Posted on 01/27/2006 10:35:42 AM PST by alaskanfan
JUNEAU -- Lauri Waterman heard her killer coming. Lying in bed alone in her Craig home, the 48-year-old mother heard the footsteps coming up the stairs long after midnight. Her husband and daughter were out of town for the weekend, and she had carefully locked the doors, but now she sensed somebody outside her bedroom. Waterman didn't call the police or confront the intruder. She got up and closed the bedroom door.
In a Juneau courtroom Wednesday, Ketchikan District Attorney Stephen West offered jurors a riveting account of the night Waterman died, based largely on the confessions of her killers.
Brian Radel, 24 at the time, backed away from the bedroom door, West said. He had recently shaved his head and beard and was wearing rubber gloves that night. He didn't want to leave any traces of his presence.
Radel crept into the family's exercise room and waited about an hour for Waterman to fall asleep.
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He needs to get a grasp on reality. She's a scheming little b*tch who wanted her mother dead so she could run wild.
Oh isn't that terrible? And that GIRL? What evil.
I don't think he can handle the truth.
Thinking of his daughter as a victim is probably a defense mechanism, an entirely understandable one.
Geez, what an awful story.
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned." Mark Twain
Do you really? What were you like when you were that age? Did you tell your parents everything?
"But Radel couldn't snap her neck. He beat her a dozen times on the throat with a red flashlight. That didn't kill her, either. So he put his hand over her mouth and nose and suffocated her to death."
Nice friends too.....
BUMP!
Apparently there is some question as to her involvment.
Claus testified that Arrant told troopers after his arrest that Waterman was involved in the plan to kill her mother.
Wells questioned the reliability of that information during his cross-examination. He asked Claus about a recording of Arrant and Radel, in which they said Waterman was not involved.
The recording was made while Arrant was wearing a police wire. Investigators had asked him to record a conversation with Radel, because Arrant at first told them he had seen Radel driving the minivan with Lauri Waterman inside.
"Jason says (in the recordings that Rachelle Waterman) didn't have anything to do with it, right?" Wells asked. "And Brian says, 'Right.'"
http://juneauempire.com/stories/012706/sta_20060127052.shtml
I would guess that you are the exception.
I'm genuinely surprised that you say my experience is an exception.
In your experience, what is the common rule?
It was a long time ago, but I recall the raging hormones and thinking with the wrong head.
Perhaps I was the only one that ever experienced that.
btt
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