Student reached out to Malvo (SNIPER)

Bellingham Herald ^ | October 26th, 2002 | John Stark

[Sabertooth]

PEOPLE: Cheerleader says new student was always smiling, laughing.

Bellingham High School cheerleader Briana Axelsson is the kind of person who wants to make newcomers feel welcome, so it seemed like a natural thing to her to sit down with John Lee Malvo in the high school cafeteria in the fall of 2001.

[45semi]

Axelsson saw Malvo as one of many school friends, but Malvo may have wanted something more from the relationship. He sent her a small greeting card that had a picture of a coffee cup on the front, with an inscription that said something about the joy of waking up with coffee. Inside, the card said, "I hope you like it dark.
Nah, I dont think he was gay.

Just trying to show her 'dat old black magic!

[abner]

He also told her that his dad had been sent to Bellingham by some kind of group, perhaps a military group, but the details were hazy. Axelsson got the impression that perhaps Malvo's dad was still in the armed forces.

Here is the thing about the article that JUMPS out at me..

Malvo's dad IS still in the armed forces, just not ours.

[FITZ]

Maybe. I had read in the mainstream press that Mohammed had a Svengali-like influence over Malvo which usually means sexual also.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[fatguy]

Great story about another airhead and a killer...

Based on the article, what makes you think she's an airhead. I would have guessed that she's a kind person.

[Misterioso]

Maybe. I had read in the mainstream press that Mohammed had a Svengali-like influence over Malvo which usually means sexual also.

No it doesn't. You don't know what you are talking about.

[Vidalia]

I would have guessed that she's a kind person.

She is benign, her "friend" was not.

Intelligent folk have the capacity to be "kind".

"Kind" people, like many animals, do not necessarily have the capacity of intelligence and rationality.

One sided gushing friendships is what gets people and their nations killed...

[Hildy]

Axelsson saw Malvo as one of many school friends, but Malvo may have wanted something more from the relationship. He sent her a small greeting card that had a picture of a coffee cup on the front, with an inscription that said something about the joy of waking up with coffee.

Inside, the card said, "I hope you like it dark."

OMG. This is what high school kids are saying to each other????? Yikes.

[Hildy]

Just on the face value, with the information we have, it seems like this Williams fellow liked to have a bit of power. Since the women in his life wouldn't put up with it, he did the only thing he could: find a young man who he could force his will on.

[Travis McGee]

Our public schools are so far gone that no one thought it unusual when the bright young Jamaican "immigrant" got up to read his essays in class calling for death to America.

[TransOxus]

What was her response? Got milk? Or "its not Thanksgiving yet!"

[BfloGuy]

This kid, Malvo, did whatever it will turn out that he did; and he must suffer the consequences.

This does not mean (for Pete's sake, he's seventeen) that he was a monster. It looks as if he did fall under this Mohammed's influence. And, yes, sexual molestation could be part of it.

I know a lot of the hostility here has to do with society's seeming willingness to excuse bad behavior if the motives are pure, but this little girl and this young man were behaving pretty normally.

He went on to behave pretty abnormally; don't jump off the deep end when people in his past remember him well.

[DWSUWF]

"...Maybe. I had read in the mainstream press that Mohammed had a Svengali-like influence over Malvo which usually means sexual also..."

I think that you're on the right track.

I called 'homo-hijinks' on this daring duo the day they were caught.

Bet it turns out that way, when finally the truth is dribbled out.

[FITZ]

I think it will turn out that way too ----how many 17 year olds are hanging around much older men because they need a buddy and 17 year olds don't often hang around their own dads much less step-dads or step-boyfriends, they're out with girlfriends or hanging around their peers.

At one point the police seemed to be looking for a white man with a female accomplice, Malvo seems to be feminine in the way he writes.

[DWSUWF]

"...17 year olds don't often hang around their own dads much less step-dads or step-boyfriends, they're out with girlfriends or hanging around their peers..."

At Malvo's age my primary contact with non-biologically-related older males was:

1) Teachers

2) Traffic Cops

3) Irate fathers of teenage girls

In pretty much that order.

There's something swishy going on here. Those who can't see it are not paying close enough attention, are hopelessly naive or are homo-apologists.

[Amelia]

how many 17 year olds are hanging around much older men because they need a buddy and 17 year olds don't often hang around their own dads much less step-dads or step-boyfriends, they're out with girlfriends or hanging around their peers.

I'm not sure, but I know there are a lot of teenagers now who don't have a father-figure in their lives at all. None, nada, zip. Some of them do crave a masculine role model.

[Amelia]

OMG. This is what high school kids are saying to each other????? Yikes.

Actually, that's one of the milder things they are saying to each other. And more often than not, it's the girls who are saying it to the boys.

[FITZ]

Of course those kind are more easily victimized by chicken hawks. Mohammed had kids of his own, it's a little strange he would go to such lengths to "adopt" a kid when he wasn't seeing his own.

[FR_addict]

You're readng into this... It seems he expressed an interest in her... If he was homosexual he wouldn't have. If he was being abused sexually he surely wouldn't have...

Bisexual was a common term when I was young. It seems to have disappeared from our vocabulary around the time the PC crowd stated that homosexuals are born that way. I have known bisexuals that were definitely interested in women. Some of the Hollywood crowd swing both ways.

Many abusers fall in love with their abusers. Note the recent murder of the father of two young boys where both the boys and the pedophile were indicted for the murder.

I don't see anything unusual about Malvo expressing an interest in the girl. He was probably heterosexual in his natural desires.

I do think this young man was probably being molested by the older man, he thought of as a father. Their relationship sounded like it was probably based on a powerful influence by the older man and what better way to control a child than sex. This young man is seventeen now. It sounds like this unhealthy relationship started at least a few years ago.

Don't get me wrong. Malvo is guilty of these crimes too. I just think that he was more than likely a victim of abuse and brainwashing by the older man. That doesn't excuse the crimes. However, if the state had done something about Mohammed at the time the mother tried to get the state to intervene, perhaps there would have been a different outcome for Malvo.

[Shermy]

"He also told her that his dad had been sent to Bellingham by some kind of group, perhaps a military group, but the details were hazy. Axelsson got the impression that perhaps Malvo's dad was still in the armed forces. "

Sounds like a jihadist group.