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Brooklyn Marine sergeant & wife tortured, slain in Calif.; 4 of his men are arrested
The Daily News ^ | 11.06.08 | CORKY SIEMASZKO

Posted on 11/06/2008 7:45:18 AM PST by Chickensoup

Updated Thursday, November 6th 2008, 10:35 AM

Brooklyn Marine Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak and his wife, Quiana, seen in August wedding photo, were found tortured and slain Oct. 15 in their home near San Diego. A Brooklyn-raised Marine sergeant and his new bride were tortured and killed execution-style in their California home - allegedly by four other Marines under his command.

Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, who was raised in Bensonhurst, and his wife, Quiana, were found bound and gagged in the ransacked house, each shot in the head.

Pietrzak was the suspects' sergeant at Camp Pendleton, Quiana's mother said Wednesday.

"They're monsters," Faye Jenkins told the Daily News. "They're monsters."

Pietrzak's mother, Henryka Pietrzak-Varga, said she had prepared herself "for the possibility that my son could die in Iraq."

"But to die like this, in their own home?" she told The News. "They were good kids. They didn't deserve to die like this."

Investigators said the motive for murder was "financial gain." Neither mother believes that.

"When I found out what they did to them, it was like they killed me, too," Pietrzak-Varga said.

A spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney's office would not comment on reports that Pietrzak was killed by his own men.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: marine; murder
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To: Chickensoup

“Anyone have pictures of the accused killers?”

Sounds like a hate crime to me...look at the names of the killers.


21 posted on 11/06/2008 8:13:42 AM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: lynny; SW6906

I know a Marine MP and he has said that gang-bangers join the Marines to learn how to be better killers when they get out.


22 posted on 11/06/2008 8:24:49 AM PST by namsman
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To: RDTF

Tyrone,Embrys,Darnell,Kesuan? Hmmmm.

Didn’t read article. Did they show photos of the suspects?


23 posted on 11/06/2008 8:28:45 AM PST by 101voodoo
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To: Chickensoup

I’m speechless.

Just horrible.


24 posted on 11/06/2008 8:32:06 AM PST by Marie ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
I hope these guys can be tried on “hate crime”

It never happens when the shoe is on the other foot.
Know what I mean?

25 posted on 11/06/2008 8:34:27 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: blam
A good looking couple. What a cruel tragedy.
26 posted on 11/06/2008 8:35:58 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Chickensoup

Gang initiation.


27 posted on 11/06/2008 8:44:50 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: namsman

Training ground for Big O’s Civilian Defence Force.


28 posted on 11/06/2008 8:45:21 AM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the god would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: Minutemen

OH yeah, I know.


29 posted on 11/06/2008 8:46:01 AM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Tagline scrubbed to prevent invitation to indoctrinization camp)
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To: lynny
Why in the world would a gang member join the Army? (Not to say it’s not happening,I just don’t get the concept of a gang member joining the military)

You get lots of training, plus access to lots of "stuff" that has incredible value on the street. (What would be the street value of a crate of full-auto M-4's?)

30 posted on 11/06/2008 9:05:08 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: Chickensoup
Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, who worked for the county's Black Infant Care Center ...
Is there a White Infant Care Center too?
31 posted on 11/06/2008 9:08:31 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Chickensoup

I doubt it

That would be racist


32 posted on 11/06/2008 9:09:10 AM PST by Syncro (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: blam
They look very happy together. She's radiant, his eyes are smiling even though regulations demand that his lips do not. He just can't hide it.

Rest in Peace, Marines.

May the filth who murdered them meet swift Justice.

33 posted on 11/06/2008 9:13:14 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: lynny

“Why in the world would a gang member join the Army? (Not to say it’s not happening,I just don’t get the concept of a gang member joining the military)”

They want to learn how to fight and handle weapons more effectively so when they get back to their gang bangin’ they will be the best they can be!


34 posted on 11/06/2008 9:15:01 AM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: lynny
Why in the world would a gang member join the Army?

Some gang members are joining the military, particularly Army and Marine infantry, in order to get real, live combat training. It gives them "street cred", as well as a genuine tactical advantage, when the get out and return home to their gang.

35 posted on 11/06/2008 9:15:33 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: PapaBear3625; namsman

This was covered on the GANGLAND series on the history channel. They showed a gangbanger who was ex-marine in a shootout and showed how his training made him much deadlier. They went on to verify that some gangs actually send their members into the military to get trained and see what they can send home that would better the gang. Kind of like using the military as a school for higher education for violence...


36 posted on 11/06/2008 9:18:55 AM PST by Dubh_Ghlase (In the land of Clinton, where the shadows lie...)
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To: Dubh_Ghlase

Terrible shame. My son joined the Marines in order to serve his country. Young men I’ve met are great bunch.


37 posted on 11/06/2008 9:24:53 AM PST by samsmom
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To: Carley
the officer corps is filled with the dregs left behind after bubba promoted by race and gender...

That's a pretty broad brush you're using.

38 posted on 11/06/2008 9:39:05 AM PST by TankerKC (I'm waiting for my government ration of hope.)
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To: Chickensoup
May God Bless The Pietrzaks...



Rest In Peace Marine....

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We (PGR) escorted the Pietrzaks to Riverside National Cemetery...There were whispers that this was a racially motivated crime, but we were thinking it may have been white skinheads that did it. Never would have suspected blacks, let alone Marines...

Very tragic.
39 posted on 11/06/2008 9:39:21 AM PST by rottndog (Freedom IS NOT FREE--Let us NEVER FORGET those that have paid the highest price for it!)
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BTW...if the Marines court martial these scum, the will face the gallows.


40 posted on 11/06/2008 9:40:54 AM PST by rottndog (Freedom IS NOT FREE--Let us NEVER FORGET those that have paid the highest price for it!)
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