Archive | February, 2009

Mother of two young victims takes stand in ex-husband’s murder trial

Jamie Hallam’s round with the legal system would have nothing to do with sudden death, though.

For here, the light of truth exposes a case wherein at east one child endured brutalities lasting weeks. Maybe even months.

In that courtroom yesterday, Hallam answered questions about the brief lives of a beautiful 4-year-old girl. And a handsome 5-year-old boy.

Her kids.

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Wayne Bent speaks from prison

LISTEN: “Turning Point” (Wayne Bent speaks from prison) The imprisoned leader of the Lord Our Righteousness Church isn’t letting incarceration keep him from espousing his foreboding pronouncements from his familiar post in cyberspace.  A new audio recording featuring the voice of Wayne Bent appeared on the LOR’s Web site today. It sounds as if it [...]

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Wayne Bent trial transcripts emerging Online

TRANSCRIPTS Two frequent contributors to the comments sections of this blog have teamed-up to post written transcripts of the Wayne Bent trial on the Internet. Sam Redman and Jan Brennan are publishing the transcripts at Redman’s Strong City “mirror site“. According to Redman’s mirror site, the names of the victims will be redacted from its [...]

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"Esther" returns to Strong City

Update (February 9, 2009 / 2:35pm PST):  A note from Esther *** She’s back. 25-year-old Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka Esther) returned to the Lord Our Righeousness Church compound known as “Strong City” on Saturday afternoon.  According to strongcity.info, O’Keefe returned to “the land” in remote northeastern New Mexico around 2:30pm local time. A photo posted on [...]

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VIDEO: Chasing swans…

Chasing swans… from Mark Horner on Vimeo. Washington state’s Skagit Valley is a well-known winter home for swans and geese.  I hadn’t planned to videotape those feathered snowbirds.  Until my parents called the other day. My mom told me there were tens of thousands of swans in several fields along Pioneer Highway between Stanwood and [...]

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BREAKING NEWS: Body found near 1995 Arizona murder scene

POLICE:  Cases are *not* connected AUDIO: (Thatcher, Arizona) In what appears to be a bit of an eerie coincidence, a woman’s body has been found about a hundred yards away from what is arguably this rural town’s most high-profile unsolved murder: The 1995 murder of 29-year-old Mary Ann Holmes. Speaking from this latest scene by [...]

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Strong City posts its video of "Esther" interview with KOB-TV

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VIDEO: KOB-TV’s exclusive interview with "starving" woman

Just hours before authorities removed Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka “Esther”) from a “cult” compound in northeastern New Mexico last Wednesday, KOB-TV’s Jeremy Jojola conducted an exclusive interview with the young woman. O’Keefe, who said she’d not eaten since December 30th, had been fasting to protest the imprisonment of Wayne Bent (aka “Michael Travesser). O’Keefe’s sister is [...]

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