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Oceana (Mich.) Man Vents on Myspace Before Killing
NEWSCHANNEL 3 WWMT Kalamazoo ^ | July 20, 2008 | WWMT Kalamazoo

Posted on 07/20/2008 3:39:45 PM PDT by MaryFromMichigan

OCEANA COUNTY (MI) (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The man who killed his estranged wife before committing suicide vented his frustrations on his myspace page.

Dan Lee Mead, 41, shot himself after he dressed in camouflage, armed himself with a shotgun and kidnapped his wife who'd been staying with her parents.

Both bodies were found in the woods near Ferry Township Friday morning.

He described his frustration with his marriage, and losing custody of his child.

Police say Mead had a history of violence and had been in and out of jail in the past.OCEANA COUNTY (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The man who killed his estranged wife before committing suicide vented his frustrations on his myspace page.

Dan Lee Mead, 41, shot himself after he dressed in camouflage, armed himself with a shotgun and kidnapped his wife who'd been staying with her parents.

Both bodies were found in the woods near Ferry Township Friday morning.

He described his frustration with his marriage, and losing custody of his child.

Police say Mead had a history of violence and had been in and out of jail in the past.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: domesticviolence; michigan; myspace; suicide; wwmt
From his myspace page: "Today is my son Carter's 3rd birhday, I wont be able to see him, talk to him, give him a present,hug, or kiss. It is going to be an extremely difficult day for me, I do not know how or even if i'll make it through today. Anybody who knows me knows that this boy is MY life, I am so lost without him, he is my best little buddy, and we are being tore apart, it is not fair for both of us. I LOVE YOU CARTER, you have a great birthday buddy,daddy will always be thinking of you!!"
1 posted on 07/20/2008 3:39:46 PM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: MaryFromMichigan

Not a grammar champ, that’s for sure.


2 posted on 07/20/2008 3:42:36 PM PDT by library user (There's no sandwich like prawn sandwich.)
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To: MaryFromMichigan

Countdown until somebody shows up claiming he was pushed over the edge by the family law system.


3 posted on 07/20/2008 3:43:07 PM PDT by kms61
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To: MaryFromMichigan

“never let the one you love go or you’ll regret it forever” (from his myspace). Kind of creepy, when you consider how these men tend to kill their ‘woman’ rather than let her go. If I can’t have you, nobody can and all that, when they lose their power over them.


4 posted on 07/20/2008 3:43:09 PM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: MaryFromMichigan
Which one is his wife?


5 posted on 07/20/2008 3:44:52 PM PDT by library user (There's no sandwich like prawn sandwich.)
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To: MaryFromMichigan

More from the myspace page...

“My wife all over again...I know that it is probably so far fetched that it could ever happen. We have only been seperated since memorial day, but it seems to me that any feelings she had for me are completely gone. How is that possible so fast? I mean even through all of the hurtful and mean things that we both have said, I still love her as much as I did. Am I just an idiot or has is my heart saying that she really was my soulmate,the ONE true love of my life. And how will I ever go on without her,without my family? I have never in the state that I am in now, it is very because I am at the bottom and there is only one way worse than here. The good memories and my son are the only things that keep me going atthis point, not knowing how long it will last...”


6 posted on 07/20/2008 3:47:38 PM PDT by library user (There's no sandwich like prawn sandwich.)
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To: library user

Geeeeees......I long for the days when people just wrote things down in diaries.... LOL!


7 posted on 07/20/2008 3:55:29 PM PDT by BossLady ("People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul" - Carl Jung)
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To: BossLady
I long for the days when people just wrote things down in diaries

I remember a movie where James Mason is writing in a diary and his grandson (?) asks him why he is doing it. He said "I write down my thoughts here so I don't bother others with them."

8 posted on 07/20/2008 3:59:32 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: kms61

Yeah, where’s Glenn Sacks when this kind of stuff happens?


9 posted on 07/20/2008 4:22:30 PM PDT by coop71 (Being a redhead means never having to say you're sorry...)
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To: library user; kms61; ktscarlett66; All
More info and video here.

A personal protection order against Danlee was put into place just over a week ago, and it was violated earlier this week. The document states he called his wife several times and sent her several e-mails at their home in Hesperia. In one, he wrote, “Don't get too comfortable, doom is near.”

Deputies arrested him, but he was later released.

10 posted on 07/20/2008 4:51:22 PM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: MaryFromMichigan
oh, that poor, poor, poor murderous poor man...couldn't get his liddle way so he has to kill somebody for it....

a little man...a man of arrogance....and a man of self-indulgence....a man with probably a very small male piece.

at least his son won't have to see his sorry arse anymore....too bad Mommy had to to slaughtered.

11 posted on 07/20/2008 4:53:31 PM PDT by cherry
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I notice the middle aged man married a young woman 13 years his junior....

I know men like to marry younger women but for the younger women its a dead end street.....I wish they would wise up.....

12 posted on 07/20/2008 5:00:28 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

Did you know him or his wife? Love, insecurity and an easily dammaged ego on the edge of insanity can cause a person, man or woman say and do very hurtful things. Until you have walked in both their shoes, you realy can’t judge either one.


13 posted on 07/20/2008 5:01:57 PM PDT by eastforker (Get-R-Done and then Bring-Em- Home)
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To: MaryFromMichigan

14 posted on 07/20/2008 5:13:14 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Keep the change.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Beautifully said..... ;)


15 posted on 07/21/2008 12:12:30 AM PDT by BossLady ("People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul" - Carl Jung)
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