For some time I had to write the article in a new genre. Stories of pathos and boxing items, which are major issues of individual freedom, but at some point you need to see if I can really versatile ... to see if I realize that the idea was planted in my brain is so long. Now is the time, and I decided to do a piece that involved both a spree killer or a mass murderess. Sooner or later I would work my way to a serialKiller, but first things first.
Residents in northern New Hampshire is next to Central Maine as another place where rural poverty, unemployment and despair to generate enough rage and anger spur of murder-case-of-the moment? Maybe West Virginia or Mississippi, but for my purposes of convenience, the North East well. produced So, I started to draw the land and filling gaps. As a factual context, there were two stories that I was particularly persecuted, and, I believe, wouldprovide a sound conceptual platform for my new experiences fiction.
One involved Andrew Cunanan, a real-life "American Psycho", which killed five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace on a trip cross-country killing spree during a terrible period of three months in 1997. Among other "colorful" things, he was a crack head, bright child, male prostitutes, having cleverly disguised, old boy, S & M-porn star, and chameleon.
The first Cunanan's killing spreewas the 27th of his friend Jeffrey Trail in April 1997 in Minneapolis. Trail was furious with a hammer 25-30 times, beaten mostly on the head and face. The next was her former lover, architect David Madson, who was outside Minneapolis found two days later with gunshot wounds to the head. A bullet had pierced his back and another had grazed his cheek. But who chased him with his eyes close and killed him had crossed my mind. Police quicklyapproved a bond such as Trail's body had loft Madson was found. Then began an intense manhunt. Cunanan, meanwhile, went to Chicago, where he killed a prominent real estate developer Lee Miglino, 72, May 4 It is believed that he took great pleasure in torturing Miglino. He will replace his head wrapped in duct tape so that the small holes for breathing and then a pair of scissors embedded in her chest and cut his throat with a hacksaw gardener. A separate report documented 49Miglino injuries, including 19 blows to the head and face. He showed the unbridled anger expert Cunanan, not to mention its model of disfiguring the face of his victim.
Five days later, Cunanan continued to flee car Miglino, his assassination in remote Pennsville, NJ, in a cemetery, where he killed his fourth victim, caretaker William Reese for his pick-up. A case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Because the investigation focused on Reese's truck, Cunananremained hidden in Miami Beach, finally, July 15, chose Versace Fashion Designer for his fifth and final murder. Versace was murdered in cold blood outside his home in Miami Beach.
Eight days later, Andrew Cunanan committed suicide with a shotgun in the head explosion aboard a Miami houseboat. An autopsy revealed that Cunanan had not been infected with HIV, refuted speculation about what his Spree raised. No one will ever know the reasons, and after the murder of Versace, the casewas closed for all practical purposes.
The facts of the second story occurred much closer to home and consisted of a Drege Carl, a man of northern NH, NH 2 State Troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor and wounded three police officers before being killed killed in a fierce gun battle with police in the town of Colebrook (not far from the Canadian border). Drege uses an optical far-sighted AR-15 can cause terrible damage to his. A search of hisProperty after the massacre of hundreds of pounds of revealed alarming booby traps.
What made the massacre Drege involved the fascinating events leading up to the flashpoint. Drege had long struggled with local government officials, from a dispute in the 70's, that he used tar paper for its home page. Then in 1981 he claimed fell 80 meters along the shore of his property during a storm. Drege decided to dump and pack enough dirt to repairDanni, who said he wanted to restore his game to the Connecticut River to its original size. But state officials accused him of trying to change the river course. An officer of the conservation status, Sergeant Eric Stohl, claimed that the project have discovered the river that passes through the property Drege fish-stocking operation. The state went to court and tried to block Drege his little "project". This action on the charges accumulated by the previous local council by some earlier20 years since the city changed from Columbia Drege to court and threatened with expropriation liens, judgments, and finally a "violation of zoning," by his failure, a house with tar paper referred to above fall within a given area has been contained, period.
Drege had just read and free legal assistance, and his car a filing action was a joke, both in courts and in the newspapers, that people had sent copiesPlease help. A barrel of dynamite have been created and it was only the "Final Straw", before being blown up
In 1995, the town Selectman Vickie Bunnell, a tax assessor city accompanied Drege property in a dispute over an assessment. In what was supposed to be a clear warning Drege shots fired in the air to disperse them. He bought a jacket AR-15 rifle and armor, and began to give his property with early-warning electronic noise and movement against what hefelt would be an inevitable government assault. I thought I had seen was Drege patience with the state bureaucracy and what can be rightly or wrongly, to a model of relentless harassment. The warnings were there but no one recognized her. For it, the government was using tactics to deal with civilians at Waco and Ruby Ridge.
On August 19, 1997, about 02:30, two NH State Troopers, Scott Phillips and Les Lord Drege stopped in the parking lot ofLaperle IGA supermarket in neighboring Colebrook, for a "perception of defects" in his truck. This probably triggered the anger and the anger was Drege home for so long. The keg of dynamite exploded and shot and killed two soldiers. Drege then commanded his vehicle and drove the office of former Selectman, now a lawyer and part-time judge, Vickie Bunnell. For fear of Drege, Bunnell allegedly carried a gun in her purse. It warned employees in the construction ofout before they left through the back door. Drege went on the back of the building and shot her in the back, where he died. Dennis Joos, editor of the local Colebrook News and Sentinel worked in the office next door. Unarmed, he ran out and treated Drege. Drege went about 15 feet with Joos still clutching him around the legs, then calmly shot him in the back and killed him.
Drege then drove across the border in Vermont, where he shot the NH Fish and Game Warden WayneSaunders, using his car off the road. Saunders injuries were not life-threatening. Police from various agencies soon noticed the police car had driven Drege abandoned. As they approached the vehicle, they opened fire from a nearby hill, where he was placed Drege, armed with AR-15 and 150 cartridges. E 'managed to injure two other soldiers and a U.S. Border Patrol agent before he was killed with firearms by the police.
Drege Carl may have been pushedtoo hard by the government. The nameplate on his rusty pick-up hole of the State of New Hampshire motto "Live Free or Die." He seems to have his choice, one that has proved deadly for four innocent people.
If the Cunanan case stands as a figurehead for the killing spree, the killing spree Drege that kind of situations in which the killer is a kind of folk hero and martyr among radical activists, who see his death as evidence praised for a conspiracy by the federal government reflectsThe Americans deny their rights, regardless of how many innocent victims slaughtered by their "hero."
Another of these was Gordon Wendell Kahl, a farmer of 63 years, North Dakota, a tax protester best known for his involvement in two fatal shootings by the police was in 1983. In the 70's, organized the first chapter of the infamous Texas Posse Comitatus Kahl. In 1977 he was indicted for tax evasion and five years probation. An arrest warrant has beenfailed given to him in March 1981, when he told a probation officer.
Kahl drove his family from a church meeting in Medina, on the evening of February 13, 1983, when he hit a roadblock ND. Shots, and saw his shot son. He pulled out a mini-14 assault rifle from his gun rack, and there was a fierce struggle with the federal and local officials - a battle that some say was fought because the government wanted to silence the critics openly income KahlTax system. When the dust settled, he Kahl, a decorated veteran of World War II, two officers killed and three others wounded. A series of events brought that was new to the explosion of a flash-point with disastrous results. Was killed in June 1983 discovered hidden in a farmhouse in the Arkansas Ozarks and was later killed in a shootout with police officers, a sheriff is also reflected in the exchange. Inexplicably, the body had been dismembered Kahl horrobly which gave rise to speculationthe nature of which may be the subject of separate articles.
Now, armed with this bloody flashback, I was now prepared for my work. It was time for a coffee, start your computer and start working BREW. As is my habit, I began the piece with a title, namely: My style has always been to nail down a title and then work around it, "Savage murders in rural Maine," ..
Then I started reading "In a period of four days, and worse in the fall of a murder in Maine more than a decadechef of 31 years killed with a spotty past and future aimlessly said four people, three of them to pieces and burned others. In between, he says quietly in a restaurant close to work. "The fury began four days at the beginning of the long Labor Day weekend and has the makings of a" macabre film rather than a mad spree. But the alleged violence is not over. While in the tank, he attacked another inmate meets him in the back of the head with a mop stickcould, in an unprovoked attack, the heavy, not withheld. And the senseless killing spree, add the suspect, Christian Nielsen also killed three dogs. Police chief Col. Craig Poulin of State has called "a crime of horrific proportions."
Nielsen, who had lived at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast for a couple of months, told police his first victim on Friday was Jimmy Whitehurst, 50, of Batesville, Ark., whose remains were burned, dismembered and disposed of inthe nearby town of Upton. Restaurant owner Julie Bullard, 65, was killed Sunday. The next day, her daughter Selby and Cynthia Beatson girl, 43, was also killed when they arrived at the inn unexpectedly. Police said Selby, worried about her asthmatic mother, came to Newry to see her so that her two sons at a friend's house. Beatson accompanied the couple apparently arrived as Nielsen was for its tracks from the second murder. Police said that shooting them is established and thento dismember and hide their bodies. Another horrific case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. All three women have been mutilated and the first, but unconfirmed reports indicated the women's bodies were crushed with a chainsaw.
Whitehurst was by common-law wife, a division residing in Maine, and returned south in May, leaving two of his four children, said his sister, Diana Whitehurst-Taylor, 52 But after a change of heart, he returned to Newry, his sisterhe said. "He was just trying to get her two children and leave this place," he said. It was as a handyman who was helping out Julie Bullard, and was, as has been described in the area.
In a chilling phone call, state police were alerted to the carnage Monday evening by Nielsen's father and stepmother, who arrived at the inn, the Black Bear Bed and Breakfast (a restored farmhouse seven bedrooms in the hills of the party Maine West), find a woman outside of the body and blood. NielsenReiter said his father thought his son had committed the murder. Nielsen also admitted killing all four people.
Julie Bullard had the building, which was in a B & B after moving to Maine two years ago he bought converted. He had a bed and breakfast in San Francisco that sold before Newry next time. "Her daughter, Selby, had just lost her husband in a car accident and I think in some ways she and Selby is .... always a new beginning," said Robin Zinchuk, theLocal Chamber of Commerce. Julie was completed in February at the Black Bear, Zinchuk said, and it was a sign "For Sale" outside the door. And Selby Bullard had a 12 year old daughter and an 8 year old son. He had recently completed a part-time job with a real estate company in nearby Bethel. The phone rang unanswered Tuesday at the Inn.
With the news spread, people were shocked in the community. Newry is near the border with Maine NH. The killing of confusion among the people in the pastoral town near the SundayRiver Resort, about 80 miles northwest of Portland. The days between Labor Day and the beginning of the season the leaves are usually a quiet stretch when tourists canoeing, fishing and golf at Sunday River. "The whole thing is surreal .. as a shock to this small community," said Nancy White, co-owner of the Sudbury Inn, where Nielsen worked. White described him as a reliable employee, a good cook and "quiet, quiet individual had. He has a history of driving offenses that included an arrest for drunkAs a guide, but not too seriously. His license was revoked a year ago. Authorities have refused to discuss a motive for the murders.
Unfortunately, Julie Bullard has four biological children, four stepchildren, 20 grandchildren and "not a single enemy." "It was just a wonderful woman," said a daughter. "Loving and merciful." Diane Whitehurst-Taylor said her brother James: "Oh my God, he loved his children, he would do anything for them I want to know why, why, why, why have them.happen to my brother, "he said through sobs.
Nielsen was to be held without bail. It 'appeared in court Tuesday wearing an orange jumpsuit. He said only two words in court: "I am" when the judge asked if he had been present. It 'appeared calm and smiled as he was brought and left the classroom. As is happening in a newspaper the next day read, seemed to enjoy his fame, even laugh. Maine is a state for its low crime rate is known, then came the killingas a brutal shock.
Well, it was. The stuff my imaginary journey to a new genre. But there was a problem very big problem. The story that Nielsen was not fiction and I did not write, but actually took place during last weekend's Labor Day, and local and national newspapers carried headlines like: ". Cook was in the series of murders Maine B & B" The above is a composite of different sources listed. The real fear is that part I have a story but with scopeit was only as secure as far as my title "Savage Killings rural Maine." How could I know that Christian Nielsen would be one that works around it and fill the gaps. The story had already been completed, although a tragic and terrible. The whole experience was devastating.
Well, I'm back and it is Wednesday, September 13, 2006 and I intend to write is a mass murderess or a serial killer. The unsolved New Bedford, Massachusetts would kllings serial my background, when I decided to goin this direction. From April to September 1988, a serial killer obsessed with New Bedford dumping his victims along the roads outside the city. The women were killed prostitutes and drug addicts, the last of which reached up to April 1989. A total of eleven women believed in the hands of these killers have been killed, two were missing. Adding to the mystery was the fact that many victims may be linked. There was a suspevt committed suicide and otherswho moved to Florida after the cessation of the murders, and this fascinated me.
Interestingly, there was speculation, even though I'm not buying, these killers and Europe "Lisbon Ripper" and the same person. The Ripper was a serial killer murders of prostitutes and drug addicts Portuguese in Portugal and other European countries, which over time has closed the New Bedford murder suspect started. Curiously, New Bedford has a very large Portuguese population.
ButGiven that most intrigued me was a mass murder, December 6, 1989, Marc Lepine killed 14 occurred as engineering students at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. Lepine, a moody, lonely 25-year-old blamed "feminists" for a series of failed career starts and jobs lost, killed a bloody trail through the classrooms and cafeterias. When he finally shot himself with his 223 caliber Sturm Ruger semi-automatic rifle, the budget has reached 15 dead and 13 wounded, all in just 20 minutes.It 'was a horror that shocked Italy and even trigger profound examination of conscience about the roots of violence against women, the mass murder of more stringent gun laws, which included the creation of the controversial national register of arms fire. Parliament also asked to create the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in 1991 to go ahead with the anniversary of the tragedy of December.
Playing the "rage against society" random corner, I was again ready to pursue myGoal of writing a fictional piece .......... this time on a way muderer mass, but again my efforts failed because the truth is manifested in the fact that the alien fiction. The same day, Sept. 13 2-006 paper reported all over the world once the mass shooting, and this occurred also in Montreal. the first reports were as follows:
On September 13, Lone Gunman attacked a college in Montreal. Dressed all in black, had "a stone cold face" and opened firewithout warning, witnesses said. About 20 people were injured during the attack at Dawson College in downtown. A woman may subsequently died in hospital and numerous other victims were listed in critical condition.
Witnesses said the man began his attack on the case outside the university, before rotating through the front door and continuing to the inside, before police shot him. Sometimes he hid behind vending machines before emerging to the countries of destination. "He said nothing. He had a stonecold front, there was nothing on his face, said nothing, he does not cry all the slogans or anything. He just started opening fire. It was a cold-blooded murderess, "said student Soher Marousi. One student said he was desperate for a smoke outside with friends when the attack began." There was a man walking in a black trench coat and boots blacks with giant delayed the cutting of hair and had a huge machine gun. It was down (the road), in broad daylight with a gun walking -Nobody says anything to him - and then started shooting, "he told CBC Television One woman said the shooter was white, and looked about 19." Stereotype, with long black trench coat and all the studs and piercings and stuff. "
Police said the attacker was 25 years old from Montreal, but provided little other information. His car was still in school, and police were searching his apartment.
Once again, defeat was snatched from what I hopedhis literary victory. Once I was stopped in my tracks. This time, instead of trying to do something different, I'll stick with the pathos of boxing and plays dealing with the philosophy of Ayn Rand. There is no way to stop someone, let alone slow down the real murders that are going on out there. And I can not keep up with them.
Ted Sares can be reached tedsares@adelphia.net
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