Seconded. Give me sanction and I would be happy to do the work personally.
Posted on 04/21/2005 4:18:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
HOMOSASSA - Jessica Marie ``Jessie'' Lunsford spent the last hours of her life bound and buried alive in a partial kneeling position while she clutched one of her favorite dolls, a purple stuffed dolphin, prosecutors say in documents released Wednesday. When her body was found buried March 19 in a 4-foot- deep grave, the 9-year-old Citrus County girl was wrapped in two plastic trash bags that were knotted at her head and feet, the state attorney's office said in 292 pages of evidence - released to the defense Tuesday - that revealed the nature of her death.
The files include statements from investigators, the coroner's office and John Evander Couey, 46, the convicted sex offender who investigators say gave them a statement saying he raped and killed Jessie.
The documents released Wednesday say Jessie's wrists were bound with stereo wire and two of her fingers poked through the plastic, arguably an indication she tried to escape her makeshift tomb.
The documents also say she was kept alive for an unspecified period near the home she shared with her father, Mark, and grandparents, Archie and Ruth.
Authorities say Couey gave them information only her killer would know.
Jessie was buried 150 yards from her home, behind a trailer Couey shared with three other adults.
She was dressed in shorts and a tank-top shirt, different from the nightgown authorities and her family say she wore before she disappeared.
A coroner's report states she suffocated.
The documents say there was no other sign of trauma.
Assistant State Attorney Pete Magrino would not discuss the taped statements by Couey or other details of the case.
The recording ``will not be released to the public until the trial,'' Magrino said.
Couey is charged with first- degree murder, sexual battery on a child under 12, kidnapping, and burglary with battery.
Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty if he is convicted on the murder charge.
Couey, despite his recorded statement to authorities, has pleaded not guilty.
His court-appointed attorney, Assistant Public Defender Dan Lewan, could not be reached for comment.
Investigators say Jessie's grave was partially concealed by a mound of leaves and debris that littered the back yard where she was buried. It is still not known whether she was buried before deputies, volunteers and search dogs combed the yard in the first days of their search.
Citrus County Sheriff Jeff Dawsy has said Couey's account of things was jumbled because he was in a drug haze at the time of the crimes. Evidence collected near the grave includes two glass crack-cocaine pipes and three pornographic magazines, according to investigators' statements.
Other sheriff's interviews suggest that Couey's three housemates used alcohol and drugs and may have harbored him from deputies seeking to arrest him on a misdemeanor violation of probation charge shortly after Jessie was reported missing.
Last month, his half sister, Dorothy Marie Dixon, 47; Madie Catherine Secord, 27; and Matthew Oley Dittrich, 31, were charged with misdemeanor obstruction, but prosecutors dropped the charges, saying Florida lacks a law making lying to deputies a crime in their case.
Meanwhile, investigators searching Couey's bedroom say they seized the sleeve from a Shirley Temple videotape, ``Curly Top,'' and several items of bedding or clothing that tested positive for blood or could contain blood samples. The file has no information about the source of the blood.
They unsuccessfully sought a pair of leather gloves authorities say Couey said he wore during the abduction.
On Feb. 23, the night she was last seen alive by her family, Jessie went to church. She was discovered missing by her father the next morning, a day she anticipated taking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, documents say.
A door of the family's mobile home was found unlocked.
Prosecutors say sometime during the night of Feb. 23 or early the next morning, Couey slipped into the Lunsford home and snatched the girl, leaving no signs of a struggle and without waking her grandparents, who were sleeping in another part of the house.
At the time, authorities say, he had not reported his move to Jessie's neighborhood. Registered sex offenders are required to report a change of address.
Couey was stopped on a probation violation March 12 in Savannah, Ga., but the warrant did not carry out-of-state arrest authority, so he was released. He was arrested on a revised warrant March 17.
The next day, after he underwent a polygraph test but before he knew the results, he made a statement of guilt, authorities say.
Seconded. Give me sanction and I would be happy to do the work personally.
That poor sweet little girl. Her last, so difficult hours, determined by a POS. May he rot in Hell.
They should be exterminated. No need to waste money on lock-ups of monsters.
How many children are going to die before these idiot judges,shrinks and parole boards realize that sex offenders are not rehabitable. It seems every time one of these events occur the guy has been arrested numerous times.
Lock them up and throw away the key on the FIRST sexual offense!!!
It's an ancient Persian form of execution, also known as "the boats". The perp is laid down in a boat while another one is bolted to it, exposing his head, hands and feet to the elements. He's force fed a mixture of milk and honey, which is also smeared all over him to attrace all kinds of insects. Colonies of worms will form inside him,so literally he slowly rots to death.
A good point, I only wish they would hand him over to my pistol club, we could use such a scumbag. We are running out of clean targets.
A cross and three nails.
As I've said before: Uday and Qsay were wasted on the wrong people.
I have a little girl, a year older than Jessica and the thought of this evil is just impossible to comprehend! I suggest that Mark Lundsford and his friends be given 10 minutes alone with couey. This sick, $hit isn't worth the money the state of Florida is spending the feed and house him!
Poor little Jessica, may she rest in the peace and love of Jesus.
Kill this bastard now and save the taxpayers the money spend in a long drawn out trial.
I think the death penalty should be limited to the rape of a child under 12. I think penalties should be alot tougher for any other form of child molestation as well. The main thing we have to do is to track these monsters after their release, and eventually work to the point where they can be cheaply warehoused away from the public. I really like the 'Devil's Island' idea. The only downside would be screwing up a perfectly good island by littering it with sub-human scum.
Similar to the plains Indian method with ants.
Thanks for posting this -- Saw some of it on the news last night. Horrible!
I said in another thread that child molesters should at the very least be given mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole -- regardless of whether their victims are alive or dead. My preference would be to execute them, but the bleeding hearts would be outraged, so I doubt this would ever happen. What the soft touches don't realize is that these pedophiles cannot and will not be rehabilitated. I've heard a number of convicted pedophiles who have said that when they are released, they will go out and do the crime again.
This Cooey guy only got something like six years for his last offense. That is an outrage. He should never have been released.
And those so-called family members who helped conceal his whereabouts -- they should be locked up as well. That prosecutor has rocks in his head for not wanting to prosecute them. The citizens of his jurisdiction should mobilized to force him to do so, or toss his sorry backside out of office.
Nice.
I'm partial to the ancient Chinese "Death by Inches" myself.
Drawn and Quartered the olde English Way, has a lot going for it, as well.
Too bad he couldn't suffer all three, one after the other.
I'd volunteer to flip the on off switch, on and off, on and off. Free of charge.
No, the Democrats didn't OVERTLY kill this girl. They did and do contribute to a judiciary and a society that lessens the penalties for drug crimes, choosing to blame "society" for a criminal's behavior, and making a mockery of the need to instill moral absolutes in the law.
Reading the details of this precious child's death makes me want to throw up. This needless, senseless murder was years in the making--the scum who took her innocence and her life had been in and out of the system for years. His perversion was known.
And anger arises in my soul when I think how the long term results of the current perversions of the judicial system are going to hurt future generations.
We are going to have to change the criminal justice and judicial system big time if there are to be fewer Jessicas in this world.
Scum like this should be crucified and their bodies left to rot in the sun as a warning to other depraved lowlife scum.
I agree the thought of someone like that trying to hurt her makes me glad I own a gun.
This kind of act brings out the basest instincts in me as a parent.
For that I do not apologize.....,
In a liberal mindset, he's probably a perfect candidate for rehabilitation and early release.... just not into the neighborhoods of the Parole Board or Judges.
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