Posted on 06/20/2009 11:39:44 AM PDT by stan_sipple
Two women who beat a man to death in Forest Park were reacting to an unwanted sexual advance, police said Wednesday in announcing the filing of first-degree murder charges against them. Dawn E. Fulks, 25, and Mellonie D. Jones, 20, both of St. Louis, were held in jail without bond. Police described the women as lovers, and said they attacked Willard Bryant Payne, 26, of University City, who was found dead early Monday in the Kennedy Forest area, near the southwest corner of the park. Officials said he died of head trauma. The defendants also were charged with armed criminal action and filing a false police report. Police said it happened late Sunday or early Monday, after Payne went with the women to smoke marijuana in the park. When Payne made an advance at Fulks, police said, Jones hit Payne. Payne tried to run, but the women caught him and continued to beat him with an undisclosed object, police said. Police said both women were larger than Payne. According to data from Payne's drivers license, he was 5-foot-5 and weighed 140 pounds. Police said that the women claimed Payne had tried to rape Fulks, but that detectives did not believe it. Fulks was sentenced in March in St. Louis Circuit Court to five years of probation after pleading guilty to a child abuse charge. Further details were not immediately available.
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Unbelievable ....
waiting for Rachel Maddow’s “out”rage?
You know, I would have thought that two women larger than him hanging out together might have been a rather glaring clue.
he was smoking marijuana with them
Another “Taking Back the Night” success story./sarc
i remember back in the day that the southwest area of forest park was a cruising area, not much changes i guess.
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
Willard Payne learned a lesson
bout messin with the [b______] of a jealous girl-man...
If only Croce was still with us...
The picture of these two was posted yesterday. Attempted rape? No wonder the cops didn’t buy it. No one has EVER been that high/drunk/diseased/desperate. I guess “lovers” in the article sounds a little less provocative than lesbians. Or is the point to make this pair seem human?
Get AG Holder on the case!
Qeers are killers. This is a “hate crime”.
And they know there was an unwanted sexual advance because the two murderers said so? I doubt the police presented that as fact to reporters, contrary to the lead sentence.
Gawd almighty those are two ugly Dykes.
No man in his right mind would approach either of them, much less think of raping them.
Was this a white guy they killed? Sounds like a hate crime to me. If the guy wasnt white they killed him because of his gender, still a hate crime.
All charges dropped with prejudice! No??
These two lovely ladies may well surpass the beauty of Michelle Obama.
“I have a buddy that goes running in Forest Park every now and then. He’s “strapped” every time he sets foot there”
Most of my visits were to the Muny and the museum but I thought it was a pretty nice place, then that was almost 20 years ago.
And now to ease the aching eyes of fellow Freepers:
Cheers!
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