Sarah Kolb
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."
This reminds me of "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea."
The local news said more arrests are expected and the girl will be tried as an adult.
The great-grandmother was interviewed. She showed a picture of Adrienne at her 16th birthday party last September and spoke quite lovingly of her saying the girl had an "angelic" singing voice and a gift for music.
Heard on the news that she will be tried as an adult and that other arrests are "expected."
http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/sections.cgi?prcss=display&id=228111
Adrianne 'cared about everything'
By Whitney Carnahan, wcarnahan@qconline.com
Adrianne Reynolds ``cared about everything around her,'' a friend said Wednesday.
Stephen Fonseca attended Black Hawk College Outreach Center in East Moline with the slain 16-year-old and worked with her at Checkers in East Moline.
``I talked to her just about every day. She (was) so nice,'' he said.
When her dad called him to say Ms. Reynolds was missing, he was surprised. When he got the news Wednesday that she was dead, it was a shock, Mr. Fonseca said.
Parts of Ms. Reynolds' body were found about midnight Tuesday at Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island, and other parts may have been found in Millersburg in Mercer County.
Police believe Ms. Reynolds was killed in Moline but did not say where. She had been missing since Friday.
A classmate at the Outreach Center, Sarah A. Kolb, 16, Milan, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in connection with Ms. Reynolds' death.
Ms. Reynolds had moved to East Moline from Longview, Texas, in November to live with her father and stepmother. Mr. Fonseca said she was starting to settle into her new home but worried about making friends here.
``From what I understand, when we talked, she was always worried about people out here, about meeting new people,'' he said.
Mr. Fonseca said he isn't a fan of some of the people Ms. Reynolds had met here. ``I know a lot of the people that she knew. I didn't like a lot of 'em,'' he said, describing the group as Goth or ``ICP kids.''
He added that he didn't know Ms. Kolb well. ``She was one of those kinds of people.''
Goth is a practice that includes wearing all black clothing, contrasting light and dark makeup, unusual hair styles and body piercings; a fascination with medieval history; wearing various religious symbols like crosses or the Egyptian ankh. Goths tend to be non-violent, write about depression, angst, hatred and despair, and have a fascination with death, according to www.religioustolerance.org/goth.htm.
ICP, short for Insane Clown Posse, is a cartoonish rap/metal group that formed in Detroit in 1989. In 1997, Hollywood Records pulled the group's album, ``The Great Milenko,'' citing gruesome content and obscene lyrics, according to VH1.com. The band has been compared to Rob Zombie or Korn.
Mr. Fonseca said people need to remember Ms. Reynolds and appreciate life. ``Don't take life for granted, no matter what. Death doesn't care who you are. It doesn't care how nice you are.''
The sentiment was echoed by Ms. Reynolds' other co-workers at Checkers, where she was remembered as an outgoing girl who didn't appear to fit in with a Goth group, district manager Brian Kiel said. She'd worked at the fast-food restaurant, at 565 Avenue of the Cities, since Nov. 23. She was supposed to work at the restaurant the night she disappeared.
Ms. Reynolds often was early for work and willing to stay late, Mr. Kiel said. She came in to work upset a few times, but wouldn't say why, he said.
``I don't know what she could've done to deserve this,'' he said.
Black Hawk College Outreach Center provides GED and high school diploma completion programs for about 80 students ages 14 to 18. Classes run from about 9 a.m. to 2 or 2:30 p.m. each day, and the students can go off-campus for lunch, said John Biermann, director of public relations for Black Hawk College.
The Outreach Center brought in five counselors Wednesday to help students, faculty and staff members, who were told about Ms. Reynolds' death that morning. ``Some of them are visibly upset,'' Mr. Biermann said. ``It's been really hard for them. It's been tiring for everybody.''
Ms. Kolb has no previous criminal record, said Jeff Terronez, Rock Island County state's attorney.
She has worked at National Amusements' Showcase 53 theater in Davenport since Nov. 8, said Garry La Roche, district manager for National Amusements.
``As an employee, she gave us no problem whatsoever,'' he said. ``Obviously, this has caught us all by surprise.''
Kathy Carmack, who said she's been friends with Ms. Kolb since seventh grade, said Ms. Kolb isn't a violent person.
``She says a lot of things, but she doesn't mean it,'' Ms. Carmack said.
Staff writers Kurt Allemeier and Rebecca Morris contributed to this report.
Sarah Kolb
She looks like a younger version of the Leash Gal.... and apparently has a similarly schiziod mind.
Just. Damn.
Thanks for the post! You saved me a Google search to learn more about this sweet young girl.
I noted that her picture on the Moline tv station site looked as if she might have "Goth" leanings judging from several aspects of her appearance. If that's the case, I guess she gravitated towards this group of kids much to her misfortune.
It sort of makes you believe in demons, real or metaphoric, to explain such darkness in a young soul.
Oh, really?! I guess she fooled you.
In this picture she almost looks like that kid who played Damien in Omen II.
This girl just looks totally Evil and we all know Evil exists. Here's living proof.
My bet is that this girl has absolutely no remorse about what she did.
Your welcome--my curiosity got the better of me too. It makes you wonder when a teenage girl could do something like this. I know girls aren't angels, but to me it's shocking. Maybe it shouldn't be with the kind of world it's becoming. There was a story a few months to a year ago that was as equally disturbing. It was a 15 year old or so girl and her girlfriend--lesbian girlfriend that is. The grandparents were nice enough to take the granddaughter's deliquent butt into their home but she was causing problems and the grandparents tried to set some rules. She and the girlfriend stabbed the grandparents to death.
I was thinking the same thing.
This moonbat is a defense attorney's dream juror.
Guess the lesbian teenage murderers story was from the summer of 2004. This isn't the article I read back then--the one I read was really depressing because it described how the grandparents died--poor granddad had ran upstairs to try and call police and the granddaughter continued the pursuit and killed him upstairs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1184978/posts
Girls held in killings of teen's grandparents (Killer Teen Lesbians in Georgia)
Imagine, if you can, the thoughts going through the grandfather's mind. This is so foreign to them .. this type of behavior from teens. It must have been so horrifying to know that your life is being taken by your own grandchild!
Horrors! All mom had to do was give us of those "looks" and we knew we'd better "straighten up and fly right."
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