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Police: Ex-lover killed woman in rage (HuffPo Writer)
Palm Beach Post ^ | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | MICHAEL LaFORGIA

Posted on 10/30/2008 4:14:26 AM PDT by ajwharton

BOYNTON BEACH — Carol Anne Burger killed her former lover by stabbing her 222 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then took pains to hide her crime, police said Wednesday.

Jessica Kalish, who shared a house with Burger despite breaking up with her more than a year ago, was found last Thursday stuffed in the backseat of her gun-metal BMW sedan, abandoned behind a medical office at 2300 S. Congress Avenue. Her blood was splashed around the rear end and undercarriage of the car, as if her killer had tried to load her into the trunk. The driver-side window was shattered. read more at link

From the comments on HuffPo:

The Huffington Post's OffTheBus is deeply saddened to report that one of our writers, Carol Anne Burger, died on Friday, October 24.

The circumstances of her death remain unclear; police believe she may have taken her own life after learning that her roommate - and former partner - had been found dead.

Carol Anne, an award-winning photojournalist and former editor, was an OffTheBus Election Correspondent. She used her background in journalism to bring us ground reports from her home state of Florida - and was very excited to be writing about the presidential election and filed multiple stories a week. She covered a wide range of stories including early voting in Florida, a summit on green jobs with Barack Obama and swing-state governors and a Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation event. Her high energy and curiosity kept OffTheBus editors on our toes. Vermonter Christian Avard - who worked with Carol Anne on her final dispatch - wrote that she was "always fun to work with, cheerful, and always very supportive. We are all very lucky to have Carol Anne be a part of the Off the Bus family. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of Carol Anne Burger and Jessica Kalish."

This coming week, Carol Anne had planned on using her background in financial reporting to cover how the economic crisis is affecting food bank donations and the poor in Florida.

Carol Anne will be deeply missed. Please use the comment section below if you wish to offer her family and friends your condolences.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: crime; election; florida; huffingtonpost; huffpo; lovehurts; pds; screwdriver
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To: henkster
In my office we never went for the “hate crime” thing. Crime was crime.

Go for that DA/prosecutor.

21 posted on 10/30/2008 4:46:35 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: ajwharton
My wife at dinner had a political altercation with an Obama supporter back during the primaries, former friends who have cut us off from all contact. This is the most divisive election I can remember. It is impossible to discuss facts with these true believers no matter how gingerly you approach the subject and if you avoid the subject they'll start the conversation anyway. My wife does outside sales and had me take the McCain sticker off my truck so she could drive it in Houston without fear. A nation divided cannot stand, so it's going to be a rough four years socially either way I fear. I carry and it's time to get get my wife licensed to carry so she can upgrade from pepper spray. I am telling her to take a look at the business location she is visiting and if it looks unsecure or is in a “bad” neighborhood drive away. Call it red lining if you will, but it's not worth a hassle much less an attack to try to sell people who are so emotionally charged over this Obama messiah thing.
22 posted on 10/30/2008 4:52:01 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: gridlock
(Of course, I realize the primary purpose of your post was to let us all know that your wife is an instructor at LA Fitness in a shameless attempt to drive up hits on your “About” page...)

HA!

The thing is that before they accidentally trod on politics (Carol told my wife a nasty joke about McCain and my wife patiently explained that she didn't find it funny), they were pretty close in the class. Carol showed up like clockwork and took the front of the class. I am wondering if she had a crush on my wife...

Anyway, my wife is pretty tough (kickboxer), but I still get the willies thinking about it.

23 posted on 10/30/2008 4:52:30 AM PDT by ajwharton (FL GOP Pollwatcher, ACORN-buster)
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To: henkster

“The lesbians seem to go at it until they become physically exhausted, and stop only because they just can’t keep going.”

They just take that phillips scewdriver and keep on ....


24 posted on 10/30/2008 4:54:16 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: ajwharton
Wait until they start shooting these things!


25 posted on 10/30/2008 4:54:33 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: ajwharton

Sounds like a real healthy gay relationship.


26 posted on 10/30/2008 4:56:34 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: sirchtruth
And there's absolute no reason in this world to own a "Phillips-head screwdriver" when most screws are flatheads!

You can have my Phillips-Head Screwdriver when you pry it from my cold, dead, knuckle-busted hands...

27 posted on 10/30/2008 4:57:20 AM PDT by gridlock (18 Million Democrats voted for Hillary in the primaries. Are they all racists?)
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To: RGSpincich

That kind of high-capacity magazine (or “Clip”, as it is known by Law Enforcement) is the exact type of dangerous feature the Assault Screwdriver Ban is designed to eliminate...


28 posted on 10/30/2008 5:00:56 AM PDT by gridlock (18 Million Democrats voted for Hillary in the primaries. Are they all racists?)
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To: dblshot
Your experience is likely not that uncommon. All elections are divisive, but this much more so than any of the others I've participated in.

McCain is far from the perfect candidate and is far from being conservative enough. However, with his past of walking the aisle between parties, even threatening to switch parties, he just may be the best man for the times.

Normally I would not feel this way, wanting instead an overwhelmingly conservative ticket and not someone who has had such a long history in DC, but in times like these, perhaps that is exactly what is needed. I know the divisiveness and general unrest we see now will be much, much worse if 0bama wins and he, Reid and Pelosi have their way with the country, courts and Constitution.

29 posted on 10/30/2008 5:21:22 AM PDT by GBA
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To: Travis McGee

This story is now up on Drudge!


30 posted on 10/30/2008 5:23:15 AM PDT by ajwharton (FL GOP Pollwatcher, ACORN-buster)
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To: ajwharton
Carol Anne Burger killed her former lover by stabbing her 222 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver

She was just acting out her frustration at being screwed by the bigoted Christian Right, which kept this gentle couple from being married.

31 posted on 10/30/2008 5:23:30 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: pjsbro
more controls needed on Phillips-head screwdrivers.

They are far too accessible.

32 posted on 10/30/2008 5:23:42 AM PDT by submarinerswife ("If I win I can't 't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead." - George S. Patton)
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To: submarinerswife

My first thought on hearing that she actually had a handgun is that it was likely only fired once. And that will be proof that “guns kill.”


33 posted on 10/30/2008 5:26:51 AM PDT by ajwharton (FL GOP Pollwatcher, ACORN-buster)
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To: dblshot
My wife at dinner had a political altercation with an Obama supporter back during the primaries, former friends who have cut us off from all contact...

That should give you pause to be thankful. Long ago, during Clinton's "reign" we decided not to trust Left family members and that has proven beneficial. While they rage and explode out of control, we are clear of them and their behavior. It is truly a mental disorder and that is no joke.

Our lives are much more peaceful, we continue to fight for our conservative candidates and watch our former family/friends go off like skyrockets, it's the one little pleasure we have these days.

Remember: even if they win by a landslide, they will still be deranged and not content until you are silenced completely even if that means having you picked up at 2AM by the "National Security Force but not the military, but larger than the military".

34 posted on 10/30/2008 5:28:48 AM PDT by brushcop (We remember SSG Harrison Brown, PVT Andrew Simmons B CO 2/69 3ID KIA Iraq OIF IV)
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To: GBA

I have my reservations about McCain...

but if we had Hunter or Thompson, would we have gotten Sarah?

Probably not.


35 posted on 10/30/2008 5:30:24 AM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: brushcop

I’m really concerned by the actions of

“0bama’s Volunteer Brownshirt Brigades”.

The concern is - what happens when they get the legitimacy of gov’t power behind them?


36 posted on 10/30/2008 5:32:13 AM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: gridlock; ajwharton
(Of course, I realize the primary purpose of your post was to let us all know that your wife is an instructor at LA Fitness in a shameless attempt to drive up hits on your “About” page...)

I am sorry but I was guilty of this. No excuses but at least I was honest about it:)

37 posted on 10/30/2008 5:34:02 AM PDT by A Texan (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: ajwharton

This type thing will continue to happen until we ban these cheap, easily bought, pointy tools; otherwise known as “Saturday Night Screwdrivers”. Until we remove these instruments of death from our streets we can expect these types of grisly murders, as well as “drive by screwings”. God help us if they ever get their hands on an awl!


38 posted on 10/30/2008 5:37:07 AM PDT by 762X51
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To: ajwharton

Do I need more coffee or did the Huffingpost get it wrong about who was the murderer and who was the victim?


39 posted on 10/30/2008 5:38:21 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: brushcop

My son works for a major defense contractor and is ragged on by fellow workers for being a Republican. When he tries to explain the Barney Frank 25% military reduction, they simply say—not true, Barry would never do that.


40 posted on 10/30/2008 5:40:31 AM PDT by BTCM (Death and destruction is the only treaty Muslims comprehend.)
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