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."
I hope your children heed your instructions!
Don't you think, though, that the father took comfort in thinking Adrienne had played her new guitar lots?
I bet he did.
Well, they are unique but strangely so .. preoccupation with death, dying, some think they're vampires .. unusual to say the least.
My husband saw one of the herd the other night. He said, "Hey he's different just like everyone else."
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
___________________________________________________________
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...
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.
"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!
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.
"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.
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?
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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.)
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 Kolbs 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.
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!
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.
>>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
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