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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Love Me Tenderizer

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"When evil is present as a pre-existing condition...."

What: New episode of Wicked Attraction
Episode Name: "Love Me Tenderizer"
When: Saturday, Sep. 12, 2012
Where: Investigation Discovery Channel

 (Also airing tonight is The Body Shifters episode, back to back with Love Me Tenderizer. Click here for case info on Body Shifters.)




The "Love Me Tenderizer" episode of Wicked Attraction features a case so disturbing I could hardly get through the TV interview.  In the promotional clip posted above, psychologist Dr. Leigh Hagan says circumstances can create evil, "but when you have evil as a pre-existing condition..."

I knew exactly what he was talking about.

The props in this case are a canal, a horse trailer, and a meat tenderizer.  Nothing good happens with any of them. Believe me.

Please check your local listings for the time the episode "Love Me Tenderizer" airs in your hometown. Watch the show...then come back here. I will post an update on the case as soon as the show airs. 

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Crime Writer on "Legitimate" Rape--Akin

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People who read True Crime stories come from all over the political spectrum and they should not be subjected to politics of any kind when they pick up a book from the True Crime shelf.

Warren Jeffs and 17 of his wives
from the film Sons of Perdition
Warren Jeffs and some of his "wives"
How many were held down when they were 12?
How many of their mothers were?
Which is why the comments of U.S. Congressman Todd Akin infuriate me. Acts of crime fall on Republicans, on Democrats, on Independents, on Tea Partiers, and on Green Partiers alike. A guy with the glint of malice in his eye does not stop to check a man's voter registration card before stealing his car. And he certainly does not look in her purse for campaign literature before assaulting a woman.

And biology, Mr. Congressman, does not stop to check, either.

Akin claimed that a woman's body "has a way of shutting that down" when she is "legitimately" raped.  No conception, no aftermath issues involving pregnancy will arise. When the rape is "legitimate."

I do hope someone will direct Mr. Akin to this blog because right off the top of my head I can think of 3 famous cases of conception following rape.

First, a law-abiding man named Matthew Roberts innocently went pursuing his biological roots as so many adoptees do.  At the end of the trail, imagine his horror to find Charles Manson was his father and himself a product of rape. This story first hit national headlines in 2009.

In northern Arizona we have a community called Colorado City full of polygamists who believe in the sanctity of a man's right to sexually claim or assault the "females" designated to him via a theocratic bureaucracy. Thousands of babies are born through this process.  I said "females" in quotes because while some are adult women, plenty are underage girls.

Listen to the audiotape of a 12-year-old girl being held down by several of her "sister-wives" while FLDS monster/prophet Warren Jeffs rapes her and then talk to me about "legitimate" rape, Mr. Congressman.  Jurors in Texas had to listen to that tape. Thanks to their collective revulsion, Jeffs is now pacing a prison cell for a long time to come.

And then there's Bryan Grove who was just on TV a couple weeks, partly as himself and partly portrayed by an actor on the episode "The Body Shifters"on the show Wicked Attraction. Bryan had a fascination for his own biological roots.  Learning he, too, was the product of rape cast a very wretched shadow over his life.  (For more about Grove, scroll down one post or click here)

I could trot on over to my own county courthouse right this minute and easily find untold numbers of very young girls pregnant by their own fathers, uncles, and family "friends." That's just one county in a desert state. I wonder how many I would find in the State of Missouri?

Where is this magical biology button, Congressman Akin?  Does it only kick in when a female is say, past 30 and dragged into a dark alley? Is it okay with you that it doesn't work when a girl is 12 and held down in a fancy gilded room by a gaggle of women she considers something like aunts?

Akin has later clarified that when he said "legitimate" what he really meant was "forcible."  So I'd like to give the legislator another example from the annals of true crime.  (Should I say "legitimate" crime?)   Mark Goudeau, also known by his police-bestowed moniker the "Baseline Killer," is currently serving 400 years in Arizona for an act of rape that occurred when he attacked two sisters, one of them heavily pregnant. He aimed his gun at the bulging pregnant abdomen of the one sister while raping the other. Is this not forcible enough for the State of Missouri? In her terror for her sister and unborn niece, did the un-pregnant sister not fight her rapist vigorously enough for the congressman's scorecard?

By the way, Goudeau is also on Death Row for the many murders he committed, all of them associated with acts of rape.

This is what real crime looks like.

In the congressman's defense, severe internal hemorrhaging from trauma is undoubtedly likely to "shut down" a pregnancy.  But Akin needs to step out of the limousine and delve into real crime files and see how many awful forms rape can and does take. Every day. Every where.  

Everyone who counts in his own party has already asked Akin to step out of the race. His party's presidential nominee, his party's various campaign revenue committees and so forth. And that is to the credit of the GOP.

Akin's response so far has been that he is "not a quitter." Mr. Akin, let me say this as clearly as possible. This is not about you.  This is about the crime victims of America.

You need to take yourself out of this race because you need to take time to reflect. You need to study. You need to roll up your sleeves and see what crime is really like. CRIME.  Crime is ugly, twisted, and painful.

You've spent the last few days making that pain worse. Is that why you really went into public service, Mr. Akin? To make things worse?

Stop thinking in high school football terms. This isn't about "quitting."  It isn't even about "defending the unborn," as you also claim. And this is not about "one little word," which you have said in order to minimize the colossal damage of the statement. Neither is it about one political party or the other.

This is about not being a friend to and enabler of rapists.

This is about a man realizing that other well-intentioned people are not calling him a "quitter" but are throwing up vast numbers of rocket flares that he has mistakenly taken the wrong path. This is about calling upon your own human decency, Mr. Akin, to remind yourself that by the standards of my profession you are one of the good guys and good guys do not align themselves with rapists.  Mr. Akin, good guys--and good public servants--say "I want to make the world a better place. Somewhere I started listening to the wrong voices. It is time I stepped out of the glamorous limelight because in its glare I have lost my way."

Mr. Akin, you can find another way to contribute. Are you man enough?

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Monday, August 20, 2012

The Body Shifters -- Tess Damm


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This is not the face anyone expects to see when picturing the mastermind of a ferocious stabbing murder.  The target? Her own mother.  This murder mastermind, Tess Damm of Colorado, was 15 years old when she instigated 3 older boys to slaughter her mother and/or help dispose of the corpse.  Fifteen. Barely out of middle school.

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Linda Damm, the mother, was never a contender for Mother of the Year. With a reputation as an ill-tempered alcoholic, Linda was not the warm and cuddly mom in the kitchen baking after-school snacks.   But Tess had a roof over her head and continuous infusions of allowance money to indulge her whims. Linda even allowed her daughter's boyfriend to move in, hoping to keep the party girl home. Plenty of kids have home lives far worse.

Tess had a Romeo and Juliet style fantasy passion going with 17 year old Bryan Grove, a boy who was tempted by violence and obsessed with his own origin as an orphan adopted from India. Once these two strong-willed adolescents met, no one else in the world was of much interest or value. They set their sights on creating their own tiny world, population 2.

Which meant that Linda, who had an irritating way of wanting Tess to go to school and Bryan to pursue getting a job, had to go.

You can see the details of how the pair removed Linda from their lives, but not from the house, by watching for the Wicked Attraction episode called "The Body Shifters."  Here is a bit of video from the show. I'm not in this clip, but I am in the hour long episode first aired July 28.



Within a relatively short amount of time after the murder, Bryan, who had put on great displays of bravado and machismo for his little blond vixen, began crumbling under the weight of regret. His curiosity and taste for violence not only sated but turned to repulsion, he never successfully finished his original plans for disposing of Linda's body.

But Tess's regrets only surfaced upon getting caught and having to trade in her mother's house for the Big House.

Tess Damm in the Colorado Dept. of Corrections






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At 6'1", Bryan is still a great deal taller than his erstwhile teen love, but at 210 pounds, according to the prison, he no longer outweighs her.

Bryan will stay behind bars for most of his adult life, not being eligible for parole until 2035 and not due for outright release until 2045.

Tess, now 21, will be pushing 30 when she comes up for parole. Tess did not wield the knife, but as the TV episode demonstrates, she was present for some very ghoulish proceedings.  Her sentence will come to an end in 2029.

The two other boys involved received much, much lighter sentences and have already served their time.

Photo of [[Wordd]]Tess+Bryan=xxx[[Yeah duhh]]Bryan had once threatened his own mother, but the incident came to nothing. Tess had spent her teen years bickering with and provoking her mother and winning the sympathies of others over Linda's imperfections. Producers for Wicked Attraction asked me what was the "wicked attraction" between these two young killers?  In my opinion, the facts show that Bryan had a desire to indulge what he believed to be the dark nature he had inherited from his biological and allegedly criminal father. Tess gave him the perfect excuse to unleash that desire.  After the stabbing frenzy was over, he found he didn't like it as much as he thought he would.

But Tess was more sinister. Many other young girls have difficult mothers and pursue academics, dance, arts, or any of  a million other activities or resources to escape. What Tess wanted was not a better life but to win. In the puppy-dog devotion of her hulking and brooding boyfriend, she found the perfect weapon for the ultimate battle with her mother.

That was the Wicked Attraction.

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To see the Wicked Attraction crew who shot this episode, click on this post. 

Airs back-to-back tonight (Sat Sep 1, 2012) with this episode.


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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Facing Marjorie Orbin For the First Time

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WHAT'S IT LIKE TO MEET A KILLER FACE TO FACE? 

"Our voices reverberated in the all consuming presence of metal in the stall, making our voices both shrill and muffled...."

FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO "MARJORIE ORBIN & ME: THE RAW JAIL TAPES"

  "For months I had sat behind Marjorie as she faced a parade of evidence and witnesses, gruesome and blistering. Although she and I had often been no more than normal conversational distance from one another, we had never spoken a word. Similar to the gritty Durango Jail, the genteel courtrooms in downtown Phoenix are also plastered with signs warning of the grim fallout of trying to communicate with a defendant in custody.  She knew I was there, watching her life picked apart to the most minute and unflattering detail, but we had not so much as nodded our heads at each other.


"Today I would finally introduce myself to her.


"Even to the most exemplary citizen of pristine reputation, meeting a professional author who intends to write about your life whether you like it or not would be a disconcerting experience. I knew this. And it made me nervous. What attitude would Marjorie reveal to me regarding my work? I am a veteran journalist but, even so, the thought of a woman capable of taking an electric saw to the father of her child, a man guilty in her eyes of nothing more than being both sexually unsatisfactory to her and irritatingly alive, the thought of such a person becoming angry at me ran shivers up and down my spine and made my breathing quick and shallow..."

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