July 10, 2010
Sick Fucking Son-of-a-Bitch ... Thayne Ormsby Indicted: killing his 10-year-old son; Jeffrey Ryan , Jesse
A man charged in the stabbing deaths of a 10-year-old boy and two men in northern Maine has waived extradition from New Hampshire.
The Maine attorney general's office said Friday that state police are arranging for the return of 20-year-old Thayne Ormsby to Aroostook County early next week.
A public defender represented Ormsby during his appearance Friday in Rochester District Court. Ormsby has been held in the Strafford County jail since his arrest on July 2 in Dover.
Also Friday, an Aroostook County grand jury indicted Ormsby on three counts of murder in the deaths of Jeffrey Ryan, his 10-year-old son, Jesse, and Jason Dehahn, a friend and neighbor, in Amity, Maine. He also was indicted on one count of arson for setting fire to Jeff Ryan's truck.
Ormsby will be taken to the Aroostook County jail in Houlton, Maine, about a five hour drive north from Dover. A county grand jury handed up three murder indictments against Ormsby yesterday, Stokes said, as well as one for arson.
Maine does not have different charging levels for murder. Sentencing is based on the seriousness of the crime, but the minimum is 25 years, Stoke said.
Ormsby is accused of stabbing to death Jeffrey Ryan, 55, his 10-year-old son Jesse and their friend Jason DeHahn, 30, at the Ryan’s home at 163 Route 1 in Amity, Maine near that state’s eastern border with Canada late last month. Their three bodies were discovered June 23.
He went to Dover following the killings and was arrested there last Friday after turning himself into police.
The strongest evidence in the case is Ormsby’s DNA and fingerprints, which were found on a cigarette butt and a Budweiser beer bottle, respectively, inside Ryan’s home and near two beer bottle that Ryan and DeHahn had apparently drank from.
“The DNA made the case for the most part,” Assistant Strafford County Attorney Kyle Griffin said at his arraignment Monday, adding, “These murders all seem to be in cold blood.”
Maine detectives interviewed Ormsby in Dover last Friday and he told them he killed Jeffrey Ryan because he was a drug dealer, according to a Maine state police affidavit. Police arrested him that same day.
For several weeks prior to the killings, Ormsby had been staying with Robert and Joy Strout and their family in Orient, Maine, the affidavit says. Robert Strout told detectives on Friday that Ormsby came home June 23 with his clothes soaked in blood and told him he had murdered Jeffrey Ryan and “killed them all” and that he would slay Strout and his family unless he helped over up the crime, the affidavit says.
Strout told police he helped Ormsby burn Ryan’s truck and drove him down Route 1 south to toss a knife into a bog.
Along the way, Strout said Ormsby provided chilling details about the killings.
“Thayne told Robert that Jason ran outside and Thayne chased after him and ‘knifed him,’” the affidavit says. “Thayne told Robert he punched Jason and ‘knifed him again then drug [dragged] his body to the brook.’ Thayne told Robert that he went back inside and Jesse was running around. Thayne told Robert that he ‘knifed Jesse in the back bedroom.’”
Stokes said Ormsby has no notable criminal history. He also said Ormsby has no history of mental illness that they know of.
“That may be a possible area to explore when he gets back here,” Stokes said.
Ormsby will be arraigned, likely via video, on the murder and arson charges once he returns to Maine. No date has been set for the arraignment yet.
"This Cock Sucker should be fucken hung...period"
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LA Grim Sleeper suspect had 4-decade arrest record
The 57-year-old man charged with 10 murders in the Los Angeles "Grim Sleeper" case was arrested at least 15 times over four decades and was in police custody many times after the killings began, probation and jail records show.
The arrests of Lonnie Franklin Jr. for crimes including burglary, car theft and assault were never considered serious enough to send him to state prison or to warrant his entry in the state's DNA database, according to a report in Saturday's Los Angeles Times.
Franklin was dubbed the Grim Sleeper after a string of murders of young black women had south Los Angeles on edge in the mid-1980s. Then the killings suddenly stopped, only to resume again 14 years later. Investigators now say they have possibly uncovered the reason for the long respite: He may have been spooked by a near miss by police in 1988.
Franklin was arrested Wednesday on 10 counts of murder and other charges at his lime-green house, just three doors down from a home that was searched extensively by police 22 years ago after the killer's only known survivor led cops there. His public defender, Regina Laughney, said she was still reviewing materials in the case and it was too early for her to comment.
One of the murder victims was killed in July 2003, when records show Franklin should have been in county jail for receiving stolen property but was released early because of overcrowding.
Investigators are trying to tie Franklin to dozens more murders, looking at more than 30 cold case files dating to 1984, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Friday.
"Now that we know who he is, where he lives, the cars he drove, have people to interview, we will go over all those old cases and look for connections," Beck said.
Investigators will upload Franklin's DNA profile into a national database to see if it matches other samples where the DNA had degraded and scientists only were able to get a partial sample, Beck said.
Franklin faced up to three years in prison in 2003 after pleading no contest to receiving stolen property. He was sentenced to 270 days in jail and released in May 2003, more than four months early, the records showed. Two months later, the body of one of Franklin's alleged victims was found.
Law enforcement said despite more than two decades of old-fashioned police work, they were finally able to crack the case using a new and disputed technique of "familial DNA."
In early June, the state Department of Justice ran newly submitted DNA through a database of 1.5 million samples.
The database found no identical matches, but did find a "familial" match to a convicted felon whose DNA indicated he was either a brother or the son of the killer. An earlier search in 2008 had found no familial matches, but Franklin's son was added to the database in recent months for a felony weapons conviction.
State investigators alerted the LAPD of Franklin's identity on June 30 after verifying the match through birth certificates and other records.
But police still needed a sample of Franklin's DNA to definitively match it to what was found on the victims.
An undercover officer pretending to be a waiter in Los Angeles collected tableware, napkins, glasses and pizza crust at a restaurant where the suspect ate, allowing detectives to obtain a DNA match.
Franklin made a first court appearance Thursday on the murder counts as well as one count of attempted murder and special-circumstance allegations of multiple murder that could lead to the death penalty or life in prison without possibility of parole.
His arraignment was postponed until Aug. 9 at the request of his attorney.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100710/ap_on_re_us/us_grim_sleeper_killings;_ylt=AiEMSSTem0vvQunC6m03geys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNzNjBsN2dmBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzEwL3VzX2dyaW1fc2xlZXBlcl9raWxsaW5ncwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzUEcG9zAzIEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawNsYWdyaW1zbGVlcGU-
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July 07, 2010
Grim Sleeper Serial Killer - Lonnie David Franklin Jr
An arrest has been made in the Grim Sleeper serial killer case, police in Los Angeles, California say.
Nicknamed for taking long breaks in between attacks, the killer is believed to be responsible for at least 11 deaths since 1985 in south Los Angeles. The killer targeted black women, some working as prostitutes, using the same small caliber weapon.
Margaret Prescod, who founded the Black Coalition Fighting Black Serial Murders and worked heavily with the families of the victims in the case told CNN she spoke with the Grim Sleeper Task Force who informed her of the arrest Wednesday.
Prescod said Det. Dennis Kilcoyne, head of the task force, told her that unlike a previous arrest in the case that turned out to be wrong, he was sure they had gotten their man this time.
"He told me that what they have is very solid," Prescod said.
The Los Angeles Times and KTLA are naming the suspect as Lonnie David Franklin Jr, 51. Prescod said she was also told Franklin Jr. was the suspect.
Aerial footage on Wednesday showed police searching cars in the garage of the suspect's home in south Los Angeles -- not far from the corridor where the victims' bodies were dumped.
Officials struggled to find new leads partially because the changing makeup of the neighborhood where the crimes were committed makes it unlikely that any witnesses are still around. The killer left behind DNA and fingerprints that police were unable to match to a name.
A 911 call made in 1987 reporting one of the murders led police to a van they believe was involved. But the trail went cold.
In May, new composite sketches of a suspect went up on billboards across Los Angeles as police intensified their hunt for the serial killer.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/07/grim.sleeper.arrest/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
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