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Ga. Suspect's Child Born Days Earlier (Nichols/Atlanta)
Yahoo.com ^ | 3/16/05 | HARRY R. WEBER and BILL POOVEY

Posted on 03/16/2005 1:00:41 PM PST by beyond the sea

ATLANTA - A girlfriend of courthouse killings suspect Brian Nichols gave birth to his child just three days before the rampage, and she said Nichols repeatedly told her that he wanted to be with the child.

The mother's statements and transcripts from Nichols' rape trial are the most specific suggestion of a possible motive for last week's shooting spree. Prosecutors have suggested Nichols was worried about being convicted at the trial, but have not revealed a detailed motive.

"I do know that he wanted to be with the baby. He did speak about it all the time," Sonya Meredith, the mother of the baby boy, told The Associated Press. She said Nichols made those statements in the days and weeks leading up to the shootings.

Nichols was on trial for a second time for allegedly raping and holding hostage an ex-girlfriend when he allegedly escaped and killed four people Friday.

It was in the middle of that retrial, on March 8, when Meredith, another girlfriend of Nichols, gave birth to their son.

"I wanted to have a healthy baby," Nichols testified during his first rape trial.

Nichols' first rape trial ended in a hung jury on Feb. 28, and the second one started last week.

The day after Meredith gave birth, jail officials found homemade knives in each of Nichols' shoes. The next day, Nichols allegedly went on the rampage.


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KEYWORDS: atlanta; baby; briannichols; child; nichols
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To: rockabyebaby

God bless every child.


21 posted on 03/16/2005 1:22:48 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: utahagen

Yeah, he got him a tthirteen y.o., not payin his child support neither.


22 posted on 03/16/2005 1:23:00 PM PST by johnb838 ("You Have Ruled, Now Let Us See You Enforce" Need some wood?)
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To: utahagen
His 13+ year old daughter (from yet another old girl friend) was making the morning talk show rounds yesterday talking about "loving" her daddy and wanting to know why he has not seen her or been in contact with her since she was a few months old.
23 posted on 03/16/2005 1:23:24 PM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: beyond the sea

Well yes, but this child probably will never see her/his daddy.


24 posted on 03/16/2005 1:23:30 PM PST by rockabyebaby (If you're not part of the solution, you ARE the problem.)
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To: JustRight

LOL! Libs just never stop with the "understanding" crap, do they?


25 posted on 03/16/2005 1:23:46 PM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
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To: utahagen
How much you want to bet that this is not the first baby Nichols has sired? How many "Baby's Mama"s of his are out there?

I don't know, but here's betting the baby looks nothing like Michael Jackson.

26 posted on 03/16/2005 1:24:53 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: rockabyebaby

According to other posts, the one other child of his (that we know of) hasn't seen her Daddy since she was a few months old...and she's fourteen!


27 posted on 03/16/2005 1:24:57 PM PST by utahagen
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To: beyond the sea

Yesterday his 13-year-old daughter was on Atlanta radio. She said she wanted her dad to know that she loved him very much. Also, she was curious where he had been for the past 13 years. (I kid you not.)


28 posted on 03/16/2005 1:25:40 PM PST by madprof98
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To: EllaMinnow

He claims he never raped her, he was set up. I guess he showed up with the dope, and the cooler full of beer and food, and the machine gun, and the duct tape, and he was just getting ready to party. Actually it would not surprise me that much if that were true, and she executed a post-coital refusal manuever that got him th'own in the slammah.


29 posted on 03/16/2005 1:26:15 PM PST by johnb838 ("You Have Ruled, Now Let Us See You Enforce" Need some wood?)
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To: utahagen

As an FReeper puts it, DAMN, just DAMN, but on the other hand, as martha would say, maybe "it's a good thing" the child doesn't know her daddy.


30 posted on 03/16/2005 1:26:22 PM PST by rockabyebaby (If you're not part of the solution, you ARE the problem.)
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To: rockabyebaby

DUH, that should say as another FReeper puts it....


31 posted on 03/16/2005 1:26:53 PM PST by rockabyebaby (If you're not part of the solution, you ARE the problem.)
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To: Howlin

It doesn't really say (unless I missed something) where the baby is or was born.


32 posted on 03/16/2005 1:26:58 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: All

This guy's whole life has been evil. So much for the "good guy" having a bad moment theory.


33 posted on 03/16/2005 1:27:15 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: EllaMinnow
What? That cruel harpy abandoned poor Brian Nichols just because he was having a baby with another woman?

No wonder he was so angry at her. Who can blame him?

34 posted on 03/16/2005 1:28:34 PM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: OldFriend
Any mention of the daughter he hasn't contacted for seven years?

No, I saw no reference of that. I didn't know that there was one.

Mr. Nichols has not been inactive.

35 posted on 03/16/2005 1:29:33 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: madprof98

If you have a link to some reportage of this, I would be delighted to read it.


36 posted on 03/16/2005 1:29:48 PM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: johnb838

I'll give her the benefit of the doubt on post-coital refusal. Supposedly she was a very long-term girlfriend who dumped him when she found out that he'd gotten another girl pregnant.
Maybe the dope, the cooler full of beer and food, and the machine gun, and the duct tape were his idea of a romantic reconciliation...but, understandably, she didn't agree.


37 posted on 03/16/2005 1:29:51 PM PST by EllaMinnow
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To: Zacs Mom
His 13+ year old daughter (from yet another old girl friend) was making the morning talk show rounds yesterday talking about "loving" her daddy and wanting to know why he has not seen her or been in contact with her since she was a few months old.

This is getting uglier.....

38 posted on 03/16/2005 1:30:42 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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To: beyond the sea

Why was he retried, what happened in the first trial?


39 posted on 03/16/2005 1:31:28 PM PST by Eva
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To: rockabyebaby

This story gets worse every day.


40 posted on 03/16/2005 1:31:40 PM PST by beyond the sea (Colonial Script........... or nationalize The Federal Bank..)
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