cafeteria. They entered to an empty and badly damaged cafeteria filled with smoke and flooded with water from the fire sprinkler. Melted chairs, dangling wires, and abandoned backpacks was strewn everywhere inside the empty cafeteria that was once filled with students. The SWAT team secured the cafeteria and went to find survivors, which they found a total of 30. Students were hiding in the storage room and even freezer to avoid being killed. Many were scared and were traumatized at the sight of the black uniform of the SWAT team, the same colors that Harris and Klebold wore. The students in the cafeteria would be the first to flee the school. People watching the Columbine Massacre unfold would be seeing students fleeing, a scene that would be played again and again. The reason that the SWAT team ordered the fleeing students to put their heads on top of their heads was that the shooter might try to escape and blend in with other students to escape. Unbeknownst to the SWAT team, the killers were dead.

The same scene would be played at the Music room in the down stair area of the school. Harris and Klebold never went to that area of the school during their rampage. However, the SWAT team was getting rumors where the gunmen were. In the meantime, the SWAT team headed to the closet and found 60 scared students. They were so scared that they would not leave their closets out of fear that Harris and Klebold might get them. Once they were talked into leaving the closet, a group of 10 students were searched for any weapons. Despite this, they were ordered to keep their hands on their heads as they fled the school.

Patrick Ireland escaping the library.

Meanwhile, Patrick Ireland, who had been seriously wounded had adrenaline rush come through him. He had regained consciousness after multiple attempts. Ireland said to himself, “I have to get out of here”. Than he stands up in spite of his injury and escapes through a window from the shot up library. Ireland falls into the hands of the SWAT team. What Ireland did not realize that his escape was seen live around the world on television at 2:38 PM, more than two hours after Harris and Klebold committed suicide. Ireland became the iconic figure as “The Boy In The Window”.

Meanwhile back at the Harrises’ home, firefighters were called because of a possible natural gas leak. By the time, Patrick Ireland was escaping, the bomb squad was called in and ordered gas and electricity to be shut off for precautionary manner. At the time, nobody knew that the house the firefighters and bomb squad were responding to would be one of the killers.

Back at Columbine High School, the SWAT team found a severely injured Coach Sanders lying in a pool of blood in the science room at 2:42 PM. The SWAT team radioed for medical assistant. The SWAT team wanted all uninjured people to evacuate, while leaving Sanders behind. Five minutes after the SWAT team entered the science room, they freed 60 more students and they would be seen fleeing the school with their hand up on their heads. Two SWAT team members stayed behind to help Sanders, who close to dying. However, his death did not go in vain because he and two janitors helped evacuate 100 students when the attack started. He sacrificed his own life in exchange for 100 students.

By 3:25 PM, the SWAT team arrived at the library where most the carnage took place. It was rather late for them to arrive at that part of the school. This is considering the fact that bullets from Harris and Klebold were coming from there. Four of them entered to find it riddled with bombs and dead bodies. The SWAT were fearful that they could be booby traps proceeded carefully. They found a severely injured Lisa Kreutz lying on the floor. She would be the last survivor victim to be evacuated from the shot up school.

Many of the students and staff who evacuated Columbine High School by police were sent to Leawood Elementary School, which is not far. While others fled to nearby homes to avoid being killed by the Harris and Klebold. The ones who went to Leawood Elementary School would become a staging area. This where loved ones could get their latest information on what is going on.

Aftermath

By 4:00 PM, the police initially thought that up to 25 people died, which would of made it the worst mass shooting besides the Killeen Massacre of 1991 at the time. Also, there were many bombs inside the school that were still active that made it more dangerous. The police searched the dead bodies of Harris and Klebold to make sure they were not rigged with bombs set off the explode.

The school was declared secured 30 minutes later at 4:30 PM. However, more police had to be called at 5:30 PM when more bombs were found in the parking lot. Forty-five minutes later, police found five bombs inside of Klebold’s car. Columbine High School became a massive crime scene, the largest in Colorado’s history. Investigators arrive at the now empty and bullet riddled high school. Electricians and police carefully enter the high school to shut off the alarm. The alarm had been sounding off for nearly 12 hours after it was set off during the massacre. The loud alarm and all power to the schol had shut off by 10:30 PM. Fifteen minutes later, a bomb exploded inside of Klebold’s car. Thankfully, no one was injured from the explosion.

Students embracing each other after they evacuate.

Memorials were being setup and people were beginning to mourn. Clement Park, which is north of Columbine High School, became a memorial for the victims. Flowers, crosses, and plenty of tears was the common scene. Many people left messages of condolences for the victims who died. Funerals would be set for the thirteen people who were murdered by Harris and Klebold. The nation and world was shocked at what had happened at Columbine High School. World leaders sent their condolences to Columbine. Pope John Paul II sent his condolence and expressed shock at the massacre. Even hardened criminals were just as shocked about what had happened at Columbine High School when word of it spread.

Why?

After the massacre, people asked why Harris and Klebold attacked their own high school. Was it because they were bullied and outcasts? Were they protesting the war in Kosovo as some people suspected? Klebold was known to speak out against the war, but they planned the massacre sometimes between 1997 to 1998, while Kosovo happened in 1999. It happened around the time of the Oklahoma City Bombing and Branch Davidian Siege anniversary. Both events are both related and claimed a total of 250 lives. They originally planned to attack their school on April 19th, the day of the Waco Fire and Oklahoma City Bombing, not April 20th.

ADX Supermax Prison in Florence.

Columbine High School is about an hour from the ADX Florence Supermax Prison. It is the final destination and home for really dangerous criminals, ranging from drug carteler to terrorists. Around the time of Harris and Klebold’s arrest, many prominent terrorists were going to prison and being sent off to the Supermax Prison for the rest of their natural life. Ramzi Yousef, Sheik Omar Abdul, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Ted Kaczynski called the Supermax Prison home. The idea of seeing terrorists being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours for the rest of their life and watching the Branch Davidian compound burn must of made Harris and Klebold deeply enraged them on top of their own legal problems. It possibly fueled their rage to watch their beloved idols locked up for the rest of their life. They felt they were being unfairly persecuted by the government and growing resentful.

David Koresh

The death of Branch Davidian leader David Koresh (nee Vernon Howell) likely played a huge role in Harris and Klebold’s rage. Koresh viewed himself as a messiah, like Jesus. His death and 73 other followers played a huge role in the Oklahoma City Bombing that happened two years to the day. The Branch Davidian is a Seventh Day Adventist group. The siege started on February 28 after Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) raided the compound in connection to some gun laws that Koresh allegedly broke. In the ensuing shootout, six followers died and four BATF agents died. The standoff would start for the next 51 days, taking up all of March of 1993. Twenty-four children also died in the inferno after the 51 day siege ended on April 19, 1993. It happened after government agents used tanks to tear gas the compound in hopes of ending the siege.

Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Ramzi Yousef, and Ted Kacszynski

Yousef and Abdul were behind th e 1993 World Trade Center bombers. They intended on destroying the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, but failed. Instead they killed six people injured thousands. Tragically, the World Trade Center would be destroyed eight years later. Ted Kacszynski is the Unabomber who killed three people and injured dozens during a 17 year period before he was caught in 1996 by his own brother David Kacsynski. Ted Kacszynski was a radical leftist and anti-technology fanatic. It was even rumored that Ted Kacszynski was the Zodiac Killer who plagued Northern California in the late 1960s to 1970s. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were tried in 1997 in Denver, which is not too far from Columbine High School. Both were involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing, which was the deadliest terrorist attack before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. The Oklahoma City Bombing claimed 169 lives and injured 800 people. McVeigh would be executed on June 11, 2001 in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Deadly Legacy

Columbine left a deadly legacy for years to come. In fact, not too long after the massacre happened, many schools were threatened with threats of shootings and bombings. In fact on April 30, 1999, ten days after the massacre, many schools received some type of threat, ranging from bombings to shootings. April 30th was also the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s suicide in his bunker, which marked the end of World War II.

If things got worse, it did. A full month after the Columbine Massacre on May 20, 1999, 15 year old Thomas “TJ” Solomon shoots six people at Heritage High School in Conyers, Georgia. None of the injuries are fatal and the shooter is apprehended at the scene. Solomon was tried as an adult for the school shooting. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison and 65 years of probation on November 8, 2000. However, on August 17, 2001, his sentence was reduced to 20 years.

On March 5, 2001, Charles “Andy” Williams uses a revolver and goes to a bathroom to shoot people at Santana High School in Santee, California. Once the shooting was over, two people died and thirteen were wounded. Before the shooting happened, Williams on two occasions spoke of “pulling a Columbine”, which is in reference to the 1999 massacre. Columbine became synonymous with school shooting. Many failed school shooting plots mentioned Columbine and wanted to outdo them. In fact one of them did outdo Columbine.

Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, sent vile videos and profanity laced manifesto to National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in New York. It was sent as same day shipping, but arrived two days later due to a zip code error. He referred to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as “martyrs”. He killed 32 people on campus on April 16, 2007, four days before the Columbine Massacre anniversary. It is known that the Columbine Massacre has triggered many copycat school shootings in America and worldwide and Virginia Tech Massacre was one of them. Cho managed to outdo Harris and Klebold.

The news media claimed that Columbine Massacre is the deadliest schoolyard massacre. Actually, the deadliest American schoolyard massacre and at one point deadliest mass murder event in American history is the Bath Consolidated School Massacre. Andrew Kehoe used dynamite to blow up the school that claimed 45 lives, including 37 children on May 18, 1927. However, Columbine Massacre would be the deadliest secondary school shooting in America history. Here is a list of American school shootings that claimed more than five lives.

American Schoolyard Massacre That Claim More Than 5 Lives
1.) Andrew Kehoe-45 Dead
2.) Seung-Hui Cho-32 Dead
3.) Charles Whitman-18 Dead
4.) Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold-13 Dead
5.) Jeffrey Weise-9 Dead
6.) Edward Charles Allaway-7 Dead

Columbine Massacre is one of the deadliest mass shooting event in American history. It would tie with George Banks (1982), Jiverly Voong (2009), Howard Unruh (1949), and Kwan Fai “Willie” Mak, Wai-Chiu “Tony” Ng, and Benjamin Ng (1983).

Deadliest American Mass Shootings
1.) Seung-Hui Cho-32 Dead
2.) George Hennard-23 Dead
3.) James Huberty-21 Dead
4.) Charles Whitman-18 Dead
5.) Ronald Gene Simmons-16 Dead
6.) Pat Sherrill-14 Dead
7.) Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold/George Banks/Jiverly Voong/Howard Unruh/Kwan Fai “Willie” Mak, Wai-Chiu “Tony” Ng, and Benjamin Ng-13 Dead
8.) Mark Barton-12 Dead
9.) James Ruppert/Loy Yeung-11 Dead
10.) Michael McLendon/Christopher Thomas-10 Dead

Links
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USA Today-School’s quiet refuge torn apart
Denver Post-A boy with many sides
Denver Post-Father had hunch son was involved
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Denver Post-Dave Sanders
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Denver Post Blog-Jim Calhoun’s reference to Chip Hilton
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New York Times-Terror In Littleton
New York Times-Sketch of Killers: Contradictions and Confusion
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Archived-Know Gangs-Another time line of the attacks
Secret Service-National Threat Assessment Center
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Time-WARNING: Andy Williams here. Unhappy kid. Tired of being picked
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My Comments

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are infamous criminals without any argument. They are in the Hall of Infamous Figures along side with Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden, Charles Whitman, and Ted Bundy. Harris and Klebold are truly fucked up in their head. I have never seen so much moral panic in my life that time after this massacre. I was a teenager in high school when Harris and Klebold attacked Columbine. I did not know about this massacre until the four o’clock news. I was totally stunned that 25 people died, which proved to be false. Even 13 dead is still too much. I will never forget about this and it was the big news event between Oklahoma City Bombing and September 11th Terrorist Attacks. There were multiple school shooting sprees in the past, but they caused some moral panic, but not like what I saw after Columbine. People begin to fear trench coats, when in fact Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold wore dusters and it was more of tactical in nature to hide the weapons. Also, video games, music, and movies got hit really hard during the panic following Columbine. I do not believe video games, music, and movies had anything to do with Columbine. I believe that the Oklahoma City Bombing, Branch Davidian Fire, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, and Unabomber were the reason Columbine Massacre happened. I know suggesting that Columbine is related to what happened in Waco, Oklahoma City, New York, and Unabomber would add insult to injuries to people affected by the heinous acts. I am a Texan and the Waco siege kinda of make us look like a weird state like California.

When I first saw the massacre unfold on TV, my first thought was, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols and David Koresh are getting their revenge. Someone is avenging them and are hell bent on doing it. I assumed that the shooters were holding people hostage and demanding that the federal government release McVeigh and Nichols from prison. One can say the Waco fire burned for too long and ignited again and this time it was Columbine. Harris and Klebold’s beloved idols that they never even mentioned were in a world of shit and they needed to fight back. It must be really hard for them to deal with the fact that McVeigh, Nichols, Yousef, and Kacsynski are rotting away in prison. Also, the fact that McVeigh would be executed added to their rage. In some ways, McVeigh, Nichols, and Ramzi Yousef are in some ways responsible for what happened at Columbine. Why you ask? McVeigh and Nichols were tried in Denver for their role in the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995. Yousef is in the Supermax prison. I will go into detail why I think this was related to the Oklahoma City Bombing, Branch Davidian, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, and Unabomber.

Had the school been blown up or had the massacre occurred on April 19, 1999, instead of April 20, 1999, people would more likely be thinking this would have been related to the Oklahoma City Bombing and Branch Davidian Inferno. After the Oklahoma City Bombing, some thought it was related to the Branch Davidian Inferno, but that was initially dismissed as a coincidence. As it turned out, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols confessed and cited Waco as the motive for the bombing.

Columbine happened in a week in April that is full of disasters and tragedies. They April is a cruel month and it sure is. Let see what notable events happened between April 14 to 20.

April 14-15, 1912-RMS Titanic sinks on maiden voyage in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg. The sinking claiming at least 1,500 lives.

April 16, 1947-French cargo ship, SS Grandcamp, which is filled with ammonium nitrate explodes in Texas City, Texas. It claims at least 600 lives. It is the worst non-terrorist explosion in US history. Twenty-seven firefighters died, which had the most firefighters killed in one day prior to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks.

April 16, 2007-Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people at the Virginia Tech Campus. The killer commits suicide after police storm Norris Hall, where 30 people died.

April 18, 1906-Earthquake and resulting fire strikes San Francisco, destroying the city and claiming over 3,000 lives, making it one of the worst disasters in American history. A major city was destroyed, which would not happened until Hurricane Katrina floods out New Orleans in 2005.

April 19, 1993-The 51 Day Siege near Waco ends in a fire that consumes the Branch Davidian compound. 74 people die including the leader David Koresh.

April 19, 1995-Two years to the day of the Branch Davidian Inferno, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombing. The bombing claimed 169 lives and injured 800 people in what would be the worst bombing prior to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks.

April 20, 1889-Adolf Hitler is born in Braunau am Inn, Austria–Hungary. He is the leader of the Nazis party that is responsible for the Holocaust and World War II.

April 20, 1914-Twenty striking coal miners are a shot and killed by Colorado National Guard in Ludlow, Colorado. The massacre is known as the Ludlow Massacre.

Columbine occurred at a time, when there were strings of school shootings from 1997 up to before the massacre had happened. I remember it well, when I was a high school student. A total of 13 people (a total of 16 if you include the parents of the school shooters killed by them) died in mass shootings at schools in the 1997-8 school year. Thirteen people would be killed at Columbine High School in 1999, which made all the previous school shootings pale in comparison. Sadly, in 2007, 32 people would be killed by Seung-Hui Cho at Virginia Tech, which is more than twice as many killed at Columbine.

Harris and Klebold are one of the most hated mass murderer and criminals in history. Granted, there have been mass murderers that have killed more. However, Harris and Klebold targeted people 18 and under at a school of all places. Killing children is truly unforgivable and atrocious. Many child killers have paid a extremely steep price for that and it took just one, like Leopold and Loeb, Bruno Hauptmann, Gertrude Baniszewski, and Lori Drew. They are universally reviled and infamous for their crimes. In addition, they relished in killing people by taunting them, which rarely happens in killing sprees. In addition, Harris and Klebold were bullies and most people hate bullies for good reasons. It is safe to say that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are up there with infamous figures like Charles Manson, Lori Drew, Jim Jones, and Mohammed Atta and company. On the other hand, Harris and Klebold off their sorry asses when the police came storming in.

Klebold was known as being very combative and liked to curse out students and argue with the teacher. Also, he was very belligerent in nature. In addition, their diary shows that they were the bullies and got their jollies from it. In fact, I remember before all those school shootings of the late 1990s, people thought school shooters were bullies and drug addicts. However with the Columbine massacre, I thought it was somehow related to the Oklahoma City Bombing and trial that resulted in the death penalty and imprisonment of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

1993 World Trade Center Bombing, Branch Davidian Fire, and Oklahoma City Bombing

Based on the diaries that Eric Harris wrote, this was no copycat of those previous school shootings. They looked down on them and wanted to outdo the Oklahoma City Bombing. Their intention was to blow up the school and kill 500 people. I suspect the Columbine massacre was a copycat of the Oklahoma City Bombing, which proves that there is a copycat effect. The Oklahoma City Bombing was motivated by the Branch Davidian Fire, which happened two years earlier on that very day and likely have been a factor in the Columbine Massacre as a retaliatory attack.

Likely adding to Harris’s and Klebold’s rage is the Branch Davidian siege that happened near Waco from February 28th to April 19th, which was 51 days. The siege ended in a fire that claimed 80 lives in the burning compound. It became a rallying cry and some would use to justify violence. Tragically, that would happen along Interstate 35 in Oklahoma, two years to that fateful day. One could assume that Harris and Klebold viewed David Koresh as a martyr who was wronged by the government.

Another thing to note, as pointed out, many terrorists like Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Ramzi Yousef, and Ted Kacsynski were getting tried and sent to prison at the ADX Supermax Prison in Florence, Colorado. Harris and Klebold were caught by police trying to breaking in in 1998, which is around the time many of those prominent terrorists were getting tried and sent off to prison for the rest of their sorry life. Perhaps they sympathized with them and could relate to their “plight” and felt they had to retaliate. Initial plans for Harris and Klebold was to attack the sheriff station, not Columbine High School. Sounds like what Timothy McVeigh and company did to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. The original plan that McVeigh, Nichols and company was to attack the federal building in Dallas. In many ways, McVeigh and Nichols did win by making the Waco Siege well known and likely inspired Harris and Klebold to attack Columbine.

Whatever was going in Harris and Klebold’s mind, they felt like they were like them. They can relate to them because they were being tried in the justice system, like they were. Also, they felt the government screwed them over, like what happened to them. We may never really never know what was deep down in Harris’s and Klebold’s mind. They knew that those terrorists who did the crime were justified and they felt they had to fight back.

Perhaps, Harris and Klebold can relate to the terrorists’ “plight”, their actions must of inspired Harris and Klebold to plan mass murder. Harris and Klebold looked down on all the other school shooters that had plagued schools for some times in America. Their inspiration was the Oklahoma City Bombing and Waco Siege, which are related. They wanted to outdo the Oklahoma City Bombing, which would make it a copycat attack right there. That would Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols indirectly responsible at Columbine. Terrorist of all forms, from the lone wolf to groups are known to retaliate in a violent manner. Harris and Klebold felt they too were being persecuted and had to lash out.

I agree what happened at Waco was a big fiasco. The government should of stopped the fire and saved people inside the burning compounding, regardless of who started it. At the same time, the Branch Davidian inferno does not justify bombing federal buildings or shooting up schools. For some they just take it too far and act on it by extreme violence.

Reading Eric Harris’s diary is many ways is like reading what vile stuff that Fred Phelps and Michael Crook produce on the Internet for everyone to see in the form of attacking victims who die in tragic circumstances and racism. Well, Phelps looks down on Nordic people, especially the Swedes, and wished they were killed off in the tsunami that swept the Indian Ocean in 2004. Crook hates America for being too patriotic and idolizing the military. Crook is also a Holocaust denier and “9/11 Truther”, which seem to be related to each other. Also, Harris/Klebold, Phelps, and Crook like to abuse their First Amendment rights. The First Amendment is NOT absolute.

Sometimes I wonder if Harris and Klebold were sympathetic to Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka. Initial reports said that Harris and Klebold were gay and it could be possible because studies have shown that homophobes usually are trying to cover up their own homosexuality. Harris and Klebold have expressed hatred towards homosexuals to a point that they were to be killed off in the diary. I have seen Harris’ diary and he does talk about hating people. However, when it came to homosexuals, he thought they should be killed off because they were degenerates. Some extreme homophobes come to mind, Fred Phelps and Michael Crook, who obviously have issues of self hate.

The portrayal of Harris and Klebold as being bullied helps feed this thinking that they are heroes and martyrs for standing up for bullies. This is despite the fact that they were the bullies themselves. They are making it look like it is okay to bully and harass people, the very thing Harris and Klebold did. An analogy of this type of justification would be Lori Drew and Ashley Grills harassing Megan Meier to suicide because Drew’s daughter, Sarah, was allegedly called a “Lesbian” and decided to fight back. Or if you want to put it on a larger scale, Osama bin Laden justified the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks because America and the West were persecuting Muslims. Bin Laden fights back by getting 19 terrorists to hijack airplanes and attacking the World Trade Center and Pentagon and killing 3,000 people. Or even much larger, Adolf Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s problem and he decided to teach the Jews and Europe a lesson by the Holocaust and World War II. That type of mentality is what Harris and Klebold had, except they were the bullies. Harris and Klebold are no different from Drew, Bin Laden, or Hitler. They are also blaming the victim right there. Blaming the victim is a recurring theme when something big happens like Columbine and 9/11. One wonders what makes people blame the victim. People who blame the victim are likely Fascists, whether they want to admit it or not. Blaming the victim is a trait for psychopath. I liken them as serial killer groupies, who are sickos. And lastly, they are all losers and scumbags that should have their brains examined with a x-ray and rot in Hell.

Initially, it was thought Harris and Klebold were bullied. Later accounts revealed the opposite. Harris and Klebold were known trouble makers and like to bully other people and were extremely anti-gay. I do recall reading somewhere that school shooters were thought to be bullies and/or drug addicts. That was actually a common stereotype of school shooters in the past. The Secret Service did a study on school shooters who were students after Columbine and turns out there is no one clear profile. Here is what the study revealed:

-Ranged from the age of 11 to 21, mostly 13 to 18.
-Mostly came from two parent family, while some came from single parent family.
-Do well academically. None were known to fail.
-Mostly socialize and part of extracurricular activities. Not many were loners.
-Few had discipline problems.

One recurring theme is that they felt persecuted or bullies, which is commonly seen in mass shooters and killers. Some were bullied, while others were the bully. Harris and Klebold were no loners by all accounts. They came from stable families and did well academically. Also, they did socialize a lot and were involved in many extracurricular activities. Harris did not have any discipline problems, while Klebold did. They did have run-ins with the law.

Now, one has to wonder what kind of people are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Harris is a clear cut psychopath, a poster child of raging psychopath. Klebold is an avoidant and conflicted type.

Here is how Eric Harris is profiled:
-Sadistic
-Narcissistic
-Antisocial
-Paranoid

To sum it up, Harris is a Malevolent Psychopath.

Here is how Dylan Klebold is profiled:
-Avoidant
-Negativistic
-Schizotypal (Decompensated Avoidant)

To sum it up, Klebold is a Conflicted Avoidant.

Two mass murderers with two different profiles. Harris is the more dominant one with psychopathic tendencies, while Klebold is very submissive and avoidant. I would not be surprised if Harris would of done something much worse later in life. As for Klebold, it would not surprise if he did something really bad too, if he started hanging out with Harris again. Many evil figures in history were psychopaths, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Charles Manson, and Jeffrey Dahmer come to mind. Eric Harris is in many ways no different from them.

It has been 10 years since Columbine happened. The Harrises and Klebold have been scrutinized, yet they largely remain silent. The Klebolds were interviewed in 2004 by the New York Times. Recently, Susan Klebold did write an article in O magazine about recalling before and after learning that Dylan was behind the Columbine massacre. This is a contrast from the Chos after the Virginia Tech Massacre. The Chos are going to be scrutinized, but not to the extent of Harrises and Klebolds and 10 years has passed on top of it. Harris and Klebold were 18 or under at the time of the massacre, while Cho was 23 when he shot up Virginia Tech. Also, 12 of the 13 victims at Columbine were 18 and under, which makes them minors. Killing children is very abhorrent, especially by the fact that the killers were them. No one under the age of 18 were killed at Virginia Tech, all the victims were adults.

Columbine Massacre like many other infamous events have conspiracy theories. The best known is that there was a third shooter besides Harris and Klebold. Witness accounts are not always accurate. The third shooter is described wearing a white t-shirt and black pants, which Harris wore during the massacre. Also, witnesses claims that the third shooter was “dark-skinned and ugly”, which would suggest that Al-Qaeda might have been involved. I do not believe that Al-Qaeda was involved in any way, but as pointed out, Harris and Klebold could of sympathized with Muslim terrorists, including Al-Qaeda. As I mentioned, Harris and Klebold were likely enraged that Yousef and Abdul were sent off to the Supermax prison. There is also the numerological bent. Some claimed that the massacre was related to the Apollo 16 landing, assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Branch Davidian fire, and Oklahoma City Bombing. I do not see how Apollo 16 landing could enrage Harris and Klebold. I mean it is just a Moon landing and is one of the last one. Why get riled up over that? As for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a Klansman, James Earl Ray, killed him. The KKK like any terrorist group is prone to violence and revenge. As for Waco and Oklahoma City, well that has been covered and I have argued it WAS THE reason why it happened.

Harris and Klebold are scumbags of the lowest denominator. Seriously, why shoot up a school full of people? Look, I do not agree what happened in Waco and Ruby Ridge, but attacking your own school is cowardly and vile. As for Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Ramzi Yousef, and Ted Kacsynski, they can all rot in Hell as far as I am concerned.  This is really vile and it is obvious that they were bullies and hatemongers themselves. I put Harris and Klebold up there with other rotten scumbags like Osama bin Laden, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Lori Drew. I really despise Harris and Klebold much as I despise Seung-Hui Cho, Lori Drew, Fred Phelps, Charles Manson, and Osama bin Laden. Harris and Klebold are one of the most hated scumbags out there and rightfully deserve to be hated for the sick fucks that they are. Killing children at a school is very low and cowardly.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are rotting in Hell with their beloved hero Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, their inspirator and mentor of death, along side with the 9/11 Terrorists, Beslan Terrorists, and Che Guevara. Hell is not a fun place for sure. Harris and Klebold are about as worthless as they were. Talk about worthless right there!

See Also:
Gertrude Baniszewski
Michael Crook
Lori Drew
Paul Orgeron
Fred Phelps

A Life Of Lies And Theft

Casey Anthony

Introduction
Caylee Marie Anthony, a two year old girl, went missing in June of 2008. Her mother, Casey Anthony did not report her daughter missing until a month after she was gone. A search ensued after little Caylee was reported missing. Than in December of 2008, Caylee’s body was found near the home of where the Anthony’s live. What could drive Casey Anthony into madness and kill her own child with no conscious or did someone else kill little Caylee?

Caylee Anthony

Casey Marie Anthony
Caylee AnthonyCasey Marie Anthony was born on March 19, 1986 to George and Cindy Anthony in Warren, Ohio. George Anthony is a detective who retired, while Cindy Anthony is a nurse. Casey also had a brother named Lee. Sometimes in her childhood, the Anthony family move to Orlando, Florida and went to Colonial High School. She later dropped out of high school one and a half credit short of graduating in 2004. As for why Anthony dropped out, perhaps she was bored in high school or she thought it might be cool to be a drop out. Anthony had a passion for photography and pursued it.

Casey Anthony gave birth to Caylee Marie Anthony on August 9, 2005. Casey claims that Caylee’s father is named Josh, who was her co-worker at Universal Studios. Josh was originally from Georgia and had a child and was planning to be married soon. He never saw Caylee and died in a car accident. As it turns out, Casey did not work at Universal Studios and turned out to be one her lies. Casey talked to her childhood friend, Melina Calbrese, about sleeping with him, which bore a childhood from a one-night stand. Anthony is described by many to be irresponsible with sociopathic tendencies. One can say that Anthony was a ticking time bomb ready to go off, which she would later show.

Court papers would reveal that Casey wanted to give Caylee up, but that never happened because her mother insisted in keeping her. That likely made Anthony feel resentful towards her mother. One of the person who was interested in adopting Caylee was Casey’s childhood friend Kiomarie Torres Cruz. Cruz thought Casey was bipolar because she would be willing to let her adopt and other times she would not be interested. Also, she was described as a habitual liar who enjoyed lying to people.

Caylee Goes Missing
Anthony was surfing the Internet and using Google, like most people do. However, Anthony had a ulterior motive for using the Internet, which was looking for a recipe of death. The recipe of death is how to make chloroform. Chloroform is a chemical that is used for cleaning and can be used to knock a person out. Choloroform can kill a person if one inhales plenty of it. Also, she was looking on how to strangle people to death. Chloroform is a byproduct of contact between chlorine and used in refrigeration. Anthony would show her true colors in the summer of 2008, which the recession was under way. Casey with death on mind has plans to get rid of this “burden” named Caylee. She was hoping she could get away with Caylee.

Sometimes in mid June of 2008, Caylee Anthony disappeared from the Anthony home. Most likely, Casey Anthony strangled and used choloroform on Caylee. Caylee is screaming and begging her mother to stop hurting her. Despite the pleas, Casey continues to strangle Caylee. Once Caylee dies from strangulation at the hands of Casey, she uses duct tape and puts the body in the trunk of the car for some time. Than Casey dumps the remains into the bushes not too far from the home. Casey did not tell her parents or anyone about Caylee being missing because she was the on who killed her. She continued business as usual if nothing happened. In fact, Casey felt ecstatic that Caylee is gone and feels she is no longer burdened by her.

Casey Anthony partying.

I Am Free! Or Am I Really Free?
Casey Anthony went on partying as no one knew what ever happened to Caylee. In fact, there are photos of Casey smiling and looking like she has having a good time around the time Caylee is missing. They were posted on MySpace, which Anthony had. Something would come back and haunt her. Casey went clubbing more often and bought lingerie for herself. Anthony saw Caylee as a burden to her self-absorbed life and once she was dead, it made her feel more “free”. These photos would come back and bite her later on as she would find out.

While Casey was enjoying her new life without Caylee, Cindy demanded to see Caylee. Casey said that Caylee was with a nanny, which turned out to be a lie as usual. Caylee was long dead and no one knew that other than Anthony herself. She was keeping it a deadly secret. While she was keeping the deadly secret, Anthony went on a shopping spree between July 8 to 12, nearly a month after Caylee went missing.

Her shopping spree was not a honest one and spent $400 worth of clothes and groceries at area Target and Winn-Dixie stores. It was a shopping spree of forgery and identity theft, the things that Casey really enjoyed. Anthony decides it would be cool to forge checks and use someone else’s identity, which was her friend, Amy Huizenga. Huizenga was visiting Puerto Rico, while Anthony was spending her money without her permission. She would find her bank balance at zero and knew that Anthony was the one who sucked her bank account clean. Huizenga would feel betrayed and would later learn from Cindy Anthony that Casey is a liar and stole money from the family. Anthony was not only a liar, she was a thief and had an addiction to it. This would later come back when she becomes the person of interest.

Once little Caylee was finally reported to the police on July 15, 2008, there was a search to find her. At first, the focus was on Zenaida “Zani” Fernandez-Gonzalez, who was a babysitter for the Anthony family. Casey claimed that she was being babysitted by Fernandez-Gonzalez. As it turned out, the name “Zani” is a street name for Xanax and a last name of a high school classmate of Casey. The closest name to Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez was Zenaida Gonzalez, who was questioned by police on July 17, 2008. Gonzalez denied any involvement in the case and her story came up clean. It caused great anguish and stress and Gonzalez. Gonzalez was later cleared in the disappearance case. Anthony thought she dodged a bullet or did she? The first sign of that was Gonzalez would later sue Anthony for defamation because the investigation ruined her chance of finding a job. Of course to Anthony, the lawsuit would be the least of her problems. Casey’s problems were just beginning and they were mounting.

As police continue to investigate Caylee’s disappearance, they begin to focus on the Anthony family. Casey realized her luck had ran out and that she is in a world of pain. The same day Gonzalez was cleared, Anthony was charged with child neglect, lying to investigators, and interfering in an investigation. She is arrested and sent to jail without any bond. Casey is freaking out and wonder what is going to happen. After Anthony was arrested, the family hires Jose Baez as their lawyer. Five days later on July 22, her family testifies in a bail hearing and is set at $500,000. However, the Anthony family try to appeal to have it reduced to $10,000, but is denied. Anthony starts feeling that her life is pretty much over since she will likely go to prison. Her life starts to violently spiral downwards.

Leonard Padilla

Bailing Out
Casey Anthony sits in jail wondering what will happen to her. She ponders, could she be brutally beaten and killed by other inmates. Than on August 16, a California bounty hunter named Leonard Padilla and his nephew Tony Padilla plan to fly to Orlando. Their plan was to pay the $500,000 bail to free Anthony from jail. Their claim was to find little Caylee. The next day, the Padillas fly into Orlando. Than three days later on August 20, the Padillas post bail for Anthony and the next day she is released to a media spectacle. One of the conditions of being bailed out is wearing an ankle monitor bracelet, which often a condition if one is out on bail. Casey likely felt some relief that she is now out of jail. Since she was involved in hurting a child, she was most likely an outcast by fellow inmates. Casey felt that other inmates might attack and kill her in jail.

A condition of Anthony is that she live with her parents and wear an anchor bracelet. If she was caught breaking her conditions of being bailed out, she could go back to jail. Anthony thought to herself, “Okay, fine, I don’t care, I will get away with this because I am above the law”. Anthony feels that she is better than anyone else and life will go on or will it? However, her luck ran out and got arrested as a result of the theft and forgery back in her July shopping spree. Anthony would be arrested on August 29, realizing she might be going back to jail. Jail she dreads because she might get attacked and killed by other inmates. To compound her woes, she was increasingly becoming infamous for what happened to Caylee Anthony.

Everything Tumbles Down
Once all potential suspects were eliminated, the police focused on Casey Anthony. Anthony must of realized she is really screwed. Anthony was beginning to find out that there is an increasing public anger and backlash against her and later on her family and even fiancée. Casey Anthony was beginning to feel the power of being shunned and hated by other people. In fact, she was becoming the most hated person in America. She was getting a crash course of being shunned by an increasingly angry public, which she would find out the hard and painful way. Casey was experiencing it in real life because of her own doing. Of course, Casey did not really care about being shunned by the public, but it had an impact on her family. Casey Anthony is in the same shoe with other infamous figures like Fred Phelps and John Walker Lindh.

Holocaust, Purge, and September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks.

The Internet was mobilizing against Anthony and it would hit her hard like a bomb. The same fate that befell the infamous MySpace mother, Lori Drew. It sent her spiraling downward into a world of scorn and shame on a level not seen right after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks when it was directed as Osama bin Laden and anyone seen as un-American. Blogs would fill up with vitriolic comments directed at Anthony, vitriol the Internet has seen since Drew. Also, she would be compared with other evil people, most notably Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and Jeffrey Dahmer. Anthony was being compared to evil figures that kill 30 million people in the Holocaust, kill 3,000 people on September 11, 2001, or rape and cannibalize 17 people. On the other hand, people were hating Anthony, like Hitler, Bin Laden, and Dahmer. Anthony was getting a taste of what it is like to be pilloried to the ground. Here are some comments on the Internet directed at Anthony (all of them are original and unedited):

absolutely, Jan! Cindy especially, has been jumping in front of every camera she could until she perceived that they weren’t her “friend”. Her ridulous excuses for her murdering daughter who took away the granddaughter she so loved, is just unbelievable! How the Anthony’s can stand to have Casey in their house with NO answers to their unasked questions about Caylee’s fate just makes me ill. No matter how much they care about Casey, her actions are inexcusable and unforgivable. I’d rather be in the same house with Adolph Hitler than Casey Anthony!

They (cindy casey lee) are VERY weird, and Jeffrey Dalhmer was just as weird. At least Jeffery took responsibility for his actions when finally confronted. I think that makes him a better person than the Anthony family, especally Lee and Casey. Come on Anthony family, give it up and help Law Enforcement find Calee even if it means you get the Chair. They have other little kids to look for, and shouldnt have to be wasting so much time on a sick crew of compulsive, deviant, sociopaths like the Anthony family.

… and they are delusional. Apparently, the public has turned Casey Anthony into “Osama bin Laden” and her lawyer Jose Baez “Adolf Hitler.”

Let’s look at the facts:
1. Casey looked for ways to make chloroform at home
3. Casey looked at missing child websites
3. Casey lied to the police about a non-existent nanny who lived in a vacant apartment, had been recommended to her by a man who actually had no children and had never heard of Zanni. Casey had no phone calls to or from anyone named Zanneida Fernandez Gonzales and no text messages or email to or from her in 18 months of suppossedly sitting for her
4. Casey took police on a wild goose chase to her non-work and other places to divert them from really looking for her child
5. Casey confided in no one and was actually happy, partying, and getting tatoos after her child was supposedly kidnapped
6. There was a dead human body in the back of Casey’s car after Caylee disappeared (George and Cindy both said so initially, cadaver sniffing dogs alerted on the trunk, Body Farm analysis data showed that). Then Casey abandoned her car with the keys on the seat (never came back to get it, when all it needed was gasoline) after telling her friends that a her dad had hit some squirrels with the car (lie) and it smelled like dead bodies.
7. Casey stole her friend’s checkbook after Caylee disappeared and bought beer and sexy underwear for herself with the stolen checks
8. Casey was very angry at her mother, Cindy, who dearly loved Caylee, and Casey even told her brother, “I’m just a vindictive bitch” about why she kept Caylee from Cindy.
9. Casey referred to Caylee as “the little snot head” in a text message complaining that she couldn’t get a sitter so she could go have sex with the guy she was seeing.
10. Casey told Leon Padilla and his employees an entirely different story than she told to the police (about Zanni and her sister Samantha and a non-existent script they had given her telling her to lie to the police)
11. George Anthony said that Caylee never spoke about Zanni and looked confused and didn’t answer when he asked her about Zanni.
12. Last but not least-even when there was a $225,000 reward for finding a live Caylee, no one in the entire USA, Mexico, Canada, or anywhere else in the world ever came forward and said:
I know Zaneida Fernandez Gonzales. I am her neighbor, friend, relative, landlord, ex-boyfriend, former employer, dry cleaner, plumber, banker, mechanic, car dealer, etc. What is this woman, another Osama Bin Laden, who lives secretly in a cave?

In summation: Casey is a total liar who never showed one iota of grief at the loss of her child. Who do you think did away with that poor baby?

megan meier was just a kid and did not deserve what was done thirteen yearolds are emotional anyway then add deppression to that and what you did to her and bad things happen you should not be allowed around children you are no better than casey anthony.

Ed’s Note: This was from a reply.

Reverand have you followed the case? this woman “goggled” on her computer toxic household chemicals to hurt people, cholroform, she even downloaded a tv show a month before caylee was missing about a nanny kidnapping a little girl??!
that is premidated, she was plotting and planning this along sir, nothing was left to chance, she lied to the detectives constantly and her parents and while her daughter was missing she went nighclubbing, drinking and shopping for clothes, are you are father reverend because if you are you understand NO parent would act like that when there child was missing NO parent except for her!

she is guility reverend that is factual, her own father has discovered it and had a complete nervous breakdown, and it wont be long i fear before the mother gets sick, she has destroyed her family. as a man of God reverend caylee is in a much better place now and i dont know if there IS a hell but if there is casey anderson should join hitler, ted bundy, and the 9-11 terroists there. she is a hateful vicious vile diabolical cold blooded killer, and she still thinks she is going to walk?! NO WAY! she will pay, i know God forgives but this is a transgression against everything holy in the world!

I hate you Casey Anthony! You suck at life and i hope the memory of your precious daughter haunts you and makes you feel bad for the rest of your life.

Unfortunately the memory of Caylee will not haunt her. She is a sociopath. She has no conscious! This has been evidenced by all the ME, ME, ME, POOR ME comments she has made. She doesn’t think about anyone but herself. She is just not wired to do so. The only thing that hurts Casey is when she is denied what she feels she needs. Be it attention, material things, etc. The worst thing they could do to her right now is deny her all the frivolities that she now has access to in jail. All her snacks, beauty products, etc. She sees this as no more than an intermission until she can roam free again. I honestly do not believe she believes she has done anything wrong. I mean she knows it was wrong she isn’t crazy in technical terms, but she feels justified in doing it. She may even have convinced herself that there really is a “Zanny”.

As I recall there is a book that was read to Caylee that contained a “Zanny the Nanny” character. I believe that is the real Zanny. I believe that whenever Casey wanted to get rid of Caylee she put her to sleep with whatever medication was handy and either left her in the car, or placed her in the truck and told everyone she was with the Nanny which was no more than her book and her beloved baby doll. I don’t doubt that she did it once too often, or she used something different (like the chloroform *not sure on the spelling there) and it killed her. Or she may have even used something that Caylee was allergic to and she suffocated from the allergic reaction. I don’t know if we will ever know exactly and positively what happened. Whatever happened I have no doubt that Casey will get her due. No matter the outcome of the trial. She will suffer for what she has done. The death penalty is far too good for her. That would be the easy way out. She needs to sit in prison for the rest of her life and be deprived of all that she loves. All the niceties of life. I’m sure she doesn’t feel orange is her most flattering color. I think it suits her just fine!

Worst Mom of the year 2007: Lori Drew
Worst Mom of the year 2008: Casey Anthony

At this point I think the “body” would be mostly skeletal. I hope they are able to retrieve it. It would still help bring closure to the rest of the Anthony family. I hope for their sake they have Casey turn herself in to police, out of their home and begin the grieving process instead of continueing to support Casey in the media.

Casey Anthony Doll

If all the insults were bad enough for Anthony, that was the least of her concerns. A New Orleans artist decided to make Casey Anthony voodoo dolls. The Casey Anthony voodoo doll came complete with handcuffs, a Bible, and white sunglasses. So people can poke needles into the doll in hopes she would feel any sense of pain. The doll was sold on E-Bay and starting cost were $19.99 and $29.99. This came in the heels after Showbiz Promotions yanked Caylee Sunshine Doll off the market. Showbiz Promotions came under harsh criticism for their Caylee Sunshine Doll. On the other hand, people were pleased with the Casey Anthony voodoo doll. One would think that the Casey Anthony voodoo doll must of made Anthony feel really bad because she begin to realize that everyone hates her. Of course, since she is a psychopath, she does not really care. Perhaps she is really flattered by it.

The Anthonys would be besieged by an angry public. People would camp out in front of their home and some even picketed. The protest would get nasty sometimes and to a point that some would hurl coins and rocks at the windows as it happened on September 17, 2008. Also, they would bang on their doors causing the Anthony family to be frightened. They called 911 in hope the police would come and stop the melee against them. The protesters were filmed hectoring George and Cindy Anthony, which he used a water hose to deter the protesters, which did little stop it and actually the protesters liked it and emboldened them further.

The stress of all the negative media attention and being one of the most hated family in America, drove George Anthony to go to a motel to attempt suicide on January 23, 2009. The suicide attempt failed after he tried to overdose himself on drugs and was hospitalized as a result. He wrote a five page suicide note. His attorney, Brad Conway called 911 after George Anthony did not show up.

Caylee Has Been Found
Roy Kronk, a 46 year old meter reader was going around reading how much power each residence used. His job was nothing but routine on December 11, 2008 at 9:30 AM. Kronk was shocked after he found skeletal remains in a bag found in a wooded area not too far from the Anthonys home. Seeing a skeletal remains in the field would shock most people, especially if it is a young child. Kronk must of really freaked out after seeing it and especially the fact that the skull had duct tape wrapped around and had a heart sticker. Than on December 19, the medical examiner, Dr. “G” Jan Garavaglia made a positive identification of the skeletal remain as Caylee Anthony. The death was determined to be homicide most likely.

As it turns out, Kronk made a call to the sheriff in August saying he found a bag vinyl bag. However, he did not investigate it further because there was a dead rattlesnake nearby and it could of played dead and bit him without warning. Perhaps the bag could have been just litter or it might have been from Casey Anthony. We will probably never know. In addition, the vinyl that Kronk saw was never investigated. The bag Kronk saw was near where Caylee was found.

Memorial Service
The Anthony family planned a memorial service for Caylee Anthony at First Baptist Church in Orlando on February 10, 2009. The public was invited and about 1,200 people showed up, some as far as the Carolinas. The memorial was about three hours long and was a tribute to Caylee Anthony. Casey Anthony was barred from attending her own daughter’s memorial because she was in jail. Also, she did not approve the public memorial of Caylee.

However, a unwelcomed guest had tried to show up at Caylee Anthony’s memorial. This unwelcomed guest was none other than the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, led by Fred Phelps. They are notorious for their anti-gay propaganda and picketing funerals of dead soldiers and victims of crime and disasters. They think all crimes and disasters are God’s punishment for accepting homosexuality. The murder of Caylee Anthony was no different because they see it as America’s acceptance for homosexuality. As a result, they are rightfully billed as America’s most hated family and are reviled besides Casey Anthony.

Pre-Trial Woes
Casey Anthony’s trial is to be scheduled on October 12, 2009. Anthony is facing seven criminal charges including capital murder. The State of Florida intends on seeking the death penalty against Casey Anthony, which means if found guilty, she could executed for killing Caylee. When the Anthony family found out that Casey is getting the death penalty, they were shocked, but not surprised. They had hopes that Casey will not get the death penalty, but since everyone already has formed an opinion against her, it does not necessarily bode too well.

In the meantime, the Anthony family are being sued by Zenaida Gonzalez for defamation. Gonzalez claims she cannot find a job and has suffered public humiliation after the Anthony case was publicized. They had to answer questions under oath at the law office of Morgan and Morgan by John Morgan. As George and Cindy Anthony are being questioned, they are becoming agitated from all the stress of the case. The Anthony’s attorney, Conway, said that the questions were involving Casey Anthony’s crime, since the case started because of it. While being being questioned under oath, George Anthony was very combative when John Morgan asked questions. In fact, George Anthony threatened to walk out if he kept being questioned by Morgan.

Casey Anthony’s defense team revealed their strategy on August 21, 2009. Their strategy would be claiming that Anthony was in jail at the time that Caylee’s remains were put in the forest where she was found. In addition, the area was flooded, in which the remains were submerged and could of been missed. The defense team argued that Leonard Padilla should not be allowed to testify in her trial. George Anthony took the stand testifying that Padilla was security for the family as the backlash mounted against them. The sight of him made Casey Anthony break down into sobs. Was she sobbing knowing that she was caught? Perhaps. Anthony is scheduled to go to trial on January 25, 2010.

Another interesting twist, Oscar-winner director Steven Soderbergh is creating a play based on the Casey Anthony case. It is called Tot Mom and will debut on December 18, 2009 in Sydney. It will largely be based on transcripts from Nancy Grace. Grace made the Casey Anthony case big news.

Links
CF News 13-Key Players In The Case Against Casey Anthony
CF News 13-Timeline In The Case Against Casey Anthony
WESH-TV-Mother Offers Insight Into Casey Anthony
WESH-TV-Anthonys Hope Death Penalty Won’t Be Imposed
WFTV-TV-Casey Calls 911 When Protesters Get Violent Outside House
WFTV-TV-Documents: Heart Sticker On Tape Over Caylee’s Mouth
Hutch Report-Casey Anthony Case Proves People Need Someone To Hate
Investigation Discovery-Casey Anthony Timeline
Palm Beach Post-Police: Documents show Casey Anthony lied
FOX News-Caylee Anthony’s Father Might Have Been Co-Worker Her Mom Slept With Once
FOX News-Caylee Anthony’s Mom Disapproves of Public Funeral
FOX News-Prosecuting and Defending Casey Anthony
Orlando Sentinel-Caylee Anthony wasn’t a child who was wanted, court records show
Orlando Sentinel-Chloroform traces found in Casey Anthony’s car, FBI lab reports
Orlando Sentinel-Cops: Photos show Casey Anthony’s theft spree
Orlando Sentinel-Casey Anthony case: Does “One Tree Hill” supply answers?
Orlando Sentinel-No Caylee Anthony doll – now it’s Casey voodoo dolls
Orlando Sentinel-Mourners begin gathering for Caylee Anthony church memorial
Orlando Sentinel-Casey Anthony hearing provides glimpse at defense strategy
Orlando Sentinel-Oscar-winner turns Anthony saga into a play Down Under
CNN-Sheriff: Anthony home may be a crime scene
CNN-Judge: Suicide note stays out of Caylee Anthony case
CNN-Casey Anthony arrested again in theft case
CNN-Formal theft charges filed against missing tot’s mother
Click Orlando-Remains ID’d As Caylee; Meter Reader Comes Forward
BehaveNet-Narcissistic Personality Disorder
BehaveNet-Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Cleveland Clinic-Paranoid Personality Disorder
Mayo Clinic Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Mayo Clinic Anti-Social Personality Disorder
Casey Anthony: Profile Of A Sociopath
ABC News-George Anthony Left 5-Page Suicide Note, Sent Suicidal Texts to Family
ABC News-Casey Anthony, Mother of Missing Caylee, Back in Jail
MSNBC-Did Caylee’s mom chloroform her? Evidence mounts
WJNO-The Latest On The Casey Anthony Case
Random Lunatic News-Casey Anthony’s attorneys are on the Today Show…
Topix-Casey Anthony: Casey Anthony documents to be released today
Blogger News-Megan Meier MySpace Suicide: Lori Drew Author of ‘Megan Had it Coming’ Blog?
Examiner-Casey Anthony voodoo dolls for sale
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Topix-Only my opinion but…re Casey Anthony
Newsday-State to seek death penalty in Casey Anthony case
Newsday-Casey Anthony’s parents leave law office visibly upset
You Tube-Casey Anthony Says She Is Victim in Jail Interview
Case Against Casey-Relieve Stress, Casey Is An Easy Target
My Death Space-Casey Anthony (22) is accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter
Zimbio-’Bounty Hunter’ To Post Bond for Casey Anthony
Examiner-Defense argues innocence of Casey Anthony, George Anthony takes the stand
Books Google-Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal, and Violent Behavior
Med Terms-Sociopath
WDBO-Date set for Casey Anthony trial

My Comments
What kind of sickfuck does this to their own child? You report the child missing a month after she disappeared. Caylee disappeared because Casey likely murdered her. Casey Anthony has to be the most worthless person I have seen since Lori Drew. In fact, if worthless had a face, Anthony would be one of them. I first heard of this case in July of 2008, but I paid little attention to it, but knew what was going on. We have known that parents have gone bad in the past ranging from Gertrude Baniszewski, Ronald O’Bryan, Diane Downs, and Lori Drew. Casey Anthony is no exception and is just as bad.

From what I remember, the public had sympathy with the Anthony family when Caylee was first reported missing. Than over time, the public lost sympathy with them. From there, the Anthonys became the most hated people. They were public enemy especially the fact that photos of Casey Anthony emerged of her partying not too long after her daughter was killed. She was also breaking the law, by using a friend’s check to go on a shopping spree. Her parents were always on television in hopes of garnering sympathy. I have to wonder what George and Cindy Anthony were thinking went Caylee went missing. Did they know about what went wrong with Caylee? If days and weeks passed, one would think that George and Cindy Anthony would be concerned. Also, Anthony showed no emotions the whole time. She did cry, but only when she was in jail after she was arrested for using stolen checks.

The Anthonys is a stark contrast with the Drews and Grills in 2007. When news of Megan Meier’s suicide broke a year after she died, there was no sympathy for the Drews and Grills. They were immediately branded as public enemies and became the arguably most hated people in the past 10 years, something that the Anthonys can relate to. The Drews have never been on television to speak out. The Grills have spoken out and Ashley Grills was interviewed on Good Morning America, which opened her to more scorn. George and Cindy Anthony often took advantage of air time, which made them open to scorn. Both the Drews and Anthonys showed lack of empathy, which added fuel to the fire. Anthony went on a shopping spree after Caylee was murdered. Lori Drew reported to the police after the Meiers broke the Foosball. In addition, they harmed children, one by online emotional abuse and the other by murder. On the other hand, a lot of things did go against Lori Drew, which Casey Anthony did not have. There are differences between Casey Anthony and Lori Drew.

Lori Drew was an over involved parent, which clearly is not the case with George, Cindy, and Casey Anthony. Lori Drew was a bully and people of all kind have been bullied when they were younger. It could be argued that Casey Anthony was a bully because bullies are usually psychopaths. At the time, there was fear of social networking sites, which Lori Drew used MySpace to harass Megan Meier. Anthony did have a MySpace account and she posted photos that did incriminate herself. Lastly, there is prejudice against obese and fat people based on Internet responses on Lori Drew. She called Megan “fat”, when clearly she, Sarah Drew, and Ashley Grills were obese themselves, which would indicate self hate and inferiority complex on their part. Casey Anthony is not obese or overweight and did not taunt anyone. Anthony has no issues of self hate, which Lori Drew clearly shows. This is not in a way insulting fat people, but stating a fact of life.

Upper left to right: Diane Downs and Susan Smith Lower left to right: Kimberly Trenor and Royce Ziegler

The Casey Anthony case reminds me of Diane Downs and Susan Smith. Downs shot three of her own children, which resulted in one of them getting killed in May of 1983. Downs blamed the crime on a “shaggy haired” carjacker. She kept changing her story and the police noticed many holes in her stories. That is what Casey Anthony did when police questioned her. She was tried and sentenced to life in prison. Interestingly, Downs escaped from prison in July of 1987, only to be caught 10 days later. Ann Rule wrote about Diane Downs in Small Sacrifices, which was made into a movie in 1989, starring the late Farrah Fawcett. Downs was denied parole in December of 2008.

Smith used her car to drown her own children, Michael and Alex, in October of 1994. Than she came on TV sobbing and claiming a Black man kidnapped her children. There was a lot of initial public sympathy for Smith, which the Anthonys got. Later on the police found out she was the murderer. It also help stoke racial tensions, something America does not need anymore. Smith killed her own children because she was involved in an adulterous affair with Tom Findlay, who was wealthy. Public sympathy turned against Susan Smith and made her one of the most hated person, which at time included Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

To some extent, Casey Anthony, reminds me of Kimberly Trenor and Royce Ziegler, who brutally tortured and murdered little Riley Ann Sawyers, who was known as “Baby Grace”. Trenor was obsessed with World of Warcraft and met Ziegler online. She later moved to Texas and brought little Riley with her. They brutally beat her because she would not say, “Yes sir”. They dumped little Riley in a box and into Galveston Bay. Hopefully, Anthony will be cell mates with Trenor/Ziegler and Smith and they better watch their backs in prison because they do not look too kindly to people who hurt children.

Casey Anthony is one of the most hated person. However, she is not alone and share it with other infamous figures like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson, Fred Phelps, and Lori Drew. They are reviled by everyone and for good reasons. Casey Anthony is one of the infamous people that everyone loves to hate, a term known as “anger without a target”. Humans have always the need to hate someone and some are hated regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and political leaning, which Anthony would end up being. She shows that people will always need someone to hate, which is a primal urge and prevent people from killing each other. Also people who take pity and sympathize with them are also targeted as well and are treated like one of them, as seen with people who blamed America for 9/11. Their lives were made a living Hell and none have ever recovered as a result.

Top Right to Left: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Osama bin Laden Bottom Left to Right: Charles Manson, Fred Phelps, and Lori Drew

Anthony joins an elite club known as the “Hall of the Damned and Shamed”. Very few people are in this elite club because they are reserved for the worst kind of people. It is free to join because the way to get into it is to do something really repulsive by society: picketing funerals; using MySpace to harass a girl to suicide; order people to murder because of a perceived race war; hijack airplanes and crash them into buildings that result in killing thousands; or committing genocide and starting bloody wars that ruin nations. Of course, Anthony is not a mass killer like Bin Laden or Stalin, but hurting and killing children is really a big no-no. Comparing Casey Anthony to Hitler, Stalin, or Bin Laden is considered offensive because it trivializes people who were affected by their horrendous atrocities. There are people who survived the Holocaust, Purge, and 9/11. Anthony did not send millions to death camps, cause a famine, or kill 3,000 people on live television. At the same time, Anthony is no different from them because she is evil like they were. No one is going to argue that hurting and/or killing children is universally abhorrent and worthy of shunning. The “Hall of the Shamed and Damned” is an elite club because few are in that club. Also, one cannot get out of the “Hall of the Damned and Shamed” and reviled even in death.

Anthony can get a lot of useful advice from Lori Drew and Ashley Grills. Both are universally pilloried and reviled for contributing to the suicide of 13 year old Megan Meier. The Anthony family will have a future like what befell the Drews and Grills. A life of being hated and shunned by everyone. Also, they are deluged with hate mail, death threats, and ugly insults. Regardless if George and Cindy Anthony is going to be charged or not, they will live a life of moving frequently and even have to change their names, which will likely prove futile for them. One advice to the Anthonys, go live with the Drews and Grills. Just go to Google and type “Lori Drew” and “Ashley Grills” and see what kind of life you will have. The Drews and Grills are lonely and shunned and universally hated like Osama bin Laden and Ted Bundy. They would make good company with each other. Hell, they should all move to the Westboro Baptist Church and live with that inbred family led by Fred Phelps. They are billed as America’s most hated family, which they rightfully deserve. The Phelpses, Drews, Grills, and Anthonys are abhorrent freaks of the worst kind and they all deserve each other.

Now, one wonders what kind of person is Casey Anthony? Is she mentally ill? In all probabilities, no because she clearly knew what she was doing. Anthony is most likely a psychopath. Casey’s mother described her as a sociopath who has anti-social tendencies like stealing. Here is what I think Anthony is most likely, which is based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) diagnostic criteria. The criteria she meets are in bold:

Anthony meets seven of the nine criteria for narcissism:
1.) Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements).
2.) Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
3.) Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).
4.) Requires excessive admiration.
5.) Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable. treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations.
6.) Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends.
7.) Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
8.) Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
9.) Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.

Four of the seven for paranoid personality:
1.)Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her.
2.)Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates.
3.)Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her.
4.)Reads benign remarks or events as threatening or demeaning.
5.)Persistently bears grudges, i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights.
6.)Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack.
7.)Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner.

Six of the seven for anti-social personality disorder:
1.) Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
2.) Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.
3.) Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
4.) Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.
5.) Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
6.) Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
7.) Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.

It is obvious that Casey Anthony is narcissistic, paranoid, and anti-social as shown by the DSM-IV guidelines. Also, it is pointed out by Dr. Juliann Mitchell:

Casey has consistently displayed contempt towards authority figures, masked by a thin veneer of civility. Listening to the police tapes, it is easy to see that Casey appears to be quite respectful to the police interviewers. She portrays herself during these interviews as one who has been wronged by a (fictitious) babysitter named Zanny, who, according to her story, kidnapped her beloved Caylee. Casey has been, according to her and to her family, maligned, misunderstood, and martyred.

In reality, Casey believes she is above the law. She presents herself as a mother who is only interested in finding her child. Yet she has done nothing but lie to the police and fabricate stories.

To a sociopath, others are always expendable: family, friends, acquaintances. Once others have been bled dry, the sociopath moves on. Loyalty is not a part of who they are. They have no desire to change and no insight into their own behaviors and motivations. Caylee is missing, but Mom is partying and lying to both her friends and family about her daughter’s whereabouts.

Casey was a parasite, living off of others. She had no high-school education, no job, no goals, no direction. But, to hear her story, she worked at Universal Studios and was attending college. A sociopath always views his or her problems as stemming from flaws in others, rather than taking responsibility for his or her own issues and the havoc they have created.

Dr. Mitchell nails it right on the head about Casey Anthony. Anthony is clearly anti-social, narcissistic, and paranoid, usually the hallmark of a raging psychopath. Anthony is definitely a psychopath, like Fred Phelps, Lori Drew, Bernard Madoff, and Adolf Hitler. However, since Anthony needs stimulation she is also classified as a sociopath, which is anti-social personality disorder.

Characteristics of Casey Anthony:
Sociopathic
Narcissistic
Self-Absorbed
Pathologial Lying
Compulsive Stealing

Casey Anthony is likely a sociopath and covetous and/or disingenuous psychopath.

Hell, I don’t care if Casey Anthony helped Hurricane Katrina evacuees or is Mother Teresa, she is a scumbag extraordinaire. This woman is one sick bastard and is going to straight to Hell for sure. Casey Anthony should share the same cell with Kimberly Trenor/Royce Ziegler, Susan Smith, Lori Drew, and Bernard Madoff. Casey Anthony can rot in Hell along with the 9/11 Terrorists, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin. Anthony is a worthless excuse of molecules like they were. They would make perfect company in the darkest bowels of Hell.

See Also:
Gertrude Baniszewski
Lori Drew
Ronald O’Bryan
Fred Phelps

His Name Is Josh Evans

Lori Drew

Introduction

On October 17, 2006, Megan Meier died with her parents, Christina “Tina”, Ronald “Ron”, and sister, Allison on the side. The Meiers’s world would change forever. Her death was not known until a year later in an online newspaper article. Megan’s death would trigger a massive firestorm of outrage a year later. It would become a very polarizing case that triggered strong emotions and likely could have implications for the Internet. What made it worse was it struck a nerve because everyone was 13 years old and can related to Megan. What is very clear is that Lori Drew and other company involved would become the most hated people. What could drive Lori Drew into a world of madness? Was she an overprotective mother or a raging psychopath ready to go off?

Megan Taylor Meier

Megan Taylor Meier

Megan Taylor Meier was born on November 6, 1992 in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri to Ron and Tina Meiers. Megan had a younger sister, Allison, who was a couple years younger than she was. Ron and Tina were high school sweethearts and took each other to the Senior Prom at their high school year. Not too long after they graduated high school, both got married. Ron Meier was a successful machine and tool maker and Tina Meier was a real estate agent. Both were successful families that they owned a second home in Florida and a yacht. They used it for their vacations. The Meiers were image of success and they did this without going to college.

Megan was a typical teenage girl who did a lot things that adolescents do. The parents were very protective of Megan. She developed a good relationship with her parents, especially father. She had a MySpace page with the handle “Megan Babi”. She befriended a person named Josh Evans, who claimed to be 16 years old and was athletic in September. Things were going well and everything made Megan happy. As Megan was using the computer, her parents monitored her very closely. At one point, the Meiers even called the police because some of the messages were sexual in nature and that bothered them.

October 16, 2006

Ron and Tina Meier

It was a typical fall Monday and Megan went to school and handed out birthday invitations, which was in November. She was picked up from school by her mother than dropped off at home. Tina took her younger daughter, Allison to the orthodontist. However, Megan was upset and Tina came and told her to log off. Tina had to go with Allison. When, they arrived at the orthodontist, Tina called Megan to make sure that she did log off, which she did not. She was dealing with nasty insults. Than Megan calls again telling her mother she is being subjected to nasty insults. She was being called “fat” and “slut”.

However this time, she was being cyberbullied by multiple people online, probably as many as ten people. She was using every insult she could think of. Her mother told her to log off and turn off the computer. Megan did log off the computer as ordered by her mother. It was a rainy night and Megan was found hanging in her closet with a belt. There was a loud hysterical scream from her mother, Christina “Tina” Meier. She was severely deprived her of oxygen to her body. Neighbor Blaine Buckles did CPR on Megan as the ambulance took her to the hospital into the rainy night. Doctors and medical personals tried to save Megan’s life. All her organs were failing one by one. Oxygen was cut off from the hanging. Despite all attempts to save her life, she sadly died the next day, with her parents on her side.

Funeral/Grief

The Meiers arranged the funeral for their daughter instead of planning for her fourteenth birthday. The worst thing a parent has to deal with, a loss of a child, through suicide. Many people attended her funeral. They were many sobs and tears at the funeral. Megan was in her polka dot party dress in the casket. She was buried in a private funeral. Sadly, Megan did not see her fourteenth birthday party.

Once the Meiers buried their daughter, they saw a grief counselor. Tina went to a counseling group for parents who lost their child from suicide. The Meiers made futile contacts with Josh Evans and disappeared from MySpace. Sadly, the Meier family got torn up even more after Megan died and started blaming each other. They even filed restraing orders against each other and eventually divorced. Sadly, Allison had to watch her whole family fall apart because she lost her older sister, Megan.

What Really Happened

Ashley Grills

One of the teenagers, Jessica Mulford, who was involved in the prank had a guilty conscious. The Mulfords did not know the Meiers too well. Jessica was the daughter of Michelle Mulford, a single mother. Jessica told her mother about what really happened and that Josh Evans was a creation of Lori and Sarah Drew. Jessica thought it was okay to have access to the Josh Evan’s My Space page, since it was authorized by an adult. The Mulfords had to tell the truth about what really happened.

About six weeks later, which was around Thanksgiving, Mrs. Mulford went to her a car still in her pajamas and parked on the sidewalk and ran to Fort Zumwalt West Middle School counselor’s office and fell onto the floor sobbing uncontrollably. For the next couple hours, she told the counselor what exactly caused Megan to commit suicide.

There was no Josh Evans and it was a creation of Lori and Curt Drew with their daughter Sarah. The Drews wanted to know if Megan was talking bad about their daughter on MySpace. It stemmed from the fact that Megan called Sarah a “Lesbian”, which Tina told her to stop it. Also, Sarah forgave Megan for calling her that. One would wonder if Lori Drew and Ashley Grills did it because of jealousy towards the Meiers and possibly homophobia, in particular, the internalized form. Initially, Curt was opposed to it because the thought it was a bad idea. However, he did nothing to stop this prank. Perhaps, he scoffed at the notion that they would not follow through the prank or he tacitly accepted it and want to get even. After all, Curt Drew was just as pushy like his wife. The person who actually setup the MySpace page was Ashley Grills, who was 18 at the time. She was a temporary employee for Drew’s business and a friend of the family. Josh Evans first appeared sometimes in September of 2006. He said he was from Florida and was home schooled.

Grills was the one who was mostly doing the dirty work with Josh Evans. Also, Lori and Sarah Drew, and later on Jessica Mulford were involved. Jessica was encouraged to participate because the adults were ones doing it and thought it was okay to do it. The reason why Lori Drew instigated it was that Megan had a falling out with her daughter. They were once close friends and than things went downhill from there. While Lori Drew and her partners in crime were going on with the charade, “Josh Evans” was in contact with another person only identified as “S.D.”, who is also about Megan’s age. “S.D.” gave her contact information to Josh, so they can talk to each other. “S.D” was part of a group of teens that hung out that was made up of mostly girls and a couple boys. Perhaps, Lori Drew’s real plan was not just going after Megan, but other people who she felt slighted her and her daughter, Sarah. Lori Drew wanted to make their lives a living Hell, like she intended with Megan after she felt that she slighted Sarah. Ron Meier has said that he knows who “S.D.” and is Megan’s classmate.

Over time, Ashley Grills and Sarah Drew wanted to end this charade. Both felt it was wrong to do this prank. However their pleas fell on deaf ears and Lori Drew even went as far as bragging about this prank to her hairdresser and one of her business client. Sarah probably wanted to be friends with Megan again and got tired of her mother’s charade and said enough is enough. Lori Drew wanted to continue this ruse in which she wanted to go out in public and humiliate Megan about her talking bad about Sarah. One would have to wonder if Drew’s motive to harass Megan was out of jealousy and resentment towards the Meiers, specifically Tina Meier. In fact Ashley Grills became desperate to end it and wanted to make Megan enraged to end this prank. She wanted Megan to leave Josh alone and have the prank over. Ashley wrote this sentence that would lead to Megan’s suicide:

“Everybody in O’Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a shitty rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you.”

That comment would prove fatal because Megan was distraught and she hung herself with a belt in the closet. Also, that comment would come back and haunt the Drews and Grills. When Megan died, guilt begin to set in for Grills. She ran desperately to the Drews and Curt Drew yelled at them to delete the account, which they did. Lori Drew than told Grills to keep quiet about it. She knew that Megan had a history of depression and they might of pushed her over the edge and made her feel less guilty about it.

The day after the Meiers buried Megan, they visited the Drews and they comforted the family. The day before, the Drews went to the funeral. Also, they attended Sarah’s birthday party, but Ron had to leave when the song “Happy Birthday” was being sung because it was upsetting to him since his daughter died not too long before her birthday. The Meiers also attended Curt’s fiftieth birthday, which would be his last regular birthday. Also, the Meiers had another daughter, named Allison, who was eleven at the time. They made cookies together and for Christmas the Drews asked the Meiers to store the Foosball table.

Mrs. Mulford was pondering what to do next. How was she going to tell the Meiers about who Josh Evans was really was. After all, the Drews offered comfort and even gave them flowers to the Meiers after the funeral. Mulford decided to allow the Meiers to come to the counselor’s office to tell what really happened. The Mulfords apologized to the Meiers and there were hugs and tears with some mix of rage. The Meiers thanked Mrs. Mulford for coming forward and telling the truth. They all left the middle school for home with the feeling of anger and frustration with some feeling of relief of knowing what happened.

Lori Janine Drew

Lori Janine Shreeves was born on March 31, 1959 to Jerry and Helen Shreeves in Dover, Delaware. However, she grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and went to school there. Her father was a banker and worked for the Federal Reserves in Kansas City. Lori has a younger brother named Todd Shreeves. One of her classmates and friend, Teresa Henderson, described Lori Drew as a normal person who do things that a typical teenager would do like covering trees with toilet paper. She graduated from Winnetonka High in 1977. Lori attended Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 1981.

Curt Drew

Lori Shreeves marries Curt Dennis Drew in St. Louis County, Missouri in November of 1989. She epitomized the American dream, by being a homeowner and owning her own business, which was flourishing. Many people would be envious of Lori Drew. It was an advertising and coupon business called the Drew Ad-Vantage. Drew was a member of the St. Peter Chamber of Commerce. They also had two children, Sarah and Christopher. If one was to measure success in life, Lori Drew would be considered a successful person.

However, there were many things about the Drews that bothered the people that they were friends with and knew. Lori Drew did not really mature as she got older. To add to the mix, she was a woman seething with resentment, envy, paranoia, needed a sense of belonging, and entitlement. Any perceived slighting, she would take it very personal and everything revolved around her. People who knew Lori Drew did not have really kind words to say about her. They often described as annoying, mean, abrasive, and a bully. Also mixed with a very sociable, clingy, talkative, and acted like if she was your friends. Many people who were around Lori Drew tried to avoid her and some families had code words to stop talking to her. Lori Drew felt like she had to belong to every organization and be invited to every party in the neighborhood. She was never really liked in the neighborhood she lived in and would find out later that the whole world hates her.

Neighbors and people who knew with the Drews described them as very pushy and often intervening in petty squabbles of their children, especially their daughter. Whenever any slighting happened on their children, especially on Sarah, they would get really upset over it. Lori Drew would go as far as mistreating that child who she felt slighted her daughter. Chrstine Buckles, who was the neighbor of the Drews, said that Lori Drew was talking bad about Megan because she was losing weight faster than her own daughter, Sarah. Lori thought Sarah was losing weight faster, but that was not the case. Megan and Sarah hanged out all the time on Fridays and Saturdays, but rarely on Sundays. It made Sarah feel abandoned and that added to the seething rage in Lori Drew. Perhaps Sarah learned to feel abandoned by her mother, so they can build up her rage.

Christine Buckles recalled that Lori Drew made a vow that Sarah would lose weight. Sarah was losing weight alright, but Megan was losing weight faster. Lori Drew complained about how Megan was causing tension with Sarah. Drew went as far as bat mouthing Megan for losing weight faster than Sarah. Sometimes in 2006, Megan stopped hanging out with Sarah because of Lori Drew’s building resentment towards Megan.

Lori Drew tried to talk to the Meiers to not send Megan to Immaculate Conception School, in which she would be away from the bullies. Despite her pleas, Megan ended up in private school and was improving. Drew could not bear the fact that Megan is no longer with Sarah and that made her infuriated, compounding with the fact at Megan called Sarah a “Lesbian”. It appears that it broke the camel’s hump. If it was being called a “Lesbian”, perhaps Lori Drew saw this as an attack not only on her daughter, but herself.

Community Backlash

Foosball Table, like the ones the Meiers destroyed.

The Meiers went to the garage where they stored the Foosball table. Initially Ron wanted to hack, kill, and behead the whole Drew family into bloody pieces, but for some reason showed some strong restraint. That sentiment of the Drews getting killed like that or worse would be shared by the public a year later. Tina used an ax, while Ron used a sledgehammer and smashed up the Foosball table. One would wonder why they did not smash up the Drew family into a bloody pulp. Perhaps they showed great restraing, which the Drews lacked. They got a cardboard and sprayed, “Merry Christmas” on it and put the destroyed Foosball table on the truck and dumped it on the Drews.

A commotion started to occur which got the neighbors attention. The Drews saw their Foosball table destroyed and tried to talk to the Meiers. However, that did not work and Mr. Meier had to be restrained. Lori Drew calls the police after her Foosball table was destroyed. The police came to the Meiers and she confesses her involvement in the My Space hoax that led to Megan’s suicide. She admitted to the police that the messages were sexual in nature.

Once Lori Drew pressed charges against the Meiers for destroying her Foosball table, neighbors begin to turn against her and her family. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was involved. The FBI told the neighborhood to keep quiet about it, so the investigation would not be compromised. However, it added to the frustration of the community. After the suicide happened, Lori Drew tried to cover her track as the FBI was investigating.

When the community found out, they started to shun the Drews. The Drews would get nasty looks from neighbors. Of course, only the community about what the Drews did. Someone threw a brick thrown at her kitchen window doing substantial damage. Someone used a paintball gun and shot their windows. Also, the Drews had five fake 911 calls placed on them. Also, Ron Meier drove his truck on their lawn out of anger, costing them hundreds of dollars of damage on the Drew’s lawn. The Drews pressed charges against Ron Meier for doing that, but later dropped it. One Megan’s relative posted this sign on the anniversary of her death:

“Justice for Megan Meier,” “Call the St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney,” and “MySpace Impersonator in Your Neighborhood.”

There were even protests in front of the Drew’s residence. They were telling them to leave and never come back. Despite it all, the Drews were acting if nothing happened and she shrugged it off as a joke. She was showing no remorse despite the shunning, even though she complained of a backlash and failed to covered her own tracks. However, the backlash against Lori Drew would explode like a bomb and on her face.

Pokin Around

Steve Pokin

Once the FBI could not find any laws broken, Megan’s aunt, Vicki Dunn contacted a journalist named Steve Pokin of the Suburban Journals, about year after she died. Pokin wrote an article about Internet harassment, which prompted him to write about Megan’s suicide. The article got published, which was titled, “Pokin Around: A Real Person, A Real Death”. It was first published on November 10, 2007 and was over a year since Megan had died on October 17, 2006. The article did not identify Lori Drew and got a lot of responses, mostly anger directed at the Drews and condolences for the Meiers. When people read the article, it triggered outrage and many decided to post the article on message boards and blogs to spread the word. The response on many blogs was outrage directed at the Drews.

Right after Pokin wrote his article, Tina Meier was shopping in the stores and went into one of the businesses and told them to read the article about her daughter. That business was a client of Drew Ad-Vantage, which prints coupons for small businesses. While, Meier was shopping, Lori Drew was also shopping around. Drew ran into Meier and told her, “Give it a rest.” That would prove to be another fatal mistake for Lori Drew. As word of this case begin to spread, news media outlets begin to pick it up. Despite the Drews being identified by bloggers, they did not reveal the name of the family involved. What Steve Pokin did not realize was that his news story was a cause celebre and he did not anticipate a massive response. Lori and Curt Drew became infamous after bloggers were able to identify the people behind it. Most people credit a blogger by the name of Sarah Wells, which got a lot of visits after she identified the perpertrators of the hoax. However, it was actually a 20 year old Rhode Island blogger who identified the Drews. In fact, they even identified the daughter of Curt and Lori Drew as Sarah, who was involved. Before Pokin wrote his article, the Drews were just neighborhood pariahs that everyone shunned and they were going to find out that the whole world hates them as well.

Pilloried To The Ground

After Pokin’s article was spreading throughout the Internet, everything that Lori Drew built in her life started tumbling down. Public opinion was overwhelmingly against the Drews and largely to a point of violence. The Drews and later on the Grills became America’s most hated people, besides Osama bin Laden and Fred Phelps, who are reviled for their evil acts ranging from picketing funerals to international terrorism. Lori Drew seriously underestimated the consequences of her action and became an infamous figure. Her life was going to change forever for the worse. Yet, she still was acting like business as usual. The backlash against the Drews was mounting rapidly against them and could not stop the cascade of an outraged public. The Drews start to receive a deluge of nasty messages and death threats via mail, phone, and Internet. Their phone would ring at all hours of the day, even at night. The constant ringing kept them awake at night. Even when they were gone, the phone would ring endlessly with their answering machine full of nasty insults and death threats. It is likely that people worldwide were sending harassing message to the Drews. The messages were filled with profanity and threats of violence. Some were full of ugly insults directed at Lori Drew and her family. Also, the Drews had entries on popular blogs like Jezebel, People You Will See In Hell, and Rotten Neighbors. They got the most comments and it was overwhelmingly against them and many said they should rot in Hell. The outraged public turned Lori Drew and company into “Adolf Hitler”, “Osama bin Laden”, and “Charles Manson”, who are evil figures and are reviled by many because they killed many people. Here are some insults hurled at the Drews and Grills:

hello I would just like to say that this is the best, and possibly the most well thought-out opinion on this case. Kudos to you, vice. I am Canadian, and what attracts mew to this case, is I cannot believe there are no laws against this sort of thing in the US. It’s unbelievable. In Canada, you would be possibly looking at a felony charge being pressed against Mrs. Drew. I agree that Lori Drew is getting exactly what she deserves. What’s even more amazing is that she honestly believes she did nothing wrong. She reminds me of a femals Fred Phelps.

Lori is challenging the folks of Westboro Baptist Church for the title of Most Abhorrent Human Beings

Lori Drew is a psychopath. That part is clear. But more disturbing than that are the actions of authorities: If it had been an adult MALE that “carried on” in a sexually explicit way with a 13 year old girl, even if it WERE for the purposes of revenge for his teen daughter, he’d be locked up as a pedophile. Second, there are al-READY laws on the books that cover this type of harassment. For chrissake: just implement them! What is particularly chilling to me, is that Lori Drew knew that the victim was known to be suicidal in the past. That means that her statement to her that the “world would be better off without you” or whatever it was… is even MORE chilling: it means she was TRYING to steer this girl to suicide. It means she had a desire to push it in that direction, and did so. Reminds me of Charles Manson. He never “technically” put his own hands upon his victims either, but he “made it happen” by manipulating people, I mean that’s the premise upon which he was convicted: that he had INCITED it. Same thing here. Lori Drew incited this suicide and should be just as responsible as Manson was when he incited those murders—and she should also be treated just like any other adult who engages in online relationships of a sexual nature with under-aged children.

Are you kidding me? The newspaper was extremely stupid to not post their names. That was the first thing I wanted to find out. I wanted to find out who these monsters were so I could find them and make sure they didn’t do this to any other teenage girls or humanity ever again. I applaud the bloggers who posted their names for all to see. They are true humanitarians. Why are the newspaper so concerned with protecting the identity of the self-admitted child predators? Lori Drew used extreme and vicious psychological terror and manipulation to hurt a depressed teenager. Mrs. Drew knows what it is like to be a teenager. perhaps she was trying to avenge some psychological trauma she encountered as a teenager. Whatever the case may be, Lorie and Curt Drew are the sickest, most vile human beings on the planet, right next to Jeffrey Dahmer.

you mine as well call yourself terrorist and work for bin laden

Lorie Drew and Drew Advantage (their business) deserve all the hate they get.I wish I lived closer to try to help close down his business and make them move to a cave in Afghanistan to be with other terrorists.

I heard Lori Drew is hiding in a cave on the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Don’t know where they found a burqua that big but she’s in good company now.

I just read about this C*** in the Los Angeles Times. (What a way to start Thanksgiving Day.) Lori Drew is a SOCIOPATH. She manipulated a 13 year old girl into believing her evil constructed scheme. Lori Drew should be put to DEATH by a guillotine…publicly so that she will get all of the attention she is craving. She doesn’t deserve to live a full life. She deserves to be falsely led to a beautiful castle in France where she will be granted freedom for life….then shot to death by a troop of hundreds of men skilled in archery. Lori’s daughter will probably committ suicide too. Who could bare growing up knowing your psycho mother caused the entire world wanting your whole family dead? I say ship this family off to wherever Bin Laden is hiding.

You are worse than Bin Laden!!!!!!!!!!

At least Bin Laden takes up the responsibility!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What’s wrong with you???????????

Please go see a doctor.

I’m really sad and speechless

The Drew family is a nasty, disgusting family, all of them should rot in hell, along with the 9/11 hijackers and Hitler, their lives are as worthless as theirs were!

Lori and Curt—

You are both sad SAD SAD!!!

My god you are worse than Hitler.

Hitler and Stalin would be so proud of you. Cunt. I hope you and your family rots in hell.

Some people are born evil.Hitler…

…Stalin…

…Lori Drew.

TeeHee!! He and his sociopathic wife are now screwed, blued and tattooed. No one in civil society will EVER do business with them again. Their best bet is to shave their heads, join a ‘Frisco commune and spend the rest of their pathetic lives bowing to Buddha, picking “organic” rice out of feces filled paddies and asking themselves “Why don’t people come to our parties?”

Tie this harrumphing pig to the back of a pick-up truck and drag her through the streets. She has no right to live. Awww, Lori Drew’s business has been hurt, poor li’l pigface.

MAY LORI AND CURT DREW AND THEIR EVIL PROGENY ROT IN HELL FOR ETERNITY. MAY THEIR LIVES ON PLANET EARTH BE MISERABLE LORI YOU SOUL-LESS BITCH. SUFFER.

Lori Drew is the fattest human being in both pictures. In the top picture she is the lady in the white shirt between the guy in sunglasses and the young boy (God help him). In the bottom picture she is the lady in the white shirt on the extreme left (our left). These where taken in 2006 during a St. Peters Chamber of Commerce (of which she is a member) food festival. Her identity in these photographs was revealed by a former neighbor and school parent. Origiginal links: Original links can be found in posts here: http://www.minger.net/2007/11/18/picture-of-curt-drew/

Lori Drew, you are a discusting irrisponsible CUNT! I speak on behalf of every single person in the world. We all hope you rot in hell you trashy bitch!!!! You have a child of your own, so how would you feel if some goof tormented your son? And drove him further into suicide? You WILL go to jail for what you did and me with the rest of the world will make sure its for the rest of your LIFE! GOOF!!!!!!!!!!!

Lori Drew, I hope your monstrous self burns in Hell. You are the lowest life form on earth. You and Ashley, fat ass Grills need to take the advice you gave to poor Megan for yourselves. I hope you do. The world would be a LOT better off without you two!

Ashley grills is a disgusting, fat piece of shit and it makes perfect sense why her fat ass would use the internet to bully a poor girl. She obviously has great contempt for herself and her dirty fat body. Ashley Grills is a piece of shit.

Lori Drew is a disgusting piece of shit.

To The Family Of The Girl Your In My Prayers.To Lori Drew I Hope You Read All These Comments People Have Posted About You Because THERE ALL TRUE.Your The LOWEST Class Adult Ive Ever SEEN IN MY LIFE!How Could You Be So Cruel And Toy With A 13 Year Old Girls Emothions Like That.Just For You And Your Daughters Own Ammusement.How Sick Can You Get Lady!Foreal!!!And You Told Megan All This Stuff About Being Fat Ugly And Worthless But I Bet In My Heart You Were Reliving YOUR ChildHood Years When People Made Fun Of You For BEING FAT UGLY AND WORTHLESS!But You Should Of Listened To Them Because ITS TRUE AND WILL ALWAYS BE TRUE!Megan Was A Beautiful Girl And Was Very Fit And In Shape!How Dare You Try Getting PayBack To THe Kids In Your Past For Saying That By Saying It To A 13 Year Old Girl!Or Mabye Your Talking About Your UGLY Daughter.I Bet You And Your Daughter Were And Still Are Jealous Of Megan For Being Better Than Your Daughter So Yall Teamed Up And Did This Heartless Act!How Low Can You Get!I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU LORI DREW!!!YOU SHOULD GO TO PRISON!!!You Have Stoped A Teenage Girls Life From Experiancing New Things,Meeting New People,Getting Married,Having Kids.HOW DARE YOU!If You Dont Get Charged I Hope The Rest Of You PATHETIC LIFE IS A LIVING HELL!YOU DESERVE IT!YOU AND YOUR DAUGHTER SHOULDNT MOVE BECAUSE THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS HOW PATHETIC YALL BOTH ARE SO I HOPE EVRYONE MAKES YALLS LIFE HELL!AND INSTEAD OF MEGAN.THE WORLD WOULD BE A WAY BETTER PLACE IF YOU WERENT HERE AND MEAGAN WAS!I HOPE YOU LIVE WITH GUILT THE REST OF YOUR PATHETIC LIFE.I HATE YOU!

Lori Drew is among the lowest scum ever to walk on the face of this earth. Her behaviour is just…unbelievable. She is an adult and a ‘mother’ and yet she screwed with the mind of a thirteen year old girl who she KNEW had ADHD and KNEW was on anti-depressants. It’s just disgusting. And that’s not the only thing that’s disgusting. I don’t want to get personal, but just look at the picture of Lori on this page. Honestly, she looks like a demented ogre. A male one.

There is a special place in hell for Lori Drew. It has mirrors on the walls, the floors, and the ceilings and that fat, psycopathic, bitch will have to look at her own repulsive reflection for all of eternity and if you’ve seen her pictures that’s going to be a long, long time.

WARRENING:!!!this may be stronge words said here .. but i truly hate this cunt!! I DONT HAVE A SHIT LIST .. BUT NOW I HAVE A HATE LIST .. AND THIS Lori Drew IS A vileness !!! that poor Megan Meier.. she was inncent and lovely i hope you read this Lori drew!!! I HATE YOU LORI DREW YOU FAT FUUCKK!!! YOU LOOK LIKE AN OLD FAT ASS COW OF A MAN 47 YEAR OLD WHAT TIM EYOU HAVE TALKING TO TEENAGER?? YOU ARE SICK FUUCKK!! YOU ARE EVIL.. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS .. IT MEANS THAT WHEN YOU SOMETHING WROND AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT IS WRONG YOU SO IT ANYWAYS.. THAT MAKE YOU AN EVIL ASSSHOLE!!!! YOU MIGHT THINKING ABOUT MOVING TO THE SOUTH POLE .. YOU HAVE A COLD HEART .. WAIT YOU DONT HAVE A HEART!! YOU EVEIL BITCH .. WHY DONT YOU JUMP IN A LAKE … I HOPE YOU ARE HUANTED 4 FEVER REST YOU RLIFE .. WE MAY NOT SEE IT .. WHAT YOU DID .. IS EVEIL WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND .. AND IN THE END SOMWEAR YOU GET YOURS…MAYBE YOU HIT BY LIGHTING… YOU ARE JUST GROSS!!! YOU FAT UGLY OLD HAG!! GO TO HELL!!!

Hey Lori, I hope you read these comments. You are the reason a 13 year old is in her grave. How does it feel to know the entire country hopes you rot in hell? SO glad her name was finally published.

Lori shopuld be tried for murder, Lori Drew must have been so jelous of megan to pull off such a horrific deed, what a sleeze bag. I am so angry this piece of $hit is getting away with a slap on the wrist. Hope you rot in hell Lori Drew, maybe you ought to hang yourself. Rest in Peace Megan, i never knew you but i know, you must have been an angel for a 40 year old to torment you. God please Bless Megan

Wow. I am thouroughly astonished. Mrs Lori Drew, wow. I am a 26 yr old veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I have seen horrible things done by one person to another. You ma’am. You are by far the most horrendous person I have had the pleasure of hearing about. I am not certain what kind of “bullying” or “manipulating” Megan might have done. However, I seriously doubt that it ranks anywhere near you level of insidiousness. This girl, whether right or wrong, healthy or sick, did not deserve to be gang attacked, lynched or crucified. The fact that you led this assault on the common decency of the very fabric of humanity(and destroyed the mind state of your worker) and have no remorse absolutely demonstrates that you rank up there with Hitler and Saddam. Thank you and have a nice day.

YOU – CALLING MEAGAN FAT??? YOU LOOK LIKE A TRUCK WITH SAUSAGE-LIKE FINGERS IN THE PHOTOS I’VE SEEN. SHUT UP AND GET SOME EXERCISE YOU SOW.

Kill yourself please. Shoot yourself in the head, but not in the face. This way you can have an open casket and we can all come to your funeral and spit on your face in disgust. Cunt.

You fat piece of shit. I hope you die choking on your own blood. God will have your fat ass sent packing when this life is over. And I can only hope that the Devil himself greets you at the gates of hell. Have a nice day.

Is it possible you can live with yourself? How so? Do you think God is pleased with you? I’d hate to be you if you haven’t absolutely and completely felt the deep-seated remorse and realization of the heinous crime and hateful vindictive way you destroyed a family. Only someone with a black heart and no soul could have done what you did and responded the way you have. Right now, the entire universe is repulsed by you.

You are so sick and you shouldn’t be allowed to have children. I hope you lose everything, your life included.

How twisted to even sit here and say that a little girl could’ve concocted all that you say.

People are right to lump you in with the likes of Hitler. You have no conscience.

Go die.

Hey Cu^t, I mean Lori Drew…

You are nothing but a worthless, no good, sociopathic, trash recepticle, stoic eyed, manipulative rodent eating parasite, shallow tub of lard, who lacks no remorse or guilt, still running your flappy ugly lips that cover that toxic thing you call a mouth…

(And that is BEFORE I heard what you did!)

I thought entities like Bin Laden were the root of evil. You are right up there with him. The fact that you STILL try to defend yourself and spew your hatred on a 13 year old girl who isn’t even on this earth anymore is beyond me. Why do you find it strange that so many people HATE you? Do you really have that much of a grandiose sense of self worth?

Actually, I encourage you to continue to spew your poison into the internet. One of these days you will incriminate youself and hopefully you will get the death penalty!

I, along with the MASSES look forward to spitting on your grave. No doubt in my mind- a soul of your substance is going straight to HELL.

Congratulations, Lori Drew. You took advantage of a 13-year-old girl’s confidence to the point that she killed herself. Because you wanted to find out what she thought about your daughter. Good job. You are the worst mother, the worst person, EVER.

Adding to their woes, people would drive their cars right in front of the Drews at all hours, even at night for a few minutes. Than they would speed off onto the highways. Sometimes, they would shout, “Murderer!”, “Burn In Hell, Lori!”, “Rot In Hell!” and various other insults. It is also safe to assume that all the ugly insults and death threats via phone and e-mail are similar to what was posted on blogs. The deluge of outrage did not stop there. Someone was able to hack the welcome message of Drew’s business and cell phone that said:

“This is Lori Drew the world famous MySpace murderer, if you would like some advice about how to kill a beautiful teenager, you have come to the right place.”

If all the hate mail, death threats, and ugly insults were bad enough, that was part of their increasing problem and gets more trivial for them. Someone out of anger decided to make a fake 911 call on the Drews by calling that there was a dead body in the house. Next thing, dozens of police officers armed with pistols and shotguns stormed the Drews and had them down on the floor. When they found no weapon on Curt, the police left. This was their sixth fake 911 call they were subjected too and the Drews realized their life is going downhill very quickly. The Drews were getting fearful since their names, address, phone number and pictures are all over the Internet for the world to see. As they are bombarded with harassment and death threats of all forms, the Drews and later on the Grills begin to take on a bunker mentality.

Fallout

The Drews are virtual prisoners.

The Drews start to close all their blinds and keep it dark. They disconnect all their phones and stopped their cell phone service. If a reporter requested to interview the Drews, Jerry Shreeces would come out and say they do not want to speak. The Drews installed security cameras up to record people who might attack their house and themselves. They rarely ventured out only when necessary, but likely got nasty looks wherever they went. At one point, the Drew family left the house for a week because of fear they would be a target of deadly violence, sometimes around Thanksgiving. They realized they were not safe anyone, not even their own home. They took such a bunker mentality that Curt Drew would use the minivan to check the mailbox thinking he would be less vulnerable to being attacked. He checked the mail only to find it full of hate mail and possibly mail filled with white powder directed at them. Perhaps, Lori and Curt Drew looked under the car or checked the mail to see if anyone placed a bomb, which would explode and possibly killing them.

They were most likely subjected to many vandalism on their house, but did not report it to police because they were fearful of them after being subjected to half a dozen fake 911 calls with police storming their house with guns drawn on them. All those fake 911 calls happened between December of 2006 to November of 2007. Also, if they made any attempt to press charges, they would be opening themselves to more ridicule. Sarah was subjected to endless harassment and threats made at her by students at school for her role in the cruel hoax. The school she attended told her to leave because they could do little about stopping the harassment, which is rather unusual. She even left the Drew household to live with relatives for her own safety. Lori was deathly afraid to even reveal where her daughter was living at. Most likely, she feared, the daughter will be targeted too, besides herself or she is afraid she will go to prison. It likely gave her a false sense of safety because she was likely harassed at the other school she went and had to transfer out.

The Grills are taking a hit from the avalanche of backlash. Ashley Grills who wrote the final message had a serious nervous breakdown right after Megan died and even attempted suicide and had to be committed to a mental hospital over this. When it was revealed that Grills was involved, she too got same fate that befell the Drews. Grills got a lot of death threats and ugly insults hurled at her. It was the same message that the Drews were receiving. She had a wide presence online and had to delete all her accounts because they were flooded with death threats and hate mail. Also, the Grills take on a bunker mentality and would not go out of the house for days at a time. She was fearing for her own life and did not want to end up in a pool of blood on the sidewalk.

As for the Mulfords, one could guess that Jessica was likely subjected to vicious harassment that befell Sarah for her role. It is very possible that Jessica had to withdraw from school and go into seclusion. Neighbors say that they leave their lights on all night, perhaps out of fear that they too will be target of lethal violence, like the Drews and Grills.

The Drew’s and Grill’s reputation are in total shambles, their livelihood took a hit by the cascading outrage. Clients were fleeing Drew Ad-Vantage as if it was the plague. The clients of her business were too taking a hit from the outrage. They too were getting hit by harassing calls and hate mail from all over the world. Also, locals would insult the business owners for doing business with Lori Drew. Many review sites were getting scathing reviews for just simply being Drew’s client. They also saw a drop in business, especially around Christmas time. Many of these businesses’s livelihood are largely dependent around Christmas time. Some of the businesses that used Drew’s coupon business were in danger of folding. Her business folded onto itself, which she ran for about nine years. If Lori Drew’s livelihood was destroyed, it did not stop there. Curt Drew was a real estate agent for Coldwell Banker and got terminated after they received a lot of phone calls and e-mail. Coldwell Banker did not want a person connected to a reviled person, which is bad for business and reputation. Curt Drew later got a job at Burlington Coat Factory as a salesman, but his tenure was short and was told to leave. Their livelihood cease to exist and now they have to live off of their savings, which they were running very low on.

No Charges

St. Charles County DA Jack Banas

The St. Charles County District Attorney (DA) Jack Banas just got word of the case. He did not know about until Pokin broke it. One wonders why he did not even know about this case, despite the fact that the sheriff and FBI were involved. Jack Banas looked into the case and decided to file no charges on December 4, 2007. In some ways, it added more to the firestorm against the Drews and Grills and now to Banas. Banas was inundated with angry phone calls, hate mail, and even death threats from all over the world. He was called Joe Bananas, Jack Baños (Spanish for bathroom), and various other ugly insults that befell the Drews and Grills. The constant barrage of angry messages took a toll on his life. It put a lot of stress on him and his reputation at stake. Some were even calling for his removal. Many viewed him as a spineless and worthless DA. There were even talks of recalling Banas and having him removed from his position.

Meanwhile, the Drews’s lawyer, Jim Briscoe appeared on NBC’s Today Show to deny that she was the mastermind of the hoax. Instead she put the blame on her own daughter, Sarah and Ashley Grills. Lori Drew painted herself as a victim of a “lynch” mob. Even though she was not on My Space for most of the time. She claimed that she did not know that mean messages were being sent to Megan. Grills viewed Lori Drew as a mother figure in her life and now saw her as a monster, who made her a scapegoat. As for Sarah, she likely feels deeply resentful about her mother putting the blame on her. Lori Drew has not spoken out about her role in this cruel hoax, despite having a lawyer and has been silent about it. The lawyer has told her to be silent because if she says anything and gets sued, she could lose. Also, none of Lori Drew’s relatives have spoken out, possibly because they feel ashamed or she may go after them.

Lori Drew Had It Coming

Jason Fortuny

The Drews and Grills were in total ruins, someone wrote a vile blog called Megan Had It Coming. A notorious Internet “troll” named Jason Fortuny, who was infamous for using Craig’s List to lure men by posing as a woman in September of 2006. He than posted their photos, address, e-mail, and phone numbers. He became the most hated person on the Internet for his Craig’s List infamy. He was subjected to numerous hate mail, death threats, and even lawsuits. He authored this blog as a way to question the public’s hunger for remorse and challenge the cyberharassment laws. Or he had another reason, it was a form of redemption by going after Lori Drew since he was despised. He wanted to go after a woman that everyone hated and make himself feel like a hero.

The blog emerged about a week after Pokin wrote his story. The first entry was written by someone named “Kristen”, who was Megan’s classmate. The person claims that Megan was a real drama queen and really annoying. It was initially thought that Lori Drew wrote the blog, which shows her vileness. On the other hand, if she really wrote the blog, she would only incriminate herself. The next entry, which was when Banas decided to file no charges against her, revealed herself to be Lori Drew. Also, she further attacked Megan. The blog got a lot angry replies, which were the same nature as she was getting through e-mail and phone calls.

Federal Charges

Federal Prosecutor Thomas O'Brien

Once Lori Drew escaped state charges, she thought she was off the hook and took a sigh of relief. However, the outraged was still raging on and in some ways, she was even worse off. The blogosphere and forums after forums continued to attack Lori Drew and Ashley Grills. Around Christmas, it is likely that the Drews are likely shopping for Christmas gifts and as they are doing their shopping, they get nasty looks from the public. Some people likely just veered away from the Drews. Possibly they did not want to be near the Drews or possibly get hurt by the outraged public.

On January 9, 2008, in Los Angeles, the federal prosecution announced they would investigate the case. However, the victim was not Megan Meier, but instead it was My Space. She was investigated for defrauding My Space and conspiracy. The notion of federal charges likely made Lori Drew feel more fearful about her future.

Lori Drew was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 15, 2008. Lori Drew probably felt scared that she could go to prison for up to 20 years. If she was sentenced to 20 years, she would be almost 70 years old by the time she is released from prison. She would probably not see her children graduate and be a target of other prisoners. On June 16, 2008, she flew to Los Angeles to go to court. She pleas not guilty and posted a $20,000 bail in front of U.S. District Judge George Wu. She probably was feeling scared the whole time because everyone knows who she is and likely got nasty looks from passengers and flight attendants during her first flight since Pokin broke the news. Many conditions were placed on Lori Drew. She cannot not have Internet access, get a passport to travel outside of America, and only allowed to travel in Missouri and Illinois. Also, she would be subjected to random searches by law enforcement. The trial date was originally set for July 29, 2008, but Lori Drew’s lawyer appealed to delay and the judge agreed to move it to October 7, 2008.

The Drews decided to put their home on the market and planned to move out of the neighborhood for good. It is most likely they put their home on the market to pay their legal bills and also being not welcomed in the community. They probably planned on selling the house for some time, so they can quietly leave for another area.

Defense attorney H. Dean Steward, one of Lori Drew’s defense attorney wanted the charges dropped because it could criminalize millions of people on July 24. The prosecutor countered by saying that Lori Drew had criminal intents because she wanted to lure her and go to a public place and humiliate her. Attorney Steward tried to get medical records of Megan Meier to see if the change of anti-depressants caused her suicide. Another hearing occurred on September 4, 2008 and Judge Wu rejected two motions to have the case dismissed. He would consider the third motion and scheduled another hearing on September 23, 2008.

Lori Drew and her family moved out of her neighborhood to some undisclosed location, most likely in California, where she is allowed to be in. Very likely, it will be revealed because everyone knows what Lori and Curt Drew look like, since their photos were posted all over the Internet. In all probabilities, they will be have to move out again for years to come regardless of what happens because neighbors shun her like at her previous community. Also there is the prospect that she could end up in prison and possibly get killed by other inmates.

Trial By Jury

Lori Drew’s trial started on November 18, 2008 with the selection of potential jurors after Judge Wu denied a motion for a bench trial. Another setback for Drew, Judge Wu allowed the suicide as evidence in the trial. Jurors were being selected and 80 percent knew about this case. Many of the jurors had highly unfavorable opinions of Lori Drew, the level of venom, which made the defense team concerned. The trial started on November 19, 2008 with Tina Meier testifying, which started calmly than ended tearfully when her daughter Megan died.

As Meier is testifying, Lori Drew is sitting there acting all stoic with no expression on her face. In her eyes, she feels she did the right thing by going after Megan for perceived teasing of her daughter Sarah. What Drew does not realize is she destroyed her whole family, Grills, and others involved and is the target of scorn. When Sarah Drew testified she was at her breaking point and was sobbing as she missed her friend Megan. On November 26, 2008, jurors found Lori Drew guilty on three federal misdemeanor charges that carry a year in prison and $100,000 fine each. When Drew learned of the verdict, she was angry with rage and knew her life is over as it is. Judge Wu acquitted Lori Drew on July 2, 2009.

The prosecutor however has appealed Judge Wu’s decision. Drew’s legal woes are not over as a result.

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My Comments
I thought Fred Phelps was a scumbag, but when Lori Drew came along, we have a bigger one. I do not recall anyone this hated since Osama bin Laden. Not that I am comparing the horrid acts of Bin Laden to Drew. If Lori Drew had been remorseful and begged for forgiveness, this whole thing would of probably burned itself out. They probably would have been subjected to some vilification, but not the deluge of hatred they got. Lori Drew would not be subjected to ugly insults and death threats, nor be lumped with figures like Hitler or Stalin. Immaturity, resentment, envy, revenge, entitlement, being your children’s friend, and over protectiveness mixed with psychopathy resulted in tragic consequences. Whether Drew intended to have Megan commit suicide or not is debatable. However, what she did to the Meiers afterwards and showing no remorse is what did it for the Drew family. A unknown family that became the most hated in the world. If the dictionary had a photo of worthless, Lori Drew would be that picture. Drew is a very catty woman who gossips all the time and any slighting on her, she goes berserk over it. Sadly, there are a lot of people like Lori Drew, ranging from fathers who attack umpires after making calls on their child or mothers upset that their daughter did not make the cheerleading team. I will later explain why I think she is not mentally ill.

Wanda Holloway, Dean Corll, and Gertrude Baniszewski

The case reminds me of the Wanda Holloway, Gertrude Baniszewski, and Dean Corll. The Texas Cheerleading Mom case happened back in 1991, which I remember well. It is a fair comparison, since both Drew and Holloway were so wrapped up with their children’s life. She was such a moron because she felt her daughter Shanna Harper should be in the cheerleading team. Both Drew and Holloway were people in relatively high standing. Holloway was a secretary and played the organ at her church. There are not many organ players in America and the world; they are an elite bunch. Drew owned a thriving advertising business and was a member of Chamber of Commerce. Both lived the American dream and yet she somehow both had the gall to do something vile. Holloway wanted her daughter Shanna to be a cheerleader, even though she was not interested in being one. Drew wanted to boost Sarah’s self-esteem and be her friend. Talk about entitlement run amok! Everyone has been through this before when we were all thirteen in junior high. Friends for one day and not friends the next day. Very common among girls, who are in some ways worse than boys. If Lori Drew had done nothing, more than likely, Megan would become friends with Sarah because she wanted the prank to end.

As for Corll and Baniszewski, they had teenagers involved to do the dirty work. Corll had two teenagers lure, torture, rape, and murder their victims in Houston from 1970 to 1973. They killed a total of 27 people and Corll was killed by Wayne Henley after he felt threatened by him. Corll was considered the worst serial killer at the time of his death, which was dubbed the “Houston Mass Murder” because the term serial killer did not exist. Baniszewski had her children and other teenagers torture Sylvia Likens because she was lashing out at the world for her own failures in life in Indianapolis. There are major differences from Lori Drew. Corll was a sick pervert and self-hating homosexual serial killer who killed +27 people. Baniszewski was a rage-filled and depressed woman who saw herself as a failure. She needed a scapegoat and lashed out on Likens. She was enraged the Sylvia was spreading rumors abot her daughter being pregnant, which was true.

I first saw this story on a message board in mid-November of 2007 and at first I thought it was a hoax because of the bizarre nature of the incident. Also, the suicide happened a year before it was written. It was posted by someone from the same area where the incident occurred. I decided to look into this and it turned out to be true and I was outraged by it. The article did not name the people responsible for this horrible prank to protect their children. Outraged bloggers were able to identify the perpetrator of this cruel prank because the article had some clues. I thought not naming the people responsible for the cruel hoax made the firestorm worse. Prior to Lori Drew, I said to myself that Fred Phelps is the most vile scumbag. However, Lori Drew is much worse than he is. Well, both of them are rotten scumbags of the lowest denomination and are billed as the most hated people besides Osama bin Laden and Kim Jong-Il.

Lot of things made Lori Drew the most hated person in some time. First, she was an over involved parent. A lot of parents, teachers, professors, teacher’s assistant, and even managers have dealt with them before. Helicopter parents as we know have always been around since the dawn of civilization. There was a fear of social networking sites because of strangers, perverts, and child molesters could use them to lure their victims. People hate perverts and child molesters and for good reasons. Child molesters are about as hated as terrorists and dictators. Nobody likes a bully. Almost everyone who was Megan’s age can relate to her. Bullies are viewed as cowardly and studies have shown they are more likely to commit crimes. Lastly, Lori Drew, Sarah Drew, and Ashley Grills are obese, people tend think obesity is linked with laziness. A fact of life is there is prejudice against obese people in general, which went against Lori Drew. I am not being prejudice or anything, just stating facts. Of course obesity is not healthy and one should lose weight for their sakes because it is linked to various medical problems.

Cyberbullies are the biggest cowards. They are the scum of the Earth, besides rapists, pedophiles, serial killers, bleeding hearts, communists, terrorists, and racists. They act all big and powerful on the Internet because they know in real life that they will be easily intimidated. Bullies like to act all strong and mighty and intimidate people. In reality, bullies are really weak minded who are obsessed with their self-esteem and want project their resentment to the world. What happened to, “At the flagpole at 3:00 PM”? When did the Internet become a place to intimidate people? If one has to use the Internet to bully people, they are truly pathetic and worthless people. It shows, they are truly cowards.

I knew a huge Internet firestorm would come and the Drews were going to be the most hated people in America and the world. I predicted they would be flooded with hate mail, death threats, be ostracized, and targets of vandalism. All my predictions rang true. Perhaps, I even underestimated it. The Internet exploded with extreme anger and outrage. Some bloggers posted address and phone numbers of the Drews and later on the Grills all over the Internet. Also, both Curt and Lori Drew and Ashley Grills pictures were posted. Not surprisingly, their appearances were subjected to ugly insults due to fact that that they called Megan “fat”. Talk about pot calling kettle black.

Could Lori Drew's relative be the Phelpses of Westboro Baptist Church and Michael Crook?

Lori Drew resembles Fred Phelps and his equally demented children in appearance and behavior (Four of his children defected due to abuse). Phelps is the leader of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Topeka and it is made up of Phelps and his whole extended family. They are notorious for picketing funerals and their vile slogans, “God hates fags” and “Thank God for 9/11″. Lori Drew’s face and hair looks like Phelps, except the eye color is different. There are differences between Phelps and Drew in appearance. Lori Drew is overweight, while Phelps is not overweight at the present moment, which he was in the past. Phelps and his followers were overweight and obese at one point in their life. Some WBC members are still overweight and obese as of today. Phelps hates obese people, as much as he hates homosexuals. Phelps is tall, while Drew is about average height for a woman. Both exhibit deviant behaviors of the worst kind. However, there are differences in Phelps and Drew in their deviances. Phelps is a raging, hate-filled, and megalomaniac with a messiah and superiority complex. He pickets funerals and violently abused his own children and wife. Drew is a jealous and resentful person, who pents up her rage at every slighting. They likely came from the dirty gene pool that spawned both of them. I sometimes wonder if they are related to each other. It is known that the Phelpses have illegitimate children, most notably Shirley Phelps-Roper and Jonathan Phelps. In fact, they got plenty of skeletons in the closet. It would not surprise me if Drew and Phelps are some how related and I even think she is Fred Phelps’s bastard daughter. As I pointed it out, Drew was born in Dover and it does not clearly identify her parents, but it does identify her husband’s parents. It is possible she could be born out of wedlock, which carried a stigma back than. To date, none of Lori Drew’s relatives have spoken out, which could raise the specter that her relatives are WBC members. Also, we hear very little from her mother, father, brother, and relatives. I am assuming her brother is estranged from her.

Fred Phelps picketing.

Phelps rails against sexual deviations possibly because he engages in them and his family are a bunch of inbreds that likely practice incest, fornification, and polygamy. It is known that people who are vocal critics of sexual acts, like adultery or homosexuality, are likely do to engage in them. Perhaps Phelps is an adulterer and rails against adultery as much as he does with homosexuality. Phelps was silent about Megan Meier’s suicide right after Pokin wrote the story. Phelps has been known to open his mouth when young people, including children get killed like the Amish school shooting, Brianna Denison and Lauren Burke. Her death and he stayed silent about it. We will probably never know why he never said a word about it. Interestingly, he did not make a flyer about Hurricane Ike when it ravaged Texas, which he did for the bus crash that claimed 17 Vietnamese Catholics in North Texas. The Supreme Court overturned sodomy laws in 2003 which involved a Houston case known as Lawrence v. Texas. Five years later, Ike made landfall in the Houston area, but Phelps said little of it. He claimed he would make a statement about Ike through a and video, but only made a mention of it in his sermon. However, he made a video blog about Hurricane Gustav and sent out a flyer for Tropical Storm Fay flooding Florida. As for Phelps being silent on Megan Meier’s death, he is deathly afraid that Lori Drew could be exposed as his illegitimate daughter. One thing is during the trial, we heard little to none of Lori Drew’s mother and her childhood. He could be outed as a hypocrite, the very things he rails against. If Fred Phelps does have a bastard child and in this case, Lori Drew, it would cause WBC to tumble. If Phelps is outed as an adulterer, that would be just as bad for him if he was outed as a gay man, which in all probabilities he is. Also, the cruel hoax was exposed after WBC lost their lawsuit in Maryland and that could put them at a bigger peril for their own demise. Also, they have other legal problems of their own. Both Drew and Phelps ought to appear on The Maury Povich Show and do those paternity tests to see who is the biological father.

The reason I think Lori Drew is a wedlock child, whether she is related to Fred Phelps or not is that why is she born in Dover, Delaware, not Missouri or Kansas. Most of her family, at least on the maternal is from the Midwest. It could be as simple as that her parents traveled to Dover for business or vacation. Another possibility, assuming if Lori Drew is not a wedlock child, is that her father served in the military. That would mean her family moved to Dover, which is common with military families. Dover is the home to Dover Air Force Base, which was established during World War II. Assuming Lori Drew is a wedlock child, she was born in Delaware because her mother wanted to give her up for adoption and at the last minute decided not too. Delaware is furthest from the Midwest and she would give birth without anyone knowing what happened.

Top Right to Left: Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Osama bin Laden. Bottom Left to Right: Charles Manson, Benedict Arnold, and David Cash Jr.

This case brought out human nature to hate certain people to unify humans to avoid killing each other. Lori Drew fell into the hole of being hated by everyone. It is human nature to hate certain people from the brink of turning on one another. It is like glue for humanity. That term is known as “anger without a target”. Lori Drew would be in this elite club made up of mostly traitors, murderers, rapists, fringe elements, and the perverted. Lori Drew is in the same shoe like Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson, Benedict Arnold, and David Cash Jr. are in the elite club, known as the “Hall of the Shamed and Damned”, which is you are shunned for life and hated by almost everyone. Even in death, you are still despised like if you were alive. They are in it because they did some so abhorrent like genocide, terrorism, treason, murder, and being a coward. Lori Drew became a member of this “elite” club that most people do not want to be in. Membership for this “elite” club is free because the requirement is do something reprehensible to society, which she did. Also, once you are in that club, membership is permanent, you cannot get out of it. She would later find out the Internet was even harsher on her and family. Later on, the Grills would get same fate as the Drews.

The anger directed at the Drews were largely vengeful and violent at times. Many wished to see the Drews brutally attacked ranging from throats slashed, have their houses burned down with them trapped inside, gang raped, and being dragged to death. Many social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace setup a Megan Meier tribute and anti-Lori Drew group. One wrote that Hitler should of killed the Drews not the six million Jews in Europe. One wished Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold be brought back from the dead to terminate the Drews like they did at Columbine High School. Some suggested she go live in Afghanistan with the terrorists. This story really struck a nerve worldwide, rich and poor alike, since everyone worldwide was a teenager and knew what it was liked to be bullied. Nobody likes bullies or over involved parents. Also, there was a hysteria over social networking sites. One online site rated Lori Drew as the worst person in the world and is one of the most hated person. Another blog suggested that Lori Drew is likely the person you will see in Hell along with other evil people. Lori Drew got the same fate that befell people who blamed America first for 9/11. Multiple blogs listed Lori Drew as the worst person on the Internet and and in the world. Usually, that title is reserve for terrorists and dictators. I also knew they would be compared to some of history’s most evil people and I predicted Hitler and Stalin.

Holocaust, Purge, and September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks.

Low and behold, Drew was put in league with evil figures, many who personify evil. She was compared with Hitler, Stalin, and Osama bin Laden, who personify evil of the worst kind. I will say that the comparison of Lori Drew to Hitler, Stalin, and Bin Laden is a bit over the top because it trivializes those untold number of people who were horribly maimed and killed. Hitler exterminated two-thirds of the European Jewish population and had millions killed in death camps and in the field because they did not conform to Hitler’s standards. Stalin had seven million people killed in the famine in Ukraine and sent untold millions to Gulags in Siberia to only die from harsh labor and mass executions. Stalin did this to collectivize Soviet Union, which ended in death and mayhem. Together, Hitler and Stalin killed about 200 million people in genocides and wars and left Eurasia a complete mess. The 9/11 Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon, which sent the towers crumbling down and claiming 3,000 lives on live television. In addition, there are long term health problems from the attack and they are dying as well. Also, many are still grieving over their loss and more than half of the families who lost loved ones have not gotten their remains since they got incincerated from the airplane crash and resulting destruction. Many are still feeling the ill effects from 9/11 and is a very emotional and touchy subject, which it is for me personally. Sadly, years after the 9/11 attack, some people have died, due to respriatory problems. More people will die because of 9/11 over the next decade(s).

In some ways, comparing Lori Drew to Hitler Bin Laden, and various other mass killers is fair because her justification and Machiavellian with psychopathic tendencies like they were. Drew justified the harassment because Sarah was being harassed and called a “Lesbian”. Whether it was true or not, that is no excuse. Lori Drew’s justification is similar to what Hitler, Harris/Klebold, and Bin Laden used. They were paranoid and violent. Hitler wanted to teach Europe and Jews a lesson by invading and exterminating Jews and other “undesirable” people. That tragically led to World War II. Harris and Klebold justified attacking Columbine High School because they felt persecuted and bullied, even though they were the bullies and hatemongers themselves. Harris and Klebold wanted to teach Columbine a lesson by attacking it. Bin Laden and the 19 hijackers felt America deserved to be attacked on September 11, 2001 because America, Israel, and the West were persecuting Muslims. The justification Lori Drew used can be said of many mass murderers, terrorists, and dictators. We could go on and on about this.

Drew is also Machiavellian because she organized other people to do her scheme and was bent on revenge to make her feel good about herself and a sense of power. She used desception to make Megan’s life a living Hell, which resulted in her suicide. Hitler and Stalin used deception to maintain power and kill millions of people and lead the world into war which resulted in total destruction. Bin Laden used religion, Islam, to make people engage in terroristic acts, including the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. Hitler, Stalin, and Bin Laden felt persecuted, like Drew did and acted on their rage. In their mind, they wanted to teach someone a lesson. Hitler went after Jews and Slavs, while Stalin went after Jews and capitalists. Bin Laden went after America and Israel because he saw them as enemies to Muslims. Also, Hitler, Stalin, and Bin Laden are reviled because of what they did. No one is going to argue that killing 6 million Jews, 7 million Ukrainians, or 3,000 Americans is disgusting and horrible. They are rightfully hated and for good reason. Lori Drew is about as hated as someone who commits genocide and terrorism. However at the same time, Drew’s crime as outrageous as it is, is NOWHERE on the scale and destruction of the Holocaust, Purge, or 9/11. And no, I am NOT equating Lori Drew’s action to what the Nazis, Communists, and Muslim terrorists did. Hitler, Stalin, and Bin Laden are the WORST MONSTERS ONE CAN EVEN THINK OF. They are the personification of evil right there! Anyone who suffered because of them deserve my sympathy and condolences.

The reason that led to those comparisons is perhaps outraged people were appalled and shocked by it. So they compared Lori Drew to other evil people because she is seen as evil and psychopathic, like Manson or Pol Pot, in which Godwin’s Law comes to mind. It is originally in reference to Hitler and Nazis, but it can also apply to Stalin and Soviet Union. At the same time, people are fascinated by atrocities and evil people, like Stalin, Hitler, Manson, and September 11 Terrorist Attacks. It can also be said that people are fascinated with serial killers like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer.

Despite the white hot outrage, there were a few vocal people who called for moderation. A few blamed the Meiers for letting Megan use MySpace. However, they were, subjected to vile insults and ripped apart. They were getting pilloried like what befell the Drews and Grills. They were accused of being Lori Drew and company or someone close to them in disguise. Many were ran off and some used it as a way to destroy other people’s reputation on the blogs. In essence, they were told to shut up or get curb smashed. In any case, Lori Drew’s relatives are most likely estranged and even fear her. Also, they feel ashamed of having a big rotten scumbag of a loser in their family. I would be deeply ashamed if Lori Drew was my parent or let alone a relative.

Also, to the people who like to blame the Meiers and want the Drews left alone or suggest Drew made a bad judgement. I have a message for you. If you do not want to read what I have to say, than do not even bother too because you are a bunch spineless cowards of the lowest kind. It is a form of shifting the blame. You like to preach personal responsibilities, but yet shift the blame. Blaming the victim is what psychopaths do and you are different from them. It is a form of blame shifting, which you decry so much. I said before that Drew’s justification is similar to what Hitler, Bin Laden, and Harris/Klebold thought before they acted. You are in league with those people. How hypocritical and inconsistent you are. You are a bunch of evil enablers with no conscious and soul. You are the kind of people who appease evil like Hitler and Stalin. In fact, you are just as bad as Lori Drew, if not worse. You are worthless with no heart and brain. You are in league with people who blame America for 9/11, Manson or Phelps cult followers. You are just a bunch mindless drones. I have tried debating with these scumbags and they often cannot back up their position and they just run away crying like cowards that Lori Drew is. They often engage in name calling and they think they are “I am so holy an better than everyone else” mentality, like some religious person. When they say Lori Drew made a bad judgement, by their thinking, Bernard Madoff, Charles Manson, and Adolf Hitler made a bad judgement, when they intended on harming people. Bad judgement my ass. She clearly was intending to hurt Megan and I am sorry this skank is so pathetic and vapid. Oh and by the way, get yourself an x-ray and surgery on your sorry ass head of yours to see if you have a brain and spine. You all should lined up to the wall and shot and dumped into mass graves. You all too should rot in Hell for eternity along side with your beloved Lori Drew and realize how fucked up you are. In fact you are even more fucked up than Lori Drew. Your lives are just as empty as the Drews. Talk about being a big loser right there! A BIG FUCK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

Normally, I do not condone sending death threats and calls for lynchings. However, I feel NO sympathy for Lori Drew and for anyone involved in it. Frankly, I can careless if gangs decided to go after her. I would like to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, “Eh, it is a shame.” It is just too bad for Lori Drew and she has to face the music for what she did. She caused the whole mess and has herself to blame SOLELY. Lori Drew ruined a lot of lives. She ruined and destroyed the Meiers. She ruined her own family, the Grills, Mulfords, and other families who had their children involved in this charade. She should never been involved in her daughter’s life to begin with.

Whatever happens to Drews, I can imagine she and any of the people involved in this cruel hoax are going to pay a really steep price. In the end, the Drews, Grills, Mulfords, and others lose. They already lost because public opinion is overwhelmingly against them. She will be a target of multiple lawsuits and will be in huge debt. Debt is not the only thing she has to contend with. Their lives are in shambles and reputation destroyed beyond recognition. Whether Lori Drew goes to prison or not, she has a big target on her back and the stigma cannot be washed off no matter what she tries to do. Lori Drew is going to be a target of animosity for the rest of her life. How will she live for the rest of her life as a pariah is anyone’s guess. I do not know and frankly could care less about how she will live with herself. Perhaps, her children will disown her and husband will divorce and move faraway. Lori will become lonely because no one wants anything to do with her. She may as well join WBC if she is desperate for a sense of belonging, which seems to be obsessed with. Of course they might be gone too since they got sued. As for the Grills, they are in ruins because their home got foreclosed on and also they have many unpaid bills and tickets. They are in legal trouble of their own, which is unrelated to this hoax. As for the Mulfords, Michele and Jessica are in counseling and probably for the rest of their life. They too have a bleak future and many will likely shun them as well.

It is also very possible she and/or her whole family and others involved could be killed by a lynch mob, either in prison or out in public. Prisoners are known to despise people who harm and/or kill children. She will be a the bottom of the prison hierarchy for sure. Many prisoners and even prison guards would love to get their hands on Lori Drew in prison. She will probably end up dead in prison if she is sent to prison. If she is found not guilty, many want to see Lori Drew dead in a pool of blood. Ashley Grills feels very resentful towards Lori Drew. She feels she has nothing to lose and as an act of redemption by killing Lori Drew. Desperate people do desperate things. Grills is desperate to make Drew pay for ruining her life and she will do anything to destroy Lori Drew. Also, Ron Meier still has the primal urge to kill Lori Drew and her pathetic family. Another possibility is that it could be someone who knew Lori Drew in the past and has ax to grind with her. He or she wants to settle an old score with her. In addition, she could be estranged from her own family and relatives. As a way to bring some respect back, one of her relatives might kill her because they see her as a black sheep. It would not even surprise me if Sarah decides to kill her own mother because she is resentful for what she ruining her life and feels that she is doing the right thing.

As for why DA Jack Banas did not prosecute her because no laws exist in the books, his reasoning is weak. Granted, what Drew did was on MySpace, but beyond it, it is no different from what Wanda Holloway did or mothers who take their children to beat up other children. Hello, are you familiar with those cases? Just because it happened on MySpace is the same way a person harasses by phone. What is known is that Lori Drew was well connected to the community prior to her fall from grace. Perhaps someone was protecting her from prosecution. We do know that her father is a prominent banker in Kansas City, Missouri. Perhaps, DA Banas will reconsider it since the federal trial exposed what was really going on. Frankly, I had issues with the term of service charges, which I thought it was weak. She should have been charged with manslaughter and stalking, which is a crime right there and is in the book.

Before you think that this federal trial is about punishing Lori Drew. You are actually wrong. Trials are not just to punish people. They are also meant to find facts and there are still many facts still missing. Did Lori Drew really do this not because of Megan saying bad stuff about her daughter, but to get back at the Meiers for sending Megan to a private school, which she tried desperately to talk them out of. In addition, Megan called Sarah a “Lesbian”, but later on Sarah forgave for her for that. It appears that could of broke the camel’s hump. Unforunately, the trial did not get any information about Lori Drew’s childhood and family life. It appears she had a normal childhood, but something in her life changed her or developed personality problems early in her late teens to adulthood. She could had a bad relationship with her mother because we hear very little about her mother, but hear a lot about her father. Perhaps, her mother was like Carrie White’s mother in Stephen King’s Carrie. Shreeves testified in her trial and even lived with her even after everyone knew about it. As I pointed out, she could be an illegitimate child and is feeling empty and resentful about it.

One has to wonder what kind of person Lori Drew is. Clearly, Drew knew what she was doing, which rules out mental illness. I am not a shrink, so please do not use the information as gospel. This is based on the articles I have read about her and what I have determined what characteristics she has. She has a slew of personality problems that likely developed in her teen to early adult years. Lori Drew is narcissistic, paranoid, anti-social, and borderline personality based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) diagnostic criteria. The criteria she meets are in bold.

Drew meets all nine criteria for narcissism:
1.) Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements).2.) Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
3.) Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).
4.) Requires excessive admiration.
5.) Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable. treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations.
6.) Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends.
7.) Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
8.) Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
9.) Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.

All seven for paranoid personality:
1.)Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her.2.)Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates.
3.)Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her.
4.)Reads benign remarks or events as threatening or demeaning.
5.)Persistently bears grudges, i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights.
6.)Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack.
7.)Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner.

Five of the seven for anti-social personality disorder:
1.) Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
2.) Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.
3.) Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
4.) Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.
5.) Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
6.) Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
7.) Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.

Five of the nine for borderline personality disorder:
1.) Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2.) A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3.) Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
4.) Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., promiscuous sex, eating disorders, binge eating, substance abuse, reckless driving).
5.) Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, threats or self-injuring behavior such as cutting, interfering with the healing of scars (excoriation) or picking at oneself.
6.) Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
7.) Chronic feelings of emptiness
8.) Inappropriate anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
9.) Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation, delusions or severe dissociative symptoms.

Lori Drew is classic textbook case of a psychopath. She shares many traits with serial killers, mass murderers, terrorists, and genocidal dictators. Than again there are many people like Lori Drew, but they do not do horrible things, like she did. Everything has to come together to make someone become a genuine psychopath, like she is. She feels entitled to everything in life and bullied other people to get her way or protect her daughter. Also, she is obsessed with attention and will do anything if it benefits her only. Lori Drew has a symbiotic relationship with a child, self-hater, paranoid, an internalizer and injustice collector, and narcissist.

Drew had a symbiotic relationship with her daughter like Wanda Holloway had with her daughter Shanna. People who knew the Drews described them as pushy and often got involved in their squabbles, especially their daughter. Also, Lori Drew tried to get her daughter involved in everything and people were resentful of that. Drew lived her life through her daughter. Perhaps it stemmed from her own problems in her childhood.

Drew is consumed with self-hate. Lori Drew, Sarah, and Ashley Grills called Megan “fat”. Ironically, Drew and Grills are themselves obese, which one would suspect a lot of issues of self-hatred on their part. It is very possible that Lori and Sarah Drew and Ashley Grills always struggled with weight in their life. There are a lot of people who struggle with their weight and are not evil like Lori Drew. There were other factors as well. Lori Drew could also be a closeted “Lesbian” and when Megan called Sarah a “Lesbian”, it enraged her. She tried to repress her sexuality because deep down she is “Lesbian” and cannot deal with it. Drew is in denial about her sexuality.

Drew is paranoid because she was really enraged about Megan calling Sarah a “Lesbian”. As pointed out, Drew showed her paranoid side when she thought Megan was causing all of Sarah’s problems. Lori probably wanted Sarah to be popular, something that Lori might have been in her adolescent years. Drew saw Megan as the object of contempt and rage. She thought Megan might expose Lori and Sarah Drew as Lesbians.

Drew is an internalizer and injustice collector because a lot of things that Megan perceived to be bullying on Sarah were building up her rage. There were a lot of things going against Lori Drew. People in her neighborhood did not like her to begin with. Most of them avoided her because she was too talkative, which was annoying to many people. When, Drew saw that happening, it likely made her angry, but never showed it outright. It is known that Lori Drew was upset that Sarah was not losing weight fast enough. She also was upset that Megan was losing weight faster and she stopped being friends with Sarah. It is known that Lori Drew bad mouthed Megan for not being friends with Sarah and Drew’s rage was building up. Drew blamed Megan for all of her daughter’s problem. She saw Megan the source of her problem and needed to stop her at all cost. Probably something from her own childhood.

The cruel MySpace hoax was done after Megan allegedly called Sarah a “Lesbian”. This could stem from her own repressed sexual tendencies she has. She has homosexual tendencies and represses them in every way possible, like Fred Phelps. I am not sure about Drew’s opinions on homosexuality or her religious upbringing or if she is religious at all. I would suspect that one of her parents was a strict religious fanatic. It is interesting to note that there are infamous and psychopathic criminals who do come from religiously fanatical parents, like Diane Downs and Gary Gilmore. It is probable in Lori Drew’s case. Strangely, it was not because Megan called her “fat”, which is considered the worst insult one can hurl at. Drew blamed everyone, but herself. She blamed Megan because she know she was depressed. Also, she blamed Ashley Grills and Sarah Drew for the MySpace Hoax. She went as far as blaming Grills for being the instigator of the hoax, when it was her who masterminded it.

She could be a wedlock child and she is very resentful about it and it festered in her. Many infamous figures were wedlock children like Ian Brady, Ted Bundy, and Aileen Wuornos. Back than being a wedlock child carried a lot of stigma and many feel ashamed as a result. Sometimes people who come from illegitimate birth feel deeply resentful. Since, she is such a coward, that she had to pick on Megan, not the parents because they were stronger. Drew is the kind of person who harbors grudges at a lot of people and the Meiers pushed her over the edge.

Drew is a narcissist because she lacks empathy and has an extreme sense of entitlement and jealousy. She feels entitled to everything and projects it through Sarah. Drew tried to get Sarah involved in everything one can imagine. People who knew Lori Drew, described her as someone who always wanted to be invited to every parties and community events. It is true that many people want to be invited to parties, but she took it way extreme. It is very likely Drew was involved in the community. It is known she was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and was likely involved in her church if she did go to church. Most likely she was involved in church activities because church is a center of life for many people and she always wanted to be involved in every way possible. Once again, this is not an attack on religion, but pointing out how being a church goer does not make one a Christian. I have learned this in Bible study and church sermons. As for the jealousy aspect, Lori Drew was upset that Megan Meier was losing weight faster than Sarah. It made Drew really angry and she blamed Megan for the rift between Megan and Sarah.

Drew lacks empathy, which is one the main hallmark of her. Lori Drew may have freaked out when Megan committed suicide only knowing she would probably be in legal trouble. She only felt sorry for herself at that time. Right after Megan died, she showed grief at the funeral and wake, but they were likely fake at best. In reality, she saw Megan as inconvenience and was glad that she was gone. Her narcissism really showed right there. When the Meiers tore up the Foosball, she reported it to the police. She also reported to the police after Ron Meier tore up their own front yard. Lori Drew later dropped the case knowing she would open herself to more backlash in early 2008. After, Steve Pokin, reported about the Megan Meier’s suicide, she ran into Tina Meier and told her to “Give it a rest”. All this would make her one of the most hated person this decade and generation.

Jeremiah D from Wellsphere wrote about Lori Drew and this what he said at the end.

What has also been interesting is the apparent lack of empathy or remorse displayed by Drew in the aftermath of the suicide, again demonstrating at least a significant lack of emotional maturity, if not a symptom of an actual personality disorder. Again, though, we only know what the media has published so far. It’ll be interesting to hear more about this case as the facts come out, presumably after all of the legal issues are addressed.

Lori Drew’s characteristics:
Symbiotic Relationship With Child
Immaturity
Vindictive
Internalizer
Inferiority Complex
Persecution Complex
Borderline
Narcissistic
Paranoid
Anti-Social

Lori Drew is most likely either a(n) sociopath and disingenuous and/or malignant psychopath.

The MySpace Suicide Case is really galling and abhorrent. I put it right up there with the torture and murder of Syliva Likens, Manson Murders, Columbine High School Massacre, and September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. My opinion on Lori Drew, I hate this son of a bitch and her just as pathetic lame ass supporters as much as I hate Osama bin Laden/September 11 Terrorists and Fred Phelps. Yeah, I know better not to equate the killing thousands of people on live television or picketing funerals and violently abusing children and wife, but she is evil and worthless like they are. At least the 9/11 Terrorists are incinerated to the darkest corner of Hell screaming to end their eternal torment. Meanwhile, Osama bin Laden is getting his sorry ass hunted down by our fine men from the military. Fred Phelps and WBC are in danger of collapsing and will off themselves from the gene pool. I do get a good laugh from them for their fixation on gays because they cannot deal with their own problems.

I put Lori Drew right up there with them, besides Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot. Once again, I am not equating someone who committed genocide and ruined nations. It is no surprise that Lori Drew is considered the world’s worst person. I do not care if Lori Drew had a love one that died in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks or was stuck in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. It will not get any sympathy from me and is just another way to get some sympathy, which will not cut it with me. It is just another excuse for your action. Surprisingly, she has not used any tragedy or disaster to make any excuses. Of course, it is highly unlikely she had a love one die in any disaster. And for anyone who is trying to change my opinion on this scumbag, too bad. My opinion about her is very low and I regard her as a big scumbag of the lowest denominator that should rot in Hell for eternity. Lori Drew and company are the perfect candidate for retroactive abortion and eugenics. They are the reason why we should bring back eugenics, so scum like them do not ruin this world. The gene pool is polluted and needs a massive clean up. Lori Drew is the poster child for retroactive abortion and eugenics. Also, she is a good argument why abortion should not be banned. Lori Drew and company should be impaled alive and have objects thrown at them. They should be given a painful cocktail of drugs that keeps them alive and makes their pain worse.

A few years in prison is nothing compared to eternity in Hell. There is no parole in Hell and weaseling your way out will do no good. Ya hear that Lori or do I need to repeat it again ya stupid fuck. Lori lives like a monsterous beast and dies like one. God will laugh and mock Lori Drew and throw her to Hell out of spite. Lori Drew and company will rot in Hell with other monsterous beasts like Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, 9/11 Terrorists, and Elizabeth Bathory. They are all sad and worthless excuses of DNA molecules like they were. Lori Drew will make good company with them. Same goes with anyone who sympathize with Lori Drew and company. They are more than welcome to join her in Hell with other evil freaks. They will be begging for anything to quench their extreme and eternal thirst to only find out they are drinking hot molten lava that will burn them even more. Their thirst cannot be quenched by anything. They will live a life of eternal damnation and torments by demons in Hell. Hell is a cruel and lonely place filled with sickfucks, like your kind. When you go to Hell Lori, please take Fred Phelps/WBC, Kim Jong-Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, all the America-hating moonbats, bleeding hearts, and sociopaths with you. We do not want any of your kind here on this planet. They are a plague on humanity and need to be exterminated like you!

See Also:
Casey Anthony
Gertrude Baniszewski
Michael Crook
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
Fred Phelps

Death Of Halloween

Ronald O’Bryan

Introduction
It was March 31, 1984 and Ronald O’Bryan was pronounced dead after given lethal injection in the death chamber in Huntsville Prison. His crime was heinous in nature and earned him the nickname, “The Candyman”. He poisoned and distributed candy to children, which killed one of his son, Timothy.

It came not too long after Houston and the nation was reeling from Dean Corll’s serial killings in the previous year. A day celebrated by children and their parents. Halloween is a time for children to get candy and treats to enjoy and is a rite of passage for children. His crime caused the Halloween Candy Scare that happens to this very day. What could drive a father to madness to kill his own children by poisoned candy on Halloween?

Ronald Clark O’Bryan
Ronald Clark O’Bryan was born on October 19, 1944. He was an optician with two children, Timothy and Elizabeth and living in Deer Park, a suburb east of Houston. He worked for Texas State Optical (TSO). Despite being an optician, O’Bryan was deeply in debt and needed money. The debt was from mortgage and installment payments for cars, furniture and appliances they purchased outside their range. He often talked about it with his colleagues. It was a common gripe for him.

O’Bryan decides to purchase life insurance that paid $40,000, which were on his two children, he would get the money. He would pay off the debt that kept him down. The debt he paid to live the American Dream, having a suburban home and all the appliance and car. Not even his own wife, Daynene, knew that he bought the life insurance.

A Plot To Kill

Pixie Stik

O’Bryan had to plan this life insurance scam and avoid getting caught at the same time. Since his children were on the life insurance, he thought he would kill them. He also had plotted to kill other children to cover the death of his own children. O’Bryan concocted a lethal plan that would involve children and candy and the best time would be Halloween. Children love things that are sweet, especially candy. He found his perfect life insurance plot.

O’Bryan bought a bunch of Pixie Stick candies from the store. They are powdered sugar in paper tubes. He opened them up and laced them with potassium cyanide, a potent toxin used to kill rats. This time, O’Bryan would use the poison to kill children. Than he closed them by using a staple.

Trick Or Treat To Death
Ronald O’Bryan on October 31, 1974, which was a Thursday, decided to spend Halloween night in nearby Pasadena, chaperoning children and their friends dressed in costumes of their favorite or ghoulish characters to “Trick-or-Treat” around people’s home for candy and other sweet treats. Once the children were done with their “Trick-or-Treating”, it was time to see what candy and treats they got.

Timothy ate one of the Pixie Stiks and felt a bitter taste and tingling sensation in his tongue. His father got him Kool-Aid to wash it down. However, Timothy became ill and started to have stomach pain and vomited. He started to have violent spasms and died on arrival at the hospital. The crime shocked the city and nation and police were scratching their heads on how this could happen.

It was later revealed that there were four more tainted Pixie Stiks inside little Timothy’s bag. Ronald O’Bryan claimed the Pixie Stiks came from a house that was dark and the person open the door slightly and gave them deadly candy. Also, the other poisoned candy was in another boy’s hand, but he could not open it and thankfully did not eat it. The Pixie Stik was stapled, which made it hard to open for that boy. Had he eaten it, he would of also been killed like Timothy O’Bryan.

Growing Holes
However, when Ronald O’Bryan was asked were the house he got it from, he could not point out the house in question. That made the investigation difficult for the police in tracing the origin of the deadly candies. Once young Timothy’s body was given to the family three days after he died, he was given a funeral at a local church full of mourners.

Several days after Timothy’s funeral, an insurance agent reported to the police the Ronald O’Bryan purchased a $40,000 life insurance on his two children just days before Halloween. The agent said that O’Bryan was very evasive and intended on keeping his wife in the dark about the life insurance policy he purchased. The police begin to notice there were holes in O’Bryan’s story about where the Pixie Stiks came from. Also, the police learned that O’Bryan was deeply in debt, in which they begin to focus the suspect on him.

The police maintained their investigation and O’Bryan pointed to the house where the deadly candy came from. The residence in the house were questioned and cleared by police. Evidence begin to grow against O’Bryan as the suspect in Timothy’s death. A TSO customer who was a chemist came forward to the police. He said that O’Bryan asked where he can get potassium cyanide.

Once the police got the information from the chemist, they decided to search O’Bryan’s home. They found a pocketknife with traces of Pixie Stix that were tainted. O’Bryan denied being involved in putting potassium cyanide in the Pixie Stix. However, he arrested by police after they found physical evidence that he was behind the Halloween candy scare that would change Halloween forever. O’Bryan adamantly denied any involvement in the candy poisoning because authorities were desperate to solve a crime that would have national and traditional implications.

Off To Death Row
Once the police got all the evidence to implicate O’Bryan. He was indicted by the Harris County grand jury and the prosecutor, Mike Hinton, charged O’Bryan with first degree murder, which is capital murder. The punishment is either death penalty or life in prison. Potential jurors were selected and twelve of them were selected by the defense and prosecutor.

A parade of witnesses testified against Ronald O’Bryan, including his own wife. The prosecution team had a slam dunk case against O’Bryan. Once both the prosecutor and defense rested their case, it went to the jurors. They did not take long to find O’Bryan guilty and nearly two hours to sentence O’Bryan to death.

O’Bryan was handcuffed by police once he was sentenced to die. His new home would death row for the rest of his life. Inmates called him “Candyman”. He still maintained his innocence and denied killing his own son, Timothy.

Date With Death

Texas Death Chamber

Ronald O’Bryan was on death row and slated to be executed on March 31, 1984. He made a request for his last meal, which consisted of T-bone steak (medium to well done), French Fries and ketchup, whole kernel corn, sweet peas, lettuce and tomato salad with egg and French dressing, iced tea, sweetener, saltines, Boston cream pie, and rolls. Once he was done with his final meal, he was taken out of death row into the death chamber. He than was put on the gurney for lethal injection. He made his final statement before being injected with a cocktail of poisons, the very thing he did to his own son:

What is about to transpire in a few moments is wrong! However, we as human beings do make mistakes and errors. This execution is one of those wrongs yet doesn’t mean our whole system of justice is wrong.

Therefore, I would forgive all who have taken part in any way in my death. Also, to anyone I have offended in any way during my 39 years, I pray and ask your forgiveness, just as I forgive anyone who offended me in any way. And I pray and ask God’s forgiveness for all of us respectively as human beings.

To my loved ones, I extend my undying love. To those close to me, know in your hearts I love you one and all. God bless you all and may God’s best blessings be always yours.

Ronald C. O’Bryan

P.S. During my time here, I have been treated well by all T.D.C. Personnel.

O’Bryan was pronounced dead after the cocktail killed him. Sadly, his legacy of poisoning Halloween lives on to this very day. He created a urban legend that Halloween candy that children get by “Trick-or-Treating” is dangerous. Many fire departments and hospitals offer inspections and x-rays to look for anything dangerous inside the candy.

Sources
TDCJ-Ronald O’Bryan
TDCJ-Ronald O’Bryan’s Last Statement
Texas News-Child-killer’s poisoned treats still haunt Halloween
Off The Kuff-”The Candy Man”, 30 years later
Wikipedia-Ronald Clark O’Bryan
Wikipedia-1974
The Cheshire’s Blog-The Killing of Halloween
The Memory Hole-Deleted List of Texas Inmates’ Last Meals
Birthday In A Box-Pixy Stix
Houston Chronicles-Texas on the Potomac news links
Tex News-Child-killer’s poisoned treats still haunt Halloween

My Comments
As a child, I remember after Trick or Treating for Halloween that all candy should be checked to make sure there is no poison or needles because it comes from strangers. I always wonder how that came about. As it turns out, there is a Houston connection to this. The motive was a life insurance scam gone really bad and the suspect was his own father. In a way that is more disturbing than by a total stranger. No one expects that a child’s own parent would harm them. He also planned on killing other children in the area, so no one would suspect that he had something to do with the killings and he would get the money.

It is interesting that Ronald O’Bryan did the crime not too long after Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley and David Brooks killed at least 27 people. I am surprised that this crime is not too well known to this very day, despite the fact that it changed Halloween. Houston and surrounding areas has its fair share of infamous crimes ranging from the Poe Elementary Bombing in 1959 by Paul Orgeron, Wanda Holloway hiring a hitman over cheerleading in nearby Channelview, Angel Maturino Resendiz, the “Railroad Killer”, and Randy Sylvester Sr. killing two of his own children and claiming a drug dealer did the murders.

Even to this very day, children still check their candy to see if it tampered with needles and poisons since they go around different people’s homes. One reason it is important to know your neighbors, which is a sad state that many do not know their own neighbors. Than again, most crimes are committed by people they know.

Seriously, why kill your own children to get yourself out of debt. That has to be the most sickest thing I have ever heard. If you want to get out of debt, just get a second job or you negotiate and pay the debt in installments over time. Of course, the best way is not buy things that were outside of his resources, but he was a not a responsible person. There are a lot of people who are in debt, but they do not buy life insurance and kill their own children. O’Bryan was simply a man who was screwed when he was born. He is a genuine psychopath of the worst kind. People who kill children are the scum of the humanity.

O’Bryan maybe dead, but his legacy sadly lives on. He has changed Halloween as we know it today and it has been over thirty years since he did this heinous crime. O’Bryan is rotting in Hell for sure for killing his own child and possibly more children. People who kill children are at the bottom of the prison hierarchy. Ronald O’Bryan is in Hell for eternity and he will be poisoned by toxic brimstone and will beg for it to stop. Well, O’Bryan you just screwed yourself over.

See Also:
Casey Anthony
Paul Orgeron

Forsake The Troll

Michael Crook

Introduction
There are many bloggers on the Internet. Many are usually unknowns and rarely get attention. Most blog about their hobbies, politics, news, weather, and life in general. Some blog to offend other people and are known as “trolls” or “provocateur”. Since the dawn of time, there have always been people who like to make light of tragedies. The Internet has made them more prominent. They get their jollies by making people mad, especially with really touchy and emotional issues. They are usually losers in life and do it to feel important about themselves. Most of them are usually marginalized by society and exhibit anti-social tendencies. The most notorious is Michael Crook. He likes to pick on young victims of accidents and crime and military personals. What drives Michael Crook to write vile things on the Internet and into a world of deviance and madness?

Michael Scott Crook
Michael Scott Crook was born on February 15, 1978 in Portland, Oregon and is the son of Bruce Allen Crook and Mavis N. Delaney. Crook goes by Michael Vogel-Delaney, which comes from his mother’s name. Young Michael’s parents divorced or separated and likely had an impact on him. Mavis Crook marries Craig Richard Eggenberger in 1982 and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. Young Michael spent most of his childhood in Las Vegas being raised by his grandmother, whom he was close too.

Crook’s mother divorces from Eggenberger in 1991 and moves to Fountains Hill, Arizona, which they spend a year there. While in middle school in 1992, he had his first child, a boy. He most likely after he got a teenage girl pregnant. The son was given up for adoption. Not much is known about him. Afterward the Crooks brief stay, they move to Hammonton, New Jersey, where he attended high school. Sometimes in 1996, Michael Crook had sex with a unknown female and produces another illegitimate child, this time a girl. She would be his second child. Little is known about her too. Also that same year, he got married while in high school after he got another girl pregnant. Crook had another daughter who would later die. Than he graduated from Oakcrest High School in Mays Landing, New Jersey in 1997. Mays Landing is not too far from Atlantic City, which is the East Coast equivalent of Las Vegas. The year Michael graduated, his father, Bruce Crook, passed away. In addition, he divorced from his first wife, who was pregnant and gave birth again.

In the summer of 1999, Michael Crook marries Teresa Jean Allen. Michael Crook enlists into the US Army, but was discharged in 1999 for unspecified reasons. The military will neither confirm or deny that Michael Crook enlistment in the military. Whatever caused him to be discharged, this may have helped made Crook anti-military. We will probably never know. In addition, his marriage fell apart like his first marriage and Crook and Allen divorced in early 2000. As his marriage is falling apart, he turns to crime. His first run in was in 2000, when he was arrested for petty theft. Than in April of 2002, he is arrested again for disorderly conduct and public intoxication, which he will later rail against.

2 Unlimited
Michael Crook wonders what can he do with his life. Than he in late 2003, Crook meets Elizabeth A. Miller at a church event. Than in early 2004, they are married, which is rather unusual for someone to get married right after they met. Than in March of 2004, they find out they are going to have a daughter, who is born in November of that year.

Michael Crook first exposure was in 2002. He was president of the 2 Unlimited Internet fan club “Unlimited Too Fan Club”. 2 Unlimited is a Eurodance group that formed in 1991 in The Netherlands. 2 Unlimited was one of the most popular groups in Europe in the early 1990s. The Dutch group was not really popular in America, only peaking at number 38 in 1994.

A Racist or Racially Aware?
Crook was also a member of a racist forum called Stormfront, which is a rather large forum. He went by the name “Silentmike”. He denied being a racist, but only “racially aware”. He claims he is writing a book about how Jews fabricated the Holocaust. However, many Neo-Nazis and other racists have grown to despise Michael Crook. In many ways, Michael Crook created a lot of enemies among the White supremacist circles. He was later banned from Stormfront after trying to look for online relationships. Stormfront members are known to show hate towards people, usually the ones that are hated by everyone, like Fred Phelps and Lori Drew.

Paradoxically, Crook is sympathetic for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was on death row for killing Philadelphia Police Officer, Daniel Faulkner. Crooks says that Abu-Jamal is abused and wrongfully accused person. Abu-Jamal was a cause and darling for the anti-death penalty crowd and radical left. Mumia is Black, which White supremacist despise. Than again, this stems from his anti-police sentiments he harbors, like he shows with the military.

Finder’s Fee For Lost Digital Camera
Michael Crook’s first brush with infamy was he found a digital camera that belonged to Army Specialist Elwood Wrigley after a NFL football game in January of 2005 in Philadelphia. Crook would give the digital camera after making Wrigley pay a $1,000 “finder’s” fee. It was later determined that Michael Crook was behind it and expressed no remorse. His reason was that you do things out of kindness and is a business world. For him, it is all about the money, possibly because he is deemed unemployable.

When word of it broke, it triggered a lot of outrage and support for Wrigley. At the same time, there was a lot of outrage directed at Michael Crook, which would be the first taste of backlash:

It makes me sick to know that people would do that to someone, especially with pictures that are so precious.

It’s such a shame that someone would do that to another person, let alone a person who is fighting to keep our freedom.

Wrigley only requested that he has his memory stick returned. One kind gentleman even offered him a new digital camera. Wrigley volunteered on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan. This would not be the last brush of infamy for Michael Crook. It was the start from an obscure to most hated figure.

Forsake The Troops

Michael Crook's Vile Website (Now defunct)

Michael Crook created a site called “Citizens Against the Troops” in January of 2005. He claimed that American soldiers were overpaid and overcompensated. Perhaps he created this site out of bitterness of being discharged from the military or was starved for attention. We will probably never know. His website had multiple domains which redirected to his website, including opposethetroops.com and theusasucks.info. Here are some quotes from his vile website:

All of the extra allowances must be eliminated. Soldiers should be made to pay all of their expenses (food, rent, uniforms, etc.) from base salary, just as it is in the real world. The soldiers should be made to pay 100% of the cost of medical insurance, and co-pays should be doubled from their current rate.

If a soldier chooses off-base housing (and is eligible) he/she should pay for it out of base salary. We, the taxpayers, should not pay their rent. Isn’t it enough our taxes pay for barracks? We’d be better off with pup tents.

U.S. Soldier= Poster child for retroactive abortion

All of the extra allowances must be eliminated. Soldiers should be made to pay all of their expenses (food, rent, uniforms, etc.) from base salary, just as it is in the real world. The soldiers should be made to pay 100% of the cost of medical insurance, and co-pays should be doubled from their current rate.

No soldier should get a tax break, as referenced to in IRS Topic 853– No amount of money earned overseas by a US soldier should be exempted from taxes.

Our underlying problem is this: the military is a lifestyle these morons chose. What idiot risks their life for a country? It’s what they chose. Hopefully, they knew in their hearts this is abusing taxpayers’ money, and they enlisted anyway. So…Forsake our Troops! Let ‘em die in combat– we don’t need their ilk in this country!

NINE MORE MARINES’ CAREERS BLOW UP IN THEIR FACES

Don’t military pukes learn anything? Nine more Marines bite the big one in combat. Stupid is as stupid does!

Number of US soldiers killed in the Iraq War, of their own doing, because they CHOSE to be leeches: 1,586. These scumbags asked for it, and got it. Simper Cry.

These quotes look almost similar to another repulsive person, Fred Phelps. He also said that anyone who served in the military are candidates for retroactive abortion. What we do know is that he appeared on FOX News Channel show, Hannity and Colmes in May of 2005. Crook was being interviewed about his website, “Foresake The Troops”. His website got many hate mail and death threats. After it aired, he became one of the most hated figures. He was ranked as the most hated person on the Internet for 2005 and 2006.

He became a target of hate mail and death threats. He was constantly bombarded with angry messages from all people regardless of politics and if they served in the military or not. Crook was instantly branded as the most hated person in America for his offensive anti-military website.

Interestingly, a lot of the contents at his infamous and defunct anti-soldier website are similar to what Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) spew out. One would wonder if they are colluding with each other. WBC started to protest soldier’s funerals in 2005, around the same time Crook setup his vile website. One could assume that Crook was inspired by WBC protests of soldier’s funerals and saw it as an opportunity. It is possible that they were colluding with each other. As of 2008, Crook continues his anti-military “crusade”. In fact, here is what he wrote in his blog.

This should be enough to make anyone sick. It’s not enough that our military gets a lavish lifestyle on our dim

This should be enough to make anyone sick. It’s not enough that our military gets a lavish lifestyle on our dime.

Now, we’re paying for fancy new bandages that are 80% stronger. My main concern here is how much is this costing taxpayers? I don’t give a rip about the soldiers who need them.

Look, just tie them up with Band-Aids and send them on their way. If they make it, fine. If not, then that’s what they signed up for, yes? Yes.

As his website was being a target extreme hatred. It was announced on May 17, 2005 that two soldiers attacked and killed Michael Crook on the street at night. Crook was dead in a dark alley. However, it turned out to be a hoax. However, he denied faking his own murder. He claimed that hackers broke into house and viciously attacked him. While he was being attacked, the hackers changed his website. However, there is no police report or any signs that he was ever attacked. It showed Crook’s other side, he is obsessed with victimhood, so he can get sympathy, which he did not get.

Cease and Desist
After Crook appeared on Hannity and Colmes, bloggers used a screen capture of him and posted it on various blogs. An overwhelming majority of bloggers were condemning Crook for his vile anti-soldier website. They put a face to a person behind the website. Also, they wanted to know more about Michael Crook and what his background is. Bloggers soon started receiving Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Letters from Michael Crook Internet Properties. It said that the images of Michael Crook should be taken down or face a lawsuit.

The DMCA letters were coming from Michael Crook. The copyright was not owned by Michael Crook, but News Corp. FOX News Channel is owned by News Corp. and is known to go after people who violate copyright. However, News Corp, never sent the DMCA complaint and when asked about it they laughed at it, especially at FOX News Channel. Apparently, Crook did not like his image being used on blogs to attack him for his vile website. He could not take the heat from the angry public. He also admitted to sending DMCA letters to people who used his photographs and material. Crook sent DMCA letters to various sites and people, ranging from BoingBoing, Laughing Squid, and even fellow Internet troll Jason Fortuny. In March of 2007, Crook withdraw his fake DMCA complaints.

One would wonder why Michael Crook sent many DMCA letters to bloggers. Perhaps he did not care for copyright, but was scared that his image could be used to do various doctoring, which happened at Fark. This article was taken down briefly after Crook sent a DMCA complaint late last year. The entry in question is no longer there at his blog and it involved a horrible car accident that killed multiple teens in Kentucky and he wrote a vile article about them. As of today, it is not there anymore.

Jeff Diehl received a DMCA letter from Michael Crook, would contact Electronic Freedom Frontier (EFF). EFF sued Michael Crook on the behalf bloggers who received the fake DMCA letter. It was in the Diehl v. Crook, which was on the behalf of Jeff Diehl on November 1, 2007. Crook referred to Diehl as “uber-queer”, which shows his homophobic side of him. In some ways, it emboldened Crook and made he even more offensive and defiant against his “enemies”. Crook claimed he would win the lawsuit, but he lost. His lost must of Crook feel very bad. Also, he wanted to be a lawyer, which requires a Bachelor’s degree and going to law school. Also, one has to take the bar exam and have good character. Since, Crook was involved in sending fake DMCA letters, that will likely reflect badly on him, especially in New Jersey. The lawsuit settlement required that he had to make a video apology for the online world and also take some copyright courses. Crook’s life spiraled downward even further. To make matters worse, Tucker Max, a well known Internet personality, started pilloring Crook, in which he went as far as calling him out. Also, he was literally dissecting what Michael Crook was all about and his past came back to haunt him.

Vile Christmas Card

Corporal Joshua Sparling in uniform.

If his vile anti-military website was bad enough, he sent a vile Christmas card to an injured soldier named Corporal Joshua Sparling, who was injured in Iraq. Sparling was being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center, which is where injured soldiers are treated. Christmas is a time for spending time with family and a time of joy. However, for Crook, it was a time to be a vicious person with no conscious. He wanted to show his true anti-soldier colors in real life. The Christmas card looked like a typical Christmas card, however the content was different:

Dear Soldier,

Have a great time in the war and have a great time dieing in the war.

From Miguel

PS. DIE

The origin of the vile Christmas card sent to Sparling was unknown at first. It looked like if a child sent it. Later on, Michael Crook confessed to sending that horrible Christmas card to Sparling.

Craig’s List Perverts
Jason Fortuny in 2006 created an ad at Craig’s List posing as a woman and got many men’s personal information. Crook at first admired Fortuny, but later referred to him as a coward and turned on him. This inspired Michael Crook to pull something what Fortuny did. He posed as an 18 year old woman named Melissa living in Las Vegas at Craig’s List. He did it as a “sting operation” to nail sexual perverts. There were many people who responded to the ad and some even sent pictures of their private parts.

Once he collected all the personal information, he created a website and posted all the information for everyone to see. He justified it because NBC’s Dateline was doing “To Catch A Predator” and they were going after people who had sex with underage people. Crook posed as an 18 year old woman who is a college student in Las Vegas, which is the legal age of consent. Eighteen is considered legally an adult. Hundreds of men replied and gave out their personal information and even e-mailed photos of their private parts. He setup a website and posted all their personal informations and their photographs they submitted. To maintain the site, he made people sign up and pay a fee to just view it, which is ironic because he violating copyright law.

Praises For Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptist Church

Michael Crook is a homophobe and has been known to express hatred towards gays. Paradoxically, he says he is a homosexual, but that is debatable because he says things for attention. He has written multiple entries at his blog admiring and praising Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). It is led by Fred Phelps and made up of 70 members, mostly his extended family and several other families. It is the group that preaches that the acceptance of homosexuality is the root cause for all disasters and tragedies in America and the world. Their mantra is homosexuals are the root of all evil and God hates the world for it. They got their first attention for protesting Matthew Shepard’s funeral. They are also infamous for saying “God Hates Fags”, “Fags Doom Nations”, “God Hates America”, “Thank God for 9/11”, protesting soldier’s funerals, and young crime victims. They also refer to other Christian denominations as “fag” churches. They are billed as “America’s most hated family” and British documentarian Louis Theroux lived with them for weeks. He described as the most extreme people he has ever encountered. In fact here are what Crook said about this group at his blog, they are mostly accolades towards WBC and Fred Phelps:

Snyder is a sick man, and horrible for harassing Westboro and the Phelps family, I feel.

But as repulsive as some may find their views (I am not one of those who is offended by them), they have the right to free speech and peaceful assembly.

I’ve never had a problem with Westboro Baptist Church, whose members protest at funerals of soldiers. I consider them to be heroes.

I consider Westboro to be right-thinking and heroic, but this latest move just makes no sense.

I have always respected the Westboro Baptist Church.

but their goal is honorable.

Despite some disagreements, Crook admires WBC. However, there are barriers if Crook wants to join Westboro Baptist Church. Crook is pro-abortion, while Phelps is anti-abortion. In addition, Michael Crook divorced three times. Also, when he setup Craigslist Perverts and he expressed in support of adultery and think people have the right to do it. Fred Phelps is ardently anti-adultery and anti-divorce, which stemmed from his father marrying a divorcee, Olive Briggs, which triggered bad relationship between Fred and the elder Fred Phelps, his father. That can cause some serious conflicts between the two if Crook wanted to join the cult and both are very rigid people. Than again, there is another person who accepted WBC beliefs and is treated like a member by that cult, Bart McQueary.

Bart McQueary

Bart McQueary was a professional wrestler and pornographer. He got in trouble with the law for statutory rape in Kentucky, which would make him a fornificator. Phelps rails against fornification as much as he rails against homosexuality. He used to be an avowed Atheist and attacked Christians. By all standards, McQueary would not be accepted into WBC. Than sometimes in 2002, he converted to WBC “theology”. From there, he started to admire Fred Phelps and express hatred for homosexuals. McQueary even picketed with them and has a photo of him and Fred Phelps autographed by the leader. It is reported that McQueary is in contact with Westboro Baptist Church. McQueary’s background is not exactly someone that WBC would accept into their cult, but they apparently treat him like one of their own. It does raise a possibility that Crook could also be in some sort of contact with WBC. He has never mentioned of any contact with WBC, other than praising them. Perhaps, Crook does have contact with WBC, but chooses not to say it.

Both Michael Crook and Fred Phelps despise America and the military. Phelps said about soldiers that they were idiots that could not find a job. Phelps’s sermons and so-called protest often call for American soldiers to be killed because of America’s acceptance for homosexuality. Phelps does it on the guise of of a twisted pseudo-Christianity, which is a cult that revolves around him. He preaches that God hates the military and anything that is perceived as being homosexual. On the other hand, Crook does it because he is a failure in life and wants to lash out and see himself as superior over everyone else. Both like to pick on and denigrate young crime victims and crippled people. Fred Phelps goes as far as protesting their funerals.

Michael Crook and Fred Phelps express hatred towards Christians and Jews. Both expressed hatred towards Catholics and Mormons, even though Crook was raised a Mormon. Crook and Phelps also express hatred towards Jews. In fact, Fred Phelps recently targeted Jews, besides homosexuals, by picketing them. Michael Crook is also an avowed Holocaust denier. He thinks Jews manufactured the Holocaust to get sympathy, which is typical of Holocaust deniers. Phelps and WBC are inconsistent when it comes to the Holocaust. On the one hand, they praise it. On the other hand, they condemn it and call Adolf Hitler a “fag”. In addition, Crook is a 9/11 Truther because he complains about how America is too patriotic. Phelps is also known to complain about America being too patriotic.

Here is what Michael Crook and Fred Phelps share in common, hatred for:
Homosexuals
Christians
Jews
Soldiers
Police
Firefighters
Crippled People
Retarded People
Disabled People
Americans
Young People Who Die In Tragic Circumstances, mostly children and teenagers
Rape Victims
Drug Addicts
Overweight/Obese People
Blacks
Asians
Hispanics

Here is where Michael Crook and Fred Phelps diverge on:
Abortion
Adultery
Atheism
Divorce
Fornification

Megan Meier

Megan Meier

When Steve Pokin broke the news in mid-November of 2007 about Megan Meier’s suicide on October 16, 2006 and died the next day. It triggered a lot of outrage mostly towards Lori Drew for masterminding the cruel prank. It made her an international pariah and public opinion was overwhelmingly against the Drews and later on the Grills, namely Ashley Grills. Not surprisingly, Michael Crook came to defend Lori Drew, which was posted at various blogs:

It is important to remember that there are two sides to every story, and this is no different. Megan’s mother would do well to let it go, already.

For a different point of view, simply go here:

(Link removed)

Michael Crook

(Link Removed)

Mays Landing, NJ

As usual, he was subjected to nasty attacks, like he received from his infamous anti-soldier website. Crook was sharing the same sentiment with Lori Drew, who was being pilloried. Drew told Christina “Tina” Meier, “To give it a rest”, which contributed to her downfall. His blog covered the Megan Meier Suicide Case. It was also reported that Michael Crook was happy and praising Lori Drew and company bullying a person to commit suicide. Of course, public opinion was vehemently against the Drews and company. They were branded as the most hated people in America and world along side with Osama bin Laden/September 11th Terrorists, OJ Simpson, and Fred Phelps. Crook went as far as calling the Drews crime victims because of all the death threats and hate mail they were receiving from all over th world. They were also subjected to vandalism and fake 911 calls, which happened before Pokin wrote about the case. Also, the Drews and Grills had taken on a bunker mentality and were besieged in their own home, which made them virtual prison. They were fearful that they could end up dead. This is not surprising coming from a person who is also one of the most hated and knows how it feels like and Drew had essentially crashed in a blaze of shame.

Young Victims
Michael Crook writes in his blogs insulting young victims of crime or accidents, especially when it involved alcohol consumption. Crook is also very anti-alcohol, possibly stemming from his dysfunctional family as a child where his stepfather was likely an alcoholic and had violent tempers. In one instance he wrote about a teenage girl named Lindsey Billman who fell through the skylights at the school. He wrote in this entry:

A so-called honor student fell through a school’s skylight, and splattered onto the gym floor. She died, after an apparent night of underage drinking.

Also, Crook writes about Faith Sinclair, who died in a hit-and-run driver in Sharon Hill in the early morning hours of August 3, 2008. He posted it at Philly.Com, which is cached by Google.

Bottom line is this, Faith wasn’t watching where she was going, so quit making her the victim..this one blogger has it right..

This is a case of stupid is as stupid does, unfortunately.

One would wonder why Michael Crook picks on young people who die. It is often assumed he does it for attention, but that is just part of the puzzle. Perhaps it stems from the fact that he had a horrible childhood and wants to lash out at the ones who died because they had a much better childhood and more stable family, unlike Crook.

He has also made this statement at his new blog:

It’s not a tragedy when they ask for it. Being hit by a drunk driver, being the victim in a motor vehicle collision…those are accidents. Joining the military, playing professional sports, and things like that are all in the same category: pretty much assuring injury, or in this case death.

Here are some other vile stuff he wrote:

Over the summer, I wrote about a dumb bitch from Pennsylvania. Her name was Faith Sinclair, and it looked as if the hit-and-run driver who made road pizza out of her was going to get away with it. This would be a good thing, for it was Sinclair who wasn’t watching her six.

The little princess obviously felt that the whole world should stop for her, because she wanted to get to a party. Well, hopefully the little trollop learned a lesson as she slammed into the pavement.

According to Crook, anyone who joins any activity and gets injured and dies deserves it.

End Of Trolling?

Michael Crook's idols, Fred Phelps and Lori Drew are in a world of pain.

Crook’s website went down and came up under a different address, only to be down again. Michael Crook was currently in some trouble of his own. It involved his temporary employer, Cooper-Levenson, an Atlantic City law firm. He complained that lawyers were consuming alcohol on the job and witnessed mistreatment of employees. Also, his blog no longer exists and fears he could get sued by the law firm he worked for. He goes on complaining that the law firm is out to remove his blog from the Internet. He is in the process of suing the law firm he worked for. In fact if one tried to access his blog, it says:

Michael Crook’s Official Website has moved. It may now be found at:

(Link Removed)

Recently, Crook decided to sue Cooper-Levenson law firm in retaliation, which has been dismissed. Also, his idols Fred Phelps and Lori Drew are in legal trouble of their own. Phelps and his cult had many legal setbacks and could face foreclosure soon, which could result in their demise. Drew was recently acquitted, but likely faces a civil lawsuit. She remains one of the most hated person and many have vitrolic opinions about her. Crook realizes his idols are in a world of pain and no one likes them and he is going to feel even more lonely. Than again, he has said, he does not want friends and is not employable and wears it as a badge of honor. Than again, he could be despondent over their legal woes besides his own.

However, as of today, he continues blogging what he thinks. He talks of changing his name from Michael Scott Crook to Adolf Hitler Auschwitz. In addition, he has praised cop killers and White police officers who kill non-Whites. This is despite the fact that he hates police officers as much as he hates the military, homosexuals, and America. Crook has shown a more racist streak to date. Lately, he has written vile blogs about Continental Connection Flight 3407 crash in Buffalo. He even went as far wanting to go there and perhaps even join the Westboro Baptist Church in their picketing of funerals.

Sometimes in July of 2009, Michael Crook took down his site for good or did he? Well, based on the note he left, he most likely did.

The blog and Web site at michael-crook.com was taken down by myself in July of 2009. The reasons were many, and voluntary.

In regards to those who claim that they were upset, offended, or angered by my blog articles, I would merely say that they are posturing, and to them I offer no apologies. Welcome to the real world. When I wrote about so-called “accidents” involving teenagers, I wrote about public news stories, and as such, it is not my problem if anyone’s feelings were hurt. The same applies to anyone or any situation that I wrote an article about. No one has a right to be upset or offended by anything I’ve written, and if they are, then it’s their problem, and not mine.

There are those who have tried to claim that my articles made them, or someone else, cry. Parents of teenagers who died, and about whom I wrote, tried to claim that they were angry, sad, or combination thereof. As a 2006 article in Details Magazine about me said, “tough titty.” Welcome to the real world. It was my pleasure to expose dumbass teenagers, drunkards, and other lowlifes. There’s absolutely nothing to apologize for, and I have no regrets.

While I have no regrets, it is time to move on to other projects, and other things. That, and that alone, is the reason for the end of my blog and Web site at michael-crook.com.

Michael Crook
July 12, 2009
Mays Landing, New Jersey, USA

As for why he took it down, there are various reasons for it. Perhaps, he was being subjected to hate mail and death threats non-stop. Or he just got tired of blogging vile stuff, which he alwasy did. Whatever his next venture is, it is probably going to be no good.

Recently, Crook put his blog back up online. In the forseeable future, he will shut down again and pop up somewhere else.

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My Comments
Talk about a seriously confused person. Michael Crook hates the military, yet he enlisted only to be discharged. Crook claims he is gay, yet he hates gays. Than Crook says he hates Black people, yet he supports Mumia Abu-Jamalm who is Black. He hates police, yet he sympathized with the Bay Area Transit (BART) Police Johannes Mehserle who shot Oscar Grant. He is a man of contradictions and self-hate. He seriously does have an inferior complex. Sounds like a Fred Phelps wanna-be and tries to emulate him in every way. I first heard of this nutcase in 2005 when he created his vile anti-soldier site called Forsake The Troops. It triggered a nasty backlash against him that he was the most reviled person. Than I forgot about him until the Megan Meier case came along and he was supporting Lori Drew, who was sharing the title as America’s most hated person. I can see why he was sympathetic to Lori Drew because everyone hates her, like him.

It is interesting to note that there is a strong correlation between people who despise Fred Phelps, Michael Crook, Lori Drew, and Osama bin Laden, especially with Phelps and Crook. Phelps and Crook are anti-American like Bin Laden and the Taliban and anti-military mixed with anti-gay, anti-Jewish, and anti-Christian. I really despise Crook much as I despise Drew, Bin Laden, and Phelps and I put them in the “Loathsome Six”, which includes Bernard Madoff and Casey Anthony. They prove that humans need someone to hate, like in this case Crook, Drew, and Bin Laden. They are all cancers on humanity worthy of being eradicated from the face of the planet.

The Michael Crook entry is the most read to date on Diabolical Minds. In fact, there were many readers who came from a Brittanee Drexel Facebook group. Drexel went missing and Crook attacked her, like what he does to crime victims. I hope that Drexel is found alive and well. If you are wondering why this page was taken down for a time, it was because Michael Crook saw this page and made a DMCA complaint because of some passages I took. It was from mcomike.com, which went by mikeww.com and michaelcrook.org. As of right now, it is michael-crook.com and I expect it will change again. He is a drive by night blogger, his sites appear, disappear, and reappear under a different name. I feel proud that Crook saw this page and realize how pathetic of a loser he is. He got in trouble for pulling this crap back in 2005 and 2006 because his image and video from Hannity and Colmes appeared. News Corp. owns the image, not Michael Crook and while they are known to be litigious, they actually found it amusing he even did that. He can file a DMCA complaint only if HIS work is outright plagiarized. Who would in their right mind would do that to begin with? You got to be nuts to do that. Uh, Michael, you are just as guilty of violating DMCA because you set up Craig’s List Perverts site and you made people sign up and pay a fee to view the images of people you lured. Those images are theirs, not yours! You are violating copyright laws right there!

I would like to thank Eva Galperin of the EFF for helping me resolve this situation. EFF nailed Crook for sending fake DMCA. He should very careful because EFF does not look too kindly nutcases like him. I was told that Crook is really difficult to work with. Well, that is not surprising, coming from a crackpot. I would also like to give a special thank you to Jonathan from Plagiarism Today for giving me new information about Michael Crook. He actually interviewed Crook and has a lot of insight of him.

For one pro-Michael Crook site, which is run by him, there are hundreds of anti-Michael Crook site. They are mostly military themed websites and blogs. I wonder how Michael Crook feels being hated by almost everyone. Perhaps he wears it as a badge of honor, which he enjoys all the attention. Or he feels people are making his life a living Hell and went out of way to stage his own death by being murdered by a soldier, which was proven false. FAIL! He always tries to paint himself as a victim. He is in many ways a professional victim and is obsessed with victimhood. He gets his high of being a professional victim, which Larry Elder refers to them as “victocrats”.

My analysis on Michael Crook is that he is obsessed with attention because his family was dysfunctional and went through many divorces. Also, he has a lot of self-hate issues and cannot deal with it. Crook is a severely sexually repressed man that allows self hate to grow. He claims he is gay, yet he turns around and says he hates gays and admires Fred Phelps. Also, he is a fornificator and produced six children, which the first child was in middle school. Most likely he does it because he wants to prove that he is not homosexual. It is likely his parents had constant arguments and fights. Usually constant arguments among parents can be a sign and possibly lead to divorce. Divorces on a child can be really traumatic and is a vicious cycle. Crook divorced three times in his life, with the first one while in high school. As a result, he became with obsessed with drawing attention to his mother and stepfather to stop fighting. At the same time, he does not like being criticized and throws a fit when someone criticizes him. Of course, lot of people who come from dysfunctional families or have parents that divorce do fine in life and are not like Michael Crook. It leads to another possibility that he is narcissistic, anti-social, and paranoid. Those tend to develop in teenage to early adult years and it is a combination of biological and environmental. Most likely it developed in his early adult years. Here is my analysis on why I think he is a narcissist, anti-social, and paranoid. This is based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) diagnostic criteria.

He meets seven of the nine criteria for narcissism:
1.) Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements).
2.) Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
3.) Believes that he or she is “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).
4.) Requires excessive admiration.
5.) Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable. treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations.
6.) Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends.
7.) Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
8.) Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.
9.) Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.

All seven for anti-social disorder:
1.) Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest.
2.) Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.
3.) Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead.
4.) Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults.
5.) Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.
6.) Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations.
7.) Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.

Meets five of the seven for paranoid personality disorder:
1.) Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her.
2.) Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates.
3.) Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her.
4.) Reads benign remarks or events as threatening or demeaning.
5.) Persistently bears grudges, i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights.
6.) Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack.
7.) Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner.

Michael Crook clearly has personality problems as shown by other evil and rotten people. Personality problems are different from mental illness. At least mental illness can be controlled and managed. On the other hand, personality problems, that is up to the person’s will to change and in this case, he will not change. What is very clear is that he is addicted to hate, like Fred Phelps. Both share the same hatred for homosexuals, Christians, soldiers, and young crime victims. Ironically, both had some connection to the military. Fred Phelps’s father got him into West Point, which he later declined and caused great friction in his family. Michael Crook enlisted into the Army only to be discharged and likely made him feel very bitter and resentful. In a nutshell, Michael Crook is a attention obsessed, paranoid, and a professional victim. He is a genuine psychopath.

Crook is clearly anti-social and is a sociopath. He does things that go against the social norms like attacking soldiers and crime victims. He is very irresponsible from work to family. His children were taken away by the state because he was a bad father and the house was sordid. He cannot hold a steady job and is often fired. Crook sued the law firm that he worked for, despite the fact that he worked for a temp agency and they were the ones who employ him, not the law firm. A sociopath often needs stimulation, which Crook shows by maintaining and writing multiple vile websites and blogs. Another reason Crook is a sociopath is he does not show any care for anyone, which is reflected in not taking care of his children.

Crook has a lot of issues of self hate and has an inferiority complex. Crook lashes out at people because he knows he is a failure at life and will always be one. He had three failed marriages and is going on his fourth one that will likely fail. Phelps might also be homosexual or bisexual because he has admitted to being gay in the past. It could be because he did not want to be a target of gays because he hates gays. Or, Crook is in deep denial about himself and cannot accept his sexual preference. He expresses hatred towards homosexuals and is known to support the Westboro Baptist Church and Fred Phelps. Crook is also considered by many to be unattractive and yes he is. Don’t take this I am knocking on ugly people. Even ugly people have some attractive qualities in them. Crook lacks any of that. I think Michael Crook is one of the ugliest person I have seen besides Lori Drew, Fred Phelps, Gertrude Baniszewski, and Osama bin Laden. Crook attacks people who are more attractive than himself. As mentioned, Crook attacks people who die in tragic circumstances. The people Crook attacks come from stable and well to do families. Crook comes from a dysfunctional family, which suggest that he is deeply bitter about his own background. It raises his self-esteem when he attacks young people who die in accidents and crime.

Crook is paranoid because he often harbors grudges. His hatred towards police comes from the fact that he was arrested twice when he lived in Dayton, Ohio. He was arrested for misdemeanors, not felonies. As for the his hatred towards the military, he was discharged for a medical reason. However, Crook likely faked a medical condition to get out of the military. Crook’s paranoia showed when he sent fake DMCA letters to bloggers and webmasters for putting his image on their website. Crook was paranoid that his image from Hannity and Colmes could be doctored, which already happened. This is despite the fact that Crook had the choice not to appear, but he chose to, to promote it. A major miscalculation on his part.

Crook lacks consistency and is a confused person. He really has no principles to stand on, other than bash crime victims and hate police and soldiers. Even though Crook hates police, he sympathized with BART police Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant in Oakland. Also, Crook hates Blacks, but he expressed support for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who killed Philadelphia cop Daniel Faulkner. As pointed out, Crook claims he is homosexual, yet he rails against homosexuals.

Characteristics of Michael Crook:
Inferiority Complex
Superiority Complex
Anti-Social
Addicted To Victimhood.
Narcisstic
Paranoid

Michcael Crook is like a(n) abrasive or unprincipled psychopath.

Could Michael Crook be related to Fred Phelps and Lori Drew?

The same dirty gene pool that spawned Fred Phelps, spawned Michael Crook. You got to be evil to be a provocateur. Crook is a lot like Fred Phelps and even looks like a younger Fred Phelps. Sometimes, I wonder if Michael Crook is related Fred Phelps since they look alike and they act the same. It is possible that Michael Crook’s parents are wedlock children from Fred Phelps and multiple unknown women during a one night stand. It is possible that Crook’s parents are related to each other. Crook looks like an inbred. Inbreeding is bad and illegal. This is considering the fact that Phelps rails against adultery and equates divorce with adultery. In addition, Fred Phelps’s children have illegitimate children of their own. Most notably, Shirley Phelps-Roper, the so-called spokeswoman of the Westboro Bapatist Church. Michael Crook’s parents are probably born out of wedlock from woman who had affairs with Fred Phelps. I have also speculated that Lori Drew is also a blood relative of Fred Phelps, who seems to have many personality problems and deviant tendencies like Phelps. I have found two family tree for Lori Drew and there are some inconsistencies. One identifies both her parents and brother, while the other identifies only her mother. Deviance can run in family, like in the case of Gary Gilmore. Mikal Gilmore found that both his parents came from dysfunctional families. His family was really dysfunctional. Mikal came out fine, while his brother, Gary, turned out be a notorious murderer.

As pointed out, Crook has admired and praised Fred Phelps and his vile group. He and Phelps deserve each other and I am pretty sure Michael Crook has homoerotic fantasies about his beloved idol Fred Phelps. Hey Michael if you love WBC so much, why don’t you just go move to Topeka and live at their lame ass compound. They accepted Steve Drain’s family into their sorry excuse of a group that calls themselves church. Drain is not exactly WBC material. Also, WBC accepted and had colluded with Bart McQueary, who is not WBC material. McQueary is a fornicator and pornographer, the very thing Phelps despises. Fred Phelps is not either because he is very abusive to his children and wife and has a criminal rap sheet. Also, Phelps is likely a closeted homosexual and likely engages in one night stands. As a result, he lashes out.

It is no wonder why Crook admires Phelps and WBC because they are worthless like he is. Than again, Phelps is anti-abortion, while Crook is pro-abortion. Also, Crook divorced several times, which Phelps hates. That will cause conflicts between the two losers and he will feel rejected by his beloved hero and idol. Also, Crook is rumored and claims to be gay, which will not float to well with Phelps. This is despite the fact he expressed hatred towards gays and it is known that homophobes are sometimes closeted homosexuals. That leads to the point that Fred Phelps is a severely repressed person consumed with self-hate. Both of them are addicted to hate for different reasons. Phelps does it under the guise of religion, while Crook does it make himself feel better about his worthless self. Phelps and Crook are also despised by almost everyone, even by the fringe element. I would not be surprised if Crook is colluding with WBC in some ways, like McQueary has. McQueary is a de facto member of WBC, which would not surprise me if Crook is also like him. Many of what Crook says and acts are very similar to Phelps and WBC. It would not surprise me if Crook has a shrine to pay homage to his beloved idol, Fred Phelps, who is a big slimeball with his equally wacked out children and grandchildren who are subjected to abuse. He likely masterbates to an image of Fred Phelps.

Michael Crook also likes to side with criminals/psychopaths (Lori Drew, Mumia Abu-Jamal, WBC, etc.), like Fred Phelps. Phelps goes as far as saying “God Sent The Killer”. Both Crook and WBC take pride, dance, and have orgasmic feelings when people die in tragic circumstances. It is very obvious that there is something very wrong with Michael Crook’s head. As pointed out, he clearly has personality problems, most likely it developed in his teenage to early adult years.

Since Michael Crook says soldiers deserve retroactive abortion. He is proof why we need to bring back eugenics. He is the perfect reason for retroactive abortion. He is what I think is an accident and his mother should of aborted him. In fact, Michael Crook and his mother are estranged. Crook attacked people who lives in trailer parks, which his own mother lives in. How ironic of him to insult people who live in trailer park. It is pot calling kettle black. He is a freak of nature that should have been wiped out by natural selections a long time ago. The gene pool needs a massive cleaning with so we can rid them of evil and bad seeds like him.

Michael Crook is a pathetic, sad, and worthless excuse of a human being. He is not even human at all. Being human is not just a race, it is also a state of mind, which Crook lacks. Michael Crook should be banished from the human race. He is the biggest loser of all, the King of Losers. Well besides all the evil people humanity as seen. I have news for you, two of your beloved idols, Fred Phelps and Lori Drew are in a world of shit and you should realize your days are numbered too. How are you going to take it when WBC ceases to exist and likely Fred Phelps and company commit mass suicide, while Lori Drew could end up dead in an alley? It will be a very sad and lonely day for you. Michael Crook is going to Hell for sure. Time for you to get out of the gene pool.

See also:
Lori Drew
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
Fred Phelps

Topeka Under Siege

Fred Phelps

Introduction
God hates fags! America is doomed and cursed by God! Irreversible! It’s too late to pray for America! It’s a sin! All fags are damned to Hell! Fag eating feces! Fags eat your babies! America is damned to Hell! Fags doom nation! New Orleans is a putrid, toxic, stinking cesspool of fag fecal matter! Any preacher that preaches in anyway is a Hell bound lying false prophet! America is the terrorist! God hates America! The Catholic Church is a fag church run by fag priests and dyke nuns! The Pope is the Godfather of Pedophilia! President George W. Bush is a sodomite! All Catholics and Southern Baptists are feces eaters! God Almighty sent his wrath for persecuting Westboro Baptist Church! A typical so-called sermon from Fred Phelps at Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.

Anti-homosexuality is the mantra at this “church” and all disasters happened because of acceptance of homosexuality. They think homosexuality is the worst sin and should be a a capital offense. In other words, all homosexuals should be exterminated. They like to protest and they will protest if a soldier dies in Afghanistan or Iraq, a major disaster happens, or crime victims. The signs say, “God Hates Fags”, “Fag Troops”, “Thank God For IEDs” (Improvised Explosive Devices), “Fags Doom Nation”, “Thank God For 9/11”, “AIDS: Kills Fags Dead”, and other vile stuff. Of course their protest attracts backlash from the public. One has to wonder what drove Fred Phelps into a life of extreme hatred and deviant behavior?

Frederick Waldron Phelps

Young Fred and Martha Phelps.

Frederick Waldron Phelps came to the world on November 13, 1929 in Meridian, Mississippi. He was the son of Frederick Wade Phelps and Catherine Idalette Johnston. He also had a younger sister, Martha Jean Phelps (now Martha Capron, who lives in Pennsylvania). His family was highly respected and described as a model citizen by people who knew him as a child. The father was a detective for Southern Railroad, while his mother was homemaker. The elder Phelps was a tall “Southern” gentleman, but temperamental at times. On the other hand, Mrs. Phelps was known for her kindness and opened the windows and play the piano. Despite the Great Depression, the Phelpses lived comfortably.

The Phelps family were Methodist, the father being a fundamentalist, but not the imposing type. His mother died in 1935 at the age of 28 from throat cancer, when he was a child. Her death was a big deal and young Fred was really bewildered. The maternal aunt, Irene Jordan came to raise young Fred and Martha. Fred referred to her aunt as “his dear old aunt” and saw her as a motherly figure. Jordan died in a car accident in 1951. In 1944, his father married Olive Briggs, who was a 39 year old divorcee. Fred Phelps would become an outspoken critic of divorce and people who divorce. In school, he was a popular and respected student, who was very focused and made good grades. Phelps was a boxer in high school and was very good at it. Fred Phelps joined the Boy Scouts and attained the rank of Eagle Scout. When Phelps graduated from high school, he was ranked sixth out of 213 and was the speaker at his commencement in 1946. The American Legion awarded Phelps for courage, leadership, scholarship, and service. He was admitted at the age of 16 to the prestigious West Point, the Army Academy in New York. However, he had to wait before going to West Point due to his age. He attended a local community college.

Bad Blood
By the age of 16, Fred Phelps begin to change, it was a turning point at his life. He went to a Methodist revival with John Capron and perhaps it changed Phelps to what he would become later in the future. Or possibly, it brought a side of Fred Phelps that few would of noticed. He became increasingly combative and vindictive. After all, he was really hysterically when his mother died and his aunt raised him, while his father worked. Also, his fathered married a divorcee, which drove Phelps into the brink of insanity. Fred Phelps was at odds with his own family, especially with his father, stepmother, and sister.

The rift between Fred Phelps and his father grew for many reasons. He did not attend West Point and that really disappointed his father. His father had hoped he attended West Point because he worked really hard to get him into that school. West Point is really hard to get into because you have to be well connected and have a Congressman sponsor you. Once a person gets into West Point, they do not have to pay for anything, other than they have to serve in the US Army for four years as an officer. Since, the Phelps were Methodists, Fred became a Baptist, which created friction among the family. Fred and his father became enemies and estranged from each other. People who knew the Phelpses remember them only talking about their daughter, Martha. They never talked about Fred. The family likely saw Fred as a black sheep and brought shame to them.

The rift even carried on even when he was the leader of Westboro Baptist Church in the 1970s. It was witnessed by Mark and Nate Phelps, who defected from Westboro Baptist Church. The senior Fred Phelps visited his son and told him to come back to Methodist denomination and stop his preaching of hate. Fred Phelps told him to never come back and get out of his life, which made his father cry. Paradoxically, Fred Phelps was overcome with grief when his father died at the age of 84 on October 14, 1977. He attended his father’s funeral.

Relationship with his sister, Martha Phelps Capron was just as bad. Her husband, John Capron went with his wife to visit her brother to reconciliate, which failed immediately upon arrival. She came to visit his brother in Topeka. Fred Phelps’s children never knew they had an aunt, let alone her name. Once Martha came visiting her brother, the rift grew much larger. Fred and Martha got into a nasty argument and left sobbing uncontrollably. Phelps did not want to ever see her sister again. The people no longer part of WBC would find out years later who the name of their aunt and grandfather name after Topeka Capital-Journal reporters did an extensive search about two decades later. In fact, Phelps’s children have never met their own relatives outside of Westboro Baptist Church.

According to Kemper County records, there was a will made by the elder Phelpses, when Fred Phelps Sr. passed away, Olive Briggs gets to control the estate. When Briggs dies, only one-eight of the will to Fred and the rest to Martha. Briggs died on June 29, 1985 at the age of 82. Her obituary only mentions of Martha, the stepdaughter. Fred Phelps was considered the black sheep in his family. Martha got all the estate inherited, which included 75 acres of land, a house, and money. It is very likely that Martha feels ashamed to have a brother who is very hateful and despised by everyone. Of course, she did not choose her family, including brother. Martha currently lives in Pennsylvania and will not not talk of his brother until Fred dies and sees him in the obituary and gets a death certificate.

Conversion
He enrolled at Bob Jones University in Cleveland, Tennessee in 1947. Bob Jones College (now Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina) is a Fundamentalist Protestant University and they were doing missionary work in Utah, which is dominated by Mormons. Fred Phelps converted to Baptist from Methodist in the Summer of 1947. He was very zealot about his conversion. Many newly converts and born against people tend to be zealots, but in Phelps’s case, an extreme zealot. Reverend B.H. McAlister describes Fred Phelps as fiery, eccentric, and devout. He also ordained Fred Phelps as a minister, when he was only 17 years old. Most ministers are ordained in their 20’s.

Phelps would show his belligerent zealot by organizing protests and antagonizing Mormons. One summer night in Utah, there was a tent in Vernal which draws about 25 people on a given night. Also, Ed Nelson ran newspaper advertisement on “What’s Wrong with the Mormon Church?”, which led to 200 people, mostly Mormons. Fred Phelps was doing the sermon and a melee ensued. Many Mormons attacked the podium where Phelps was standing in front of. McAlister and Nelson are anti-homosexual, but wonder about Phelps’s zealotry. Also, they thought Phelps was delusional because he saw himself as “worthy” by God’s grace of going to Heaven. The incident in Utah led the university demanded that Fred Phelps seek psychological help or get expelled from the school. He does leave university after three semesters. He accused the university of being “racist”, which is a rather ironic statement.

He moves to Alberta province in Canada to attend Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills near Calgary, which is for two semesters. Prairie Bible Institute is the Canadian center for Christian oriented higher education. Than he transfers to John Muir College (Present day Pasadena City College) in Pasadena, California in April of 1949 and earned a degree in 1951.

Street Preacher
Fred Phelps started as a street preacher in Southern California the year he graduated. His street preaching got national attention in the June 11, 1951 issue of Time Magazine. Phelps would make his fiery oration to lunch hour crowds about how “sins committed on campus by students and teachers.” The sins he preached of were evil language, profanity, cheating, teachers’ filthy jokes in classrooms, and lust.

His preaching attracted a hostile crowd that the police had remove him for his own safety, which would be his first brush with the police. Once the crowd broke up, he was let go of. Despite the hostile reaction, he continued to preach from a nearby lawn of a sympathizer. His preaching and behavior would be very prophetic.

Fred Phelps meets Margie Marie Simms in Arizona in 1951. Simms was from Carrollton, Missouri. They were married on May 15, 1952. After their marriage, they moved to Topeka, Kansas.

Starting A Family
Fred and Margie Phelps had thirteen children. Their names are:
Fred Phelps, Jr.
Margie Phelps
Shirley Phelps-Roper
Jonathon B. Phelps
Rebekah Phelps-Davis
Elizabeth Phelps
Timothy Phelps
Rachel Phelps
Abigail Phelps
Mark Phelps
Katherine Phelps-Griffin
Nathan “Nate” Phelps
Dorotha Phelps (Now Dorotha Bird)

Establishment of Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptist Church

When Fred Phelps arrived in Topeka, his first church was Eastside Baptist Church. The past of Eastside Baptist Church was Leaford Cavin. He was hired as an associate pastor of the church. Members admired Fred Phelps for his fiery speech. The woman members of the church welcomed Margie Phelps. The church decided to open a new church across town. The church raised bonds and bought property on 3701 12th Street, which was named Westboro Baptist Church. The new church had 50 members from Eastside Baptist Church. He made his first sermon on November 27, 1955 after the newly married couples moved to Topeka, Kansas. The church opened formally on May 20, 1956 and Fred Phelps had it all. However, trouble was brewing between Eastside and Westboro Baptist Church.

A long time Eastside member said that Phelps had turned on their own church and not all members were excited about him being a pastor. On one Sunday, when Pastor Cavin was preaching, Mark Phelps, who was 10 months old was crying. Fred Phelps slapped Mark repeatedly right in front of other members. Right after, Phelps slapped Mark, he was confronted by other men to not hit his baby son.

When Fred Phelps got his own church, there was a falling out between him and Cavin. The falling was over God hates the sin, but not the sinner, which Phelps did not believe in. Phelps believed that God hated both the sin and sinner. Pastor Cavin by all accounts was a staunch Baptist, but not staunch enough in the eyes of Fred Phelps. Also, Phelps was a man full of anger and rage, which would become is trademark. Fred Phelps recommended that members who came for marriage counseling to beat on their wife. Not a surprising advice because Phelps was very abusive to his own wife and children. One of his sermons was about how a fine wife a husband can make by beating on her as prescribed in the Bible. Phelps believed that wives should obey and submit to their husbands. If the wife does not submit to their husbands, they should be beaten into submission.

Phelps was struggling and had to meet end’s meet to stay afloat. He had to $32 a week on bonds for the church and no one wanted to give offering to hear a psychopathic minister preaching hate. Phelps had to turn to other ways to get money to pay his mortgage. During the next five years, his church would go door-to-door selling vacuum cleaners, baby strollers, and even insurance. All the door-to-door salesmen who were employed were all sued by Fred Phelps, which would show his litigious nature. During the time, he still had the feud with Pastor Cavin, who tried to rebuild the bridge between him and Phelps.

Pastor Cavin convinced county assessor John Towle to have Westboro Baptist Church taxed as a private residence. Phelps contested the decision before the County Board of Tax Appeals and won. Also, he sued Pastor Cavin and Stauffer Communications for libel, but lost. In the end, Fred Phelps learned to defend his church and bunker. WBC billed itself as a Primitive Baptist. They are not associated with any Baptist organization. It was established as a non-profit organization in 1967.

Eastside members were hoping Phelps would miss the payment, so Westboro gets foreclosed, which never happened. As a way to save money, Phelps decided to move into Westboro Baptist Church and call it home. By that time, Westboro Baptist Church was just made up of his family.

Other people decided to follow Fred Phelps, the Hockenbargers, George Stutzman, Chris Davis, and Theresa Davis. Other people from Eastside Baptist Church would join Westboro Baptist Church, but would later leave after they engaged in controversial activities. A film maker, Steve Drain, would also join Westboro Baptist Church after making a documentary about them. Drain’s whole family would also be members.

Becoming A Lawyer
What got Fred Phelps into becoming a lawyer started with a German Shepard that happen to be near his property. Phelps decides to get his shotgun and blast the dog to death. The dog owner sued Fred Phelps, but Phelps won the case and was covered in the local newspaper. This case could of likely made Fred Phelps become a lawyer. Also, he earned enough money from selling insurance and getting the premiums off of them that he did not need to work. Fred Phelps decides to become a lawyer and enrolls at Washburn University in Topeka.

Fred Phelps was a star at moot court and the editor of Law Review. Faculty remembered Phelps as the most brilliant student they ever had at Washburn. Everyone at the school knew his public life. However, no one knew about his private and dark life he had. When he was studying, he would fly into rages because of noise made by his children. Fred Phelps increasingly became more isolated and confined himself into the bedroom, only to go out for errands. His sexual appetite was extremely voracious and gained 100 pounds. Fred Phelps was getting more obese and volatile.

Volcanic Fred
Mark and Nate Phelps told the world that Fred Phelps is very volatile and abusive to his own children and wife. In fact they showed up to school all bloodied and bruised, but did not speak up out of fear that their father will kill them. The Phelpses were investigated for child abuse, but Fred Phelps threatened the police, social workers, and teachers involved. Fred Phelps even went as far as suing the school for beating Mark and Nate Phelps.

Fred Phelps would often use a leather belt or axe mattock to hit his children. He would often yell at them. He also brutally beat his own wife, Margie. He even threw his own wife down the stairs. Her injuries were chipped bones and broken cartilages. He would force his children to work and if they did not, Phelps would yell and kick them hard until they were lying on the floor. Even when Fred would stop beating on his children and wife and he would go on with a long harangue filled with profanity. His tirade would last for hours. Here is one example of Fred Phelps’s endless venom filled tirade:

Shitass, Goddam, tit-ass, piss-ass Goddam, ass-hole bastard, piece of shit, dick, son-of-a-bitch God forsaken filthy measly-assed piece of fucking shit Goddam horses ass. You’re not worth shit. You’re a no good, no account, God forsaken piss-assed little bastard. Get your ass in there and lean over that Goddam bed, you’re going to get a licken. Bitch. Fucker. Prick, Fucker, Prick, Goddam fucker, Goddam prick, asshole, prick, prick, fucker, fucker, fucker, fucker, fuck you, you Goddam fucking piece of garbage. Go to hell. Fuck you. Go to hell. Prick. Fucker. GODDAMN YOU, you fucker. You worthless piece of shit. Goddam you, you worthless piece of shit of Goddam fucking shit. Fuck you. Go straight fucking to hell you Goddam fucking son-of-a-bitch. God Damn You! God Damn You!!! God Damn You!!! You Goddam asshole son-of-a- bitch. God Damn You! How dare you, you asshole bastard prick turd. You turd. You lying, mother fucking stinking piece of fucking shit. Fuck you, you lying sack of shit, you. Get the fuck out of my face. Go to hell. I hate you, you bastard. I hate you, you asshole. You Goddam prick asshole bastard, dick, piece of fucking rank stinking fucking garbage that’s as full of shit as anyone could ever be. Get the hell out of here, you fucker. Fucker. Fucker. Go to fucking hell you bastard. Piss- ass. Horses ass. Goddam fucker. Fucker. Fucker. Fucker. Fucker. Fucker. FUCKER! FUCKER! FUCKER! Asshole. You bastard. You sick Goddam son-of-a- bitch. You worthless little bastard. You Goddam asshole prick bastard. God Damn It!! God Damn YOU!!! GOD DAMN YOU!!! Fuck you, you bastard. You’re going to hell. You little Tit-ass. Shit-ass. Fucker Tit-ass. You little Shitass. Piss-ass little bastard. You Goddam little bastard, I’m going to teach you. Get the hell up there. Why did you do this to me? Say!! What’s the big idea? What the hell do you think you’re doing, bringing reproach on the church of the Lord Jesus Christ? I’m not going to put up with your sissified wimpy asshole ways. Shut up. God damn it. God damn it. God damn it. Keep those Goddam kids quiet. I’m not going to tell you again. What’s the big idea making all of that Goddam racket? Say! Didn’t I tell you to not make a fucking sound? You think you’re so Goddam smart thinking for yourself, when I told you what the fuck I wanted. Keep those Goddam kids quiet or I’m going to beat the hell out of all of you, you bitch. You bastard. You bitch. Fuck you. Fuck you, God damn it. I’m going to beat the hell out of you; I warned you and now you’re going to catch it. Where do you think you’re going. Get the fuck back over here you son-of-a-bitch and take your beating like a man. Fucking asshole bastard son-of-a-bitch chicken shit piece of crap, no good little bastard. What the hell do you think you’re doing, for Christ’s sake? I’m not going to put up with you, do you understand me? Do you? I won’t tolerate this bullshit. God Damn you!! I’ll beat the living shit out of you. Watch it. I’m warning you. I warned you what I’d do. It’s your own God Damn fault. I warned you, for Christ’s sake. What’s the big idea getting this family in trouble like this? I’ll beat you until you can’t stand up or sit down. God damn son-of-a-bitch, asshole. I told you what I’d do if you didn’t get them Goddam grades up. You little prick. How do you like that? Does that hurt, does it? Goddam it, does it hurt? It better hurt. If it doesn’t I’ll make sure it hurts. Are you fucking crazy? Are you crazy? You must be insane. Jesus Christ, how many Goddam times am I going to have to beat you? When are you going to learn? Say! Say! Is that right? Is that right? When you are going to learn? You no account little bastard. In the old testament they used to take kids like you out and stone them to death. That’s what you deserve. You ought to be taken out and stoned. At least parents in that time had some Goddam solution to a problem like you. That’s what would cure you. You’ve been nothing but Goddam grief to your mother and I since the fucking day you were born. I wish you were dead. I hate you. Jesus Christ, I hate you. I can’t stand you. I can’t stand the sight of you. You’re sniffing after some whore, for Christ’s sake. You got your dick wet and now you’ve just gone crazy sniffing after that fucking whore. You hot blooded little bastard. Keep your Goddam pants on and keep your fucking dick inside. Horse piss, bullshit, balderdash, crap, lying bastard, son of belial, reprobate. ballamite, Goddam Horses Ass! God damn you God, you lying asshole letting them do this to me. God damn You God, how could you let them do this to me! What the hell do you think you’re doing? God damn you God. You son-of-a-bitch. Hey you bitch, got any good words for me? You better say something or I’m going to kick the living shit out of you. Speak up. Say!!! What the hell good are you? Say, what the hell good are you? What the hell is on your Goddam mind? Speak the hell up. I’ll slap the living shit out of you until you fucking can’t see straight. You pussy whipped little bastard. You horse manure. Fuck you. Go to hell. You’re going to hell. Go to hell. Shitass. Bastard. Bitch. Horses ass. God damn chicken shit bastard son-of-a-bitch little fucker, get the fuck out of my sight. You little chicken shit. You piece of garbage. You’re God damn worthless. You’ll never amount to a God damn thing. You’re a loser and always will be. You go along fine for a while and then you do something like this to fuck it all up. You little asshole. You’ll never amount to anything. You’re a God damn loser. You’ll end up in jail you God damn deadbeat. Shut your big dumb ape mouth, you look like some kind of fucking idiot with your big Goddam dumb mouth hanging open. I’ll beat that foolishness out of you. Look at that foolishness leaving him, I can see it with every hit of this Goddam mattock. It does my heart good to hear those screams and see that foolishness leaving. What’s the big idea doing that to me? Say! Why did you do this to me Say! Say! How could you treat me this way? How could you treat me this way you little bastard? What’s the big idea? Say! I’m not going to put up with this kind of bullshit. You’re going to get a beating. Lean over there Goddam it. You think I’m going to put up with you? You think I don’t know how to deal with the likes of you, you God forsaken little bastard? We know how to deal with asshole kids like you. I’ll beat you. I’ll beat you like the Bible says to beat you and you won’t die. Dammit woman, you know the Bible says that if you beat your child they won’t die, so shut your Goddam mouth or I’ll slap you. Do you want me to beat you fat ass? You Goddam hussy. You fat Goddam hussy. You’d think you could give me some Goddam fucking support instead of always fighting me and causing me all of this Goddam fucking grief. I’m not going to put up with your Goddam sassy mouth talking back to me or telling me what to do, you fucking bitch. I’m telling you; Goddam it; I’m warning you, I’m going to slap the hell of out of you; you’re going to catch it if you don’t shut your Goddam God forsaken mouth and back off. I’m not going to tell you again. The next time I’m going to turn my Goddam attention to you and you’re going to be sorry. I’ll cuff you around and give you a Goddam beating. Don’t interfere with my beating of this Goddam bastard one more time. I want this fat off of that ass. I’m not going to put up with that fat ass. If you don’t lose by tomorrow, you’ll get another beating. I want that fat ass off of you, you fat bitch, you Goddam fat slut, do you get it, you think headed bitch?

Fred Phelps was so volcanic that he also threw every object he could see onto the floor, ranging from dishes to food in the refrigerator. The kitchen was such a mess, it looked like war zone. He would make the wife and children clean the whole mess in the kitchen, while Fred did nothing. Phelps would still fly into a violent rage at his wife and make ugly tirades at her. Also, he would break furniture in a fit of rage.

His anger consumed Phelps that he would wake up with angry fits of fear. His endless anger made him into a drug addict; he was addicted to amphetamines and barbituates. At one point, he pointed a shotgun and shot some insulations. Perhaps it was a suicide attempt by Fred Phelps since he was a hardcore drug addict. The drug use went on for a few years. He hit rock bottom and had to be taken into an ambulance. He weighed in at 265 pounds and vowed to lose weight by fasting. In 47 days, he dropped to 135 pounds. His change from an obese to trim man made him obsessed with exercise. He would force his children to run with him or if they did not, they would get beaten by him. One instance, Phelps took his children to a track field to run on and there was a boy riding his bike. Phelps told the boy to leave, but he refused. Phelps hit the boy and knocked him out of the bike and onto the ground. The boy left to tell his father that Fred Phelps attacked. The boy and his father returned and the father attacked Phelps. Phelps and the children left the track field for home. Once, they got home, for some unknown reason, Fred Phelps severely beat his wife. Also, the father did not take losing well and he would throw ice at his own children. If his family was subjected to abuse, it would spread to outside his family.

Debbie Valgos

Debbie Valgos

Fred Phelps Jr. fell in love with a teenage girl name Debbie Valgos in the Fall of 1970. Valgos was from a disfunctional family and saw Westboro Baptist Church as a safe haven. Sadly, it would later prove fatal for Valgos. She was 15 at the time when she met Phelps Jr. Both of them met when they want on their daily door to door candy selling. He knew his father would not approve of their relationship because Valgos is a Catholic, which Phelps despises. Fred Phelps viewed Debbie as not being good enough for his son. Fred Phelps would introduce his son to Betty, who was a Methodist turned Baptist.

Debbie was subjected to severe abuse by Fred Phelps for not being good enough for his son. She than moves to Junction City to live with a soldier at Fort Riley. She fell into a life of drug addiction and even attempted suicide. Than on the night of April 17, 1972, Debbie Valgos died from drug overdose. Upon hearing the news, Fred Phelps celebrated and danced to her death and called her a “whore”. In some ways, Fred Phelps could of contributed to Valgos’s death. Fred Phelps Jr. was very heartbroken of her passing and had a picture of her in his wallet he carried.

Civil Rights Lawyer To Disbarment
Fred Phelps decides to become a civil rights lawyer and forms the Phelps Charter Law Firm in 1964. He defends Blacks who had their civil rights violated. Phelps would brag that he brought down “Jim Crow Laws” in Topeka. Also, they were branded as “nigger” lovers. In fact, most of Phelps Chartered law firm were civil rights cases. He even sued President Ronald Reagan for appointing an ambassador for the Vatican on grounds it violated separation of church and state. However, it was dismissed by District Court.

Phelps was even given an award by the National Association For The Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Ironically, Fred Phelps is a racist and held prejudices towards Black people, even though he defended them in civil rights cases. Many of Phelp’s racist tirades were recorded on television. To further prove that Phelps was a racist, one of the persons who help form the Phelps Chartered law firm was Charles Hockenbarger, who is a known racist with ties to Christian Identity and other racist groups.

Then in 1977, a court reporter named Carolene Brady filed a complaint against Fred Phelps. She did not have a transcript that Phelps requested, which had no impact on the case. He showed his vindictiveness by suing Brady for $22,000 and put her on the stand. Phelps called Brady a “slut” and being a sex pervert. This made Brady cry on the stand and Phelps lost as a result of this. He was disbarred for good in 1979 and could not practice law in Kansas. He practiced at the federal level, but was kicked out in 1989.

Political Career

Fred Phelps Jr., Tipper Gore, Betty Phelps, and Al Gore

Fred Phelps decides to become a politician. In all his attempted political runs, he runs as a Democrat. His first run was in 1990 in the Democrat Primary for Kansas Governor. He ran in third place with 6.72% or 11,572 votes. Than he runs for the United States Senate in 1992 and loses again with 30.8% or 49,416 votes. He realizes that he lost the Senate, he tries to run for governor of Kansas in 1994 and loses again in the Democratic primary and this time fifth place with 3.36% or 5,349 votes. Despite running fifth place, Phelps runs for governor in 1998 and gets 14.72% or 15,233 votes. Phelps attempted career as a politician has failed.

The Phelpses supported Al Gore, who was making a run for President in 1988. They even provided room for the campaign workers. Fred Phelps Jr. held a fundraiser for Al Gore’s Senate run at their own home. Al Gore eventually became Senator of Tennessee. When Bill Clinton won the 1992 election, Fred Phelps Jr. is invited to inauguration on January 20, 1993. Than in 1998, relationship between the Phelpses and Gores went sour. They protested Al Gore Sr.’s funeral and called him a “fag-enabler”.

Leaving Hateland
As Fred Phelps preached hate, some of his own children decided to leave the church for good. Phelps had this “us vs. them” mentality and if they leave, they are persona non grata. They are disowned by their church and family, like Phelps did to his own father, stepmother, and sister. Despite Phelps’s warning of it, four of the thirteen children decide to leave. Mark, Nate, Dorotha, and Katherine Phelps decide to leave Westboro Baptist Church for good. Mark and Nate Phelps left were among the first to leave their family. They simply had enough with their own family, which was led by an abusive and violent father. All of them had to carry the shame of being associated with Fred Phelps.

One carried the shame, that Dorotha Phelps changed her last name to Bird, so people will not associate her with Phelps. In addition, she felt how the Phelps behaved professionally was unethical, which prompted her to leave WBC. She would be the last of the Phelps children to defect. In addition, her last name Bird, was meant she was free like a bird. Ironically, Dorotha Phelps was viewed favorably at Westboro Baptist Church. Dorotha talked of frequent abuses from his father and also said he was a real neighborhood menace. She talks of how the boys got it worse than the girls when Fred Phelps abused his own children.

Katherine Phelps-Griffith is ashamed that she will not grant any interviews and lives on welfare because she can longer practice law. She was disbarred by the state of Kansas, like her father for writing 30 worthless checks. It is also known that she suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and remains at the level of subsistence. Ironically, she was one of “daddy’s little girl”, despite the fact, she was often subjected to violent abuse at the hands of Fred Phelps. Katherine also took the brunt of the abuse besides Mark, Nate, and Margie. When Phelps’s children went around selling candy, Katherine would be left behind to be subjected to violent abuse at the hands of Fred Phelps. Both daughters do not like to draw attention to themselves and like to keep a low profile.

However, some have grown outspoken, despite the fact they will be targeted by Fred Phelps. Most notably Mark and Nate Phelps, especially Nate. In fact, he appeared in an article about his father. Nate Phelps is now an Atheist, but was once a devout Christian. Nate Phelps had mix feelings about how the government should deal with WBC. On the other hand, he praised the Patriot Guard Riders and has condemned WBC’s protesting of funerals. He finds it very repulsive and said it was no different from what his father did as a child. Nate feels Fred Phelps is lashing out at the world since his children are now adults. The last time Nate talked to his father was sometimes in the 1990s on a radio show, which ended in a shouting match that lasted a minute.

All of the children who severed ties with their family, left before the cult would become infamous for what they are known for today, their anti-gay campaign. It would become their mantra and would be focus of their numerous picketings at various venues from homes, schools, churches, and even funerals. Their infamous anti-gay campaign started at a nearby park in 1991.

Gage Park Insanity Drive

Fred Phelps picketing.

Fred Phelps picketing.Gage Park is a park established in 1899 and is 160 acres. It is home to Topeka Zoo, miniature train, an outdoor theater, and the Reinisch Rose Garden. The park is popular among the homosexual community who want to go “cruising”, looking for sex. The park is also not too far from Westboro Baptist Church. Fred Phelps claimed in 1989, two gay men accosted their than 6 year old grandson, Joshua Phelps-Roper. One would wonder why the Phelpses did not file a police report if Joshua was accosted. We will probably never know. The Phelpses decided to file complaints against the City of Topeka about the large amount of homosexual sex occurring in the park, in which nothing happened.

As a result, in June of 1991, Fred Phelps launched his anti-gay crusade. He first posted signs warning people that the park of homosexual activity, which attracted a lot of negative attention. He would protest and send anti-gay faxes to network of media outlets, state offices, and individuals. Many people nearby were intimidated by Phelps because he might sue them and make them lose their jobs. This would be his first anti-gay protest, which he would become best known for. In addition, anti-gay preaching would become Fred Phelps’s mantra, which would stick to this very day. Here are his vile anti-gay remarks he has made:

“The same Bible that prescribes the death penalty for murderers, also prescribes the death penalty for those who engage in homosexual conduct. It is a measure of the perversion of our country — our near-total alienation from God — that the masses cannot see this great national hypocrisy.”

– “Homosexuals, also, should have the Death Penalty!” WBC flier, June 14, 1997

“WBC engages in daily peaceful sidewalk demonstrations opposing the homosexual lifestyle of soul-damning, nation-destroying filth. We display large, colorful signs containing Bible words and sentiments, including: GOD HATES FAGS, FAGS HATE GOD, AIDS CURES FAGS, THANK GOD FOR AIDS, FAGS BURN IN HELL, NO NOT MOCKED, FAGS ARE NATURE FREAKS, GOD GAVE FAGS UP, NO SPECIAL LAWS FOR FAGS, etc… WBC has conducted some 20,000 such demonstrations during the last nine years at homosexual parades and other events (including funerals of impenitent sodomites, like Matthew Shepard). WBC teams have picketed major fag parades in San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., Miami, San Diego, Dallas, Orlando, Kansas City, etc. The unique picketing ministry of Westboro Baptist Church has received national attention, and WBC believes this gospel message to be America’s last hope.”

– “FAQ,” WBC “Godhatesfags.com” Web site

“The only true Nazis in this world are fags. They want to force you by law to support their filth, and they want to shut you up by law when they hate what you say. They would be perfectly happy to make it a crime to preach that ‘God hates fags’ under the guise of ‘hate speech legislation.’ “

– “FAQ,” WBC “Godhatesfags.com” Web site

“It’s NOT OK to be gay. It will damn the soul, destroy the life, and doom any nation that tolerates such evil. God Hates Fags is a profound theological statement, which America needs more than it needs oxygen or bread.”

– “WBC to picket UC (Tar Heels) graduation and Binkley Baptist Church,” Westboro Baptist Church “News Release,” May 3, 1999

Ironically, Joshua Phelps-Roper is no longer associated with Westboro Baptist Church and is estranged from his own family. Before he left, he was a very prominent protester. His mother, Shirley Phelps-Roper said that Joshua is no longer welcomed in the house and that he is persona non grata to them. This is a pattern that Westboro Baptist Church has, anyone who leaves the church is shunned by them for life. The grandchild who propelled Fred Phelps and WBC to become anti-gay is no longer one of them.

The police started to crack down on prostitution and drug dealings in Gage Park. This was after a local news station borrowed an infrared camera to see what Gage Park was like. As it turned out, it was ridden with gays “cruising” for sex and there was a lot of drug dealing. Despite Gage Park being cleaned up and made a safer place, Phelps’s anti-gay campaign continued and took on a more virulent streak. Their signs would become more vile and they would protest funerals of dead homosexuals, perceived homosexuals, enemies of WBC, and people who died of AIDS. Also, they would send out abusive faxes to people all over Topeka and Kansas. They were a local and state menance in the 1990s and had some national exposure when they protested a gay parade in San Francisco, which appeared in ABC’s 20/20.

Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and robbed by two men and left handing on a fence along the road near Laramie, Wyoming on October 12,1998. Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church would get international exposure for picketing his funeral. They also attacked his mother, Judy Shepard. Phelps and his group would protest Shepard’s funeral and the trial of his killers. He picketed with signs saying: “Matt Shepard rots in Hell”, “AIDS Kills Fags Dead” and “God Hates Fags”. Phelps went as far as putting a marble monument of Matthew Shepard with a plaque that would say:

“MATTHEW SHEPARD, Entered Hell October 12, 1998, in Defiance of God’s Warning: ‘Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.’ Leviticus 18:22.”

The plaque would be denied by the city councils of Casper and Cheyenne. However, that would be the last the public would hear from Fred Phelps and his church. In 2009, the Supreme Court ruled against Fred Phelps in erecting the Matthew Shephard “memorial”

Thank God For 9/11

World Trade Center Attacked

America was attacked on September 11, 2001 in New York, Arlington, and Shanksville. The terrorist attacked claimed 3,000 lives and left America and the world shocked and in a state of grief. Phelps saw it as an act of God’s punishment for accepting homosexuality. He said on his website:

“On September 11, 2001, God Almighty struck the United States of America with the worst terrorist attack in her history.”

“Thank God for September 11th. Thank God for those planes. God ordained and decreed these acts. He determined in eternity to hurl those airplanes, like fiery darts out of the sky. He used the evil followers of Osama bin Laden to punish even more evil people.”

As America was in total shock and grieving, Westboro Baptist Church was celebrating the horrific terrorist attack, like Muslim extremists and radicals were doing. Westboro Baptist Church went to New York and protested the rescue effort near where the World Trade Center once stood. Phelps’s group were taunting victims who were taken from the rubble, shouting profanity at rescue workers, and demanding anyone alive to die under the rubble. Phelps claimed that 9/11 was God’s punishment for America’s acceptance of homosexuals. Phelps’s presence was not something people wanted to see when America was in mourning. Fred Phelps is known to watch the videos of the 9/11 terrorist attack with glee and joy.

WBC faced a lot of backlash from the general public for cheering the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and blaming America, which was befalling other people who blamed America, mostly in academia. In fact, a 19 year old teenager named Jared Dailey. Within two days, 86 people joined the protest against WBC. The slogan was, “Not Today Fred!”, which would be the new slogan used against Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church. The 9/11 terrorist attack made Dailey enlist into the US Army and is now a soldier.

God Hates America

Westboro members protesting.

Starting in 2005, Westboro Baptist Church started to protest funerals of soldiers who died in Afghanistan and Iraq. No one in history has ever protested at a funeral. These soldiers died defending America and now they are getting literally spitted on by this group. Their protest of soldier’s funerals made them more infamous. The protest of soldier’s funerals enraged Americans of all races and political leanings. Fred Phelps is virulently anti-military as he viewed soldiers as people who were lazy and incompetent idiots unable to find work elsewhere. Also, he views soldiers as people who were fed that is okay to be a homosexual by the media, schools, and churches. In addition, that all soldiers persecute Westboro Baptist Church. This sentiment would be shared by Michael Crook with his infamous, Forsake The Troops website, which he continues to maintain his anti-military sentiment.

Even fringe groups despised Fred Phelps and WBC. In fact, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) passed out flyers denouncing Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church. Fred Phelps is known to attack the KKK and Neo-Nazis in his Sunday sermons, by calling them “fags”, “fag lovers”, and “fag-enablers”. The KKK and Fred Phelps go way back when he was a civil rights lawyer. As Phelps was bringing down segregation laws, the KKK grew resentful towards Phelps and wanted to get even with him.

A funeral is a dignified event that calls for remembrance and respect and grieving, not a time to protest. They would protest that soldier’s death are God’s punishment on America for tolerating homosexuality and call soldiers “fags” and “fag-enablers”. Their protesting of funerals would be the start of their angry transgressions. A group called Patriot Guard Riders was formed. It is made up mostly military veterans who come to protect families of deceased soldiers at funerals. The only group that protest military funerals is Westboro Baptist Church.

The “protestation” of soldiers stemmed from an IED exploded at their church compound on August 20, 1995. No one was injured in the bombing. The police determined it was a work of a “mad bomber” because of the bomb characteristics and other areas were targeted. The bombing was not an anti-WBC group. However, Fred Phelps saw it as an act of terrorism by America and that God would retaliate against America for attack his cult.

Tachmonite

Tachmonite Banner

In the main chapel of Westboro Baptist Church, where Fred Phelps preaches his vileness, there is a banner that prominetely says “Tachmonite”. Tachmonite is from the transliteration of “Hachmoni” or “Hachmonite”, which is in the Bible. More specifically in 1 Chronicles 11:11 and 27:32. Here is how those verses go in the Bible:

This is an account of David’s mighty men: Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against 300 whom he killed at one time.
-1 Chronicles 11:11

Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe. He and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni attended the king’s sons.
-1 Chronicles 27:32

8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.
-2 Samuel 23:8

Apparently, Fred Phelps sees himself as a prophet, like Jesus and is trying to start a new religion. This shows that Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church is not Christian at all, but a cult, like People’s Temple or Heaven’s Gate. In fact, they do not call themselves Christians and are known they express hatred towards them, just as much as they do towards homosexuals. It is not surprising because they like to attack Christians and refer to them as “fag churches” that promote the homosexual agenda. He attacks all pastors and preachers as “fags”, “fag-enablers”, and “whores” and churches as “whorehouses”.

Thank God For $11 Million!
One of their protest at the military funeral, which was Lance Corporal Matthew A. Snyder on March 10, 2006. The family only found out about WBC protest through the media. The father of the deceased soldier, Albert Snyder, decided to sue Westboro Baptist Church, specifically Fred Phelps, Shirley Phelps-Roper, and Rebekah Phelps-Davis. He sued because of emotional distress and invasion of privacy. On October 31, 2007, the jury ruled in favor of Snyder and awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages and additional. Also, the same jury, made WBC pay $6 million in punitive damages for privacy invasion and $2 million for emotional distress.

Snyder sobbed at the verdict, while members of WBC had tight lipped smiles. As usual, they protested outside the courthouse. They planned on appealing the decision and reduced the verdict by half to $5 million, which is still substantial. WBC would be required by the courts to sell their church, homes, and law firm.

Westboro Baptist Church's Days Are Numbered?

The End?
Westboro Baptist Church’s Days Are Numbered?However, they failed to pay their lien on May 6, 2008, which could mean their church could be foreclosed and the sheriff would enforce it. Westboro Baptist Church would cease to exist by then. Also, their truck was not ruled tax exempt on July 25, 2008, which was another setback for them. The garage was struck by fire in the early morning of August 2, 2008. It was probably most likely a member set the fire as an insurance scam or planning mass suicide when their church gets seized for not paying their lien.

Since, they do not meet their court order, the sheriff will come and seize their property. It is possible that they will commit mass suicide than rather live on the streets. However, they said, “Thank God for the Arson.”, which could mean that Doomsday is coming soon for them and that they will be saved. As of today, they continue their protesting, which numbers over 30,000 since 1991, but they seem to only confine it to Kansas, Nebraska, and Maryland. Strangely, they were silent about Hurricane Ike when it ravaged Texas, but made claims they would say something about it in a video blog they release, but he only made a mention of it in his sermon, but seem somewhat restrained. On the other hand, he went ballistic about the Los Angeles train accident that claimed 25 lives. Since it happened in California and he has shown disdain for the state, he was going off on it.

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