Sunday, April 6, 2008




PHOTOCOPIES FROM ARTICLES IN THE DAILY RECORD




PHOTOCOPIES OF ORIGINAL STORY REPORTED IN THE COATESVILLE NEWSPAPER THE DAILY RECORD
YOUR ALWAYS HEARING ABOUT ALL THE KIDS WHO ARE ABUSED, NEGLECTED, STARVED, OR KILLED, BECAUSE CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES FAILED TO CHECK UP, OR FOLLOW UP, OR JUST FLAT OUT IGNORED THE WARNING SIGNS.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SCREW UP THE LIVES OF THE CHILDREN THEY DO FOLLOW UP ON AS WELL. YOU JUST DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT AS OFTEN.

WHEN I KIDNAPPED MY SON , PEOPLE STARTED COMING OUT OF THE WOODWORK WRITING LETTERS ASKING ME TO HELP THEM BECAUSE CYS HAD DONE THE SAME TO THING TO THEIR CHILDREN.

I CONVINCED THE SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ALL OF US, BUT IT DIDN'T CHANGE THINGS TOO MUCH FOR MOST OF THE FAMILIES. ONE YOUNG GIRL ENDED UP HANGING HERSELF. SHE WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD, AND SHE CHOSE SUICIDE OVER FOSTER CARE. CYS REMOVED HER FROM HER HOME FOR TRUANCY, AND PLACED HER IN FOSTER CARE WHERE SHE TRAGICALLY ENDED HER OWN LIFE.
I MENTIONED JUDGE SMITH IN MY PREVIOUS POST, WHILE WRITING ABOUT THE COUNTY TRYING TO DRUG MY SON WITH LITHIUM. I WANT TO MENTION THAT HE WAS NOT THE ONE TO ORIGINALLY PLACE MY SON.
NO MASTER GILHOULY (NOT SURE OF SPELLING) WAS THE ONE WHO PLACED HIM IN CHESTER COUNTY CHILDREN'S AND YOUTH SERVICES, ENDANGERING HIS LIFE, FOR NOT GOING TO SCHOOL.

I GUESS SHE IS NOT REALLY A JUDGE, THAT'S WHY THEY CALL HER MASTER, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IN MY OPINION SHE DIDN'T BELONG IN FAMILY COURT EITHER.
MY SON WAS SOFT SPOKEN AND SCARED, AND SHE PUT HIM UP ON THE WITNESS STAND, AND SHE SCREAMED IN FACE, CALLING HIM A LIAR. SHE EMBARRASSED HIM, AND TREATED HIM LIKE A HARDENED CRIMINAL. AND IT TOOK ALL I HAD NOT TO JUMP UP OUT OF MY SEAT.
SHE DIDN'T LIKE ME, AND NEITHER DID C.Y.S. BECAUSE I WASN'T QUIET LIKE MY SON. I BELIEVE THIS WAS DONE TO SPITE ME, AND THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND C.Y.S. DID IT FOR THE MONEY.
THEY ARE ALLOTTED SO MUCH MONEY PER CHILD IN THEIR CUSTODY, PLUS THEY COULD CASH IN ON MY MOTHERS HEALTH CARE.
THEY KNEW MY SON HAD A LOVING FAMILY, THAT WASN'T THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM WAS BRANDON REFUSED TO GO TO SCHOOL. THE THING IS, THAT DIDN'T CHANGE AFTER I LOST CUSTODY. THEY HAD HIM LOCKED UP AND YET HE STILL WAS GETTING ANY TYPE OF AN EDUCATION OTHER THAN STREET SMARTS.
BUT INSTEAD OF TRYING TO HELP HIM ACADEMICALLY THEY DECIDED IT WAS EASIER TO PUT HIM INTO AN ADULT DETOX FACILITY, AND DRUG HIM. NO ONE WILL EVER CONVINCE ME THIS WAS IN HIS BEST INTEREST. LETS NOT FORGET, HE DID NOTHING MORE THAN REFUSE TO GO TO SCHOOL.

Friday, April 4, 2008



SO NOW THE POLICE FINALLY HAD SOMETHING TO GO ON. THIS WAS ONLY BECAUSE MY SON HAD A CONSCIOUS, NOT GOOD OLD FASHIONED POLICE WORK.

I WAS TOLD THE NEXT DAY ABOUT CHARLES LINTON'S (A.K.A. DUFFY). INVOLVEMENT IN THE SHOOTING. MY MOTHER INFORMED ME THAT RONALD AND MY NIECE NICHOLE, HAD TOLD HER THAT DUFFY WAS THE ONE THAT SHOT THE MAN AT THE EXXON. SHE TOLD ME THEY HAD ALREADY GONE INTO TALK TO THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE.

I IMMEDIATELY ASKED IF BRANDON WAS INVOLVED. DUFFY HAD JUST BEEN RELEASED FROM COUNTY LOCKUP A WEEK EARLIER AND HE CAME TO THE HOUSE LOOKING BRANDON, WHO WAS NOT AT HOME AT THE TIME.
ONLY A COUPLE OF DAYS AFTER DUFFY STOPPED BY BRANDON WAS SCHEDULED TO GO INTO REHAB, AND I WASN'T ABOUT TO TELL HIM THAT DUFFY WAS LOOKING FOR HIM.

BRANDON WAS ADDICTED TO CRACK, AND I GAVE HIM THE ULTIMATUM GO TO REHAB, OR GET OUT. HE WAS STEALING FROM ME AND MY MOTHER. WE HAD TO SLEEP WITH OUR KEYS AND MONEY. HE HAD ALREADY SOLD ANY JEWELRY, ETC. HE COULD GET HIS HANDS ON. MY MOTHER BOUGHT HIM VALUABLE ROOKIE CARDS OVER THE YEARS, AND HE SOLD THEM ALL FOR CRACK.

HE ONCE TRADED MY MOTHERS CAR FOR WHAT THEY REFER TO AS A DEUCE RIDE. I THINK IT 20 DOLLARS WORTH OF CRACK, BUT DON'T QUOTE ME. I DO KNOW IT ISN'T MUCH, NOT A 30,000 DOLLAR VEHICLE WORTH.
HIS ADDICTION WAS OUT OF CONTROL, AND WE WERE LIVING LIKE PRISONERS IN OUR OWN HOME.

IT WAS SO SAD. BRANDON WAS A SWEET KID. HE STARTED HAVING PROBLEMS AT SCHOOL IN THE EARLY 90'S. IT WAS DURING THE TIME WHEN KIDS WERE KILLING EACH OTHER FOR STARTER JACKETS, AND SNEAKERS, OR WHATEVER THE KIDS WANTED AT THE TIME. YOUNG GIRLS COULDN'T EVEN WEAR 14KT GOLD EARRINGS TO SCHOOL. THE KIDS WERE OUT OF CONTROL.

BRANDON WAS JUMPED BY THREE BOYS, AND DRAGGED INTO THE BATHROOM,WHERE THEY BEAT HIM SEVERELY FOR HIS LUNCH MONEY. I WAS CALLED TO THE SCHOOL, AND I DIDN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE HIM WHEN I SAW HIM. THIS FOR A LOUSY DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS.
HE REFUSED TO WEAR HIS COATS TO SCHOOL, FOR FEAR OF GETTING JUMPED, OR WORSE YET SHOT.
HE FINALLY DECIDED HE WASN'T GOING TO GO. HE STARED SKIPPING SCHOOL AND HANGING OUT WITH THE BOY WHO LIVED NEXT DOOR. HE WAS SIXTEEN, AND HIS MOTHER SIGNED HIM OUT OF SCHOOL.
BRANDON ON THE HAND WAS ONLY THIRTEEN, AND IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE THE TRUANT OFFICER CAME KNOCKING ON THE DOOR.

I HAD NO IDEA HE WASN'T GOING TO , I WAS WORKING EVERY DAY AND WE WOULD LEAVE THE HOUSE THE SAME TIME. BRANDON WOULD WALK TO HIS BUS STOP, OR SO I THOUGHT, AND I WOULD GET IN MY CAR AND DRIVE OFF TO WORK.
NEVER THE LESS BRANDON WASN'T GOING. WE HAD TO APPEAR IN COURT, AND CHESTER COUNTY CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES GOT INVOLVED. WHAT A JOKE.

I'M GOING TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT BY SAYING THEY TOOK MY SON, OUT OF MY HOME, AND PLACED HIM FIRST IN A SHELTER, THEN IN FOSTER CARE WHERE HE SLEPT ON THE FLOOR. FROM THERE THEY PLACED HIM INTO AN ADULT DETOX FACILITY WHERE THEY WANTED TO DRUG HIM WITH LITHIUM.


IT WAS INSANE, HE DIDN'T NEED DETOX. HE WAS GIVEN SEVERAL RANDOM DRUG TESTS BEFORE BEING REMOVED FROM MY HOME. THEY WERE ALL NEGATIVE. I TOOK MATTERS INTO MY OWN HANDS. I TOOK HIM OUT OF THE FACILITY AGAINST COURT ORDER, AND WENT INTO HIDING, UNTIL THE COURTS AGREED NOT TO DRUG HIM. I MADE THE FRONT PAGE HEADLINES AS MOM ON THE RUN FOR THREE WEEKS. IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE OF THIS MEDIA ATTENTION THAT THE COURTS ( JUDGE CHARLES B. SMITH) RULED IN MY FAVOR.
IN MY OPINION HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER PRESIDED OVER JUVENILE, OR FAMILY COURT.
KEEP IN MIND THIS WAS BECAUSE MY SON SKIPPED SCHOOL, NOTHING MORE.


BRANDON NEVER THE LESS WAS STILL REMOVED FROM MY CUSTODY, UNTIL I WENT TO THE COURTS AND ASKED TO HAVE HIM ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT, IN ORDER TO GET HIM OUT OF C.Y.S. CUSTODY.
CHESTER COUNTY CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR HIM. HE RECEIVED ABSOLUTELY NO EDUCATION FOR THE THREE YEARS HE WAS IN THEIR CUSTODY. THEY WERE PAID WELL OVER TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM HEALTH COVERAGE MY MOTHER HAD ON MY SON FROM WYETH LABS.


THEY RUINED MY SON'S LIFE JUST MOVING HIM FROM FOSTER CARE TO SHELTER TO REHAB, TO VISION QUEST.
THEY PUT HIM IN ALL THESE DIFFERENT TREATMENT PROGRAMS, BECAUSE HE WAS TRUANT, YET HE NEVER RECEIVED ANY EDUCATION.


I HAD TO HAVE MY SON ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT TO GET HIM AWAY FROM THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE IN FACT ENDANGERING HIS LIFE.
I HAD HEARD OF A GOOD PROGRAM, THE PROBLEM WAS UNLESS BRANDON WAS ADJUDICATED DELINQUENT, THEY WOULDN'T ACCEPT HIM. SO AS MUCH AS HATED TO DO THIS TO MY OWN SON, I FELT I HAD NO OTHER CHOICE.
I ONLY WISHED I WOULD HAVE DONE IT SOONER.
BRANDON FINALLY GOT AN EDUCATION. WITHIN A YEAR HE WAS TAKING HIS G.E.D. AND HE WAS DOING SO WELL. HE WAS COMPETING IN TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS, HE EXCELLED.
IT WAS BITTERSWEET. HE WAS DOING WELL, BUT THE YEARS SPENT IN C.Y.S. CUSTODY HAD CHANGED HIM SO MUCH. HE WAS SMOKING CIGARETTES A HABIT HE PICKED UP WHILE IN ADULT DETOX FACILITY. HE ALSO RECEIVED A JAILHOUSE TATTOO. HE NEVER RECEIVED AN EDUCATION, BUT HE HAD STREET SMARTS NOW. HE WASN'T THE SAME SCARED LITTLE BOY THAT WAS AFRAID TO GO TO SCHOOL.

BRANDON WASN'T RELEASED FORM THIS PROGRAM UNTIL HE WAS READY TO TURN 20. HE WAS THERE ABOUT THREE YEARS. THE PROGRAM WAS GOOD FOR HIM BUT HE COULDN'T WAIT TO COME HOME AND LOOK UP HIS OLD FRIENDS.
ONE OF THE COUNSELORS TRIED TO TALK HIM INTO MOVING IN WITH HIM AND GOING TO STEVEN'S TRADE SCHOOL IN LANCASTER, BUT BRANDON DID NOT WANT TO DO THIS RIGHT AWAY. HE HAD BEEN IN LOCK UP SINCE HE WAS THIRTEEN, AND HE WANTED TO COME HOME .
IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE HE WAS SMOKING CRACK. HE WAS ADDICTED IN NO TIME. HE COULDN'T CONTROL IT.
HE HADN'T EVEN BEEN HOME FOR A YEAR AND NOW HERE WE WERE LOOKING INTO REHAB.
BRANDON AGREED TO GO. HE WANTED TO GET OFF THE DRUGS BUT HE KNEW HE NEEDED HELP. HE COULDN'T DO IT ON HIS OWN.
MY MOM AND HIS GIRLFRIEND TAMMY DROVE HIM 3 HOURS TO THE FACILITY IN BLUE MOUNTAIN, BUT WHEN THEY GOT THERE HE CHANGED HIS MIND AND REFUSED TO STAY.
THERE WAS NOTHING ANYONE COULD DO. HE WAS THERE VOLUNTARILY AND WITHOUT A COURT ORDER NO ONE COULD FORCE HIM TO STAY.
HE FLAT OUT REFUSED. IT WAS TOO FAR FROM HOME, AND HE DID NOT LIKE THE MOUNTAINS. HE HAD SPENT ENOUGH TIME THERE WHILE IN LOCKUP. HE WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE IT A CHANCE. SO I TOLD HIM HE HAD TO GET OUT.
HE WAS ONLY GONE FOR THREE DAYS WHEN THE UNIDENTIFIED MANS BODY WAS DISCOVERED IN DOWNINGTOWN. MY BIGGEST FEAR WAS THAT IT WAS BRANDON.
I HADN'T HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM OR EVEN TAMMY. I WAS WORRIED SICK. IT WAS THE COLDEST WEEK WE HAD HAD ALL WINTER WITH TEMPERATURES DIPPING BELOW ZERO. I IMAGINED THE WORST.
LATER IN THE DAY THEY GAVE AN APPROXIMATE AGE OF THE MAN, AND I QUICKLY REALIZED IT COULDN'T BE MY SON.
I WAS SO RELIEVED, BUT NOT FOR VERY LONG.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

I WOULD HAVE LEFT OUT THE INFORMATION ON KENNETH TUCKER, BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT. THE POLICE HAD NO LEADS THEY WERE FOCUSING THEIR INVESTIGATION ON HIM, BUT WHEN THEY FINALLY GOT A CONVICTION THEY WANTED THE PUBLIC TO BELIEVE THIS WAS GOOD OLD FASHIONED POLICE WORK, NOT SO.
IT WAS BRANDON, WHO COULDN'T LIVE WITH WHAT HE SAW. HE HAD TO TELL SOMEONE WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
HE FIRST TOLD MY NIECES THEN BOYFRIEND, RONALD. HE WAS AFRAID TO GO TO THE POLICE, BUT HE HAD TO TALK TO SOMEONE. SO HE TOLD RONALD.
RONALD KNEW ABOUT THE REWARD THAT HAD BEEN OFFERED, AND ON 3/01/199 HE WENT TO THE STATE POLICE, ALONG WITH MY NIECE, AND MY MOTHER, AND HE TOLD THEM WHAT HE KNEW ABOUT THE SHOOTER.
HOWEVER HE LEFT MY SON OUT OF IT. HE DID THIS ON HIS OWN. HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT BRANDON, AND HE DID NOT WANT TO GET HIM INTO TROUBLE, BUT THIS WAS DECISION HE MADE ON HIS OWN.
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MY NIECE, NO ONE ELSE WAS PRIVY TO THIS INFO AT THE TIME INCLUDING MY MOTHER WHO DROVE THEM TO THE STATION TO GIVE A STATEMENT.
SO YES HE LEFT SOME VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION OUT WHEN TALKING TO THE POLICE, BUT HE STILL GAVE THEM THE INFORMATION THEY NEEDED TO MAKE AN ARREST AND CONVICTION.
HE WANTED THE REWARD, THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND ABOUT THAT, AND THIS WAS HIS REASON FOR NOT TELLING ME, OR ANYONE ELSE IN THE FAMILY WHAT HE KNEW. HE WAS CONCERNED THAT WE MIGHT TRY TO TALK HIM OUT OFGOING TO THE COPS, OR PERHAPS HE WAS AFRAID THAT SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT TRY TO GET THE REWARD.
EITHER WAY HE HADN'T BEEN 100% TRUTHFUL ABOUT WHAT HE KNEW, WHEN HE TOLD MY MOTHER OR THE POLICE, WHAT HE KNEW.
BUT HE STILL GAVE THEM THEIR KILLER. I WISH HE HAD TALKED TO US FIRST. I WISH HE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY TRUTHFUL. THE FACT IS HE WASN'T, AND HE HAD HIS REASONS. NEVER THE LESS HE GAVE THEM THE INFORMATION THEY NEEDED TO MAKE AN ARREST, AND CONVICTION.
THE REWARD OFFERED, STATED VERY CLEARLY THAT 20,000.00 WOULD BE PAID TO ANYONE WHO CAME FORWARD WITH ANY INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST AND CONVICTION OF THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SHOOTING DEATH OF THE EXXON DRIVER.
RONALD GAVE THEM THEIR INFO LEADING TO ARREST AND CONVICTION AND THEY SCREWED HIM.
NOW I DON'T AGREE WITH RONALD'S MOTIVES, BUT IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY FAMILY OR ANYONE INVOLVED. HE WANTED THAT REWARD AND HE TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF TO GO AFTER IT, AND THE COPS SCREWED HIM, AND IF THAT WEREN'T ENOUGH, THEY HAD THE NERVE TO BRAG ABOUT GOOD OLD FASHIONED POLICE WORK.
RONALD HANDED THEM THE SHOOTER IN THEIR LAPS, AND THEY SCREWED HIM.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008


PHOTOCOPIES OF ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE EXXON MURDER. THE DETECTIVES ARE FOCUSING ON KENNETH TUCKER.
THE STATE POLICE REPORT ON 3/01/199 STATES THREE INDIVIDUALS COME IN WITH INFORMATION ON A MURDER.
















I COVERED PORTIONS OF THE DOCUMENTS WHERE IT CONTAINS PHONE NUMBERS OR OTHER PERSONAL INFORMATION.
IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT THE DOCUMENTS YOU CAN SEE THE INCIDENT NUMBERS MATCH UP AND THEY ARE ALL PART OF THE SAME HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION












PHOTOCOPIES TAKEN FROM THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
THE POLICE HAD NOTHING. THEY WERE ZEROING IN ON KENNETH TUCKER, THEN ON 3/02/1999, THE STATE POLICE HAD THREE INDIVIDUALS COME FORWARD WITH INFORMATION THEY HAD ABOUT THE SHOOTING.
THESE THREE INDIVIDUALS WERE MY MOTHER, MY NIECE THEN 15, AND HER BOYFRIEND.
THEY GAVE THE STATE POLICE EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED, AS FAR AS THE NAME OF THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SHOOTING.
THEY DID LEAVE A FEW DETAILS OUT. SUCH AS HOW THEY BECAME AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION, AND OF COURSE NOT BEING PRESENT DURING THE CRIMINAL ACT, THEY ONLY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE TOLD.
REGARDLESS THEY GAVE THE POLICE THE INFORMATION THEY NEEDED TO MAKE AN ARREST, THAT LED TO THE CONVICTION OF THE GUNMAN, AS WELL AS THE ARREST, AND CONVICTION OF THE OTHER INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED, NOT COUNTING THE ONE INDIVIDUAL THEY DECIDED NOT TO CHARGE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS REHEARSED, AND PERJURED TESTIMONY.
NEVER THE LESS WITHOUT THIS INFORMATION, THEY HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, THEY WERE FOCUSING THEIR INVESTIGATION ON KENNETH TUCKER,AND THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT THEY WOULD HAVE CHARGED KENNETH TUCKER FOR THE MURDER, AND I BELIEVE THEY WOULD HAVE MADE IT STICK.
IN MY HONEST OPINION,THEY WOULD HAVE CONVINCED A JURY OF THEIR OWN PEERS ( I HAVE NEVER SEEN A JURY SELECTION WHERE THEIR DEFENDANT HAS A JURY OF THEIR PEERS, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY, I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY SAY, BY THE TIME JURY SELECTION IS THROUGH, IT IS MADE UP PRIMARILY OF PEOPLE WHO LEAN FAVORABLY TOWARD THE PROSECUTION.) THAT KENNETH TUCKER WAS THEIR MAN.
NOW IF YOU LOOK AGAIN AT THE PHOTOCOPIES, THEY ISSUED RADIO BULLETIN ON 3/02/1999 TO SURROUNDING COUNTIES TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR TUCKER, THEN CANCELLED THIS ON 3/03/1999.
THEY GOT THE INFORMATION THEY NEEDED ON 3/02/1999, AND THEY WERE NO LONGER INTERESTED IN KENNETH TUCKER AS SUSPECT.
IN LATER REPORTS THEY BRAG ABOUT HOW THIS WAS JUST GOOD OLD FASHIONED POUNDING THE PAVEMENT POLICE WORK, THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, THEY HAD EVERYTHING HANDED TO THEM IN THEIR LAPS. I GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE, BUT THEY HAD NOTHING.