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Angst, isolation tormented woman before killings
PalmBeachPost.com ^ | Saturday, November 08, 2008 | JOHN LANTIGUA

Posted on 11/09/2008 1:56:12 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken

Carol Anne Burger was fighting for her life.

Racked by economic and romantic reversals, she struggled against moods that swung from sadness to anger.

Her e-mails and an eight-page letter, subsequently e-mailed to Boynton Beach police by a friend in close touch with Burger during her final months, depict a bright, idealistic and compassionate woman struggling to keep her head up while caught in a painful, humiliating situation.

She was unemployed and having to sell her house because of the breakup of her long-term relationship with her partner. Worse, she was still living in that house with her former mate, who had found another lover and spent happy hours on the phone and computer with that other woman.

In the end, it was too much.

On the night of Oct. 22, police say, Burger, 57, killed her roommate, Jessica Kalish, 56, stabbing her more than 200 times with a screwdriver. The next day, after trying fruitlessly to cover up her crime by disposing of the body, she shot herself to death.

(Excerpt) Read more at palmbeachpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bds; blogger; lesbian; mentalillness; palmbeachcounty; suicide
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This has been a juicy one here in Palm Beach County. The details emerging about the killer (Burger) and her apparent obsession with Bush (BDS, to the max?), her blogging on Huffington Post - it just paints a pretty clear picture of some folks we know are out there.
1 posted on 11/09/2008 1:56:13 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Bush’s fault.


2 posted on 11/09/2008 1:59:59 PM PST by Radl (rtr)
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"That situation was "exacerbated by the financial meltdown and loss of equity value of their house,"

Obviously Bush's fault.

3 posted on 11/09/2008 2:03:39 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck)
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Her e-mails and an eight-page letter depict a bright, idealistic and compassionate woman ...

with a screwdriver!

4 posted on 11/09/2008 2:04:00 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (History repeats itself because human nature is static.)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
All BDSers, left or right, are dangerous. They are insane and are destined for the same fate as this one. Diseases are thought of as bad things for a reason.

5 posted on 11/09/2008 2:06:28 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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We’ll find that this person is on an anti-depressant/psychotic cocktail. Know why? Because everyone of these cases always is. Only the most stupid can’t see the cause /effect.


6 posted on 11/09/2008 2:08:10 PM PST by Seruzawa
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Stabbed 200 hundred times with a screw driver by a compassionate woman. I’ll take an uncompassionate woman, like Palin, and be shot with a moose gun.


7 posted on 11/09/2008 2:08:27 PM PST by mefistofelerevised
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“She was unemployed and having to sell her house because of the breakup of her long-term relationship with her partner. Worse, she was still living in that house with her former mate, who had found another lover and spent happy hours on the phone and computer with that other woman”

And this is why the media is dying, a lack of clarity, “her partner”...”her former mate”..”who had found..with that other woman”

So she was a lesbian who was going through a bad breakup and was financially deprived?

Why can’t they say so..err...wait a minute...

When words no longer mean things, when ducks cannot be called ducks, there is little reason to have a news media especially if all they do is cover up with vaguarities what should be simply reported...


8 posted on 11/09/2008 2:09:11 PM PST by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: A_perfect_lady
"with a screwdriver!

And I thought the preferred method was a spoon.

9 posted on 11/09/2008 2:09:30 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
Lesbians in general are a lot nuttier than regular women... and they are nutty enough!

(yup, I'm married)

10 posted on 11/09/2008 2:09:48 PM PST by ikka
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To: Eagles6

If she’d just waited 15 days Obama woulda taken care of her mortgage?


11 posted on 11/09/2008 2:10:09 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (It Should be Immediate OPEN SEASON on all RHINO's and PUMA's.)
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To: mefistofelerevised

“I’ll take an uncompassionate woman, like Palin, and be shot with a moose gun.”

I’ll bet you’ll die happy too..won’t ya?(LOL)


12 posted on 11/09/2008 2:12:21 PM PST by mdmathis6 (I'm Mike the RN!( I often do plumbing of a different sort))
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

What’s Obamma going to do on Nov 24?


13 posted on 11/09/2008 2:14:21 PM PST by basil (Support the 2nd Amendment--buy another gun today)
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To: Seruzawa
We’ll find that this person is on an anti-depressant/psychotic cocktail. Know why? Because everyone of these cases always is. Only the most stupid can’t see the cause /effect.

According to the article, she wasn't:

For months Gale had been trying to get Burger to take antidepressants, but Burger refused. "I just don't want to take drugs of any kind," Burger wrote Gale on Oct. 15, one week before her death. "I'd rather just be sad than chemically dependent."

14 posted on 11/09/2008 2:14:27 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but heÂ’ll give us the shaft.)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Mz. Screwdriver is compassionate, but Joe the Plumber is a storm-strooper....SUUUURE...!


15 posted on 11/09/2008 2:19:17 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

“...depict a bright, idealistic and compassionate woman...

“...killed her roommate, Jessica Kalish, 56, stabbing her more than 200 times with a screwdriver. The next day, after trying fruitlessly...”

Ho boy. There’s another phrase I’ll run from when I meet someone described like that!

“I’m an honorable person” is the other phrase that sends me in the opposite direction.

“bright, articulate, compassionate” Check...


16 posted on 11/09/2008 2:23:44 PM PST by OpusatFR (Neither Republican or Democrat. Monarchist with allegience to The Only One.)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
A jack Jill story, or is Jackie and jenny. Which one was playing the male part?? LOL
17 posted on 11/09/2008 2:25:05 PM PST by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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And we want these types of people running the country? Yes, it is indeed time to hunker down and learn to survive.

JoMa


18 posted on 11/09/2008 2:26:17 PM PST by joma89
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To: Seruzawa
We’ll find that this person is on an anti-depressant/psychotic cocktail. Know why? Because everyone of these cases always is. Only the most stupid can’t see the cause /effect.

I wonder if the same "cause/effect" holds true for people on heart medication dying of heart attacks?

19 posted on 11/09/2008 2:26:58 PM PST by RJL
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Quick anyway. I don’t believe Palin is an uncompassionate woman. But a stabbing death by a screw driver is cruel and evil. That was a death from pure hate. If she wants her lesbian pal died, she could have at least made it quick.


20 posted on 11/09/2008 2:29:41 PM PST by mefistofelerevised
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