Posted on 06/19/2009 2:42:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Shad family cat killed in May; Miss Prissy makes pair laugh after tragedy In mid-May, when Tom and Mary Lou Shad found their cat, Miss Kitty, dead outside their house in Whispering Pines, Fla., they were horrified. We thought perhaps it was dogs or wild animals that had killed her,Tom tells PEOPLE Pets. The couple soon learned otherwise, from police and neighbors, of the other gruesome cat mutilations that had upset a very peaceful neighborhood,says Tom. On June 14, accused cat butcher Tyler Weinman, 18, was charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body.
For two weeks I couldn't even talk about it without choking up, says Tom of his black feline, a once-feral cat who slowly warmed up to them and their two other cats, Foxy and Porky. Three days after she died, they would go to the front door and just look out ... I know [they] were looking for [her],says Tom.
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with their new cat, Miss Prissy, Sunday, June 14, 2009 in Miami. The Shads got Miss Prissy after their small cat was killed in a disturbing string of deaths that has horrified residents and shaken animal lovers in two Miami-area communities. Tyler Hayes Weinman, 18, a South Florida teenager was arrested early Sunday and accused of killing and mutilating the cats of his neighbors. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter) AP FLJC101 STF Cats Mutilated 1:09 p.m. ET, 6/19/09
Tyler Weinman: Portrait of An Accused Serial Cat Killer:
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Sad and sick about the cats. This young adult has been trained up the way Democrats want him to go.
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The other news will be welcome at Notre Dame baby killing school.
As far as the cats being killed - people should not let their pets run wild. Whomever or whatever killed these cats is wrong but people should not let cats run wild.
Agreed. They can get hit by cars or attacked by other animals, or attack people or other animals. Also get into fixes they can't get out of.
Accused South Miami-Dade cat killer Tyler Weinman was released from jail Wednesday as police await forensic analysis on 'cutting tools' found in his father's
BY LUISA YANEZ AND DAVID OVALLE
Tyler Weinman, the teen accused of mutilating and killing 19 cats across South Miami-Dade, was released from jail Wednesday to await a trial as friends and family continued to proclaim his innocence.
Weinman had been jailed pending a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation. After reviewing a doctor's findings that Weinman posed no "risk of harming himself or others," Miami-Dade Circuit Judge John Thornton allowed him released on $249,500 bond.
Weinman, 18, faces arraignment July 6. He is charged with 19 counts of felony animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary.
The judge placed him under house arrest. Weinman will be monitored via an electronic ankle bracelet and receive psychiatric counseling twice a week.
His father, dentist Douglas Weinman, told reporters outside the courthouse that his son was not the cat killer.
"We are cat owners ourselves," he said. "We certainly sympathize with the grief of the other pet owners. We are sympathetic with them, but it is not our son."
Also Wednesday, lawyers for The Miami Herald and CBS filed a motion asking Thornton to unseal Weinman's arrest affidavit, a document that typically is made public but has been kept secret in this case as police investigate other potential suspects.
Prosecutors have allowed Weinman's defense attorney to view, but not keep, the affidavit, which outlines the evidence against the teen.
So far, police and prosecutors have released little information about how they pinpointed Weinman, who was arrested at a friend's house early Sunday morning.
A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said Weinman emerged as a suspect just days after the first cat was found slain on May 10.
"Many tips were received; many mentioned Weinman," said the source, who asked not to be named.
Still, much of the evidence in the case so far appears to be circumstantial.
A former teacher at Palmetto High, which Weinman attended, has said that he dissected cats during anatomy class. But authorities never caught Weinman in the act of killing a cat.
The teen was spotted carrying out seemingly "suspicious activities -- he was out on his skateboard at 2 a.m., wearing dark clothes and carrying a back pack," the source said.
Miami-Dade police have said Weinman was under surveillance for several weeks. WFOR-CBS4, citing unnamed sources, reported Wednesday that detectives received court permission to use an electronic tracking device on Weinman's car to see if the teen was in the area when some of the dead cats were found.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Daryl Trawick signed search warrants for the homes of Weinman's mother and father, where the teen was splitting his time, according to prosecutors. Police seized various "cutting tools" from the father's home, the source said.
Forensic technicians will now test the tools for animal blood and possible DNA evidence to determine whether they provide a link to the cat killings.
Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Michael Von Zamft declined to discuss how authorities have linked Weinman to the crimes, but he said there is enough evidence to "move forward on this case right away."
Once the pending lab work is completed, he said, "We believe the results of the other tests will make our case stronger."
The law enforcement source said that police had already identified Weinman as a suspect when they stopped him for running a red light in Cutler Bay at 6:40 p.m. May 15. They questioned him about the cat killings at that time.
According to an arrest report, during that traffic stop Miami-Dade Officers Ruben Moya and Thomas Molina spied a clear plastic container of suspected marijuana.
Weinman also acknowledged he was driving with a suspended license, the report said. He was charged with marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license, and signed a notice promising to appear in court.
After that, the cat killings stopped in Cutler Bay, where Weinman's mother lives. But several more cats were killed in Palmetto Bay, where his father lives.
The slender teen appeared in court Wednesday wearing a red jumpsuit designated for high-profile inmates. He smirked and nodded to his father and stepmother sitting in the courtroom.
One of his lawyers, Michael Walsh, said after the hearing that police have no evidence and rushed to arrest Weinman because of intense public outcry.
"He's an innocent man," Walsh said.
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Ignore the smart alec smirk in post #2, Rich Dentist Daddy says the little darling is innocent, so obviously, he’s innocent. He’s just honing his surgical skills on cats before he graduates to human kids. Charming young man, eh?
IIRC, this monster broke into at least two homes to satisfy his psychopathy.
He is a future human serial killer and should receive the same treatment he gave those cats. He is a sociopath and cannot be treated.
I don’t make much of the smirk in post #2 — normal teenagers photographed in informal settings can have all sorts of expressions — but the smirk in his mugshot was conclusive IMO. No mentally normal person puts on a smirk like that when they’ve just been arrested for butchering 19 of the beloved pets of their neighbors — if you really didn’t do it, you’d look serious, worried, and scared.
Mom’s website (since taken down) was a scary piece of work — she was a ditzy “life coach”, charging people money for telling them how wonderful they are and how the bad things happening to them in their lives aren’t their fault (e.g. one of the “testimonials” was from an accountant who couldn’t get a job because she didn’t speak English very well — she felt so much better about herself after butcher’s Mom told her that her English wasn’t the problem). And Mom was also on the board of the local citizen’s crime watch outfit. Funny she seemed not be paying much attention to what her son was up to.
Now it appears Dad is in total denial too. The kid is running red lights, driving with a suspended license (wonder what he did to get it suspended), smoking pot, and skateboarding at 2AM, and Dad just knows he didn’t do the cat killings. Who was providing a car to this kid with no valid license? There’s no mention of the kid having a job, much less the sort that could pay for a car in addition to supporting his pot habit.
(above) WEINMAN SMILES FOR HIS MUGSHOT
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Agreed. He’s a sociopath and a budding serial killer.
“Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Daryl Trawick signed search warrants for the homes of Weinman’s mother and father, where the teen was splitting his time, according to prosecutors. Police seized various ‘cutting tools’ from the father’s home, the source said.
Forensic technicians will now test the tools for animal blood and possible DNA evidence to determine whether they provide a link to the cat killings.”
“A former teacher at Palmetto High, which Weinman attended, has said that he dissected cats during anatomy class. But authorities never caught Weinman in the act of killing a cat.”
“The slender teen appeared in court Wednesday wearing a red jumpsuit designated for high-profile inmates. He smirked and nodded to his father and stepmother sitting in the courtroom.”
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