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Illinois Teens Murder & Dismember Classmate
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=2861855 ^

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: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

I hope your children heed your instructions!


261 posted on 02/02/2005 1:07:13 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

Don't you think, though, that the father took comfort in thinking Adrienne had played her new guitar lots?

I bet he did.


262 posted on 02/02/2005 1:08:28 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: SunnySide

Well, they are unique but strangely so .. preoccupation with death, dying, some think they're vampires .. unusual to say the least.


263 posted on 02/02/2005 1:10:02 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: SunnySide
Herd mentality fooled into thinking they're unique.

My husband saw one of the herd the other night. He said, "Hey he's different just like everyone else."

264 posted on 02/02/2005 1:16:35 PM PST by beaversmom (The greatness of a man is measured by the fatness of his wife)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

Sarah Kolb posted on this deviant art website as Sarah-boo.

http://sarah-boo.deviantart.com

Wideeyedidied, the kid defending her in this thread, penned a very cryptic and gruesome note to her as follows:

Deviant: ~sinnerwithahalo (#106763031)
Date: Jan 31, 2005, 8:56:18 AM

i pray you'll be alright through all of this. xxx.

--
"if i were to kiss you here they'd call it terrorism
so let's take our knives to bed and dance all night
i haven't felt this alive since the last time i died."

artandviolence dot com
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To that someone replied:

Deviant: ~WolfkillerXIII (#107160239)
Date: Feb 1, 2005, 6:30:55 PM

sinnerwithahalo, I doubt she will ever get the chance to read that...


265 posted on 02/02/2005 1:18:29 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

At least one of the Goth kids doesn't seem to condone Sarah Kolb's actions as evidenced by this statement at:

http://bloodybunny.deviantart.com/

Bloody Murder.
Journal Entry: Thu Jan 27, 2005, 7:59 PM
Yeah so this is what you have to deal with when you live where I live. [link]

This chick, Sarah Kolb, went to my school, my boyfriend knows her and everyone swears shes the nicest person. Apparantly she wasn't too nice considering she flippin chopped up her pal and threw her in the park! Frickin drama!

Just thought I'd share.

Tchao.


266 posted on 02/02/2005 1:21:47 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: beaversmom

"My husband saw one of the herd the other night. He said, "Hey he's different just like everyone else."


Exactly. The funny thing is, all any person has to do is live long enough to see the same old cr*p(fads, cliques, etc.) trotted out with each new generation when they each think they just invented the wheel (metaphor). And I'm not even a senior citizen yet!


267 posted on 02/02/2005 1:22:00 PM PST by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

http://www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=2868476&nav=0zGoVhTe

Students are in Shock Over Classmate's Death

Adrianne Reynolds and her suspected murderer Sara Kolb attended school together in East Moline. Their classmates are still in shock at how two girls with seemingly normal lives ended up on a path of death and distruction.

One student spoke about Adrianne, saying, "She was trying to make friends and that's what she was worried about. That's what she told everyone."

Making friends turned out to be the last thing Adrianne Reynolds should have been concerned about. Instead a former classmate is suspected of brutally murdering Adrianne in the most unimaginable way, beating, strangling and dismembering her body.

"I just think it's so terrible that somebody can do that to somebody like that. I pray for her family" expressed classmate Sakeena Cunningham, as tears rolled down her face.

At Blackhawk College, where both Adrianne and Sara attended, students are still unable to make sense of it all.

Teacher John Bierman said, "Many of the students were visibly upset and we brought in more counselors to deal with the students who were having a rough time."

Adrianne had only been a student at the school for about two months and like most new students sought friends and acceptance.

Sadly, the person she sought for friendship is believed to be the person responsible for her death.


268 posted on 02/02/2005 1:24:48 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

"i haven't felt this alive since the last time i died."

Oh how sweet (sarcasm) All the drama, all the anguish. It's Romeo & Juliet on a bad acid trip. This is what happens when there is no structure or boundaries in place for teenagers. They spill over the edge.


269 posted on 02/02/2005 1:24:56 PM PST by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: SunnySide

That posted to Sarah after he knew of her acts by the kid here (wideeyedidied) trying to defend her. Maybe he had more than a passing fancy with her .. an online attraction ,,, an Internet romance?


270 posted on 02/02/2005 1:27:40 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

Thanks for the update. These poor people (her parents). It's bad enough that their daughter was killed but to have it done in such a gruesome way. Oh yeah, let's not forget about poor Sarah (sarcasm). She was a nice girl. She hugged a puppy once. She just got a little carried away with herself and made a mistake. I don't know what the chances are of her getting the needle, but she deserves it. She deserves a lot worse, but she'll probably get away with it. Yes, life in prison is getting away with it, IMO. She'll still have her life and that's not justice for the unforgiveable crime of murder. I don't care if she had rings in ear or rings up her butt, for what she did she deserves to die along with her accomplice.


271 posted on 02/02/2005 1:34:00 PM PST by beaversmom (The greatness of a man is measured by the fatness of his wife)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

Your comment about herd mentality .. I happened upon this tag line on the site of another poster on deviantart.com named Sarah Kolb but this Sarah lives in another state .. not the Sarah Kolb of this thread.

Here's the tag line in a post to her ..

"Don't follow the herd - be yourself!"


272 posted on 02/02/2005 1:34:09 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: beaversmom

If she'd done her dirty deed in Texas, she'd be on death row for sure .. in the express lane.

Don't know where Illinois stands on death penalty but it's worth a Google search.


273 posted on 02/02/2005 1:36:23 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

Knowing that I think (ahem HELLO) the authorities need to get hold of Mr. widePied-eyes computer to make sure he wasn't privy to ole sycho Sarahs murderous intentions. Maybe he coexed, dared Sarah into it? Many foolish girls have been severly "manipulated" by internet predators. Look how many teenage girls meet up with some online nutcases and actually run away to meet up with the nutcase. This really needs further deeper investigation. IMO This case is just the tip of the iceberg concerning the internet and how it's used as a deviant tool in case after case of mind manipulating by one person over another.


274 posted on 02/02/2005 1:37:16 PM PST by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: SunnySide

Hang on .. I've got some more links to post .. Sarah's mother reportedly had an online deviant journal (apple not falling too far from the tree?) but the maintainer of the website said she won't post the link. Here's the story from that site with the links:

http://www.planethuff.com/darkside/archives/true_crime_general/

The story of the murder of 16-year-old Adrianne Reynolds is no "Rather-gate", and I'm no high-powered lawyer like the bloggers who showed up the news monolith that was CBS. This is a story that is much closer to everyone's everyday life, one that strikes at people's psyches with it's pathos and brutality. But read on to see why I say another point, however meaningless, has been scored for the Pajama Posse, the guys and girls out here in the rest of America watching the news intently and sometimes realizing there is more to the story, sometimes finding it.

I received the heads-up last night that the findings I'd made through some very helpful tips and published online in this entry, on January 27, 2005, were finally making it to local news broadcasts in the Quad Cities area, where Adrianne Reynolds was brutally murdered.

Yesterday evening, February 1st, 2005, WQAD, the Quad Cities ABC affiliate, published "their" findings about Sarah Kolb's online activities.

A choice quote from the article:

Well, lookee there. Though this blog is referenced nowhere in the article, I can't help but feel the writer was trying to give yours truly a little shout-out, because otherwise they are improperly creating a compound word by writing "darkside" instead of "dark side." Other than when I write out the URL for this blog I never make "dark side" into one word. A shout-out, or a freudian slip, maybe. Either way, I took the unusual measure of making a screenshot of the first paragraph from the article just in case someone got sneaky after reading this entry and went back and put a space between "dark" and "side".

If it were not for the fact that at least 3 separate television stations' domains appeared in my stats tracker yesterday, several hits apiece, I wouldn't be pointing this out; and it's not like I want a cookie and a pat on the head. Honestly, it's enough to know I scooped them on this aspect of the case, one that will become much more important now that Kolb and Cory Gregory, Adrianne's accused murderers, have pled not guilty to the charges. As far as I'm concerned, you can score one for me and the rest of the bloggers out there who have to deal with the "pajama" factor when we write about anything outside of what we did at work, who is pissing us off, what cute stuff our kids just did.

(::NOTE:: I expect, based on my stats for today, February 2, that you will soon be able to find an article detailing Kolb and Gregory's online activities, at www.qconline.com. Actually, the best newswriting I've seen about Adrianne's murder has been published by qconline, so keep checking the site for updates if you are following mainstream media coverage of this case.)





Lest we forget, though, the most important thing about this sordid tale of disenfranchised teens doing secret and awful things in the middle of a midwestern winter is this:


The victim. Adrianne Reynolds. In the photo above she looks younger than 16, a little unsure of everything. She came up from Texas to the Quad Cities, Milan, East Moline, etc, with her Texas drawl and surely some pain in her past trailing behind.

One friend of Adrianne's said she had a "wow" factor. She was shy at first, I'm told, but would open up as she got to know someone better. At the fast-food restaurant where Adrianne is said to have worked, she was hired because the manager found her personable, said she had a little spunk in her.

She was beginning a new chapter in her life in the Quad Cities, and eager to make friends. A portrait begins to emerge of someone not willing to sink into the murkier waters of her own life, whatever troubles she might have had - someone who was going to not just float, but swim.

Friends say her smile was amazing.

An adult who knew Adrianne from Adrianne's friendship with their children said the following in an e-mail, and it lodged inside this Dad's head, unwilling to fade;

"There was so much inside that little girl."

A little girl, with a great deal to give.

It's understandable to delve into the available evidence where Adrianne's killers are concerned. We want to know the enemy, for one thing. We want to remove our blinders and see the vacant face of teens who were too far gone by the time they crossed paths with Adrianne Reynolds.

Adrianne was that shy-looking, pretty girl in the photo above, and she still contained worlds. The peers who had already surrendered to the void, who had sunk back into the dark waters wherein she was struggling to swim, caught her in their undertow. As you hear more, read more online about her death, don't forget her face, the face of a little girl, whether she would have liked that said or not, who still had so much inside.





Other Dark Side entries about the murder of Adrianne Reynolds:

What The HELL Are These Little Girls Made Of? - first posted January 27, 2005.
Sarah-Boo II - first posted February 1, 2005.

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February 01, 2005
Sarah-Boo II
A new article up at qctimes.com relates that the male defendant in the Adrianne Reynolds case, Cory Gregory, says he was but a witness to events:

"...Police said Gregory told them he was 'merely a witness' who went with Kolb to her grandparents Mercer County farm and saw her pour gasoline on Reynolds’ body and try to burn the remains. He told authorities the two returned to Millersburg, Ill., two days later..."

The above information is interesting because I received an e-mail on 1/29/05 that stated the following:

"...I've heard that the reason Sarah supposedly killed Adrianne was over a guy, supposedly Sarah's boyfriend. The farm where they took the body to burn it belongs to Sarah's step-grandfather and Sarah asked him last Friday if she could take a guy up there and 'show him around.'..."

I'm keeping the identity of the person who e-mailed me to myself for their peace of mind, and for all I know their safety. What was really interesting is what happened after I went ahead and did a second entry for this blog, titled "Sarah Kolb Part II - About the Accused, ONLY.", based on some of the info I'd received from the e-mail correspondent.

Almost immediately someone calling themselves "Concerned" and giving a fake hotmail address posted the following to my comments for that entry; "The info you were given in your update is wrong. I don't know who's giving you your new info, but it is incorrect."

In irritation I took that entry down. It has since become outdated, but I did use portions of it in my final revision of the first entry about this crime, "What the HELL Are These Little Girls Made Of?"

I did this because the same person had made a comment on the first version of that entry, one where I'd posted a link to a blog by someone with the same name as the accused, Kolb. They seemed sure enough that the first blog linked, a Livejournal, was not kept by Sarah Ann Kolb of Milan, Illinois, that I went ahead and made the first of what ended up being 4 major revisions of the entry in question, removing all reference to the Livejournal. The truth was that while there were more coincidences relevant to that journal than the name, there were enough differences that I was rather glad to pull the links, and regretted having rushed them "to print."

"Concerned" posted one more comment, stating they didn't think that Sarah Kolb's mother had a deviant art journal. This I was able to refute, as I was certain about Sarah's two deviant art journals - the older one, squid-hater121.deviantart.com, had photos of Sarah, and the Sarah-Boo site had links to another site that had a photo of "Sarah-Boo", (possibly Cory Gregory's) and it was obviously Kolb. "Sarah-Boo" had posted a comment to the mom's journal as well that made it obvious she was writing to a caretaker.

"Concerned" was at least partly wrong in saying my second entry's info was incorrect, as the initial attempts to dispose of Adrianne's body did indeed occur at the farm of a relative of Sarah Kolb's. This and their not knowing that Sarah's mom had a deviant art site has led me to question their motivations for commenting and their own knowledge, and no further comments from that person or the IP they use will be accepted.

A third person has been arrested, one Nathan Gaudet, age 16, of Moline, Illinois. This article posted at WQAD.com gives the following horrific account of Gaudet's involvement in the attempts to conceal Adrianne's murder:

"...Investigators say the pair (Kolb and Gregory ~ S.H.) tried to burn the body with gasoline at a farm in Mercer County for six hours but failed, and then enlisted the help of a third teen, Nate Gaudet, 16, to help saw off her head and arms, and cut her torso in half. Her legs had come off when the body partially burned.

Arrested Monday and charged as a juvenile, Gaudet was named as a key witness in Tuesday's revealing preliminary hearings for Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory..."


Other new info in the article above indicates that Cory Gregory was no innocent bystander:

"...Investigators today testified that Sarah Kolb choked and beat Adrianne Reynolds, while Corey Gregory held her arms, then strangled her with a belt..."

Sarah and Corey killed Adrianne, then made their inept attempts to burn her body. After they spent about six hours trying this they gave up. Two days later they returned with Gaudet, and proceeded to dismember and hide Adrianne's remains. Gaudet was turned in when a parent found a bloody saw in one of his bags.

All of them really still just children. It's pretty damn cold in that area of Iowa/Illinois right now. Wintry, snowy and damp. Gray. For a week or so, 3 psychopathic children tried to conceal the terrible death of another under those wide midwestern skies. It goes beyond sad; there's an emptiness that yawns at the heart of this story which is more awful and heavy than the sadness.

A portrait of Sarah Kolb is emerging as a manipulative and controlling personality with a penchant for, even attraction to violence. What little you can glean from the deviant art sites seems to say this. Had this never happened and I'd found those sites anyway I'd still have found her comments to others disturbing. The post in her mother's journal for instance indicates that Sarah had run away from home around the time it was made - November 29, 2003. Her mom, as I relayed in my first entry about this crime, gushes, thanking those who "helped (her) find Sarah", and how Sarah will "always be her baby."

Then, in a comment made only 6 hours later Sarah, the daughter who had apparently just caused her mother enough worry that the relief in mom's writing was palpable, wrote, "If you love me, let me go to Deftones tomorrow."

She was an unbalanced and violence-prone child. The final photo by another deviant art user that Sarah had selected at her squid-hater121 site as a favorite was this one, by ~black-r0se.

I chose not to post a copy of it here, but if you don't follow the link a description should suffice. The photo by ~black-r0se is an artistic black and white shot of a slender feminine hand, carefully rumpled bedsheets, and a very large, wicked-looking butcher knife.

Many teens court and deal with violence. I certainly did. Your emotions are like a freight train, rarely in your control. For some artistic expressions of it are enough. Creating their own or seeing others - slasher movies, death metal - for others there is not enough juice in the music and the imagery...eventually they want to get their own hands bloody. It's clear that the image locked in our collective unconscious of this last sort of teen being a typically white, intelligent, middle-class boy who has been bullied and outcast is going to change. It's the funhouse-mirror reflection of the equality western society has sought for women for so long now. Women, young and older, not only as equals in the workplace and the home, but also in the abbatoirs of our nightmares, also staring cold-eyed from mugshots, from behind death-row bars.

My daughter, age 3, dressed in a lavender hoodie and flowered jeans, just came rushing in, all blue eyes and flying red hair, to breathlessly inform me that there was a dragon on TV. The sadness of the brave new world that brings cold-eyed girl killers like the accused, Sarah Ann Kolb, is that they were someone's 3 year-old baby girls once. Sarah's alleged victim, Adrianne Reynolds, was too. And one wishes that the dragons had never come off the screens, into one girl's soul, ending another girl's life.

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January 27, 2005
What the Hell Are THESE Little Girls Made of?
"...This is the story of a murderer
A cold blooded killer, a ruthless, harmless, slaughterer..."
~ Insane Clown Posse, "I Didn't Mean to Kill Him", from Forgotten Freshness Vol. 1, 1998.






You will recall Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman, aka smchyrocky (link goes to my entry about smchyrocky), the 16-year-old from Alaska who plotted the brutal murder of her mom with two 24-year-old former boyfriends.

Now, meet Sarah Ann Kolb.


A quote from the article linked in her name (A different Free Republic article is linked in the photo):

"...Handcuffed and surrounded by court security guards, Sarah Kolb was ushered into the court room in Rock Island this afternoon to face first degree murder charges in the death of Adrianne Reynolds..."

It appears Kolb bludgeoned and choked Adrianne Reynolds to death, then dismembered her body and spread it over two counties. The murder took place in a Taco Bell parking lot, and the attempt to dispose of Adrianne's remains may have taken place in part on the property of one of Kolb's relatives.

Like Rachelle Waterman, Kolb is 16, and like Waterman, Kolb may have had two male accomplices. At least one other person, Cory Gregory, age 17, has been arrested at this writing.

As in the case of smchyrocky, there are links to be found on the internet to Sarah Kolb, as well...sarah-boo.deviantart.com/. It's worth a glance.

After examining the site I was able to find things like this telling photo of "Sarah-Boo", posted on another deviant art page...


...Click the photo to go the deviant art journal where it was posted - the url; mostasteless26.deviantart.com/. mostasteless26 says his name is cory. I can tell that the photo above is the same Sarah Ann Kolb, but can't quite tell from his own photo if "cory" is Cory Gregory. The odds are good, I'd think.

Sarah, being a product of her generation, inevitably left more tracks online. I present to you The Quad City Ninjettes. And Sarah-Boo's lovely contribution to the page is reproduced for the time when geocities inevitably dumps it or something:


I find when reading certain message boards - about the BTK Strangler, for example - that there's a class of kid out there who becomes enamored of any symbol of power, such as serial killers. Often these kids are perfectly harmless, and they outgrow this seeming admiration of psychopaths. Perhaps it morphs into an interest in true crime, perhaps it receives expression in some kind of graphic writing or art. But above Sarah-Boo reveals that she can actually think up a phrase like, "Gouging your eyes out with a mother fucking spork..." - and maybe it's just that I'm seeing those words differently because of Adrianne Reynolds' murder...but I doubt it.

Further research revealed that Sarah Ann Kolb had another deviant art site from which she was banned - http://squid-hater121.deviantart.com/. I say banned because her "status" on the page is "banned deviant." That "banned" might be because of comments like the one she left here:

"...I'd cry too if I looked like you. Keep your ugly d**e c**t out of my life and stop lying your ass off and saying I said bad things about certain people. And while you're at it, stop being a bitch whore in general! You might find being a good person has it's rewards..."

That last sentence just had to be emphasized for contrast with the words preceding it. And to emphasize, I guess, the irony of the fact that the writer is now accused of brutally murdering, burning, and dismembering an innocent girl who only wanted, by all accounts, to be friends with her.

Much has been made in some of the Quad Cities (Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa and Moline/East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois) press about Gregory, Kolb, and Reynolds' being fans of the bizarre rap group Insane Clown Posse. In this article in The Quad Cities Online, published 1/30/05, a memorial service held by local juggalos and jugalettes for Adrianne Reynolds (male and female devotees to ICP, respectively) is described. The article would be funny in some respects were the subject not so awful:

"...(S)ome at the vigil said Ms. Kolb was not a Juggalette, although others said she and Mr. Gregory were part of the group.

Group members said they aren't a cult or religious group.

'We believe in heaven and hell,' said Cat Waldo, 20, of Silvis, speaking while a fellow Juggalo held his arm around her.

'If we were bad people, we wouldn't be here. We hurt just like a family would,' Mr. McMillin said..."


A cult, or religious group? It's hard to not flash back to middle America's fears of the "dirty hippies" of the 60's and early 70's. Juggalos and Jugalettes are just like any other ardent fans of fringe music groups - little except tie-dye and peace symbols separates them from Deadheads that way.

Though to be fair, The Grateful Dead never wrote lyrics quite like this:

"...I walked into the church dressed up as an altar boy
i seen a preacher,
he said little boy imma Teacher,
put his hand on my shoulder
felt the claw of the beast,
i never thought it'd be so Fuckin easy murdering a priest..."

~ ICP, "Crooked Preacha Killas", from Hell's Pit, 2004.


Looking to ICP fandom won't answer the inevitable, the huge WHY of this crime. If the answer is to be found anywhere, it's in fiction from an earlier era, in my opinion.

In William March's novel, The Bad Seed, we meet Rhoda Penmark. Rhoda is a lovely child, not yet in her teens. She makes good grades and cleans up her room, her mother and most adults are enamored of her. She's very cute, with her blonde pigtails and little gap between her teeth.Rhoda just happens to kill everyone who crosses her in clever and subtle ways. Some lines from the movie version, directed by Mervyn Leroy, made in 1956:

Christine Penmark: Rhoda, what happened to old Mrs. Post in Wichita?
Rhoda Penmark: There was some ice on the stairs and I slipped and fell into her, that was all.
Christine Penmark: Was that all, Rhoda?
Rhoda Penmark: No, I slipped on purpose.

While researching this final version of this entry I happened on to a deviant art journal created by Sarah Kolb's mom, and was struck by this. I will not link it to preserve whatever shred of privacy the Kolb family may have left, but if her mother had access to the site and knew even one of Sarah's screen names, she surely knew she could read anything Sarah said to anyone else, including comments like the "good person" quote above. If she's a halfway normal mother, she probably did.

It's hard to not ask how she could not see the stirrings of something very ugly and dark in her daughter, but I am a parent too. That makes it all the more frightening, perhaps. And to imply blame towards Sarah's parents takes it off her, and refutes the whole idea of the bad seed - that some people are just born that way. The only worth in understanding them is being able to spot others of their kind. Besides, even if any adults in Sarah Kolb's life spotted the stirrings of something awful, deeper and far more pathological than normal teen angst, another line from the movie version of Bad Seed is also too often true in spirit:

Christine Penmark: She killed him, but she's my little girl and I love her.

As I stated, I will not link Kolb's mother's journal, but I will quote in closing an entry she wrote, as reading it after seeing that quote from The Bad Seed is rather powerful...

"... I want to thank everyone who helped me find Sarah. She is back home safe and sound. Again thank you!

Sarah and E_____ (Sarah's sister ~ S.H.) are my shining stars of my universe. I love them both dearly, but Sarah will always be my baby.

They are more precious to me than life itself. Nothing in this world could ever take their place..."


In the comments, "Sarah-Boo" wrote: "...If you love me, let me go to Deftones tomorrow..." - and perhaps that's as telling as anything else about the way this girl's mind works.

Below are some links to news stories about this crime...I'll keep them updated periodically.





Adrianne Reynolds Goes Missing - WHBF, 1/25/05.
An Arrest is Made - Quad City Times, Iowa, 1/26/05.
Kolb charged in "dismemberment of another teen" - WFIE TV, Indiana, 1/27/05.
Kolb to be tried as an adult - Canton Daily Ledger, Canton, Illinois, 1/27/05.
Google Search, "Kolb"+"Reynolds".
Then there's Sean McKitrick, 17, Sarah Kolb's boyfriend. A truly chivalrous young man. From the Quad City Times online, 1/29/05:
"...McKitrick said he saw Reynolds’ efforts toward establishing a friendship with Kolb unravel in the restaurant parking lot.
'Sarah and Adrianne got in an argument,' he said. '(Sarah) started it.'

'She started pulling Adrianne’s hair,' he added. 'That was when I decided to leave the car. I didn’t want to be around.'

When he complained about her behavior, he said, Kolb told him he was welcome to leave. He got out of Kolb’s red Geo Metro and walked back to the school while the other three teens stayed in the car, he said..."

Real chivalrous fella, that Sean.


275 posted on 02/02/2005 1:44:58 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace; SunnySide; wideeyedidied; Fiddlstix; Captain Peter Blood; beaversmom; ...

Online activity hints at darker side of Kolb
POSTED: 2/1/05
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=2890514

ROCK ISLAND -- Sarah Kolb spent time on the Internet, including participating in various chat rooms and blogs. A look at Sarah Kolb's online chatter reveals the teen definitely had a darkside.

Like many teens, Kolb spent a fair amount of time on the Internet. Even maintaining her own page on a Web site called deviantart.com.

She posted pictures of herself there last year. A shaven head gives the teen a more ominous appearance than recent images of her outside the courthouse.

Just below her picture is the image of a hand-holding an extremely large knife which Kolb downloaded as her favorite image at the time.

After Kolb’s arrest, friends told the media Kolb didn't appear to be a violent person.

“They were my friends for years,” said Sean McKitrick. “I didn't think they were capable of such a thing.”

Contrast that with Kolb's profile on the Web site Quad City Ninjettes where she wrote "gouging your eyes out with a [expletive] spork" as her weapon of choice.

The site is for fans of the band Insane Clown Posse a group that's been heavily criticized for violent lyrics like, "I'd never thought it would be so easy murdering a priest," a line from the band's Hell's Pit album.

Kolb's alleged partner in crime Cory Gregory also has a webpage at Deviantart.com. On it is a haunting journal entry made earlier this month. It reads: “Day after day i sit in this place - wishing each day I had to face - something better than this - where I never get pissed - and all this pain would not remain - with life making sense”

None of the online chatter is evidence of Sarah Kolb's or Cory Gregory's guilt. The messages and images do, however, provide some insight into the minds of the two teenagers who will soon stand trial for murder.

The murder trials of Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory are scheduled to begin on April Fourth. Nate Gaudet is slated to testify against the pair.


276 posted on 02/02/2005 1:55:45 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: SunnySide

Wideeyed referred us to his website. All the information is there. He does seem to have a "fascination" with Sarah, doesn't he? You have to wonder about him coming here under the guise of defending the Goths but in reality, he seems to be defending a MURDERER!


277 posted on 02/02/2005 2:00:36 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace; NativeTexun; SunnySide
WideeyeIdied- should be banned

I was in high school last year.

Teenagers in high school are endlessly looking for ways to assert their identity. Perhaps the most prominent outlets to express themselves is through how they dress.

So what does wearing all black and having sharp spike bracelets express? Well, Black is an uninviting color. It isn't warm.

It's all all anti social behavior. It's dark behavior.
278 posted on 02/02/2005 2:17:28 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell (GOD BLESS THE IRAQI PEOPLE! They have choosen Freedom!)
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To: brknhrtdf00l

You think 'living with what they've done' is going to be a hindrance to them? Most of these killers don't feel any remorse. Even Sam Berkowitz probably only appreciates his deeds(he became a Christian and seems to have made a life for himself in prison) on an intellectual level.


279 posted on 02/02/2005 2:23:15 PM PST by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

>>It's all all anti social behavior. It's dark behavior.<<

Very dark .. and we know where dark originates.

From the pits of hell.

Wide eyed is making himself very open to investigation by posting and giving so much information about himself.

Can't believe he is defending Sarah.

Visit his website ... www.artandviolence.com


280 posted on 02/02/2005 2:24:44 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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