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."
Thanks for the posting.
Adrianne was NOT pregnant.
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1044783&l=1&t=Local+News&c=2,1044783
Nor was she Bi. And she was not Goth.
And whatdayaknow? FR got a mention:
Someone else watching the case with interest called my attention to the Free Republic article again. FreeRepublic.com is, in their own words; "...the premiere online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web..." and I am sure the article I've linked was posted on their forum as just another example of our society's moral decay. I get a bit more conservative each year, so the preceding statement is not as smartassed as it sounds...but it's still a little smartassed; I'm not a liberal, but mainstream conservatism still spooks me on occasion.
Whatever the reason the article was there, the link actually takes you to Free Republic's messageboard, and the article is only the conversation "starter".
On this page of the thread, someone saw fit to pretty much post every entry I've written about this case in their entirety. Personally I don't know what to think of that. The poster does properly attribute the text to me with a link, but not in a very obvious way, given the text-heavy format. That, and a note to "Native Texun" who posted; I'm a he.
The board starts getting interesting when a user going by the nick "wideeyedidied" starts posting. He is associated somehow with a website called www.artandviolence.com. This alone starts some of the apparent regulars to twittering, but worse, he's apparently defending Sarah Kolb. I'm not so surprised - rarely do high-profile crimes like this lack for defenders of the accused. And even if I think it's obvious that Sarah Kolb and Corey Gregory very likely planned and executed a brutal and cold-blooded murder, I'm not going to fault someone for reflexively taking the opposite position. It's normal, believe it or not. And as I am a performing artist, I won't criticize artandviolence.com for their name.
Link to PlanetHuff
I'll have some comments and questions about Steve's (PlanetHuff) comments later.
The most recent entry describes Sarah's personality test. Did you see that?
P.S. to 365
Here is the entry I was referring to at Planet Huff:
February 09, 2005
Sarah-Boo VII: Plays With Demons
Yes, I did. Weird stuff & I say 'weird' rather than 'eerie' because the 'supposed' fact that she took that many tests (and then re-took one) and then posted the results maybe tells us a lot more about her than the 'supposed' results. Just my opinion, but I think she was playing the 'Hey look at me, I'm a Drama Queen' and probably skewed her answers to get the results she wanted. Noted also that the posting was in 2002--she would have been 14 or thereabouts.
Read her journal entries on that same link. She was a person of deep pain and apparently self-loathing. No, I'm not defending her.
Fact of the matter is that we don't know whether or not Adrianne was pregnant because, so far, there is nothing in the public record to tell us one way or the other....so far as I know. If you know of something which conclusively answers that question, do share. But that article only explains why two charges have so far been filed. It doesn't rule out the possibility that a third charge could be filed at a later date, in the event that prosecution on the two currently filed charges doesn't end in quilty verdicts. Nor does it rule out the possibility that a third possible charge has been withheld to use as leverage vs the defense in plea bargaining. Would be a very unusual case for the prosecution to have laid all their cards out on the table & so early in a case.
I read those I think. That's the same page where she reveals the personality tests and the other banter--Dec '02, isn't it? Or did I miss a page? I didn't think you were defending her...I just have a different (and less charitable) take on her.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/973543/
(page down and read her writings on "insecurity")
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/969534/
(read "wuts on my mind")
I had not seen those...good thing you left me a trail of breadcrumbs. (BTW, the links don't seem to be working now, but I was there earlier.)
Noted that one of the comments to her was that she was 'self-indulged', which was exactly what I was thinking. Not that that's unusual for a 14 YO, nor is it unusual for a 14 YO to be fixated on their appearance & not like what they see in the mirror. More interesting (to me, anyway) is that she went out of her way to try to prove her point by putting herself on exhibit with the photographic 'evidence'. Seems to me that someone who truly didn't like what they saw in the mirror would be trying to hide rather than saying 'Hey, look at me; I'm ugly.'
This is why we have a death penalty. Of course, the 'Rats won't let us put this dog down.
I came across this anf thought it may interest some of you. http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/psychopath/1.html
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1045561&t=Local+News&c=2,1045561
here's the latest story on Adrianne's accused murderer. Based on my experience with the Rock Island County court system and the personal knowledge I have on Teros and Stengal, both have teenage daughters.
What are people "around town" saying?
What do you mean? Everyone I know is completely in shock that something like this could happen around here. The Quad Cities is a typically considered to be a very safe, nice place to raise a family. I have been here my entire life and would live no where else. If I didn't answer your question please ask a more detailed question.
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