Confused-Cindy Sheehan
I am confused by the announcement of Cindy Sheehan to run against Senator Diane Feinstein.
Read the rest of this entry ... (258 words left)
Moving Out Moving On" is a very practical resource to safety and sanity for all of our lives. The information you receive will take you from the State of Being Controlled to the State of Being in Control.
2006/1/31
2006/1/30
When a Police Officer crosses the thick blue line
In police families violence has become the norm. When an Officer is hired for any job that involves a gun, police departments must include the spouses and other family members to ensure safety and wellness. These family members need to understand and should be taught techniques on how to difuse potentially violent situations that take place in the home. A great deal a power goes with given someone a badge and a gun. The same training methods should also be developed for the family members.
Arthur (Art) Henderson was fired from the Lehi Police Department in 2004 after being charged with assault and was due back in court on Monday for a new trial. He's a former boxer, practicer of martial arts, had been a use-of-force instructor for the Lehi Police Department and is a former SWAT officer. This week, he chased down his ex-wife's boyfriend in a car chase, rammed his truck into the boyfriends car, shot him twice, shot at his ex-wife and officers - and even a car passing with a family in it took a bullet. Officers shot Henderson. The boyfriend had to be airlifted to Salt Lake for hospital care. Both will be okay.
In February 2005 his ex-wife wrote down incidents from 14 years of domestic violence while applying for a protection order - like being grabbed, having her head put THROUGH a wall, getting hit in the head with a box of bullets, repeately threatening to kill her - with their their kids trying to jump in - kicking her so hard her leg was bruised to the bone, bumps on her head, bruises on her body, holding a gun to her head... "I went to my knees on the closet floor and begged him not to shoot me."
...Police say Henderson was fired from the Lehi Department 18 months ago, after he was criminally charged for simple assault. He was suppose to be in court on Monday in that assault case. Now he'll be there facing attempted murder charges...
A South Carolina man who faked his own death 27 years ago to get out of paying child support has been arrested and now faces more than $30,000 in back child-support payments to his two children.
In February 2005 his ex-wife wrote down incidents from 14 years of domestic violence while applying for a protection order - like being grabbed, having her head put THROUGH a wall, getting hit in the head with a box of bullets, repeately threatening to kill her - with their their kids trying to jump in - kicking her so hard her leg was bruised to the bone, bumps on her head, bruises on her body, holding a gun to her head... "I went to my knees on the closet floor and begged him not to shoot me."
...Police say Henderson was fired from the Lehi Department 18 months ago, after he was criminally charged for simple assault. He was suppose to be in court on Monday in that assault case. Now he'll be there facing attempted murder charges...
 |
|
Stephen Holt/The Salt Lake Tribune |
|
Lehi Police Lieutenant Harold Terry (right) comforts Art Henderson's estranged wife Natalie Henderson after a shooting involving Art Henderson, a former Lehi police officer in a residential area of Lehi. |
A holster and two guns lie on 1500 North in Lehi after a chase and shooting. Police say a woman's ex-husband chased her and her boyfriend and shot the boyfriend.
Susan Murphy-Milano daughter of a Chicago Violent Crimes Detective who swore "if you leave me, I will find you, If I find you I will kill you". Those very words came true when this highly decorated cop killed Susan's mother before ending his own life.
Read the rest of this entry ... (1 words left)
2006/1/28
A Strangers Persistance Saves 3 year Old Girl
Instinct told her something was wrong
Thursday, January 26, 2006
By ANDY NETZEL
Thursday, January 26, 2006
By ANDY NETZEL
DECATUR, Ga. -- So many coincidences took Tracie Lee Dean to an Evergreen, Ala., gas station. So many little mistakes prompted her to keep moving forward -- to investigate a case that law enforcement disregarded.
She said she felt like she was acting crazy, but her heart told her to keep going.
Ten days later, two Conecuh County residents are in jail. Jack Wiley, 58, is charged with two counts of raping the 3-year-old girl Dean saw in the Shell station. He's also charged with one count of sodomizing a 17-year-old boy. Glenna Faye Cavender, 40, is charged with abusing the young girl.
Dean has trouble explaining what it was that made her decide that when the Evergreen police didn't want to investigate, she would take the case on herself.
She spent late nights searching missing-children Web sites and later scolding the Web site operators when she found out they hadn't given her tip to police.
She repeatedly called officers asking them to look deeper. She drove more than 300 miles back to Alabama to look at video surveillance in between the end of her work day and the next morning.
What was it that made her keep digging deeper?
"I don't know," Dean said Wednesday night. "Hindsight, I don't know. It's just one of those things that grabs ahold of you. I followed my instincts. I followed my heart."
Jan. 15, a Sunday, Dean was driving home to Georgia from Diamond Head, Miss., where her mother Bobbie Yaniga was dealing with the remnants of her home, leveled by Hurricane Katrina. Dean wanted to look at the wreckage of the house one more time to make sure everything of value was out before a construction crew cleared the lot.
Only one thing remained, an unbroken Christmas ornament. It was an angel.
Dean was running low on fuel in Evergreen, Ala., and she pulled off to fill up at a Shell station. When she walked into the store, she saw a little girl wandering the aisles alone. A little red cowboy hat was on her head. The girl looked at least 5 or 6 years old -- not the 3 years old that she was.
A hard life was on her face.
Dean said hello, and the girl pranced off. She came back, though and lingered near Dean. She asked the little girl where her mother was. Did she work at the gas station? A gruff looking man walked over and asked the young girl if she was looking for a new mommy. But it wasn't a cute comment, Dean said. He sounded mean.
When Dean left the store, the little girl pushed on the door to open it. "She wanted to leave with me," Dean said.
Dean knew something was wrong. Bad wrong. She felt it.
As she left the parking lot, she circled around and entered the license plate number into her cellular phone. She called 911. The dispatcher called back to make sure she gave a proper description of the car, because it didn't match. It was a late-model Chevrolet Suburban, Dean insisted, not a 2001 Honda.
The dispatcher called back a few minutes later and said the police looked into it, and everything was fine.
It turns out the tag number Dean relayed was a digit off. She wouldn't know that for a week. However, the dispatcher's dismissive tone made Dean wonder if her report was being taken seriously.
When she got back to her Decatur, Ga., home, she checked her cell phone. Only 14 minutes went by between her report and the news that everything was fine.
The next day, Dean started scouring Web sites, looking for missing children. She found a young girl that looked just like the little girl with the distant eyes in the store. Dean hit "print." This was her girl. The name: Emily Elizabeth. The man had referred to the little girl in the store as Elizabeth. It had to be her.
Another mistake. The girl wasn't Emily Elizabeth. But Dean didn't know that. The coincidence kept her going.
Emily Elizabeth was missing from Madison, Ohio. After calling the toll-free number to report her sighting, Dean called the northeast Ohio police station, asking to speak to the officer.
She got hold of the officer on that Tuesday, but he didn't even ask for her name.
Come Wednesday, Jan. 18, Dean called again. She left two messages. In the first, she insisted she wasn't crazy, and she really did see this girl. In the second, she asked for a call back that she never received.
She was discouraged. But her father and her uncle, both retired police officers, told her to keep going.
She said she tried to put it out of her mind. She tried to stop thinking about the little girl.
The thoughts wouldn't leave, though. She kept coming back to it.
"I would be so mad if I was a mother who had a missing child," she said. "I had information, and no one wanted to do anything with it."
On Thursday, she called Alabama to try to track down the officer who investigated her initial call.
She called the Shell station to ask if she could look at surveillance tape from that Monday. The manager agreed, and that was all Dean needed to head back to Alabama after work.
Three hundred miles later, she found out she had called the wrong Shell station. She kept on driving down Interstate 65. She got off at every exit looking for the gas station.
When she found it, the clerk called the manager, who agreed to come in and show Dean the tape. As they congregated, a member of the Conecuh County Sheriff's Department came in.
Deputy Bryann Davis walked straight behind the store counter. He wanted to hear this story.
Finally, Dean said. Someone cared.
Davis was on fire, Dean said. He cared as much as she did about this little girl. It was 11:30 p.m. on a Thursday night. Dean had to be at work the next morning, 300 miles away, but she had finally gotten someone to care.
Davis followed up on the case, and by Friday afternoon, he made an arrest. By Wednesday, the two people were charged.
"It was just in my heart," Dean said. "It was a God thing. I just knew. I felt it with my heart."
Dean said the young girl is still on her mind. "There is no happy ending to this story," she said. "A 3-year-old girl getting raped does not have a happy ending. It may be a better ending, but not a happy ending."
Dean is the general manager of the Jim Ellis Audi dealer in Atlanta. She spends her life selling. She was having trouble selling this one, but she finally did it. She sold someone on her gut feeling about this little girl.
"In sales, you have to meet eight 'No's' to meet a 'Yes,'" Dean said.
She got her "Yes." And now, she hopes, the little girl will have a chance at life.
2006/1/27
Diary of A Very Mad Oprah Show-James Frey gets goose cooked
Oprah is steaming mad in todays show
Oprah tells her television viewing audience she’s sorry; and also apologizes for calling Larry King to defend Frey. And then the kicker: Oprah says to Frey, “You betrayed millions of readers.” Remember how we said Oprah had totally saved Frey’s ass? She came on in the last minutes of the show to speak to Larry King Live while James Frey sat under those hot studio lights with his mama beside him sweating.
Read the rest of this entry ... (656 words left)
2006/1/26
Murder of Innocent lives as Blue Defends Blue
...Louisa County Sheriff Curt Braby said shortly after the killings that Massey had been in good spirits and did not exhibit signs of depression or agitation at any time prior to the murders. Massey worked as a jailer and dispatcher for the sheriff's office. "He was in the best humor I had seen him in quite awhile," Braby said...
Read the rest of this entry ... (597 words left)
2006/1/25
Man finally arrested 27 years later
A South Carolina man who faked his own death 27 years ago to get out of paying child support has been arrested and now faces more than $30,000 in back child-support payments to his two children.
Johnny Sterling Martin, 58, walked off a work detail in 1979 while serving a one-year jail term for failing to pay child support. He later had a relative call Columbia, S.C. family court to report that Martin had been killed during a bar fight in Alabama.
Police said Martin has been living under his real name in Myrtle Beach, S.C. about 150 miles from Columbia. He has been married a total of four times, twice since his "death" in 1979.
"Johnny Martin is the ultimate deadbeat dad, faking his own death to avoid paying money to support his young children," Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said.
Police found Martin after they received a tip from one of his ex-wives.
Read the rest of this entry ... (12 words left)
2006/1/22
Officer John Sherman Arrested, Posts Bond, Retires Gee Lets Throw A Party
Officer Had 7 Protection Order Requests Against Him
John Sherman Sought Retirement On Same Day Of Arrest
KETV7
January 20, 2006
John Sherman Sought Retirement On Same Day Of Arrest
KETV7
January 20, 2006
Read the rest of this entry ... (359 words left)
2006/1/21
Pregnant Young Mother's Body-Shot and dismembered
Wisonsin - Clark County officials have revealed gruesome details in the case of a pregnant Thorp woman reported missing by her husband and later found dead.
Read the rest of this entry ... (352 words left)
2006/1/20
In Memory of Michael-Important Tips On Alcohol Poisioning
Just returned home from comforting and assisting my girlfriend who is preparing for the wake and funeral of her 22 year old son and my Godson. We learned from the coroner that Michael died from alcohol poisioning. His body was discovered by a college roomate late Sunday evening. The funeral is scheduled for Tuesday. The town where the parents live is a fairly small tight knit community of about 35,000. And Michael's parents are wealthy and do a lot to enhance health education for grade school children who are without medical and dental benefits. Today I learned that they decided not to tell anyone, but,close family and friends how their son died. In their moment of pain I have honored their wishes, but I am troubled by their decision. I feel others would benefit from understanding and knowing the affects of alcohol poisioning and binge drinking so I have decided in Michael's memory to post it on the blog. Know that Michael had his whole life ahead of him. He was on the Dean's list, the football team and he was being groomed upon graduation from college to take follow in his family's foot steps and take over the business that began four generations ago. Here's some important information.
Read the rest of this entry ... (528 words left)
2006/1/19
Five Little Angels Without Voices
Is Andrea Yates going to get a new trial or will she plead out to some sort of deal? This makes no sense, regardless of what an expert testified too, the fact remains she murdered her five children.
Read the rest of this entry ... (536 words left)
2006/1/18
Teen Suicide Prevention, Myths, Facts & Reality
Suicide Facts
There are several facts about suicide that are important to know:
Read the rest of this entry ... (614 words left)
2006/1/16
Could This Have been Your Child?
This past Friday, in a suburb of Florida, a 15-year old who had been bullied by fellow classmates, brought a gun with him to school. Although the gun was not real, the teenager wanted to fight back and show those who tormented him, that he wasn't going to be bullied any longer, by anyone. Did his parents know what was going on at school? Had the teenager become emotionally withdrawn from family activites? Did the parents feel that he was just going through a "normal" period in his life that all teens experience at that age? I'm not placing blame on the parents. If you have not read the blogs I posted the last couple of days, and if your a parent, I suggest you read them carefully. And yes, by all means print them off and put them somplace where you can review them.
Read the rest of this entry ... (163 words left)
2006/1/15
When your child is the Problem
There are many reasons why a child may become a bully. Some children may turn to bullying as a way of coping with a difficult situation: death of a loved one, their parents’ divorce. Some are just spoiled rotten and bully to get his/her own way. Some may be victims of abuse and act out their frustrations and anger on others. Some want power, control and prestige and are prepared to use aggression and violence to command compliance and allegiance. Some do it for material benefits. Others copy what another person they admire does (as an example they see a TV character portraying aggression).
Read the rest of this entry ... (833 words left)
2006/1/14
Is Your Child A Victim of Bullying
Out of shame and/or fear, a lot of times children do not tell adults that they are being bullied. Adults working with children should be vigilant about the possible signs that they are being bullied at school.
Read the rest of this entry ... (1044 words left)
2006/1/13
When strangers come calling on your kids
If you have childen in school or daycare, print a copy of this off and give it to other parents or school officials. Ask your child's school when was the last time they had a "stranger danger" education awareness class. Maybe this is a good reminder to refresh their memories and yours.
Read the rest of this entry ... (703 words left)
2006/1/10
Sheriff Takes life of 4 year old son, mother, then himself
On Friday A Sheriff killed the mother of his son, then killed his 4 year old son before turning the gun on himself. Wapello Iowa is a small town where tragedies like this are not suppose to happen. But they, do. Three lives lost were because of power and control issues. The woman was moving on with her life because of repeated acts of violence. The Sheriff didn't just get out of bed that day and decide to do this, he had been thinking about this for quite some time. As In most of these cases when the woman leaves, that is usally the most dangerous time. This case was a Domestic violence related stalking situation. In almost 75% of these cases, the victim is almost always seperated or seeking divorce at the time of the incident. As you read the story below, remember a 4 year old child was murdered, tragically at the hands of his own father.
Read the rest of this entry ... (492 words left)
2006/1/8
Attention Blogers-Asking For everyones Help on this
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Judge Gives "60 Days" Sentence to a Man who, during a four year period, Repeatedly Sexually Assaulted a 10 year OLD LITTLE GIRL!!
Read the rest of this entry ... (262 words left) 2006/1/7Indicators That Your Relationship May Be LethalIndicators That an Abuser May Be Lethal Read the rest of this entry ... (1178 words left) 2006/1/5Behind The Blue Wall
It's the deep, dark secret of Law Enforcement Agencies Across America. Some of the same officers who are supposed to be breaking up domestic disputes in the community are abusing their own wives and girlfriends, are cops themselves. And the police departments are continuing to look the other way. Recently I have received a lot of emails and letters from women married to Law Enforcement Officers Across the Country. If you look at just a few of the blogs I've posted the past few months, you'll see women and children who have lost their lives. Why? Because a husband or boyfriend was a respected law enforcement officer. There is no respect in violence, especially in a police officers home.
Why aren't departments seeking a zero-tolerance policy on domestic violence committed by police officers? Is it too embarassing, Why? Family members rarely come forward to report these crimes and if they do, they are often victimized even more by their abusive officer spouseor boyfriend. " He was going to kill me. How can you let him keep his gun and stay on the street?" (FROM AN OFFICERS WIFE TO A DEPARTMENT HEAD) " When a police department does not take action, we, the families of officers feel powerless and worried about our own lives and the safety of their kids. All this does is further victimize us, when will it end?" Another wife of an officer said "You know the words on the side of police cars "We Serve And Protect", let me tell you every time I see that I'm sick with grief. It doesn't apply to me. It should read, "hey, we serve and protect our own"! The women say that when they notified police, investigating officers were reluctant to pursue the cases. Evidence was mishandled. Some of the women were pressured by other officers or top brass to drop their complaints. "I was treated like a criminal, I was trying to get some help here, said another wife of an officer. There is someone who has a blog it is titled "Behind The Blue Wall" The web address is http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com The site reports on the lives of abusive officers and the women and children who died because their cries for help fell on deaf ears. The person who writes the blog does so at great risk to their own life, in hopes for real change to take place in violent homes of officers. For laws to be passed. For a Zero tolerence policy to be enacted in every department across the country. And to get the public's attention so they don't have to report repeated tragedies on a Blog of lives lost because no one listened. I can hear and see, can you? My name is Susan Murphy-Milano, I am the daughter of a Chicago Violent Crimes Detective whose father murdered her mother before taking his own life. I too, will not rest until real laws take effect and those who abuse and kill are held accountable by not just police departments, but, Society.
2006/1/4Plug Into Safety
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
