Posted on 10/17/2021 9:49:24 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
The attempted murder case against a Massachusetts college professor nears its end. Rie Hachiyanagi, 50, who taught art at Mt. Holyoke College, pleaded guilty on Friday to trying to kill a friend in a four-hour attack.
“She expected to get away with murder — my murder,” survivor Lauret Savoy, herself a professor of geology and environmental studies at the school, said in her victim impact statement, according to The Greenfield Recorder.
Assistant District Attorney Matthew Thomas told the court in Greenfield, Massachusetts, that Hachiyanagi arrived at Savoy’s home unannounced late Dec. 23, 2019 and hid until the geology professor realized her presence and asked who was there. Hachiyanagi stepped forward, said she wanted to talk about her feelings but attacked when Savoy turned her back. She told Savoy she loved her for years, insisting the geology professor should have known that. She straddled Savoy and punched her on the floor, the prosecutor said. She also used a fire poker, pruning shears, and a rock in the attack. Savoy said Hachiyanagi taunted her repeatedly by telling her she would be blinded, disfigured, then murdered.
[Savoy] managed to stop her by pretending to share these feelings and got her to call 911, though Hachiyanagi put on a façade for authorities as if she had been the one to save her, according to the prosecutor.
Savoy told the court she sustained nerve damage to her face and two fingers do not work properly. Savoy said she had trouble sleeping, often has nightmares, and has headaches everyday. The attack left her in a “professional coma” and financial pressure because has had to turn down at least 30 professional opportunities, and has not been able to return to teaching. Insurance did not cover all her bills and she had to put money toward...
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Just seeing the thumbnail I began surmising lesbian love triangle.
Reading further confirmed.
Bulldykes can be brutal.
4 hours? She wasn't trying very hard.
Some ‘love’.
Sure adds a new dimension to the usual, vicious politics in academia...
She’s an artiste’
I remember reading an article about the murder of Fr. Kunz in Wisconsin, and the way he was murdered was (according to the investigators) was only done by those who were sexual perverts or part a ritualistic cult.
Kunz was known for speaking against homosexual behavior on the radio, so either might have been in play.
When homosexuals of either sex get homicidal, it tends to get extreme.
At least in this case “Toxic Masculinity” cannot be blamed.
Oh, that dratted patriarchy again...
Must be more of that white supremacist patriarchy stuff...
I guess I’d pay more attention if she didn’t flaunt her cleavage at me, and smack her lips fatuously every time she thinks she’s making a great point.
I’ve never seen an Asian student present herself that sloppily.
I worked in University libraries decades ago - they were almost NEVER quiet, even then; in fact, they have been the loudest, rowdiest libraries I’ve worked in.
Earplugs are a good idea, in an environment like that.
She told Savoy she loved her for years, insisting the geology professor should have known that. She straddled Savoy and punched her on the floor, the prosecutor said. She also used a fire poker, pruning shears, and a rock in the attack. Savoy said Hachiyanagi taunted her repeatedly by telling her she would be blinded, disfigured, then murdered.
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I can only imagine what would have happened if she didn’t love her. (What a whack job!)
The victim says she considered the attacker a “dear friend” for years.
The attacker is said to have told the victim that she’d loved her for years and that the victim “should have known that.”
It sounds as if the attacker had these secret thoughts that the victim never knew about.
Like a horror movie.
“Fatal Attraction” ?
It sounds like she wanted to see the victim suffer. Crazy!
What a psychopath.
I’m not impressed with an inarticulate “political science major” complaining about anything.
That's what it sounds like, except without a previous romantic involvement.
I never heard that story about the murder of the priest, Fr. Kunz. I see the case was never solved.
Rie Hachiyanagi
Professor of Art; on leave
Specialization:
Installation, performance, and papermaking
Rie Hachiyanagi came to the United States as a high school exchange student in rural Kansas from Sapporo, Japan. Her initial inability to effectively communicate in English led her to engage in artistic forms of expression.
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