Anderson Lee Aldrich who was responsible for the Club Q shooting that left five people dead and dozens injured has plead guilty to a host of charges
According to court documents Anderson Lee Aldrich would walk into a nightclub called Club Q and would open fire killing five people and wounding seventeen others. Thankfully he was stopped before this massacre could continue
Anderson Lee Aldrich would plead guilty to five counts of murder and forty seven counts of attempted murder along with a host of other charges relating to hate charges
Anderson Lee Aldrich will spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole as part of the plea agreement
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Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges during an arraignment hearing Monday morning, avoiding the prospect of a public trail just seven months after the deadly Colorado attack.
Aldrich, who public defenders have said identifies as nonbinary and prefers to be described using they/them pronouns, is accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding 17 others at the LGBTQ+ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Nov. 19, 2022.
The suspect, whom the judge referred to as “Mx. Aldrich” during Monday’s arraignment hearing, accepted a plea agreement for a life sentence without the possibility of parole in exchange for pleading guilty to five counts of first-degree murder. Aldrich also pleaded guilty Monday to 46 counts of attempted murder in the first degree.
Much debate has swirled about what motivated the massacre
The suspect pleaded no contest to felony and misdemeanor charges of bias-motivated crimes. “Because of the evidence presented I believe there is a high probability of being convicted at trial to those counts, and so I am pleading no contest or nolo contendere,” Aldrich told the court Monday, explaining the no contest plea.
In an interview from jail, Aldrich reportedly admitted to The Associated Press to being on a “very large plethora of drugs” and abusing steroids at the time, expressing regret for the attack and adding that suggesting the shooting was motivated by hate was “completely off base.”
In court hearings earlier this year, law enforcement testified that Aldrich ran a neo-Nazi website and used gay and racial slurs while gaming online, while the defense countered that Aldrich’s sometimes abusive mother forced the suspect to frequent LGBTQ+ clubs.
Two veterans out at Club Q reportedly helped thwart the attack by disarming Aldrich, who was beaten by patrons and displayed a bruised and bloodied face in his initial mugshot and court appearance. Aldrich was facing more than 300 state counts, including murder and hate crimes. The Justice Department is also considering pursuing federal hate crime charges, according to a senior law enforcement official who spoke to the AP.
Aldrich allegedly hinted at plans to carry out violent attacks at least a year before the Club Q assault. In June 2021, Aldrich’s grandparents told authorities that they were warned not to stand in the way of a plan to stockpile guns, ammo, body armor and a homemade bomb to become “the next mass killer.” Aldrich was then arrested after a standoff with SWAT officers that was live-streamed on Facebook and the evacuation of 10 nearby homes, telling officers “If they breach, I’m a f—-ing blow it to holy hell!” Aldrich eventually surrendered.
However, the charges against Aldrich were thrown out in July 2022 after Aldrich’s mother and grandparents, the victims in the case, refused to cooperate with prosecutors, evading efforts to serve them with subpoenas to testify, according to court documents unsealed after the shooting. Other relatives told a judge they feared Aldrich would hurt the grandparents if released, painting a picture of an isolated, violent person who did not have a job and was given $30,000 that was spent largely on the purchase of 3D printers to make guns, the records showed.
Anderson Lee Aldrich was released from jail then and authorities kept two guns — a ghost gun pistol and an MM15 rifle – seized in the arrest. But there was nothing to stop Aldrich from legally purchasing more firearms, raising questions immediately after the shooting about whether authorities should have sought a red flag order to prevent such purchases.
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said it would not have been able to seek a court order stopping Anderson Lee Aldrich from buying or possessing guns because the 2021 arrest record was sealed after the charges were dropped. There was no new evidence that they could use to prove that Aldrich posed a threat “in the near future,” the sheriff’s office said.
Investigators later revealed that the two guns Anderson Lee Aldrich had during the Club Q attack – the rifle and a handgun – appeared to be ghost guns, or firearms without serial numbers that are homemade and do not require an owner to pass a background check, according to the AP.
Victims’ family members and survivors are expected to speak at Monday’s hearing.
Paris Mayo was just fifteen years old when this teen killer would give birth at her family home. Instead of calling for help Paris would murder the newborn by inflicting a ton of damage and crushing his skull and stuffing cotton down the newborn throat so he would suffocate.
It would take nearly four years for Paris Mayo to go to trial and when she did she would be convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison with no shot at parole for twelve years
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A 19-year-old who murdered her newborn son hours after giving birth has been jailed for at least 12 years.
A trial heard Paris Mayo, then 15, suffocated the boy, Stanley, by stuffing cotton wool into his mouth and throat.
Paris Mayo delivered him alone at her family home in Ross-on-Wye, in March 2019, while her parents were upstairs.
“Killing your baby son was a truly dreadful thing to do,” said the judge, Mr Justice Garnham, passing sentence.
The trial heard she had assaulted Stanley, leaving him with injuries comparable to those seen in a car crash.
“How you did this is not clear, but I suspect you crushed his head, probably beneath your foot,” the judge told Paris Mayo.
Her initial assault caused him “serious damage”, but did not kill him, the judge added.
“He remained alive and continued to breathe for at least an hour. You decided you had to finish Stanley off by stuffing cotton wool balls into his throat.”
The newborn was found by Mayo’s mother the day after his birth, dumped in a bin bag left on the doorstep.
It was she who alerted emergency services in an emotional 999 call played to the jury.
Paris Mayo had claimed she did not know she was pregnant, also telling the court of her difficult family life and her father who had made her feel “worthless”.
In her testimony, she described how she started having sex at 13 and used it as a way to get people to like her, because she was “insecure” due to her family situation.
The court heard her father Patrick Mayo – who died 10 days after Stanley – had been upstairs on dialysis treatment with Mayo’s mother at the time of the birth.
“You went through the process of giving birth without the assistance of a midwife, a doctor, a friend or a relative. I find as a fact that you were frightened and traumatised by those events.,” Mr Justice Garnham said during sentencing.
“Astonishingly, despite the pain you must have endured, it seems you did not cry out, so anxious were you not to disturb your parents sleeping upstairs.”
Defence barrister Bernard Richmond KC described Paris Mayo as a “pathetic and vulnerable individual” who had not been supported by people around her.
“When faced with a decision she had to make, she did not face up to it. By the time she had to, the decision she made was woefully, woefully wrong,” he said.
“This will, in every sense of the word, be a life sentence. It will be a lonely, isolating and frightening time for her.”
The jury were given the option to consider an alternative verdict of infanticide if they believed she killed Stanley while the balance of her mind was disturbed.
However, Paris Mayo, of Ruardean in Gloucestershire, cried in the dock on Friday as jurors delivered a majority guilty verdict on the charge of murder.
During summing up Mr Justice Garnham rejected the suggestion the murder was committed “with significant pre-planning”.
He added that Mayo had not spent her time covering up her pregnancy, but in March 2019 had found herself “facing a reality you had spent nine months telling yourself could not be true”.
However, he said the combination of a two-stone weight gain and the lack of periods for eight months meant she “must have known” she was pregnant and “rapidly approaching your time for giving birth”.
Despite that, the judge said Mayo “told no one, and sought no help”.
“You did not even tell your mother who you accepted in court would, at least after the initial shock, have been supportive,” he said.
“I find as a fact that almost as soon as Stanley was born, you had decided you could not allow him to live.”
The judge also used his sentencing remarks to criticise a prosecution expert witness, describing forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding’s “inflexibility of thinking” while giving evidence as “unhelpful”.
“He had told the police that you ought to be prosecuted, a surprising opinion for an expert called to give evidence on a defendant’s mental state to express,” Mr justice Garnham said.
It was apparent he had a “clear and unshakeable view on your culpability from the time of his very first meeting with you.”
A spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said the case had been both “tragic and complex”.
Stanley’s “short life was filled with pain and suffering when he should have been nurtured and loved”.
“[Mayo] chose to hide her pregnancy, give birth alone and kill her baby, then hide his body, despite accepting that she had a family who would have supported her.”
Well Murder Database has just passed fifteen hundred posts which includes over eight hundred executions. As any new website it takes some time to gain traffic and MurderDB.com is definitely not the exception as it has been pretty slow going
When it comes to executions I have been linking from the Execution section on My Crime Library as it keeps it easier for me to keep track where I am on the list. It always amazes me on the lack of news coverage when it comes to executions in the USA. To me this is part of history that should be documented
Debating whether or not to create separate pages for each year of executions or individual death row states however that is not going to happen anytime soon as I continue to bang away at the list of executions that have taken place since the return of Capital Punishment in the 1970’s
According to court documents Duane Owen would attack 14-year-old babysitter Karen Slattery in March 1984. The teenage girl would be sexually assaulted and murdered. Two months later Owen would sexually assault and murder Georgianna Worden on May 29, 1984.
Thursday, convicted murderer Duane Owen, 62, is scheduled to be executed in Florida, almost 40 years after the separate brutal murders of a mother and a 14-year-old babysitter in Palm Beach County.
Owen’s attorney has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt Thursday’s execution, arguing that Owen is not competent to be executed.
He “lacks a rational understanding of the connection between his crime and impending execution due to his fixed psychotic delusions and dementia,” Lisa M. Fusaro argued in the filing.
Attorneys for the state of Florida filed their own motions Tuesday arguing the Supreme Court should not halt the execution, saying it is “not in the public interest” to further delay punishment using the same mental health arguments that have failed in numerous attempts before.
Owen confessed to breaking into a Delray Beach home in 1984, where 14-year-old Karen Slattery was babysitting, waited until she put the children to bed and then confronting her nude except for boxer shorts, gloves and socks, holding a knife and a hammer.
He stabbed her 18 times, then dragged her unconscious body to a bedroom where he raped her.
Afterward, court records show he said he checked in on the sleeping children, then took a shower and left.
Two months later, investigators found Owen’s fingerprint on a book near the body of Georgianna Worden, 38, of Boca Raton.
Worden had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer and then raped and posed while her two daughters slept in the next room. They discovered her body the next morning.
Court records show Owen had also broken into the homes of two other women in a similar fashion and brutally attacked and assaulted them.
Owen was convicted and sentenced to death in both cases, but his conviction in Slattery’s murder was overturned by the Supreme Court on an argument that a statement he made during his confession should have halted the questioning.
That decision was later reversed, and Owen received a new trial in 1999, although he was already facing the death penalty in Worden’s case.
Owen used an insanity defense in that trial, claiming he wanted to be a woman and thought he could become one by killing a woman.
The jury once again convicted him, and Judge Harold Cohen sentenced him to death.
Attorneys appealed the conviction, but the Supreme Court affirmed it.
Unless there is a stay by the U.S. Supreme Court, Duane Owen is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Florida State Prison in Starke.
WPBF 25 News Investigative Reporter Terri Parker, who covered the murders in 1984 and the retrial in 1999, will be a witness to the execution.
Ted Kaczynski the man the FBI dubbed The Unabomber was found dead in his prison cell at a Federal Medical Center
Ted Kaczynski was sentenced to multiple life sentences after pleading guilty to a series of bombings that left three people dead and dozens injured had been kept at the Supermax in Colorado was recently transferred to a Federal Medical Center due to failing health
The Unabomber was active in the United States from 1978 to 1995 where he would mail bombs that targeted Universities and airlines. His undoing came when he sent a thirty five thousand word manifesto to major newspapers. His brother recognized the way it was written and notified the FBI
Ted Kaczynski lawyers wanted to go for an insanity defense but he thought that was insulting so he plead guilty to all of the charges he was facing
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Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.
Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. A cause of death was not immediately known.
Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.
Years before the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the “Unabomber’s” deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.
He forced The Washington Post, in conjunction with The New York Times, to make the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation.
But it led to his undoing. Kaczynski’s brother David and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the treatise’s tone and tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the “Unabomber” for years in nation’s longest, costliest manhunt.
Authorities in April 1996 found him in a 10-by-14-foot (3-by-4-meter) plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, that was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosive ingredients and two completed bombs.
As an elusive criminal mastermind, the Unabomber won his share of sympathizers and comparisons to Daniel Boone, Edward Abbey and Henry David Thoreau.
But once revealed as a wild-eyed hermit with long hair and beard who weathered Montana winters in a one-room shack, Kaczynski struck many as more of a pathetic loner than romantic anti-hero.
Even in his own journals, Kaczynski came across as not a committed revolutionary, but a vengeful hermit driven by petty grievances.
“I certainly don’t claim to be an altruist or to be acting for the ‘good’ (whatever that is) of the human race,” he wrote on April 6, 1971. “I act merely from a desire for revenge.”
FILE – Theodore Kaczynski looks around as U.S. Marshals prepare to take him down the steps at the federal courthouse to a waiting vehicle on June 21, 1996, in Helena, Mont. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press that Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison. The cause of death was not immediately known. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) 1 of 6 FILE – Theodore Kaczynski looks around as U.S. Marshals prepare to take him down the steps at the federal courthouse to a waiting vehicle on June 21, 1996, in Helena, Mont. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press that Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison. The cause of death was not immediately known. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.
Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Ted Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. A cause of death was not immediately known.
Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims. ADVERTISEMENT
Years before the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the “Unabomber’s” deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.
He forced The Washington Post, in conjunction with The New York Times, to make the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation.
But it led to his undoing. Kaczynski’s brother David and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the treatise’s tone and tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the “Unabomber” for years in nation’s longest, costliest manhunt.
Authorities in April 1996 found him in a 10-by-14-foot (3-by-4-meter) plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, that was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosive ingredients and two completed bombs.
As an elusive criminal mastermind, the Unabomber won his share of sympathizers and comparisons to Daniel Boone, Edward Abbey and Henry David Thoreau.
But once revealed as a wild-eyed hermit with long hair and beard who weathered Montana winters in a one-room shack, Kaczynski struck many as more of a pathetic loner than romantic anti-hero.
Even in his own journals, Ted Kaczynski came across as not a committed revolutionary, but a vengeful hermit driven by petty grievances.
“I certainly don’t claim to be an altruist or to be acting for the ‘good’ (whatever that is) of the human race,” he wrote on April 6, 1971. “I act merely from a desire for revenge.” ADVERTISEMENT
A psychiatrist who interviewed Kaczynski in prison diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic.
“Mr. Kaczynski’s delusions are mostly persecutory in nature,” Sally Johnson wrote in a 47-page report. “The central themes involve his belief that he is being maligned and harassed by family members and modern society.”
Kaczynski hated the idea of being viewed as mentally ill and when his lawyers attempted to present an insanity defense, he tried to fire them. When that failed, he tried to hang himself with his underwear.
Ted Kaczynski eventually pleaded guilty rather than let his defense team proceed with an insanity defense.
“I’m confident that I’m sane,” Kaczynski told Time magazine in 1999. “I don’t get delusions and so forth.”
He was certainly brilliant.
Ted Kaczynski skipped two grades to attend Harvard at age 16 and had published papers in prestigious mathematics journals. His explosives were carefully tested and came in meticulously handcrafted wooden boxes sanded to remove possible fingerprints. Later bombs bore the signature “FC” for “Freedom Club.”
The FBI called him the “Unabomber” because his early targets seemed to be universities and airlines. An altitude-triggered bomb he mailed in 1979 went off as planned aboard an American Airlines flight; a dozen people aboard suffered from smoke inhalation.
Ted Kaczynski killed computer rental store owner Hugh Scrutton, advertising executive Thomas Mosser and timber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray. California geneticist Charles Epstein and Yale University computer expert David Gelernter were maimed by bombs two days apart in June 1993.
Mosser was killed in his North Caldwell, New Jersey, home on Dec. 10, 1994, a day he was supposed to be picking out a Christmas tree with his family. His wife, Susan, found him grievously wounded by a barrage of razor blades, pipes and nails.
“He was moaning very softly,” she said at Kaczynski’s 1998 sentencing. “The fingers on his right hand were dangling. I held his left hand. I told him help was coming. I told him I loved him.”
When Kaczynski stepped up his bombs and letters to newspapers and scientists in 1995, experts speculated the “Unabomber” was jealous of the attention being paid to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
A threat to blow up a plane out of Los Angeles before the end of the July Fourth weekend threw air travel and mail delivery into chaos. The “Unabomber” later claimed it was a “prank.”
The Washington Post printed the “Unabomber’s” manifesto at the urging of federal authorities, after the bomber said he would desist from terrorism if a national publication published his treatise.
Patrik had had a disturbing feeling about her brother-in-law even before seeing the manifesto and eventually persuaded her husband to read a copy at the library. After two months of arguments, they took some of Ted Kaczynski’s letters to Patrik’s childhood friend Susan Swanson, a private investigator in Chicago.
Swanson in turn passed them along to former FBI behavior science expert Clint Van Zandt, whose analysts said whoever wrote them had also probably written the “Unabomber’s” manifesto.
“It was a nightmare,” David Kaczynski, who as a child had idolized his older brother, said in a 2005 speech at Bennington College. “I was literally thinking, ‘My brother’s a serial killer, the most wanted man in America.’”
Swanson turned to a corporate lawyer friend, Anthony Bisceglie, who contacted the FBI.
David Kaczynski wanted his role kept confidential, but his identity quickly leaked out and Ted Kaczynski vowed never to forgive his younger sibling. He ignored his letters, turned his back on him at court hearings and described David Kaczynski in a 1999 book draft as a “Judas Iscariot (who) … doesn’t even have enough courage to go hang himself.”
Ted Kaczynski was born May 22, 1942, in Chicago, the son of second-generation Polish Catholics — a sausage-maker and a homemaker. He played the trombone in the school band, collected coins and skipped the sixth and 11th grades.
His high school classmates thought him odd, particularly after he showed a school wrestler how to make a mini-bomb that detonated during chemistry class.
Harvard classmates recalled him as a lonely, thin boy with poor personal hygiene and a room that smelled of spoiled milk, rotting food and foot powder.
After graduate studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ted Kaczynski got a job teaching math at the University of California at Berkeley but found the work difficult and quit abruptly. In 1971, he bought a 1½-acre parcel about 4 miles (6 kilometers) outside of Lincoln and built a cabin there without heating, plumbing or electricity.
He learned to garden, hunt, make tools and sew, living on a few hundred dollars a year.
He left his cabin in Montana in the late 1970s to work at a foam rubber products manufacturer outside Chicago with his father and brother. But when a female supervisor dumped him after two dates, he began posting insulting limericks about her and wouldn’t stop.
His brother fired him and Ted Kaczynski soon returned to the wilderness to continue plotting his vengeful killing spree.
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