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Dallas man killed by craigslist ‘date’

Published on May 1, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Killers. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .
Christopher Howard Beachum

Christopher Howard Beachum

Dallas Craigslist hookup turns homicidal:

Police say Oak Cliff man was murdered by suspect he met on Craigslist:

Dallas police: 27-year-old wanted on capital murder charge in stabbing of 68-year-old man in March:

On March 18th 68-year-old Gerald Canepa was found naked and dead in his Dallas, Texas home. Reports say that he had been killed by strangulation and multiple stab wounds. More than a month later police have named a suspect and he is 27-year-old Christopher Howard Beachum. Beachum is still at large.

According to police Mr. Canepa’s and Beachum had set up a ‘casual encounter’ with each other on craigslist. However instead of a tryst it turned into a murder and a robbery. Several of Mr. Canepa’s items were found at a pawn shop where they were allegedly sold by Beachum.

I wish I didn’t have to say this again but I’ll keep saying it until the message gets through. I don’t care if you’re gay, straight, a furry, or into farm animals. I implore you not to use craigslist for hook ups. Time and Time again I have shown that you are just putting yourself out there as a potential victim for assaults, rapes, robberies and unfortunately in Mr. Canepa’s case death.

Craigslist is hardly a safe place for anything these days.

UPDATE 5/16/2013: Sorry for the late update but Beachum was captured in Lane County, Oregon back on May 2nd.

Jospeh Cyr’s girlfriend talks about his arrest in Jaymie Adams’ murder

Published on April 5, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Jaymie Adams Murder. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .
Joseph Cyr

Joseph Cyr

Girlfriend Of Man Charged With Killing Pregnant Blanchard Mom Speaks Out:

In my previous post about the murder of Jaymie Adams I mentioned that police arrested Joseph Cyr after reducing the charges for Justin Adams to manslaughter. Joseph Cyr’s girlfriend, Rebekah Schultz, has taken to the local media questioning the arrest. In the interest of transparency I have been in previous contact with Ms. Schultz prior to Mr. Cyr’s arrest. At no time did she divulge any sensitive information to me.

“You have to see the things in the affidavit that don’t add up, because they are holding a man right now for reasons that are very untrue,” Schultz said.

“To say they have DNA match or cell phone pings that are on the same tower, I’m not quick to believe it because they tried to say the same things about Justin Adams,” said Schultz.

Schultz says the affidavit for Cyr’s arrest is misleading. They did not skip town after Jaymie’s disappearance, but instead relocated to the Tulsa area because of her job. Schultz says they notified detectives about that move and made sure police had their contact information after.

“They portrayed somebody who just up and left and they didn’t know, which is very untrue. They absolutely knew.”

Schultz also denies the claim made in court documents that Cyr tried to sell the truck to get rid of evidence. She says she was pregnant and they needed a bigger vehicle.

“The truck had been taken in. They said they processed it and didn’t find anything and they gave it back. There was nothing that indicated we shouldn’t be able to sell it.”

Normally I would be one of the first people to say how coincidental this would be albeit sarcastically but I tend to believe Ms. Schultz. If you think my objectivity in this case is being swayed by Ms. Schultz you’d be wrong. I have yet to read anything that is a smoking gun that leads me to believe that Joseph Cyr committed this crime. Also I’d like to see the OKC police answer a simple question. If they say that have a sample of Joseph Cyr’s DNA from Jaymie Adams’ autopsy how come it isn’t mentioned in the autopsy report? Not to mention I have yet to hear a motive on why Cyr allegedly killed her while Justin Adams. Jaymie’s husband, had plenty of motive.

Could my opinion be swayed in the future? Absolutely, but it would have to take some pretty convincing evidence on the part of investigators. So far, as far as what’s been published in the media, they do not have that evidence in my opinion. As far as I’m concerned everything points to Justin Adams as being his wife’s killer.

Charges amended to manslaughter in death of Jaymie Adams

Published on April 2, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Jaymie Adams Murder. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .
Justin Adams

Justin Adams

Oklahoma County prosecutors reduce charges against Justin Adams in death of wife and unborn child:

Earlier today prosecutors in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma reduced the charges against Justin Adams to first-degree manslaughter in the death of his wife Jaymie. Jaymie Adams died after being stabbed and struck repeatedly. She was also pregnant at the time of her death.

Prosecutors, in the latest charges, allege Adams “aided and abetted Jaymie Adams in engaging in acts of prostitution,” engaging in criminal conduct “that resulted in the death of Jaymie Adams.”

The Adamses were allegedly swingers and Justin Adams contends that his wife was a prostitute that advertised online.

I have yet to see an article that details why the charges were amended. It could just be that investigators do not yet have conclusive evidence to pin the murder of his wife on Adams. In my opinion while the evidence so far may just be circumstantial all roads lead to Justin Adams. As I have detailed before there was a life insurance policy taken out on Jaymie by her husband, the alleged affair that Justin Adams was having and the matter in which Jaymie was killed seemed incredibly personal.

Adams’ attorney, the ever vocal Irven Box, said that he is going to try to have the charges dismissed tomorrow.

Some reports mention Joseph Cyr as a possible suspect who I posted about here. Supposedly Cyr’s DNA, specifically semen, was found on Jaymie Adams’ even though the initial autopsy report makes no mention of it. I still don’t see Cyr as a viable suspect. Even if Jaymie was a prostitute and Cyr was one of her clients what would be his motive for murdering her so brutally? The only thing I could think of is if Cyr was on PCP at the time. Mr. Cyr has not been charged with anything as of yet.

Maybe the OSBI should take over this investigation much like they did with the murder of Carina Saunders because in my opinion it seems like local investigators are in over their heads.

UPDATE 11:46 PM EDT: Joseph Cyr has been arrested in the murder of Jaymie Adams. Again the investigation states the DNA evidence and that Cyr’s cell phone records show that he was in the area at the time of Jaymie’s death. They originally said that about Justin Adams too but now they say those reports were inaccurate. I’m still not convinced that Cyr is the right suspect. This investigation has been so mishandled I can see everybody walking on this case.

Joseph Cyr

Joseph Cyr

Is Justin Adams’ attorney trying to frame an innocent man?

Published on February 6, 2013 by Trench Reynolds in Jaymie Adams Murder. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .
Justin Adams

Justin Adams

Charges against Blanchard man accused in wife’s death to be amended:

Amended charges expected in death of Jaymie Adams:

I actually got wind of this story a few weeks ago. I basically thought nothing of it because I figured I’ll post about once the charges have been amended. Then a couple of weeks went by and the charges still hadn’t been amended so I decided to go back and take another look at it and I’m glad I did.

For those of you who don’t know Justin Adams has been charged with the brutal stabbing and blunt force trauma killing of his pregnant wife Jaymie. In my opinion police have the right man due to the alleged motives of a life insurance policy that was taken out on Jaymie and that Adams was allegedly having an affair as well. I won’t even get into the craziness that is Adams’ mother Tina Clarke.

There has been something that I have been leaving out of my posts on Jaymie Adams murder. There is another man who has been mentioned in this case but I’ve intentionally left his name out since he has not been charged with any crime. His name is Joseph Cyr and he may have been the last person that saw Jaymie Adams alive. Mr. Cyr has been very cooperative with police by all accounts. Thanks to Justin Adams attorney, Irven Box, neither I nor Mr. Cyr have that luxury.

You see it seems that not only the report of Adams charges being amended was leaked to the press but so was an accusation that Mr. Cyr’s DNA was found on Jaymie Adams. Specifically it’s being said that Mr. Cyr’s sperm was found on Jaymie Adams. More on that in a little bit. That’s important because Justin Adams claims that his wife was a prostitute on craigslist and has admitted that they both allegedly engaged in a swinger lifestyle.

While the charges are most likely going to be amended sometime soon the Oklahoma City police still contend that Adams is their only suspect…

“The investigation of the death of Jaymie Adams is continuing. At our request, the Oklahoma City Police Department has pursued additional evidence. We continue to allege that Justin Adams has culpability in the death of his wife. Charges will be amended to reflect the level of his suspected culpability,”

This statement was issued after the leak and while it didn’t come from Box directly he hasn’t been exactly shy on commenting about it once it was leaked to the press. Who does he think leaked it? Why Justin Adams’ big mouth mommy Tina Clarke of course…

Box said he gave a copy of the confidential report to his client, who in turn may have given it to his mother. The report later was leaked to the public.

“Evidently, he gave it to her,” Box said. “It couldn’t have come from anyone else.”

Even if Box didn’t specifically instruct his client to have this information leaked I’m sure he was well aware that it would be leaked by the woman who couldn’t keep her mouth shut if she was covered in bees.

Now as far as Joseph Cyr’s DNA being found on Jaymie I have to ask why was that not in the original autopsy report which can be found here. (PDF File) I encourage you to read the entire report but what sticks out is the last sentence on the report.

Acute inflammation and some red blood cells are noted in the vaginal swab. No definite sperm is seen in the oral, vaginal or rectal swabs.

So where was this new magic DNA collected from and why wasn’t it collected before. Is it a definite match or a possible match meaning it could match several hundred thousand or million other men? Not only that but what would Mr. Cyr’s motive be? For the sake of argument let’s say that Jaymie Adams was a prostitute and Mr. Cyr was a client of hers. What could possibly be his motive for stabbing her 21 times and bashing her head in? This sounds way to personal for Jaymie Adams’ murder to have been committed by anybody but Justin Adams. He had the most to gain from Jaymie’s death but Adams’ attorney is now allegedly using the court of the press to try to sway opinion away from his client. Common sense and logic dictates that Justin Adams is more than likely guilty. Hopefully the people of Oklahoma City have not fallen for Box’s legal sleights of hand.

Judge orders ankle monitor removed from Justin Adams

Published on October 21, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Jaymie Adams Murder. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Justin Adams

Oklahoma judge agrees to remove ankle monitor of man charged in pregnant wife’s death:

This comes straight from the ‘You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me’ department. It’s not bad enough that Justin Adams has been released on bail but this past week a judge in Oklahoma has ordered that his ankle monitor be removed.

If you’re wondering why I think that’s a big deal it’s because Adams is accused in the brutal stabbing and blunt force trauma murder of his wife, Jaymie Adams. There’s more to the story than just that though.

Justin Adams and his crazy mom, Tina Clarke, claim that Jaymie Adams worked on craigslist as a prostitute and was killed by a john in Oklahoma City. However a cubic ass-ton of strange behavior on Justin Adams’ part lead me to believe that he’s the killer. Like that he allegedly took out a life insurance policy on his wife shortly before her murder or that he supposedly started having an affair with another woman prior to his wife’s disappearance. And let’s not forget the accusations of possible witness tampering by Justin Adams’ mom. Not to mention that cell phone records possibly place Adams’ near the scene of the crime. That’s why it’s a big deal to me.

Adams’ attorney says it’s because the murder was committed by someone else. That would be awfully convenient for his client.

Former death row inmate charged with murder

Published on September 16, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Crime News. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Joseph “Shabaka” Brown

Man accused of killing wife caught in Charleston:

First I want to thank local Charlotte NBC affiliate WCNC for sharing this story with me on my Google+ page. WCNC’s can be found here.

62-year-old Joseph “Shabaka” Brown was 15 hours from being executed in Florida during 1983. Brown had been convicted of raping and murdering the wife of a prominent Florida attorney. His conviction was overturned when a witness retracted his statement and forensic evidence was hidden by prosecutors.

After all that a lot of Brown’s friends are shocked to learn that he’s been arrested in the murder of his 71-year-old wife Mamie Caldwell Brown. Mrs. Brown was murdered Thursday night and Brown was captured in Charleston, South Carolina on Friday. The victim was said to have been beaten with a blunt object and stabbed during a fight.

This brings up a point that I’ve been wanting to talk about for a while but haven’t had the inclination until now. Whenever someone like Brown is released from death row the popular impression is that they were an outstanding citizen who were railroaded. I would say that in the overwhelming majority of these cases the convicted are usually just as criminal and violent as the crimes they’ve been accused of. Also in most of these cases where convictions are overturned it usually turns out that the evidence wasn’t strong enough to convict someone, not that they’re completely innocent.

So while Brown may or may have not killed the woman in Florida no one should be surprised that he allegedly killed his wife.

Camden dusthead slits the throats of two children

Published on September 6, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in A City Invincible. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , .

Oswaldo Rivera

Suspect arrested in Camden double stabbing; 1 child dead, 1 critically injured:

Osvaldo Rivera on $5M bail; possible rape, murder charges in Camden attack on boy, 6, and girl, 12:

As I’ve mentioned before I spent most of 2011 in South Jersey on family business. While I was there I was a short drive away from the crime infested suckhole that is Camden, New Jersey. During that time I wrote a lot about Camden and its ineffective government and its not so slow descent into hell.

Since I came back to North Carolina I haven’t really paid too much attention to Camden unless it somehow made national news. It did not too long ago with a Camden woman who killed her son and killed herself. I let that one slide because I thought it was just a fluke that it made the headlines and the fact that it was covered so well over at my other site Bad Breeders. Then this week a similar story also made national headlined which made me rethink my Camden writing policies. So from now on I will be keeping a sharper eye on the Disaster on the Delaware.

As a matter of fact I’m giving Camden its own category here. I know, I have like 1000 of them as it is but Camden truly deserves one. I’m calling it “A City Invincible” for two reasons. The first one is that’s the city’s motto (In a Dream, I Saw a City Invincible). Secondly it really is invincible kind of in the way that a cockroach is in a nuclear war. After decades of violent crime, corruption and an inept government, it still survives.

Today’s story is just more evidence that Camden needs to be put out of its misery.

31-year-old Osvaldo Rivera has been charged in the brutal murder of 6-year-old Dominick Andujar and the attack and possible rape on Dominick’s 12-year-old sister. It seems that Rivera was high on weed laced with PCP and decided to burst into a random house. The house he chose not only had Dominick and his sister in it bust also a 9-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl who was watching them. Dminick and his sister’s mother was in the hospital recovering from surgery and their father lives out of state.

Rivera allegedly slit Dominick’s throat then attacked his sister slitting her throat, stabbing her and possibly raping her. In what order that was done I don’t know. The girl survived her attack and managed escape to a neighbor’s home. Dominick was not so lucky. The girl was able to identify Rivera as the attacker by using the name “Poppy”. Rivera’s street name is “Popeye”. I guess we know what he considers his Spinach.

Police caught up with Rivera at a place he sometimes stays between a mattress and a wall. You know, the first place a cop would think to look. Police were also able to match the bloody sneakers Rivera had to bloody footprints at the scene.

Now because of this and the aforementioned murder-suicide Camden seems to think it has a PCP problem on its hands since the mother was supposedly high on PCP as well. They do, I won’t dispute that. The problem is what are they going to do about it? They have a skeleton crew of a police force due to layoffs and the new proposed Camden County Metro Department isn’t going to be much better.

No wonder the city is invincible, the city is in the control of criminals, the criminals are on PCP and the cops can’t do anything about it.

James Zarate’s conviction upheld

Published on September 4, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Jonathan Zarate. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

James Zarate

Court upholds murder conviction of man who helped kill teen in 2005:

James Zarate was 14 when he helped his older brother, Jonathan Zarate, brutally beat, stab, kill and dismember 16-year-old Jennifer Parks of Randolph, New Jersey. The Zarate brothers then stuffed Jennifer’s mutilated body into a trunk and waited 24 hours before trying to dump her body in the Passaic River.

Jonathan Zarate was sentenced to life plus 24 years. James Zarate was sentenced to life plus 14. Recently James Zarate had his conviction upheld but his sentence was reduced by nine years.

James Zarate will have nine years of his sentence reduced because time on a weapons conviction will now run concurrently with the murder conviction, the appellate court decided last week.

Don’t worry about the younger Zarate getting out any time soon. a life sentence in New Jersey is 76 years. Tack on the additional 5 (14 minus 9) and he would have to be close to 100 before he was even considered for release.

Since Jennifer’s murder her parents divorced and her father passed away last year. I can’t imagine the kind of strain that a murder like this can put on a family let alone a marriage and not to mention Laurie and David Parks as individuals. I defy anyone to try to tell me that James Zarate was a victim in all of this just because his age. The only victims here are the Parks family.

Justin Adams released on bail, Mommy’s PI says she has proof of his innocence

Published on July 29, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Jaymie Adams Murder. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Justin Adams

Blanchard man accused of killing his wife is released from the Oklahoma County jail:

Private Investigator Claims Discovery Proves Justin Adams Innocent:

This past Wednesday 25-year-old Justin Adams of Blanchard, Oklahoma was released from jail after his bond was set at $100K. Adams is accused in the December, 2011 stabbing and beating death of his wife Jaymie Adams and their unborn child. I wonder if his mommy put up the bond money since she’s been so supportive of her son in the past including allegedly trying to pay off witnesses.

On top of that news now the PI that mommy hired, who is now magically working for the defense, says that she has proof of Justin Adams’ innocence…

“Justin and Jaymie had an alternative lifestyle that obviously they were trying to cover up when he was arrested, because he lied to law enforcement. That’s the bottom line. He lied and it ultimately got him in trouble,” said private investigator Dana Reyna.

She says many people thought this would be an open-and-shut case, but her investigation proved that would not be so. Instead, she said there were several other theories about who may have killed Jaymie based on the lifestyle she and Justin had.

What she’s referring to is that Jaymie and Justin Adams were said to be swingers who looked for other couples on craigslist. Normally I would say that could mean that there are other suspects but let’s not forget that not only did Adams take out a life insurance policy on his wife but he was also having an affair. It’s hard to ignore that kind of math.

I guess now we should be taking bets to see if he cuts off his ankle monitor or not. I say he’s a runner.

Your latest craigslist killers are from Missouri

Published on June 16, 2012 by Trench Reynolds in Craigslist and Killers. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Peyton McAnelly and Avery Cornuelle

Man stabbed in attempted robbery in O’Fallon, Mo. dies:

20-year-old Peyton McAnelly and 18-year-old Avery Cornuelle, both of O’Fallon, Missouri, were arrested for allegedly stabbing 54-year-old Joseph Givens in a craigslist robbery attempt. Givens made contact with the pair through a craigslist ad that the article calls seeking an “alternative lifestyles” encounter. I call it that Givens was cruising craigslist.

To go off on a tangent for a minute I’ve posted many times before how dangerous it is for anyone, be it gay or straight, to use craigslist to cruise for one night stands. More times than not it turns out to be a situation like this.

Anyway, McAnelly and Cornuelle were said to have full intentions of robbing Mr. Givens. The pair had planned on taking his wallet and in the process they stabbed Givens in the head, neck and upper torso. That happened on June 8th. On Friday June 15th Mr. Givens died from his injuries.

Again since I’ve already touched on the cruising aspect of the story I’ll say this. Since this didn’t happen in the Northeast and didn’t involve an attractive female victim I doubt that this will make national news and once again craigslist gets a pass.