Monthly Archive for July, 2007

More testimony against Hainstock

Student: ‘We don’t need a Columbine here’:

From special needs teacher James Nowak who had a metal stapler thrown at him by Hainstock.

During testimony Monday afternoon in a Baraboo courtroom, teacher James Nowak recounted his own rising sense of tension with Hainstock, beginning with an incident on Sept, 14. That day, he said, Hainstock threw a metal stapler at him, narrowly missing his head and chipping the wall. When he returned to the classroom with Klang and Buildings and Grounds Director Phillip Rachuj, they found Hainstock holding a chair.

“He had a chair above his head and he looked like he was going to swing it at us,” said Nowak.

Rachuj was able to take the chair from Hainstock, and he was suspended from school for three days.

Apparently someone fashions himself as Stone Cold Steve Austin. Well, Trench 3:16 says your ass is going to prison.

From Angela Young, guidance counselor at Weston Schools…

She said Hainstock was a boy who sought attention, enjoyed playing the victim and often placed blame for his actions on others. Young said he was often teased by other students, but he picked on them in return.

Young testified that she was in the hall when Hainstock walked into the school but said she could not see him because of the decorations. She testified she heard Hainstock say “I’m going to (expletive) kill somebody.”

You can’t play the bullying crad when you’re a bully yourself. Then again this whole incident was never azbout bullying. It’s about a selfish and self-absorbed punk kid who wanted to exact his revenge on a man who cared enough to actually discipline Hainstock.

MISSING: Kim Whitton and Haleigh Culwell

Myspace page set up for missing mother and daughter:

Kim Whitton and 11-year-old Haleigh Culwell of Jackson County were last seen June 21st.

Kim and Haleigh’s friends are rallying the community, a banning together of sorts.

Their goal is to raise awareness in hopes of bringing an end to this ordeal.

Kim’s co-workers at Cloverdale Manor in Scottsboro started the campaign.

They’re the ones that reported them missing and now they want to help bring them home.

They’ve also turned to the internet.

“A few of us got together and created a Myspace page,” says Wright.

Adorned in purple ribbons, the website has messages from friends and family.

It’s just another way to make sure the missing mother and daughter don’t fade from our hearts and minds.

“We just want to keep their pictures out there in the news and see if anyone recognizes them or has any knowledge to their whereabouts or what has happened. We’re going into the 6th week now and still no word from either of them,” says Wright.

The Myspace can be viewed here. Please take a look in the chance that you might know something.

MISSING: Kim Whitton and Haleigh Culwell

Myspace page set up for missing mother and daughter:

Kim Whitton and 11-year-old Haleigh Culwell of Jackson County were last seen June 21st.

Kim and Haleigh’s friends are rallying the community, a banning together of sorts.

Their goal is to raise awareness in hopes of bringing an end to this ordeal.

Kim’s co-workers at Cloverdale Manor in Scottsboro started the campaign.

They’re the ones that reported them missing and now they want to help bring them home.

They’ve also turned to the internet.

“A few of us got together and created a Myspace page,” says Wright.

Adorned in purple ribbons, the website has messages from friends and family.

It’s just another way to make sure the missing mother and daughter don’t fade from our hearts and minds.

“We just want to keep their pictures out there in the news and see if anyone recognizes them or has any knowledge to their whereabouts or what has happened. We’re going into the 6th week now and still no word from either of them,” says Wright.

The Myspace can be viewed here. Please take a look in the chance that you might know something.

Beware craigslist bearing iPods

Meridian Man Arrested in Park with a Knife:
This story comes to us from the bustling metropolis of Boise, Idaho and it’s a rather bizarre tale. It seems there was an ad on craigslist for a free iPod Nano. Too good to be true you say? You have no idea.

“I responded to it with the anticipation that several other people would because it seemed a little odd,” said a woman, we’re calling Sarah to hide her identity.

Sarah heard back almost immediately.

“I did get response back from him with a little story about how he had a wife cheating on him and he needed to take her ipod from her and give it away because of the situation he had had with her,” said Sarah.

The man told Sarah he was going to hide the Ipod from his wife in a public place and arrange for someone to take it.

All she had to do was show up to at the Youth Sports Complex Park on McMillan Road around 10:30 p.m.

Those who responded to the ad were told to come to this porta potty and that the Ipod would be right in front of the toilet paper holder

“It sounded very odd so what my husband and I did was get the emergency dispatch number for the police… drove past the park saw a car sitting there,” said Sarah.

Sarah says the car was right next to the porta potty.

She and her husband drove across the street to a near by shopping area and called Boise police.

They responded quickly and took the man into custody.

“The police told us that he had had a black nylon mask on his face, a lap top in his car that he had been email people on, a black pair of gloves a butcher knife and a beebe gun,” said Sarah.

32 year old, Stephen Donald Newman, of Meridian was arrested and charged with 2 misdemeanors – being in a park after hours and carrying a concealed weapon.

Since no felony had been committed, he was able to quickly bond out of jail.

Now that Newman is free, Sarah is afraid of retaliation which is why she has chosen to hide her identity.

And what did craigslist have to say? The usual…

We attempted to reach Craigslist for comment but have not yet heard back from them.

Craiglist says that their ads are policed by its users. But in this case every cop is a criminal.

Beware craigslist bearing iPods

Meridian Man Arrested in Park with a Knife:
This story comes to us from the bustling metropolis of Boise, Idaho and it’s a rather bizarre tale. It seems there was an ad on craigslist for a free iPod Nano. Too good to be true you say? You have no idea.

“I responded to it with the anticipation that several other people would because it seemed a little odd,” said a woman, we’re calling Sarah to hide her identity.

Sarah heard back almost immediately.

“I did get response back from him with a little story about how he had a wife cheating on him and he needed to take her ipod from her and give it away because of the situation he had had with her,” said Sarah.

The man told Sarah he was going to hide the Ipod from his wife in a public place and arrange for someone to take it.

All she had to do was show up to at the Youth Sports Complex Park on McMillan Road around 10:30 p.m.

Those who responded to the ad were told to come to this porta potty and that the Ipod would be right in front of the toilet paper holder

“It sounded very odd so what my husband and I did was get the emergency dispatch number for the police… drove past the park saw a car sitting there,” said Sarah.

Sarah says the car was right next to the porta potty.

She and her husband drove across the street to a near by shopping area and called Boise police.

They responded quickly and took the man into custody.

“The police told us that he had had a black nylon mask on his face, a lap top in his car that he had been email people on, a black pair of gloves a butcher knife and a beebe gun,” said Sarah.

32 year old, Stephen Donald Newman, of Meridian was arrested and charged with 2 misdemeanors – being in a park after hours and carrying a concealed weapon.

Since no felony had been committed, he was able to quickly bond out of jail.

Now that Newman is free, Sarah is afraid of retaliation which is why she has chosen to hide her identity.

And what did craigslist have to say? The usual…

We attempted to reach Craigslist for comment but have not yet heard back from them.

Craiglist says that their ads are policed by its users. But in this case every cop is a criminal.

Steve Huff on Brigitte Harris

Steve Huff of CrimeBlog.us has all the information on Brigitte Harris that was missed at MCS.

Steve Huff on Brigitte Harris

Steve Huff of CrimeBlog.us has all the information on Brigitte Harris that was missed at MCS.

Students testify against Hainstock

Students Say Hainstock Also Picked On Others:

Today students from Weston High School testified about the bullying allegations in the trial of Eric Hainstock.

17-year-old Samuel Brandt testified that he saw Hainstock get in pushing and shoving matches with other kids in the halls, that he often tormented younger students and tried to pick on older kids, who in turn picked on him.

18-year-old Kimberly Durst says others may have dished it out to Hainstock, but “he dished out right back.”

So basically he was a belligerent punk.

Another student testified on Saturday that Hainstock was asking about Columbine the day before the shooting.

Caitlyn Goldben, a freshman at Weston Schools last year, testified Saturday that Hainstock joined a conversation she had with a friend about a report on Columbine on Sept. 28. Hainstock is accused of murdering Principal John Klang the next morning.

Goldben said Hainstock asked what Columbine was. After he was told that students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 others at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999, he replied, “Oh.”

Goldben said she was friends with Hainstock. Twice he asked her to homecoming, but she turned him down both times.

It was she who told Klang that Hainstock had the tobacco, she testified. During gym class on the day before the shooting, Hainstock approached her and pointed his finger at her like a gun, accusing her of snitching on him, she testified.

She said she feared him so she denied telling Klang. He then began complaining about Nowak again.

“He said he would throw a stapler at him again or shove marijuana down his throat,” she said.

Then he got into the Columbine discussion, she said.

“Eric said, Oh.’ Then he got quiet for a little bit and started talking about Mr. Nowak again,” Goldben said.

Goldben said she told teachers about the conversation, but the district attorney didn’t press her for details.

One of Hainstock’s attorneys, Jon Helland, tried to defuse the testimony by asking Goldben if Hainstock had said Klebold and Harris were “stupid.” Goldben said Hainstock said no such thing.

So he became an insta-mutant. Just add firearms.

NC MySpace bill fails

Energy bill advances; MySpace rules fail:
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper’s proposed legislation to make teens get parental permission before signing up for MySpace has failed in the State House.

But the second bill lost its headlining clause, a requirement that parents give permission for their younger teenagers to sign up for online social-networking sites. Rep. Jennifer Weiss, D-Wake, said that legal and technical experts raised too many unanswered questions about whether the proposal was feasible and constitutional.

It is expected that the Senate will reject the changes and the bill will end up in a conference committee.

So there still are some sensible politicians left in the world.

NC MySpace bill fails

Energy bill advances; MySpace rules fail:
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper’s proposed legislation to make teens get parental permission before signing up for MySpace has failed in the State House.

But the second bill lost its headlining clause, a requirement that parents give permission for their younger teenagers to sign up for online social-networking sites. Rep. Jennifer Weiss, D-Wake, said that legal and technical experts raised too many unanswered questions about whether the proposal was feasible and constitutional.

It is expected that the Senate will reject the changes and the bill will end up in a conference committee.

So there still are some sensible politicians left in the world.