Posted on 05/14/2004 6:49:27 AM PDT by MindBender26
LONGWOOD, Fla. --
Andrea Williams is still in a North Carolina jail, fighting extradition back to Florida to face murder charges after confessing to killing her three children in a Longwood home.
Ashley Bishop and Andrea Williams lived together in Longwood for four months last year. "She was very obsessed with me," says Ashley Bishop.
Bishop met all the kids after she met their mother, Andrea Williams, over the Internet last year.
"It started off just as friends and it grew into more. It became more intimate and it became a lot closer," she says.
Both women left their husbands and moved into the home in Longwood. The relationship only last four months.
Bishop went back to her husband in North Carolina. Williams stayed single.
"She was very obsessed. She felt like I was the only one in her life that had loved her and cared for her," Bishop says.
Last Friday, Williams took her kids to a hotel in Mooresville, North Carolina, and again tried to rekindle the relationship with Bishop. She refused.
"She had it in her mind that there was nobody else in the world she could be with but me and made it real clear to me that it was me or nobody," Bishop says.
Two days later, police believe Williams brought the kids to her Longwood home, drugged them and stuffed their bodies into a trundle bed. Then, Williams went back up to North Carolina and was arrested for trespassing on Bishop's property.
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Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except for Me and My Bonobo)
So the death penalty is not an option? She deserves that for sure.
He did have the kids and wanted the kids, but a judge gave them back to her when she was released from the Mental instiution. Why assume the dad is a loser?
He tried to get custody, but was denied by the court.
Social Services also failed to put the children into foster care.
This has been all over the local news here for days and it is no surprise it isn't being covered nationally given the lesbian angle. I believe that the police and DCF were called to the home many times and the father had tried to convince a judge that the children were in danger, but she didn't believe him and refused to do anything.
Swell.
I live just a few miles from where this happened and the local talking heads have somehow left out the part about her recently becoming a les in their broadcasts. Curious.
The father did try to get custody of his children after the mother tried to kill herself....two attempts at killing herself.
The judge turned him down.
BTW, the judge is a woman.
I've known my share of gays and they were mostly well adjusted human beings, with a sprinkling of whack jobs in there. On the other hand, I know a more than a few heteros who are whack jobs, though obviously most are, again, relatively well adjusted. I have yet to be convinced (based on my own simple, non-scientific observations) that sexual preference is the appropriate measure for whack-jobiness.
While slipping into my flame-suit, please let me say that I remain (just shy of birthday #46) extremely happy that I'm attracted to opposite sex. Hey, sue me, women look better undressed than men do. My wife, especially (just in case she's reading this).
LOL!!! Yup!
I don't know for sure, but it does seem certain she will have some 'companionship' while she waits.
Well, I hope the judge has to live with an ulcer the rest of her life, and then I hope she rots in hell.
Mother's arrest prevented two more murders, sheriff says05:54 PM EDT on Thursday, May 13, 2004
By JANELLE MARTINEZ / 6NEWSIf the mother accused of killing her three children hadn’t been arrested on trespassing charges Monday night, the Catawba County Sheriff’s Department fears there would have been two more murders.
Andrea Williams, 32, is under suicide watch in a 9x13 cell in Catawba County after she was charged with three counts of murder. According to police, Williams killed her three children at her home in Florida. They said she stuffed the kids in a trundle bed and then made the bed to conceal the bodies. Preliminary autopsy results reveal Williams used drugs to kill her kids Sunday.
Florida detectives went back Florida Thursday with evidence, including a green duffle bag.
Williams was in Maiden with her three children last week visiting a woman who she had developed an online friendship with, according to Jason Bishop, husband of Ashley Bishop.
Bishop said Williams visited his wife a second time last Friday without her kids.
Authorities in North Carolina said Ashley Bishop had asked Williams not to visit her home. When Williams showed up Monday night, the woman called the sheriff's department. That is what the trespassing charge stems from.
The Catawba County Sheriff’s Department said a gun found near the Bishop’s home has been traced back to Williams.
Andrea Williams, 32, sat in the magistrate's office Wednesday shielding her face from cameras. Sheriff David Huffman of the Catawba County Sheriff’s Department said the gun was purchased May 1 in Florida. The green duffle bag was found with duct tape and ammunition along Highway 16 at the intersection of Tower Road.
"(Williams) would have probably committed two more crimes here in Catawba County," Huffman said.
Bishop said his wife and Williams developed a friendship online, but he believes Williams thought it was much more.
“I didn’t think she was coming back for what everybody says she was coming back for,” Bishop said. “They think she was coming back to try to kill my wife also.”
Williams’ extradition hearing is scheduled for June 9, but Florida prosecutors are working on a governor's warrant that could send her back to Florida sooner.
Gary Williams and his wife Andrea Williams were separated and she filed for divorce last year. Court records show that Gary Williams tried to get custody of their children after his wife attempted suicide in October by overdosing on pills. Gary Williams described his wife in the court file as "depressed."
From a later story there are different details of the timeline ... both versions are so poorly written that it is hard to make sense of them:
Thirty-six hours is all it took for a Florida mother to turn up in the Charlotte area last Friday, drive back home, allegedly kill her three children, and return to North Carolina.And now as the mom is watched closely in a 9x13 cell in Catawba County new and disturbing questions have surfaced surrounding the murders of her three children.
Could they have been saved? And what held up their father from entering the home where they were later found?
At 10 a.m. on Friday morning Andrea Williams arrived at a Mooresville Days Inn with her three children.
That evening two calls were made and there was a visit from the woman she allegedly came to see, Ashley Bishop.
Rhonda Faust with the Mooresville Police Department said Bishop told her she went over to the hotel and that Andrea was really adamant about talking to her.
Mooresville police believe Bishop was the last person, outside the family, to see the kids alive.
At 9:58 Saturday Williams and the kids checked out and returned to Florida.
On Sunday, investigators say, Williams poisoned her three children, and headed back to the Charlotte area.
Sunday at 9 p.m., police arrested Williams at Bishop's house and told police she wanted to die.
Then Monday at 2:45 a.m. the news reached Florida. Williams' estranged husband, Gary, frantically called Mooresville police.
“He wanted something done, he wanted his kids,” said Faust.
Faust said she took the call. Back in Florida, Gary wanted to search his wife's house for the children, but there was a delay. Police wanted proof he actually owned the house.
Monday at 3 p.m. police discovered the bodies hidden under a bed.
Could Gary have saved the children the night before? It's something, Faust, a mother herself, is left to wonder.
The Mooresville Police Department stressed that police in Florida did nothing wrong, and everything by the book.
There's just no way to tell whether those extra hours, may have made a life or death difference.
The story implies that she drugged the kids and stuffed under the mattress of the trundle bed while they were still alive. How hideous!!! Local radio news stories indicate that she used some of her anti-depression meds to drug the kids.
"Andrea Yates was from a hetrosexual, Christian family. She was well-coverd by the mainstream media. How much will we see about these lesbian lovers who killed the kids."
Hardly a peep.
Sure worked for him.
Family to lay children to rest
Funeral is set for 3 slain in Longwood -- mother on suicide watch
By Gary Taylor | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted May 14, 2004
The family of three children found slain in their Longwood home finalized plans Thursday for their funeral. Hundreds of miles away, the woman accused of killing them -- their mother -- was on suicide watch.
A service is planned for 11 a.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church of Longwood, according to Woodlawn Carey Hand Funeral Home. It wasn't clear whether the funeral will be open to the public. Three caskets and flowers have been donated, Longwood police said.
The bodies of Ilona, Ian and Ivey Williams were found wedged between the mattresses of a trundle bed Tuesday afternoon. Investigators think the children -- ages 9, 6 and 5 -- died Sunday from an overdose of drugs given to them by their mother, Andrea Noel Williams. Police are awaiting toxicology results to determine exactly what killed them.
Williams, 32, was arrested Monday evening in North Carolina on a trespass charge after being found at the home of Ashley Bishop, a woman with whom she once had a relationship. Williams is being held on a fugitive murder warrant in her children's deaths.
The children were discovered after their father, Gary Lee Williams, called police when he heard of his estranged wife's arrest but didn't know the whereabouts of the children. An initial search of their Longwood home failed to turn up anything. But following additional information from the mother, investigators returned to the home and found the bodies.
Gary Williams, 41, who now lives in Altamonte Springs, tried unsuccessfully in November to gain custody of the children after Andrea Williams was hospitalized twice in eight days when she tried to kill herself. The Williamses are seeking a divorce.
In an emergency motion, Williams said he feared his kids were in "grave danger." But Seminole-Brevard Circuit Judge Donna McIntosh, who held a hearing two weeks later, decided there was no emergency and left the children with their mother.
Because the Williamses' divorce is still on her docket, McIntosh would not discuss the case.
Andrea Williams is being held without bail in Catawba County Jail in North Carolina. She is fighting extradition, and it could take weeks before she is returned to Seminole County to face charges.
Placed on a suicide watch, Williams is being kept in a one-person cell with a camera monitoring her. She also is being checked several times each hour by corrections officers, said Maj. Coy Reid, a Catawba County Sheriff's Office spokesman.
Meanwhile, new details emerged Thursday about the contents of Williams' duffle bag, which was recovered near Ashley Bishop's home. In addition to ammunition for a .38-caliber gun, investigators found duct tape, handcuffs and a box cutter, as well as a note that Reid described as long and rambling. He said it was not a suicide note, but he would not describe it further.
Reid said the other items in the bag, and a revolver owned by Williams that also was found near Bishop's house, suggest that Williams may have planned to kidnap the woman.
"I think it's possible," he said.
Bishop and Williams met over the Internet and eventually had a relationship. Bishop moved in with Williams in Longwood for about four months last year, but then returned to North Carolina. Williams tried repeatedly to see Bishop, traveling to North Carolina just before and after her children were killed on Mother's Day.
Police are looking for Williams' teal late-model Chevrolet Cavalier. She told authorities it broke down somewhere in Georgia or South Carolina and she hitchhiked the rest of the way to North Carolina.
Soon after her arrest, Longwood police envisioned the worst, Chief Tom Jackson said, recalling the case of Susan V. Smith, who sent her car into a Union, S.C., lake with her 3-year-old and 14-month-old sons inside. The children drowned.
Two Longwood investigators and a prosecutor with the Seminole-Brevard State Attorney's Office spent Wednesday in Newton, N.C. Although Williams refused to talk to them, Jackson called the trip worthwhile.
He said investigators were able to interview a number of people who had observed Williams, "to get a clear picture of her mind-set."
With a triple homicide, "you don't want to drop the ball," Jackson said. "Nothing is going to fall between the cracks."
What is it with judges in Florida? First (and ongoing) Terri Schiavo, then Carlie Bruscia's murderer, now this? Heaven help us all!
Andrea Yates (IIRC) killed her children to save them from the devil. No one (in their right mind) blamed Christianity for the deaths.
Why are we blaming this on her sexual preference and not her obvious psychosis? And no, claiming that her sexual preference IS her psychosis is not an adequate explanation, given that the overwhelming majority of homosexuals do not commit murder.
She's a lesbo where do you think he is.
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