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Teen Murder Victim Begged for Life (2003 Article)
Tribune-Review (Pittsburgh) ^ | March 26, 2003 | Karen Zapf, TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Posted on 03/25/2012 11:26:15 PM PDT by Vigilanteman

A high school girl repeatedly begged for mercy while she was being tortured by her companions who finally took her outside, forced her to strip and shot her in the back of the head so she couldn't tell authorities what happened, Allegheny County Police said Tuesday. Rodney Lee Burton, 21, of the 1500 block of Oak Street, North Braddock, and Brittany Williams, 19, of the 200 block of McCutcheon Lane, Penn Hills, were arrested on charges of criminal homicide for the shooting death early Sunday of Dana Marie Pliakas, 17, of Murrysville.

Services are scheduled this afternoon for Pliakas, a junior at Franklin Regional High School, whose body was found at the bottom of the concrete steps leading from Electric Avenue in North Braddock to the Route 30 viaduct.

County Police Superintendent Kenneth Fulton said Pliakas and a companion went to a party Saturday at Burton's home where partygoers drank rum and smoked marijuana before the abuse and torture began.

"Why are you doing this to me?" Pliakas repeatedly cried as Williams assaulted her with a leather belt, her fists and a plastic bottle containing laundry detergent, a witness told detectives according to an affidavit of probable cause.

Williams continued the assault while Pliakas begged for mercy, the unidentified witness told detectives, according to the affidavit.

Burton, who is accused of firing the fatal shot, told reporters yesterday that he didn't shoot anyone.

Read more: Teen murder victim begged for her life - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: burton; martin; pliakas; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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It had been nine years since this brutal, racially motivated murder of a young high school girl who wanted to leave a party that got out of hand.

Does anybody remember Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson traveling to Pittsburgh and holding vigils or rallies?

If you didn't, maybe it was because the victim was white.

1 posted on 03/25/2012 11:26:25 PM PDT by Vigilanteman
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To: Vigilanteman
If you didn't, maybe it was because the victim was white.

I remember, however that is because I live here. You are right. There was no media to right the script after the fact. The truth was too real for the occupation media and coup leaders. I remember.
2 posted on 03/25/2012 11:35:48 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: Vigilanteman
Has anyone heard of Tyrone Dale David Woodfork?

Has anyone heard of Timothy Johnson?

3 posted on 03/25/2012 11:40:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Vigilanteman

That’s horrific, barbaric. How long did the vermon get?


4 posted on 03/25/2012 11:40:34 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Vigilanteman

If the President had a seventeen year old daughter, she could look like that!


5 posted on 03/25/2012 11:40:54 PM PDT by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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To: TigersEye

They look like pillars of the community alright.


6 posted on 03/25/2012 11:59:06 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Vigilanteman

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2863485/posts?page=79#79
Mentioned Dana yesterday. Truly evil. Found naked and shot in the back of the head at the bottom of the city steps.


7 posted on 03/26/2012 12:14:15 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Impala64ssa

But not MSM newsworthy.


8 posted on 03/26/2012 12:17:01 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Vigilanteman
Dana Marie Pliakas, 17
9 posted on 03/26/2012 12:17:02 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: Vigilanteman

Perp:Rodney Lee Burton, 21

Perp:Brittany Williams, 19

10 posted on 03/26/2012 12:21:28 AM PDT by rawhide
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According to this, both life without parole:

http://www.yourmurrysville.com/murrysvillestar/article/after-two-guilty-verdicts-danas-family-talks-justice


11 posted on 03/26/2012 12:24:35 AM PDT by beaversmom
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These two murderous animals were convicted and given life in prison without parole. Why were these two murderers not executed?

Now society has to pay to house them the rest of their lives, providing them with room and board, free medical and dental, etc.


12 posted on 03/26/2012 12:25:44 AM PDT by rawhide
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“If you didn’t, maybe it was because the victim was white.”

And whites are too busy watching Dancing with the Stars.

Which is why we get what we deserve.

I’m ready to roll are you?


13 posted on 03/26/2012 12:25:49 AM PDT by NoLibZone (When will Obama call Trayvon's mom? He was quick to call Sandra Fluke.)
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To: rawhide
This is the true description of brutal murderous animals with no conscience. It's cut and dried and not at all like the Travon case.

Too bad it wasn't in Texas where they could have got the death penalty!

14 posted on 03/26/2012 12:47:28 AM PDT by potlatch
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To: NoLibZone

[And whites are too busy watching Dancing with the Stars.
Which is why we get what we deserve.]

I think it is the women who get all gaga over Dancing With The Stars, and men like NASCAR and sports.

I don’t watch either, spend too much time watching and reading news and then have to take breaks because it gets stressful - other than spreading the news, what can one woman do?


15 posted on 03/26/2012 12:53:18 AM PDT by potlatch
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To: TigersEye

Woodfork looks like he could be Obama’s son.


16 posted on 03/26/2012 12:59:36 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: rawhide

If Obama had a son.

17 posted on 03/26/2012 1:09:59 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: potlatch

other than spreading the news, what can one woman do?

How often doe we spread the new?

Maybe once every three years?

We should all be posting these kinds of crime here daily.

I have posted the Durham Tire Store shooting 3x’s.

99.99% of Freepers could care less.

The biggest issue is : how pure is a candidate vs the Jesus ( aka Reagan test ).

We are getting what we have worked for and deserve.


18 posted on 03/26/2012 1:12:24 AM PDT by NoLibZone (When will Obama call Trayvon's mom? He was quick to call Sandra Fluke.)
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To: Vigilanteman
Al and Jesse didn't show up for this one either:

http://michellemalkin.com/category/media-bias/christiannewsom-murders/

19 posted on 03/26/2012 1:14:14 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: beaversmom

Thank you!! Life w/o parole!


20 posted on 03/26/2012 1:14:24 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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