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."
Isn't that the truth. This new story is disturbing and reminds me of the lesbian one. It stuck in my mind at the time. Maybe because my dad is in his 70's and I know he would do anything for his kids and grandkids. These people were trying to do their best for their granddaugher. Like you said, how horrible to know you are being killed by your own grandkid. Found more pictures of the lesbians and grandparents and a little more detail to the story at this site. I was hoping to find out if they had been sentenced yet. At this site it says the most they can get is life in prison. Too bad.
Bruce Jordan told reporters Holly laughed at the amount of police attention garnered by her double-murder. "She was callous and cocky. She is the coldest and most heartless individual I've ever interviewed. It almost made her giddy to know we had brought that many people to arrest her," Jordan said.
http://www.vanceholmes.com/court/trial_harvey.html
Oops here's the site.
Very depressing!
Thanks!
They had some pyschologist in the article I read last summer basically stating you have to feel sorry for the granddaughter--she's just lost her grandparents. That's the kind of idiocy and misplaced sympathy that's producing the monsters we are seeing in these stories.
I seriously doubt that any of these kids were ever exposed to Yukio Mishima.
>>They had some pyschologist in the article I read last summer basically stating you have to feel sorry for the granddaughter--she's just lost her grandparents.<<
He obviously checked his brain at the door! Did he remember that she "lost" them because she killed them?
>> That's the kind of idiocy and misplaced sympathy that's producing the monsters we are seeing in these stories. <<
Total insanity!
Another 'drop-out'!
You get the rope, I'll make the popcorn, we'll find someone with a video recorder.
A good old public hanging. Film at 11.
While we're at it, MAKE them show it on MTV!
other girl must have gotten mad that she lost all the guys...
They must have been pretty hard up, If I had a dog that looked like Kolb... Well, you know...
Oh, your wife's from the Quad Cities?
Sorry...statements like the one you made are as stupid as the one I just made and about as truthful.
I agree. Excellent idea.
Agree. She came here to start over and that's what gives me the 'willy's' too. Fate.
"You sound like a secretary I had. Thank goodness she's gone now"
Thanks, you prove that your secretary was viewed as a dime a dozen.
:P
"These people should get the death penalty.
I don't want to hear that they are "kids". They knew exactly what they were doing."
I agree, they're gruesome excuses for human beings. It was horrible enough that they killed another human being but they dismembered her too! Sick evil garbage.
Another 'drop-out'!
Some pretty normal kids can end up being drop-outs or kicked-outs & in alternative schools. (Consider, for one, some of the draconian 'zero tolerance' rules in the public school system.) Problem is that some seriously abnormal/ dangerously psychotic ones are there as well.
Found some more information on Sarah Kolb at:
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1044442&l=1&t=Local+News&c=2,1044442
Kolb had been a student at Rock Island High School, where former classmates categorized her as “a Goth” who often wore all-black clothes and black-and-white makeup.
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“She very much stood out in school,” said Auston McLain, 19, a former classmate. “Sometimes she was gay and sometimes she was bi(sexual).
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“Her mom is so nice — very smiley, very supportive of Sarah being a lesbian,” he said.
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Others at the Outreach Center, however, described Kolb as being jealous of Reynolds because she was catching the eye of so many boys at the school.
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Authorities are not yet prepared to share their theory on why the girl was murdered.
oh this is lovely, my hometown... ping.
Very true. I ended up in an alternative high school myself. I fell behind on credits when I got sick and then from just kind of giving up on the idea of catching up. I wasn't a drop out, a druggie or violent. I had two parents who actually talked me into doing that INSTEAD of dropping out and getting my GED.
Going to the alternative school enabled me to make up six and a half credits in less than two quarters and allowed me to graduate on time with a 3.8 GPA. They aren't all losers.
The punks that did this, however, are scum, and probably would have been so no matter what school they had attended, imo.
Moronic post of the day award.
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