Cowgirl Does The News

Alzheimers linked to periodontal disease?

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:20:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times
Twins who had severe periodontal disease before they were 35 years old had a fivefold increase in risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, the researchers found.

Child Abuse Study

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:18:00 -0700

Azcentral.com
A new study published in the July 5 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online issue pertains to child abusers. The study involved female rhesus monkeys raised by biological or foster mothers that were abused. More than half of the abused monkeys abused during their first month of life became abusive mothers themselves.

What Is a Son?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:36:00 -0700

A son is a warm spot in your heart and a
smile on your lips.

In the beginning he is charmingly innocent,
putting his complete trust in you.

He comes to you for a hand to hold, and for
the security only your arms can provide.

He shares his tales of adventure, and
knows how proud you are of his discoveries
and accomplishments.

All his problems can be solved by a hug and
a kiss from you, and the bond you share is
so strong it is almost tangible...

Time passes, and your innocent little boy
starts to test his limits. He lets go of your
hand to race into the midst of life without
thinking ahead or looking both ways.

His problems have grown along with him,
and he has learned that you can’t always
make his life better or kiss his troubles away.

He spends much of his time away from you,
and though you long for the closeness you
once shared, he chooses independence and
privacy.

Discoveries and accomplishments aren’t as
easy to come by now, and sometimes he
wonders about his worth.

But you know the worth of that young man.
He is your past and your future. He is hopes
and dreams that have made it through each
and every disappointment and failure.

In your heart, your son is precious and
treasured. Together, you struggled through
the years trying to find the right amount of
independence for each new stage of his life,
until finally, you had to learn to let him go.

Now you put your trust in him, leaving that
son, whom you hold so dear, totally in his own
care. You hope he always remembers that you
have a hand for him to hold, and arms to
provide comfort or support.

Most of all, you hope that he believes in
himself as much as you believe in him, and
that he knows how much you love him.
-Poem by Barbara Cage

Was He Supposed to Stand There and Get Shot Too?

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:27:00 -0700

A cop was caught on video taking cover after his partner was shot, not returning until after returning fire with the fleeing vehicle. The way the article is written, the cops partner is hit multiple times in the chest and falls. The cop flees behind parked cars and returns fire with the assailant.

WHat? His partner is down. Was he supposed to lay his body over the prone victim and return fire? I am not sure what police protocal is during a situation like that.

Am I wrong?

Isn't It Ironic

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:08:00 -0700

Every Saturday Joseph Cooper went to his son's graveside after work. His son had died in 1996 of pneumonia and Cooper, heartsick would visit his son's graveside on these weekly visits and pray or tell him about his day.

This past Saturday, Joseph Cooper went to his son's graveside like he did every week. He may not have realized that the thunderstorm was as close as it was. Family members have stated he would have gone anyway.

Saturday, Joseph Cooper was killed by lightning as he visited his son's graveside. Lightning struck the tree that was beside his son's grave, traveled down it and into Cooper.

He will be buried next Saturday beside his beloved son, under that tree.

BTK timeline

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Tue, 31 May 2005 18:02:00 -0700

Compare BTK killings with Dennis Rader Timeline

Let the White Dove Sing

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Sun, 15 May 2005 17:21:00 -0700

Like many people I had been horrified about the ongoing sexual abuse of a blond haired child, the abuse blatently posted on the internet by her abuser for the world to see. I heard this on the radio Friday as I was driving out of town.

Girl in Sex Abuse Photos Found Alive

They feared she was dead. When Toronto police stumbled on the pictures of the child a few months ago there were hundreds of pictures of her being sexually abused over a time period spanning 2-3 years. The pictures had stopped about 2 years ago. The investigators knew that this type of predator would not just suddenly stop documenting this childs torment. Fearing the worst, they began to search for her using techniques not tried before. They digitally removed her from some of the photos of her abuse and posted them on the internet and in newspapers and on television. Leads came pouring in.

ORLANDO — A young girl who appeared in a series of sexually explicit pictures taken at a Walt Disney World hotel and other locations has been found and is now safe, authorities said Friday.

Have you seen this girl?
Originally uploaded by E_llie.

Orange County Sheriff's Office detectives hope someone can identify the girl in this photo. They believe the girl, who is not a victim, can provide information pertinent to an international child pornography case.

There is a child being abused. Her pictures have been considered must haves by pedophiles scouring the internet for child porn. She was 9 when over 200 pictures and videos were taken in 2001. She has long blond hair and would be twelve today. Frustrated Toronto detectives decided to try to do more to find her. They digitally wiped her image from photos in an attempt to locate the hotel or resort she was abused at on more than one occasion. Seconds after Toronto Newstations ran the broadcast showing the pictures, tips began pouring in.

THe hotel has been located. It is a Florida Walt Disney World resort. The name of the resort has not been released.

Happy Mother's Day?

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Tue, 10 May 2005 18:43:00 -0700

Father Charged in 2 Girl's Slayings. ZION, Ill.

Michael Waller had only recently been release from prison. He had been placed on probation for 10 years for running after neighbors with a chain saw during an altercation with his wife. After he failed to meet the terms of the probation in 2003, he was imprisoned.

He was reportedly angry on Mother's Day at his little daughter. Something to do with money. He went looking for her and returned home alone. Her and a friend were reported missing when they failed to come home.

The bodies of both girls were found in a nearby park. They had been beaten and stabbed repeatedly and left to die. They were not sexually assaulted.

Runaway Bride Run Amuck?

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Tue, 10 May 2005 18:12:00 -0700

Remember the Runaway Bride? Since her "recovery from captivity" some interesting facts have come out about her. This was not her first alter avoidance. She didn't show for a previous marriage ceremony as well.
She also has been arrested for shoplifting three times. There has been some speculation by mental health experts that she could be have a borderline personality disorder, which means she would be extremely unstable in her relationships and would often do things to draw attention to herself.

Hmmm. You would think her family would have had an insight into her character to not plan a lavish wedding with 600 guests.

Want to know what Jennifer Wilbanks aka The Runaway Bride's home town thinks of her activities?
The Smoking Gun has a link to letters from her home state. They are hilarious.

"Her Soul is Dancing"

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Sat, 7 May 2005 20:01:00 -0700

If you like me, have ever surfed the cold cases sites, you have been chilled at the forensic recreations from a skeleton or partially decomposed body. In some instances, you can actually view photos of the deceased victim, placed there in hopes someone will identify that person.

A child's body was found on April 28, 2001. Her body was found a few days later. Her case came to be known as the Precious Doe case. Last week, the child was identified as Erica Green. She was just three years old.

Today, a community said goodbye to her. Included at the funeral was her former foster mom, Betty Brown, who raised Erica from birth to age three, in Muskogee, Okla.

Michelle Johnson and her husband Harrell Johnson have been charged with the murder.

Several teenagers spoke at the funeral including Ailey Pope Coe, 14, she said Erica is anonymous no more and "is crying out her name" for everyone to hear.

"Her soul is dancing," Coe said.

Local Politics Getting Ugly

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:51:00 -0700

If you are from Mississippi and have been following Jackson's mayoral election coverage, you will want to read the following article supplied by the Jackson Free Press. The article is from 1994 and was printed in Newsday. It was written by an investigative reporter named Jim Mulvaney. The article revisits allegations never proven that Frank Melven sexually molested 2 boys in his custody. The two boys later turned up dead, "shot to death by a person or person's unknown".
An FBI probe of the incident did not lead to charges.

One Jail's Tale

Frankenstein Food

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:20:00 -0700

Need some more snap, crackle, pop, out of your Rice Crispies?

From Bizarro land comes this little tidbit "Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification"

Absent

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Thu, 7 Apr 2005 17:20:00 -0700

Please excuse my lack of recent posting. I have a test in 2 weeks to become licensed for my job. I am studying a huge book. I will return on the 23rd.

Scouting in the Woods

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:51:00 -0800

My little brother was a boy scout for a short period of time. He only went to a couple of camp outs. My mother boycotted the Boy Scout idea after the last camp out he attended. He came home filled with stories of massive wedgie attacks (not minor wedgies but horrendous stretch your underwear up somewhere maybe on your head? I don't remember where and I don't have a point of reference not being male) on younger boys by the older troops and troop leaders. (thus in my mind forever after, the boy scout official name has been "Wedgie Boy", I cannot erase the connotation) There were also disturbing tales of rampant nakedness in the woods, both adult and child nakedness.

My mother decided that this particular troop was a little, well, weird. (she probably was not a good judge, she had trouble with the whole raising a boy thing.) I actually agreed with her at the time. (why would an adult give a child a wedgie?) (Why run naked thru the woods? This was many years ago and to be honest the thing that bothered me the most about the naked in the woods thing was the poison ivy. WHAT ABOUT THE POISON IVY YOU FOOLS AS YOU RUN NAKED THRU THE WOODS GIGGLING, AND DOING GOD KNOWS WHAT ELSE!

Don't get me wrong, I have no evidence the Boy Scouts are not a healthy club for boys. To the contrary, I think that the majority of Boy Scout troops are probably great places for boys to learn useful things and to hang out with adult males.

Over the years, I have stumbled on a few stories about Boy Scout leaders going awry. The Boy Scouts aren't the only organization beset by accusations of wrong doing by leaders, any profession or organization that deals with children seems to be fair game for predators.

Nothing like this however:
Longtime Program Director of the Boy Scouts and chairmain of it's Youth Protection Task Force pleaded guilty in court today to a charge of possession and distribution of child pornography.

Makes me feel downright queasy when I think that he could have been giggling naked in the woods and giving poor younger boy scouts wedgies.

Easter Sunrise

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:25:00 -0800

dogwood
Originally uploaded by E_llie.

"He is not here: for he is risen, as he said."

Matt 28:6

Happy Easter!

Death Sentence Upheld Today

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:51:00 -0800

Florida Judge rejects latest and said to be final, Shiavo Appeal

I have been so upset about this case, I have been unable to blog about it. Terry Shiavo's last appeal against her death sentence was turned down today. She did not have a living will, is not terminally ill, was NOT brain dead since she apparently recognized her parents.

Her sentence, death by slow starvation and dehydration. Her crime? Becoming incompacitated under what can only be called, suspicous circumstances.

I can only pray for her family, and pray that her death will come swiftly.

Cartoons from a Killer

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:10:00 -0800

The Smoking Gun website has posted an animated cartoon created by Jeff Weiss, the kid who killed 9 people before shooting himself. In this animated cartoon, the character commits suicide after his bloody rampage. There is also a link to his MSN personal website profile.

If you want a detailed psychological analysis of these cartoons, MSNBC has an interview with Dr. Katherine Newman, author of the book "Rampage" posted on it's website.

Among the things disclosed on these websites:
One of Weiss' favorite movies was Dawn of the Dead.
His favorite quote was "We are little flames, poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out." - Wehrmacht Private Paul Baumer, All Quiet on the Western Front

Jeff Weiss Identified as Shooter at Minn School

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:09:00 -0800

His name was Jeff Weiss and he was 16 or 17. He killed himself after killing 9 other people, starting with his grandparents.

He dressed in black, wore a trench coat, (note the similarity between Columbine killers), wore eyeliner, wrote stories about zombies, created comic books with graphic pictures of death, and may have posted messages on a neo-Nazi Web site supporting Adolph Hitler using the name Todsengel or Angel of Death.

He had been placed on the schools Homebound program for violation of school policy. He was a loner who was often teased by others (Columbine similarities again). It has been reported that his father committed suicide 4 years ago and that his mother lives in a nursing home, disabled by brain injuries suffered in a car accident. He lived with his grandfather, Daryl Lussier and his grandfather's live in companion, Michelle Sigana.

Link to Red Lake High School where tragedy occured. It has pictures of the school and hallways.

Link to Red Lake Band of Indians web site.
The story below this one gives more details about the incident.

He was Grinning and Waving as He Shot Fellow Students

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:30:00 -0800

Updated: The death toll now stands at 10 and it is currently being reported he was grinning and waving as he was shooting....
Star Tribune
In September 2003, central Minnesota's Rocori High School, had a shooting incident that killed two students, Aaron Rollins and Seth Bartell.

It has happened again in Minnesota, this time at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, about 240 miles north of the Twin Cities.

In the worst school shooting since Columbine, a student, whose name has not been released, first shot his grandparents, then he went to his high school and killed 6 students and wounded 14 to 15 more. He was found dead at the scene. It is believed that he killed himself.

There are few details as of yet, but it is being reported that all the dead were in one room. Tribal fire marsal Roman Stately told reporters the shooter entered the school around 2pm, shot a security guard, then walked down the hall to a classroom where he shot a teacher and more students. He was armed with a shotgun and two handguns.

There is no word on a motive at this time.

Nurse to Patient Ratio becomes Law

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:29:00 -0800

California

Touted as a victory by the California Nurses Association, a California low now puts the patient to nurse ration for general medical care at 1:5, it was 1:6. For emergency room services, the new ratio is 1:4. The opposing viewpoint states California is already short 14,000 nurses. The new law could close hospitals unable to fulfill the mandate.

Governor Swartzenegger plans to appeal the ruling.

John Evander Cooey being sought for questioning in disappearance of Jessica Lunsford.

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:19:00 -0800

Cooey a convicted sex offender can be seen here in an undated photo. He has some ties to Jessica, the police are not releasing the nature of those ties. John Cooey was last seen in Savannah Georgia and has a warrant out for his arrest for failing to report to his probation officer. Officials believe he has left the area.

Horrific France Sex Abuse Case

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:51:00 -0800

If some of the perpatrators had not confessed you would think this latest sex abuse scandal was fabricated by it's accusers. In the 430 page description of charges, a group of parents and friends have been accused of passing their children around for sexual pleasure. Selling their offspring for booze and cigarettes while the children screamed in the next room. The number of accused stands at 66, the victims 44.

Angers, France
Twenty-seven of the accused are women. The victims, girls and boys, ranged in age from 6 months to 16 years. Some of the defendants have confessed, lawyers said.

Mommy Dearest

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:16:00 -0800

Mommy Dearest
Originally uploaded by E_llie.

Police in Instanbul Turkey have arrested a man posing as his dead mother to collect her retirement check.

He showed up at a bank, dressed in womans clothes complete with proper support hose. The officials became suspicious of their account holders deep voice. A manager secretly photographed him and called police.

Serafettin Gencel, told police that his 68 year old mother had been dead 2 years. He had buried her body in the basement at her death to be able to collect her checks.

Police are exhuming the body to see if foul play was involved. The man is being held on various charges.

Animal House?

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:45:00 -0800

ARCADIA, Fla. - Violent sexual predators at a privately operated state treatment center brew their own alcohol, wander around "staggering drunk" and often have brutal fights, investigators found.

25.5 Million To Be Paid By U.S. for Nazi Era Plundering

noreply@blogger.com (Ellie) — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:38:00 -0800

MIAMI - The federal government on Friday reached a $25.5 million settlement with the families of Hungarian Holocaust victims and will acknowledge the U.S. Army's role in commandeering a trainload of the families' treasures during World War II.