Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Police: Woman Killed Husband After He Threatened Pets (Bad Move)
kdka.com ^ | 11/22/04 | unknown

Posted on 11/22/2004 10:18:49 AM PST by beyond the sea

Rochester (AP) Police say a woman went to a Beaver County police station and admitted fatally shooting her husband after he threatened to kill their pets.

Elsie Kost was charged yesterday with homicide in the death of her husband Edward. Police say Edward Kost was killed November 16th but authorities didn't find out about the shooting until Elsie Kost confessed to shooting him and putting his body in cistern on their property.

Elsie Kost had told others her husband was away at a hunting camp. But New Sewickley police say she told her daughter about the shooting yesterday and they decided to go to police.

Kost told authorities she had an argument with her husband and that he pushed and shoved her. Police say Edward Kost had threatened to shoot some of the family pets.

Authorities recovered Edward Kost's body yesterday.

An autopsy was planned for sometime today


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animal; animalprotection; animalworship; classicsignofabuse; emotional; hewasacontrolfreak; hewasanabuser; husband; justified; kill; liberal; murder; neededkillin; peta; pets; pittsburgh; threatenpets2control; threats; treehuggers; trollwatch; trying2controlwife; wife; zot
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 141-160161-180181-200201-215 last
To: beyond the sea

Uh oh, if someone threatened to kill my pets, I would do all I could to stop them too. Take the key and lock me up!


201 posted on 11/23/2004 9:04:52 PM PST by ladyinred (Congratulations President Bush! Four more years!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ladyinred
Here is more news info on the woman and her husband. Apparently the guy well deserved his end in the cistern.

******

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286793/posts

202 posted on 11/23/2004 9:07:53 PM PST by beyond the sea (ab9usa4uandme)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 201 | View Replies]

To: beyond the sea
11/23/2004
Woman tells cops: I killed my husband
Bob Bauder, Times Staff

The Cycle Drive residence in New Sewickley Township where Elsie Kost reportedly shot her husband, Edward, to death last week.
The Times / Lucy Schaly

NEW SEWICKLEY TWP. - New Sewickley Township police had often been to the secluded house on Cycle Drive in the past for domestic arguments involving Elsie and Edward Kost, and their children.

This time, however, Elsie Ann Kost went to the police. She showed up at police headquarters Sunday afternoon with her daughter and announced she was there to report a shooting.

The story she told was out of character for a 60-year-old grandmother, who sang during Sunday Mass at St. Felix Catholic Church in Freedom, said friends of the couple.

Kost confessed to shooting her husband in the back of the head with a .357-caliber Magnum pistol last Tuesday outside the family home and dumping his body into an old cistern, where it lay for five days until police removed it Sunday afternoon, according to her criminal charges.

She explained her husband's absence by telling family members that he had gone to his hunting cabin in McKean County.

Kost has been charged with homicide and is being held without bail in the Beaver County Jail.

According to police reports, the killing unfolded Nov. 16, around 5:30 p.m. The Kosts began arguing about their two daughters, who lived with the couple at 132 Cycle Drive in the heights above Freedom. Elsie told police her husband was upset because the daughters, both adults, were not doing any work around the house.

Edward, an avid hunter and fisherman, got the loaded pistol and began threatening to kill family pets. Police said several dogs and cats lived at the house.

A scuffle broke out, and Edward allegedly pushed his wife several times before placing the gun on a kitchen table and walking outside, according to reports.

Elsie Kost picked up the gun, walked outside and shot him, police said. She placed his body in a two-wheel cart and pushed it to the uncovered cistern behind the house, dumping him in.

The cistern, once used to collect rainwater runoff, has been abandoned for several years. The opening is about 3 feet in diameter, police said. Most recently, it was used as a dump for cans and bottles.

Police found the body resting on top of a pile, 3 to 4 feet from the surface of the ground.

The daughters were not home at the time, and Elsie Kost hosed out the cart, cleaned the back porch and put the pistol back in its place in the family den, police said. She kept her secret until Sunday, when she finally told her daughter Melissa, 25, what happened, police said.

The pair arrived at police headquarters around 1 p.m. Sunday.

Police Chief John Daley said his officers had often been summoned to the Kost residence to break up domestic squabbles, which typically amounted to arguments with lots of shouting.

He said Edward Kost was charged more than 10 years ago with domestic violence against his wife. The last time police were there was Oct. 4. "We've been there often because of family issues," he said. "They did not rise to the level where an arrest would be justified."

Cycle Drive is a rural road in the Mengel Heights section of the township. The Kosts have lived there in an old farmhouse with considerable acreage for nearly 30 years. Houses along the lane, which leads to an isolated development, are separated by wooded plots.

Neighbors said they knew the Kosts to wave to them as they passed along the road. They seemed like nice folks and never bothered anyone, neighbors said.

"Everybody kind of keeps to themselves," said Al Gaudino, who lives across the road from the Kosts. "They are real nice. Good neighbors."

The Kosts' close friends said the shooting was out of character for Elsie Kost, whom everyone called "Ellie."

Irene Brown, one of the few neighbors close to the Kosts, described Elsie as a hard worker and devoted to her children and her church. The Kosts have four grown children and several grandchildren.

Elsie Kost worked as a sales associate at Kaufmann's in the Beaver Valley Mall and volunteered her time at St. Felix. She sang in a four-person choir at Sunday Mass and never complained about her husband, Brown said.

"I can't imagine her doing something like that," Brown said. "Of course, sometimes you get stretched to your limit."

Andy Zabrucky of Ambridge said he had known Edward Kost about 40 years. Zabrucky, Kost and two other friends once worked at the defunct Eastern Airlines in Pittsburgh, and together they owned the hunting cabin in McKean County.

After Eastern folded, Kost went to school to become an electrician. He worked for a small electrical contractor until injuring his back while working around his house. Kost had been on disability for years, according to police.

On Monday, Zabrucky and one of the other cabin owners, Bud Parker, drove out to see Kost at his home to discuss an upcoming hunting trip. They were met by a television news crew, who informed them of their friend's death.

It was a shock that brought tears to their eyes, Zabrucky said, still very shaken hours later.

He and Kost spent hours together hunting and fishing. They've been on elk hunting trips to the West, fishing trips to Canada. Elsie Kost, he said, hunted with her husband. He said the couple did everything together.

"She's just a nice person. Good grandmother, good mom," he said. "We all loved her, that's for sure. Still do."

Zabrucky said he didn't know what to think about the killing, but added that people should not judge Elsie Kost until all the facts of the case are known.

"Evidently somebody went to the edge," he said.

Bob Bauder can be reached online at bbauder@timesonline.com.



203 posted on 11/23/2004 9:21:43 PM PST by csvset
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: csvset
"Of course, sometimes you get stretched to your limit."

snap!

204 posted on 11/23/2004 9:30:42 PM PST by beyond the sea (ab9usa4uandme)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 203 | View Replies]

To: csvset
Thanks for the article.

This really fleshes out the story quite a bit. The reporter is very fair in reporting about the husband and wife. It's just another sad story.

205 posted on 11/23/2004 9:33:53 PM PST by beyond the sea (ab9usa4uandme)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 203 | View Replies]

To: beyond the sea
Elsie told police her husband was upset because the daughters, both adults, were not doing any work around the house.

Well, with Pop dead and Mom in jail, I guess the kids will have to do some work around the house.

206 posted on 11/23/2004 9:35:38 PM PST by csvset
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 204 | View Replies]

To: republican4ever
animals kill for food, territory or the preservation of the species.You've never seen a coyote or a wolf in a hen house have you? Or a cat play with a dead mouse, bird or mole?
207 posted on 11/23/2004 9:39:17 PM PST by KingNo155
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: csvset
with Pop dead and Mom in jail, I guess the kids will have to do some work around the house.

LOL! Yes, I read that in the article.

But it may be that if these two young women are so lazy, they'll just sell the home and the acreage and make a nice amount of money. They'll go live in a condo and watch 'The Price is Right', Jerry Springer, Oprah, and Maury all day long ........... and eat pie.

208 posted on 11/23/2004 9:40:16 PM PST by beyond the sea (ab9usa4uandme)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 206 | View Replies]

To: republican4ever
Besides that, a hunter? No regard for life in general.

I'm a hunter. Most of the hunters I know also are involved in pet rescue operations. I would be too if I didn't live in an apartment. They all like their dogs more than some people as well.

You're statement about hunters is a very ignorant statement.

209 posted on 11/23/2004 9:44:34 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("now we got this guy in the Oval office who don't take no sh*t from no gimpy little countries!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Dan from Michigan

So I read yesterday and I acknowledged it in a later post.


210 posted on 11/23/2004 11:13:56 PM PST by republican4ever (As of now, victory tastes sWeeter than chocolate and feels almost as good as sex!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 209 | View Replies]

To: KingNo155

Yep, I know they do.


211 posted on 11/23/2004 11:15:36 PM PST by republican4ever (As of now, victory tastes sWeeter than chocolate and feels almost as good as sex!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 207 | View Replies]

To: normy
First of all normy, you are in Texas. I am in PA. I am seeing the local coverage, which has more detail than the PG article posted here.

There was a pattern of abuse. Restraining orders had been issued in the past. Multiple police reports (dating back 15 years) have been noted in the local media. You wouldn't know that living in Texas. Have you seen a picture of this woman? I have. Seen her, on the news, walking with the cuffs on. Jezebel? The woman I saw looked like life used her up and older than her 60 years. But of course...you know more.

If you took the time to read my prior post, this was not about the pets. The pets may have been the final impetus that drove off her edge, but this was about control. One of the police calls noted involved gasoline being poured on this woman (several years ago) by the late husband. Yep...that wouldn't leave any pent up anger or rage on the part of the wife. Tires were apparently slashed (so that she and her two daughters couldn't leave). One report involved the husband brandishing a chainsaw at the girls and their mother. But you, of course, know that she is a 'Jezebel.' Get a clue.

Lastly, it is you who are linking this to everything from Bobbitt to the women who kill their own children. Bit of stretch. No two cases are the same. I posted what I had gleaned from the additional information presented in the local media, of which I and other PA FReepers would have knowledge of. You would not. So deal with that yourself.

212 posted on 11/24/2004 4:54:13 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (FreeMartha)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 199 | View Replies]

To: PennsylvaniaMom
Well first of all, the post on FR is what I am responding to and your post to me. I was done with this until you replied to me.

If there was a pattern of abuse then so be it, but no one seemed to know for sure, they just assumed because she said so. The thread started off with everyone laughing because she killed her husband for threatening her pets. Maybe this woman was abused to no end and tormented daily by her husband, but people responding to this thread didn't know that.

213 posted on 11/24/2004 8:07:23 AM PST by normy (Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 212 | View Replies]

To: normy
hi all. you dont know me because I was just reading this article and I had to say something important. I personally know Elsie Kost, my parents are pretty good friends with her because they work together. I know a lot about her abusive relationship with her husband, and frankly, he deserved it. Not just because of the pets, but all the other times he has beaten her and her children, verbally abused her, and threatened to kill her. I think she just reached her limit, and I also think she knew what she was doing. I think she did the right thing because in my eyes, it was self defense.
214 posted on 12/03/2004 6:04:22 PM PST by BAsGurl04
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 213 | View Replies]

To: BAsGurl04

Thank you for the info. I understand the situation better now.


215 posted on 12/05/2004 5:43:12 AM PST by normy (Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 214 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 141-160161-180181-200201-215 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson