Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "COURT TV"
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By 2011, this poor man's life had totally spiralled out of control, thanks to the trauma of his encounter with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. He clearly needed help with his mental health that was not forthcoming. I believe there are signs of his mental fragility on the stand.
A homeless drug addict, in 2012 Tracy Edwards was sentenced to 18 months in jail for his part in the death of another homeless man, who fell from a bridge and died.
His current whereabouts in 2022 are unknown. He remains a hero, as the survivor who ultimately stopped Dahmer's killing spree. Make no mistake, many men are only alive today, thanks to the quick-thinking and courage of Tracy Edwards.
NB It's been posted in response to my post, that Edwards was indicted by grand jury for a sexual assault against a 14 year old girl. If that's true, my sympathy for him is GONE.
Thanks too for pointing out my drag/drug typo, now corrected!
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Madeline had just turned 13 years old. She had recently started her period, and in sync, her body was developing. She was a vulnerable minor, going through puberty!
This unique, transitional time between childhood and adulthood, is when more privacy is craved by girls and boys, and that should not only be respected by the adults around them, but encouraged.
Seeking privacy is normal and healthy behaviour by growing teens, and part of their natural, developing independence.
But we know poor Madeline wasn't allowed to have privacy in that house. Her feelings and needs counted for nothing, they were always a low priority, and came far below her mother's paedophile's boyfriend's demands.
With her mother Jennifer's full approval, paedophile predator Stephan Sterns was locking her daughter into a bedroom with him every night, to rape, sexually abuse and photograph her whenever he liked. I suspect we may learn he was selling those pornographic photographs online, to other paedophiles.
It's sinister and very telling that both Sterns and Jennifer give the same story, and tell detectives Madeline was clingy, insecure, and hated to be alone. Stern's mention of 'snuggling' with her, is vomit-inducing. A grown man with a greying beard, who never held down a job and collects 'Star Wars' and other childish memorabilia, sitting there in a backwards-facing baseball cap like a school boy. And he's explaining why he felt it was appropriate to share a bed with his girlfriend's daughter, from the age of six to 13.
Little wonder poor Madeline hated Sterns, the man her mother moved into her home without consulting her. A jobless bum who contributed nothing to their lives, or the smooth running of that home. Madeline never reported his serious sexual assaults on her to anyone, unfortunately. It could have saved her life. That she didn't confide in anyone, only confirms how low her self-esteem was, after years of horrible abuse. She must have had no hope at all that anyone would believe her, care, or stop the abuse.
She once told a counsellor she was glad Sterns was moving out (to move back in with his long-suffering parents - though Jen soon moved him back in, because she clearly thinks any man, however pathetic, is better than no man). Madeline said she hated sharing a home with the slovenly Sterns, who was a drain on the family resources and 'ate all their food'.
His parents have since revealed he frequently stole cash and jewellery from them, including his late grandfather's Rolex watch. It was of great sentimental value to Sterns' mother. When she confronted him, he denied all knowledge of it. But she and his father Chris believe he sold it. They recently told an interviewer their son is a compulsive liar, as well as a thief, who would gas-light them when denying his many thefts. What a pitiful man-baby. Why the hell did Jennifer Soto want such a man in her life? Bad enough he was a loser, but he was in reality, far worse - a paedophile who no doubt targeted her to access her child.
Jennifer's police interview paints a picture of a failed and sexless partnership. She and Sterns sound like ships in the night, who share her address but spend little time together. And when she got home from work, tired, she would send her 37-year-old boyfriend upstairs to share not only a bedroom with her soon to be 13-year-old daughter, but a bed. She had to know what was going on in that bed. I believe she made a sexual sacrifice of poor Maddie, in order to keep Sterns. She obviously didn't want to have sex with him herself, so Madeline was enlisted as a sexual surrogate.
We'll probably never know why Sterns murdered Madeline that night, as her mother slept soundly, nearby in the house. Perhaps he feared she was pregnant. Maybe he was concerned she might report his rapes. Was he angry she'd recently shown romantic interest in a boy at her school? Or it could be as simple and callous as Madeline's physical development no longer pleasing his paedophile tastes.
Whatever twisted reason he had for strangling her to death and stealing her entire, promising life from her, Stephan Sterns will be removed from society. But many people who could have protected her from him, did not, and failed her terribly. Chief among them is Madeline's mother Jennifer. She didn't just just fail her daughter - she betrayed her, and actively enabled both her chronic sexual abuse and her murder. Like Sterns, she deserves to die in prison.
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2:15 Charlie Adelson looked anything but 'comfortable' - he looks what he is, a dead man walking! Whatever he paid his lawyers, he deserves a full refund for the lousy opening statement they gave for him today. His blackmail/extortion alibi is utterly laughable, no jury on Earth would buy it!
Many people have waited a long time to see justice for Dan Markel. And justice means the Adelson family being prosecuted for his murder - they are all equally culpable with Charlie, for masterminding the murder plot.
Is Charlie really gonna take the rap for his ghastly sister Wendi and mother Donna, go to jail for life and never rat them out?
How fabulous it was to see Dan's ex wife Wendi take the stand today, suddenly looking very nervous - a far cry from her previous cocky performances, lying under oath! $hit got real for Wendy today, and handcuffs are coming ever closer. It's about time -she should have gone to prison a very long time ago, ditto her mother Donna, the matriarch and mother-in-law from hell, at the centre of this twisted web.
Dan did not have to die over a child custody fight. Kids are kids for such a short time, and they need both their parents. Wendi could have been a grown up and handled the custody issues civilly, without involving her family. What the Adelsons did to Dan's children when they decided to play God and murder their loving father, was unforgivable.
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Vinnie missed the most important question of all, which is not why two young people wanted to raise 6 kids, 4 of whom were not their own - there was an obvious financial motive for them to do that. Neither Trezell nor Jaqueline worked - they used adoption as a cash cow to provide a nice home, vehicle and lifestyle for themselves.
The big question is why these two murdered babies were ever given to the Wests in the first place, when they already had four kids to raise, and we now know they were abusive enough to murder them!
The relevant child protection authorities and policies need to be forensically scrutinised in this case, and serious questions must be answered! Because while the Wests allegedly murdered two baby boys and will be made answerable for that at their imminent murder trials, other, faceless individuals gave those dangerous individuals sole charge of the boys and the power to hurt and kill them. Lessons must be learned from this disaster, to stop it happening to any other child!
If rumours are correct, this trial will require a strong stomach. Police have garnered witness testimony from the remaining four children in the Wests' care that is said to be utterly sickening. I have read that the Wests enlisted the other children to join in with the physical and emotional abuse of the babies. Hard to believe such horrors can be sadistically inflicted on innocent children, but it seems that's what happened in this case.
Whatever was going on with the biological family, it cannot have been anything like as bad as the home where they ended up. Should Cincere and Classic ever have been removed from their biological family? That's another question that must be examined closely.
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This child killer is going down for a long time, hopefully indefinitely. Her conduct in court, smirking, chewing candy and passing notes to her lawyers, shows exactly how hard-faced and self absorbed she is. Not a single tear for her deceased baby son so far, not even when photos of his broken body were shown - recovered from the dumpster she threw him in.
Imagine being a defenceless baby, at the mercy of that drugged-up, angry, violent monster? I want to know why, if she lost custody of him to her grandmother, she was still raising him, and still had full access to abuse and murder him?
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@NavajoSunBeauty That's exactly why the children's deaths at their evil father's hands were prolonged, filled with terror and totally horrific. Whether the axe attacks by Josh Powell killed them or not is pretty irrelevant in context - the point is they suffered terribly in their last moments alive, thanks to their sadistic, sub-human father.
Josh Powell knew police were closing in on him for murdering the children's mother Susan, and he was not going to go to prison for the next 50 years. Nor was he going to let his hated in-laws, the children's loving grandparents, continue to enjoy custody of them and raise them with the stability and love they so desperately needed. So he selfishly took them with him - and did it in the cruellest possible way.
This was a failure by the system, specifically the family courts, to protect two defenceless children from a father who not only had a long history of domestic abuse, he was prime suspect in their mother's murder!
Josh Powell should not have been given any access, or allowed within 100 miles of those little boys. I am so sick of hearing about 'fathers' rights'. What about childrens' rights to be safe, not abused, terrorised and finally killed by their parent? The law was so busy respecting Josh Powell's supposed 'rights' as a father - to access children he didn't give a damn about - it forgot about the children's rights not to be put in danger. Lessons should be learned from this outrage, but I doubt they will be.
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08:30 The photo of those sweet children hugging each other as their killer, evil Uncle Alex looks on smirking, really chills the blood. Hours later he murdered that lovely girl Tylee, who was more of a Mommy to her brother JJ than his own disgusting Ma Lori ever was.
It breaks my heart that little JJ must have missed Tylee very much, immediately. I bet he kept asking Lori where his sister was, his endless questions about Tylee likely drove her crazy. Plus the fact she was suddenly having to be a mother to him without Tylee around to help take care of him for her, as she always did.
Oh I bet Lori couldn't wait to summon her brother Alex aka 'The Family Hitman' back to her home late at night, to repeat his recent, obscene violence, against that defenceless little boy. She's no mother, never was!
Photos of the children tell the story - they are always hugging, they were each other's closest support. And when Tylee was so cruelly stolen from JJ and this world, it was only a matter of weeks before he too was destroyed by the evil lurking within his own family. Killed by the people who should have loved, cherished and protected them both. Sickening.
As Lori Vallow smiled in a flower garland, and her new husband Chad fooled around on a banjo at their beach wedding, her children's murdered bodies lay decomposing in squalid 'graves' on his land. May justice for all those scumbags' victims be swift and merciless!
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It's disappointing that COURT TV never starts their reports with a few words of explanation about the context of the crime and the accused's alibi. In 2018 Ronnie O' Neal murdered his girlfriend and their 9 year old daughter and attempted to murder their 8 year old son (now aged 11), then set fire to the family home to destroy evidence.
O' Neal is claiming his girlfriend murdered the children, and he only killed her impulsively, out of self defence and rage that she had killed his kids. That's the oldest lie in the domestic abuser's handbook. Unluckily for him, one of the children survived to tell the true story!
The prosecution say the crime was premeditated first degree murder, and attempted murder, the worst level of homicide for which they are seeking the death penalty. That chump is literally fighting for his life.
He killed his 9 year old daughter with repeated axe blows to her face, head and neck. He repeatedly stabbed his son in the stomach. He then attempted to shoot his girlfriend dead as she fled to a neighbour's home to get help. The gun jammed, so O' Neal beat her to death on the neighbour's front doorstep with the weapon, a long barrelled rifle. The beating was so brutal the gun broke into several pieces, which were recovered from the crime scene.
When emergency service arrived, the little boy staggered out of the burning house and collapsed. He was rushed to hospital by ambulance, and told medical crew en route that his father had killed his mother and sister and had stabbed him. His knife wounds were so severe, his intestines were hanging out.
A firefighter gave evidence and said he recovered the little girl's dead body from the burning house, where the floor was slippery with her blood. He carried her outside and laid her on the front lawn, and said her face was totally unrecognisable. He had hugged a male colleague, and wept.
I've heard that when O'Neal cross examined his son, the little boy told him: "You stabbed me in the stomach". I would have liked to have seen that. The child has been adopted by one of the detectives who investigated the murders. It's the first time he's lived in a family free of his father's abuse. O' Neal is trying to use this to his advantage, claiming the detective is coaching his son to frame him for the murders!
This scumbag had a documented history of domestic abuse, with many calls made to police by his girlfriend. He had recently fathered a baby with another woman. He is headed to death row. He's so clearly mentally unstable, as evidenced by the aggressive way he yelled his opening speech at the jury, I'm amazed the judge allowed him to represent himself. He doesn't appear to be restrained at all. I hope the judge doesn't regret her decision when he's declared guilty - I think his reaction could be explosive! I suggest all armed officers in the court keep a close eye on their weapon.
Making his son interact with the man who murdered his mother and sister and nearly killed him, is a travesty of justice. Who knows how badly that trauma could affect him? The law should be amended to protect child victims of serious crimes from this happening again. I' Neil's defense layer could and should have asked whatever questions he wanted asked - he should not have been allowed to address the child directly, even over Zoom.
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The Adelson's thought they were so special, and so much better than everyone else, they could literally kill a family member who became problematic to them, and they would get away with it. To believe you're so superior that even the law doesn't apply to you, is some rare level of narcissism and entitlement!
I sense Donna the family matriarch is the all-powerful spider at the centre of the family web. She was able to persuade her son Charlie, who enjoyed a great life as a wealthy dentist in the family firm, to arrange a murder that would get him locked up in prison for the rest of his days. That's some strong, and strongly dysfunctional, motherly influence!
Donna is estranged from her eldest son Rob Adelson, because she wouldn't respect his right as an adult to choose his own wife. Again that reflects a crazily controlling woman. The behaviour of her husband Harvey as she was arrested at the airport, indignant with police, tenderly holding her face and kissing her, then carefully removing her jewellery for safekeeping, again confirms her high status in that family. I believe Donna is a big league narcissistic abuser, who married a weak enabler in Harvey.
Harvey gave Donna the high status marriage and family life she demanded. I don't believe he has ever said no to her - even when, together with their son, she plotted the murder of a family member. The state has named Harvey Adelson as a conspirator in Dan's murder, he may be next to face a jury trial. To quote Donna's email to her daughter, Dan hasn't beaten the Adelson family yet - but he's sure getting there!
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Wendi's wide-eyed innocent act on the witness stand has grown old - she's as guilty as sin. Yes, her ex husband, the father of her children, would be alive today if she wanted him that way. She 100% knew about the murder plot, and she fully endorsed it. Had she at any time told her family: "No, not this way - I can't have my kids grow up fatherless", it would not have progressed to completion.
The case against Wendi is primarily circumstantial, because as the only daughter and family princess, her mother and brother protected her, and kept her at arm's length from the grubby, murder for hire arrangements. But I believe it is a powerful circumstantial case that, with a well-prepared prosecution team, could convince a jury of Wendi's guilt far beyond a reasonable doubt. And let's face it, they will have to bring their A-game to nail Wendi, because not only is she an attorney, she will hire the best defence team her murdered husband's money can buy!
I'm intrigued that cracks are appearing in the relationship between Wendi and her family, since brother Charlie's murder conviction and life sentence, and mom Donna's arrest and prosecution. Are her brother and mother enraged that she's keeping her distance from them in her own self-interest, while they take the fall for the murder they arranged for her benefit? Is it now possible they could decide to take her down with them?
Interesting too that prosecutors are meeting with an old girlfriend of Wendi's (I guess we can safely assume they are no longer pals!) This confirms that even as they prepare for Donna Adelson's imminent murder trial, prosecutors are working hard behind the scenes to secure daughter Wendi's scalp too. And what of family patriarch Harvey Adelson, like Wendi named by the state as a murder conspirator? Could he too face a jury trial? This show is going to run and run!
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3:06 The first images we've ever seen of Richard Allen pursuing Abby on the bridge. Chilling. Let the dumb conspiracy theorists finally shut up - he did it! Within days of the crime, Allen admitted he was there on the bridge, on the right date and time, and he even admitted he was wearing the exact same clothes as 'Bridge Guy'.
When he was finally caught years later (thanks to a sub-standard police investigation), he confessed to murdering Abby and Libby. He wasn't tortured, threatened or coerced in any way. He CONFESSED. He IS Bridge Guy. How much more evidence of his obvious guilt do some people want???
Richard Allen is a highly dangerous sex killer, and no child - or woman - would be safe, were he ever to be released. The police ineptitude in holding back so much information from the public who could have identified him - including this video - only fulled the irresponsible conspiracy theorists, and muddied the waters. Thankfully the guilty man was eventually caught and jailed, despite the incompetence of Supt Doug Carter and co.
Let Abby and Libby's loved ones get on with their lives, holding them safe in their hearts, knowing their precious girls' murderer can never harm another child.
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Yes, Ronnie O' Neal is a complete psychopath - he's also a narcissist at the extreme end of the scale, and they are very skilled at seducing women and persuading them they are everything she's looking for in a man, to get their claws in and gain control of her.
It's called the early 'love bombing' phase of what will inevitably become an abusive relationship - and possibly, as in this case, a domestic murder. The 'love bombing' consists of telling the woman "I love you" first and frequently, and pushing for a commitment very early on. This pressure to secure the woman's exclusivity is often accompanied by traditional 'romantic' gestures like flowers and gifts. Sadly, even smart, highly eligible women are often taken in by this kind of attentive, enthusiastic behaviour, are flattered by it and comply with the abusive man's wishes to tie them down in some way - little knowing what the future has in store.
The 'love bombing' phase will last for as long as it takes for him to hook the woman into some sort of commitment to him - eg living together, having his baby, getting engaged or married to him.
Once the narcissist has the woman under his command, the control and abuse begins, and she starts to see a totally different man emerge! I'm convinced greater education in schools about respectful, adult relationships, and teaching kids to recognise 'The Cycle of Narcissistic Abuse' and its red flags, would play a small but significant part in reducing future incidents of domestic violence.
Knowledge is power - give women the tools to recognise when a man is not good for her, and the support to escape him with her children, if needs be. In the UK there are far too few domestic violence shelters for women and children, and now that so many have surrendered to toxic trans activism and allowed male bodied 'trans women' shelter, safe, man-free refuges for women and kids are becoming even more scarce.
Meanwhile, so many boys today are sadly fatherless, and grow up without a positive male role model. I make no excuses for men who become abusers. But how less likely that outcome would be, had they been raised by a loving, non-abusive father, who they witnessed treating their mom and all females with respect.
Ronnie O' Neal's inflated ego and crazy grandiosity was clear during his trial, when his grandstanding, shouty performance defending himself, gave jurors a glimpse of what his victims had suffered at his hands. Put simply, Ronnie O' Neal is a bully, and all bullies are cowards. In addition, he's a little guy. It's one thing for him to murder a defenceless woman and children - but how will he hold up against men much bigger and tougher than him? The kind of hardened criminals who don't like wife and child killers? I don't envy him his future! He'll have a hellish time in prison - in my view it's highly questionable he'll survive it for long.
I'm not sure wife and child killer O' Neal should have been allowed to further insult the victims' loved ones by telling them he wasn't sorry, and repeating his lies that he didn't murder them in cold blood. Haven't those poor grieving people suffered enough? The spectacle of him cross examining the son he tried to murder aged 8 was appalling and unjust enough!
If that scumbag O' Neal had his way, his little boy would also be dead now, like his mom and sister. By a miracle, Ronnie Jr survived his vicious father stabbing and setting fire to him. The boy has now been adopted by a police officer and his wife, and has settled well with them. He was incredibly courageous as he had to face his evil father via a live link to the court room. Watching at home we couldn't see his face, only his small, burn-scarred hands, and we could hear his soft, well spoken and polite replies to questions put to him by his would be killer.I will never forget the moment when Ronnie O' Neal asked his son "Who stabbed you?" And after hesitating for a moment, Ronnie Jr bravely replied: "You did".
I'm glad O' Neal had to hear the victims tell him exactly what they thought of him. And I'm very glad he had to sit there and hear the judge dismiss his bullshit account of his daughter's brutal axe murder He can lie all he likes, he knows he did it, we know he did it - and his fellow prisoners sure as hell know he did it too! Good luck Ronnie, I've a feeling you'll be entering Hell much sooner than you anticipated!
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