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Illinois Teens Murder & Dismember Classmate
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Posted on 01/27/2005 5:17:39 PM PST by NativeTexun

POSTED: 1/26/05 9:17 AM UPDATED: 1/26/05 4:34 PM

By Chris Minor

EAST MOLINE, Illinois -- The dismembered body of a missing East Moline teenager has been found, and a classmate tonight is under arrest for her brutal murder. Sarah Kolb is charged with first degree murder in the death of Adrianne Reynolds, 16.

Prosecutors announced the murder charge at a news conference at Illinois State Police Headquarters this morning.

Authorities believe Adrianne was strangled and beaten with a wooden handle in a car in broad daylight at a Taco Bell parking lot in Moline. Later, her body was taken to Mercer County in an attempt to burn it.When that didn't work, her body was cut into pieces and dumped at Black Hawk State Park.

Authorities made the discovery around midnight.

Adrianne's father and stepmother, Tony and Joann Reynolds had reported their daughter missing when she failed to show up to work after school on Friday.

Kolb and Reynolds were classmates at Blackhawk Outreach Center in East Moline, an alternative school for kids trying to get their GED's. Friends there tell Newschannel 8 that Kolb had made a death threat against Reynolds the day she disappeared, and say Kolb was jealous of the new kid in school. Reynolds had been attending the school for just a few weeks, after coming to East Moline from Texas to live with her dad.

In court today, Judge John Bell read court documents that stated the crime was committed ''while acting with another,'' but so far, only Kolb has been charged.

Kolb, who told the judge today she works at the movie cinemas in Davenport, is being held at the Mary Davis juvenile detention center in Galesburg on $1 million bond.

POSTED: 1/26/05

By Vanessa Van Hyfte

EAST MOLINE -- Sarah Kolb and Adrianne Reynolds were classmates at Black Hawk Outreach Center. Their fellow classmates remember the chilling threats made the very day Adrianne disappeared.

"[Kolb] had mentioned to a few people that she was going to kill her," said Jackie Martinez, 17. "She [said], 'I don't care.' She told people she wasn't afraid to kill her and she would do it and she's not scared."

Adrianne was the new kid at school just a few weeks. She was trying to make a fresh start and earn a General Education Diploma.

"She was pretty and funny," said Betty Wilson, 16.

And the boys noticed. Wilson says that's what threw Sarah into a jealous rage.

"They just had some problems over boys and Sarah was upset," Wilson recalled.

Wilson said Kolb had been a student here for over a year and was popular.

"Sarah was really nice," said Wilson. "She got along with everyone and all the sudden Adianne came in, and it's totally different, she says, 'I will kill her, I will kill her.'"

Wilson was one of the last people to see Adrianne alive on Friday afternoon.

"I just saw Adrianne and Sarah and two males get into the car. I heard they were going to Taco Bell to get lunch."

Wilson says Adrianne wasn't looking for trouble. She only wanted to make a fresh start, desperate to fit in with the "in" crowd.

"Adrianne really wanted to be Sarah's friend. That was all she wanted."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Iowa; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: adriannereynolds; culturalentropy; decencydeficit; goths; murder; publicschools; teencrime
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To: wideeyedidied
into the field of tattooing soon. not "to be different,"

Yes --- it would be absurd to get tattoos to be a little different when it's just about following the crowd. The real reason -- everyone else has them.

241 posted on 02/02/2005 5:59:38 AM PST by FITZ
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To: elli1

Friends express disbelief during court proceeding:

http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1044794&l=1&t=Local+News&c=2,1044794


242 posted on 02/02/2005 6:02:55 AM PST by elli1
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To: wideeyedidied
she then and still looks foward to life just as anybody else would. how shocking is that?

Pretty shocking when she obviously did not believe her victim had that same right.

243 posted on 02/02/2005 6:05:14 AM PST by FITZ
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To: TankerKC

Kolb is a common Jewish name. I had several college classmates with that name. They grew up mainly in the Chicago suburbs.


244 posted on 02/02/2005 6:12:44 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href ="http://www.michaelmoore.com/"title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: FITZ

Please refer to Wideeye's post #231. He's not been up to speed with all the info about the case, but he did bring in some other info that we possibly would not have found otherwise.


245 posted on 02/02/2005 6:14:07 AM PST by elli1
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To: NativeTexun

This scenario sounds like something straight out of Law & Order: SVU.


246 posted on 02/02/2005 6:14:17 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href ="http://www.michaelmoore.com/"title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: brknhrtdf00l

It's really demonic. Goths open themselves up to demon activity by their obsession with death and satan. he wants to destroy this generation in particularly because this is the generation that will usher in the Kingdom of God and be a vital part of the ingathering of souls in the final revival before He returns. satan always tries to destroy children when God starts to move in them.


247 posted on 02/02/2005 6:30:59 AM PST by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

'Kolb' is a Germanic name. Possibly refers to a hairstyle. Then there's 'Colby', a town in Wisconsin, named for the Colby family & home of the famous Colby cheese.


248 posted on 02/02/2005 6:32:08 AM PST by elli1
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

I was joking. Making fun of the Freepers who turn EVERYTHING into an immigration issue.


249 posted on 02/02/2005 8:32:11 AM PST by TankerKC (The Media turn each tactical victory for insurgents into a strategic victory for terrorists.)
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To: NativeTexun

what? my change of thinking?

let me state it simply: i never defended the act of murder or said either sarah or cory were innocent. i said the quick judgments of the people who did not know her and judged her because an article (probably written by an uninformed conservative news reporter, per usual) was wrong and unfair. christ.


250 posted on 02/02/2005 9:03:20 AM PST by wideeyedidied
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To: elli1

Sorry. I'll try and keep my posts capitalized from now on.

As for the case, over the last year I've talked to Kolb very little. I'm not positive if you've seen one of my posts, or if I even remembered to post it, but I have never known or met Sarah personally, nor do I live in the area, so I believe my contributions to the legal case would have little to no effectiveness. I've talked to her through the website in which I first met her (deviantart.com) exstensively in the past, though.

If I did have any information at all reguarding this particular incident, I would provide it to authorities, but I actually just ran into it all by accident! I found the article and noticed the same name as well as the photos looking similar, and that's how I found out about all of this.

I, like many, doubt any innocence in this tragedy, but I could not conciously sit and let such uneducated comments of judgement be made upon a person I personally knew--and at the time a knew them, a good person--just because of the way he/she dresses.

Anyway, thank you for the support and obvious understanding of what I've been trying to say, and for the informative articles.


251 posted on 02/02/2005 9:28:50 AM PST by wideeyedidied
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To: wideeyedidied

Would you *please* use capitals. I realize you've stated you "want to be different" but proper writing will never go out of style.

You didn't answer my question about how you found this thread discussion?

You *have* defended Sarah in your last paragraph saying if she is found guilty you will be "disappointed.

>>she then and still looks foward to life just as anybody else would. how shocking is that? (sarcasm.) <<

How can your "friend," Sarah, "look forward to life." Does she somehow believe in her warped mind that she will be living life on the outside rather than behind bars? Is that what you wish for also? Commit a crime, but don't do the time?

>> but as the public, it's you're duty not to codemn someone who is not yet found guilty by a court based on their looks, music they listen to, or anything else. <<

It's all part of the total package. Goths have a fascination with death. It is reported that Sarah had told other classmates she would "kill" Adrienne. How much more information is needed. Do you want across-the-board sanctioning because you're a little offended?

After all, Goths are a subculture ... a very defiant subculture thumbing their nose at all things conventional.


252 posted on 02/02/2005 9:48:37 AM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: elli1

>>But I want to stress that your local perspective <<

While I'll admit that I plainly misread Wide Eye's first post ..partly because of the poor layout, lack of capitalization, etc., you make broad-brushed statements about those of us who *did* misread it. (guess I'm not the only one)

However, you fail yourself to CLEARLY read that Jason said he is from NC .. he is not "local" to the case.


253 posted on 02/02/2005 9:52:39 AM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

Yes, it gets creepier as more details come out.


254 posted on 02/02/2005 11:36:00 AM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: SunnySide; wideeyedidied; Fiddlstix; Captain Peter Blood; beaversmom; LauraleeBraswell; FITZ

Father had warned daughter murder suspect was trouble
By Barb Ickes

http://www.qctimes.com/print.php?story_id=1044616

Tony Reynolds told his daughter, Adrianne, that he didn’t want her hanging around with Sarah Kolb.

It appears now that a father’s instinct was correct: Kolb was bad news.

In fact, Tony’s wife, Joann, said Kolb once pulled a knife on 16-year-old Adrianne. But Kolb’s sister stepped in, she said, and the confrontation ended.

Police now believe there was another confrontation and, this time, no one stepped in to protect Adrianne.

At 2 a.m. Wednesday, the phone rang at the Reynolds’ house.

“It was the police telling us they were at our door,” Joann Reynolds recalled Saturday.

“I was just hoping they were going to say they found Adrianne and she was at the hospital or something,” the girl’s father said.

But the news was worse. Much worse.

Though police delivered the shattering news that Adrianne was dead, they did not share everything they knew.

“The way we found out about the dismemberment was on the TV news,” Joann said.

“I guess I didn’t want to believe it,” Tony added.

The couple is still trying to believe it. Tony and Joann sat close to each other on their living room couch Saturday, surrounded by family and friends. They talked about the little girl who was born in Arkansas and moved to Texas when she was about 6 years old.

Joann remembered watching her stepdaughter singing to karaoke in the family’s basement recently and recalled how Adrianne was embarrassed to realize someone was watching her “dancing around and carrying on.”

Adrianne’s dream was to be a country singer and her father was one of her biggest fans.

“I remember her standing in here, singing ‘Amazing Grace,’ and,” he said, stopping in mid-sentence because of the pain that rose into his throat. “When she’d start singing, you might as well throw me a roll of paper towels.”

Joann’s brother, Mike McCollum, who has been at his sister and brother-in-law’s side throughout this ordeal, added, “When she sang, you could just feel it.”

And Tony closed his eyes, as if trying to hear his daughter’s voice once again.

It feels impossible that he will not.

Adrianne, Sarah and Cory

Tony and Joann Reynolds are as angry as anyone might guess. They want Kolb and Gregory put to death. And they absolutely cannot understand how two people so young could do what police say they did to Adrianne.

“Adrianne told me that she had to hide her friendship with Cory from Sarah,” Joann said. “He went baby-sitting with her once, which we didn’t know.”

When his daughter failed to show up for work at 5 p.m. Jan. 21, Tony drove to Cory’s house to look for her. The couple also called Sarah Kolb on the phone.

“Sarah was so convincing when we talked to her that night,” Joann said. “I believed her when she said they had dropped Adrianne off at McDonald’s.

“We were told that Sarah was supposed to go to her grandmother’s house in Aledo that night.”

Police since have said that Kolb did go to Mercer County that night — to dismember Adrianne’s body after she and Gregory murdered her.

While it may be puzzling why Adrianne would continue to befriend a girl who had threatened her with a knife, her father said the answer is simple: “She wanted to be liked.”

When she enrolled at Black Hawk Outreach Center in late November to work on her GED, or general equivalency diploma, Adrianne didn’t know many kids in the Quad-Cities. She’d only been living in East Moline for about a week and was eager to make friends.

She wasn’t like many of the others who favored the “Goth” look, which is mostly black clothes, black nail polish and music with hardcore lyrics.

“Adrianne’s favorite color was pink — not black,” her father said.

And she also was very close to her dad.

“She told me everything — some things I didn’t want to know,” he said.

His brother-in-law, McCollum, added, “You could tell she really loved her daddy.”

What comes next

Tony and Joann Reynolds know the next few days will bring more bitter struggles. They have to get through the funeral. Adrianne’s body was cremated, her father said, and the ashes divided between him and his former wife, Adrianne’s mother.

“I felt a little better last night when I knew she was back here and not being prodded and stuck at an autopsy,” Tony said. “I’m a truck driver and, when she first went missing, I would look into every car that went past.

“I’ll probably do the same thing for a while, I guess.”

For Joann, nighttime is the worst.

“When I go to bed at night and close my eyes, I picture how it happened — what they did to her — and I can’t sleep,” she said.

Mercifully, the couple is likely to have a year of coping with Adrianne’s violent death before the trial comes. But they will be there in the courtroom to see Kolb and Gregory stand trial.

“I wish they’d get what she got — the death penalty,” Joann said. “They were her judge and jury. They deserve to die.”

For now, the memorial services, the anonymous notes and flowers that have been dropped off at the house and a candlelight vigil that was planned by classmates bring some measure of comfort to the still-shocked and grieving parents.

“All she ever wanted was to have friends,” Joann said.

“If the kids want to do things for her, that’s nice,” Tony added, the tears sneaking back into his eyes. “The more she was loved — it makes me feel better.”

There is just one unfulfilled wish they would like to carry out. The Reynolds are waiting for a tape recording to arrive in the mail from Texas. It is a recording of Adrianne singing.

“Her wish was to sing on television, so we’re going to try to get it played on TV,” Tony said. “She also wanted to learn to play the guitar.

“She got a guitar for Christmas,” he said. “She must’ve been playing it quite a bit, because we noticed a string is broken.”


255 posted on 02/02/2005 12:24:18 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: NativeTexun

As a parent, the Goth culture scares me. There are a few of them at our kids' high school and they all hang out together in a particular area of the hallway(s). My kids are under strict orders to stay away from these Goth kids many of whom are known drug users as well.


256 posted on 02/02/2005 12:42:55 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href ="http://www.michaelmoore.com/"title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: NativeTexun
“She got a guitar for Christmas,” he said. “She must’ve been playing it quite a bit, because we noticed a string is broken.”

Strings don't break just from playing. They can break from impact, etc.

257 posted on 02/02/2005 12:43:35 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href ="http://www.michaelmoore.com/"title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: NativeTexun

.... or over-tightening - something typical for a new guitar player to do, by the way.


258 posted on 02/02/2005 12:44:07 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href ="http://www.michaelmoore.com/"title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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To: NativeTexun

Goths are a subculture ... a very defiant subculture thumbing their nose at all things conventional.




Goths are Anarchists wearing cheap Marlyn Manson black eye liner makeup. Herd mentality fooled into thinking they're unique.


259 posted on 02/02/2005 12:46:36 PM PST by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: SunnySide
Goths are Anarchists wearing cheap Marlyn Manson black eye liner makeup. Herd mentality fooled into thinking they're unique.

Unique?! Riggggggggght. Agreed about the herd mentality.

260 posted on 02/02/2005 12:52:22 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace (Michael <a href ="http://www.michaelmoore.com/"title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
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