tree

trees keep falling down on my family's property. luckily no one hurt so

knitting buisness

maybe i should go into a knitting business. I've already made 3 and i'm on way to finishing a 4th. i'd have to charge about 5 bucks for a scarf.

shaved

i shaved today. it's nearly spring time and it'll get hotter more often so i'm starting shaving.

frozen meals

i made some "frozen meals" fit for vegetarians and weight watchers.

cheat

i feel like i'm cheating on the kids from the singles ward when i hang out with (and go to) the kentlands ward. i don't feel bad about going and being at the kentlands ward. i feel bad about not being with kids my own age.

1st base

i can't pitch to save my life so i had 1st base foisted upon me. i hated it and it took a while to learn how to do it but i eventually figured it out.... after being smacked a million times. apparently i was the softball's "punching bag."

Homemade Chinese

Since I joined weight watchers I'm thinking about making my Chinese at home. Fried rice is 1 of my favorites so homemade fried rice is awesome.

The Butcher of Mons

The Butcher of Mons is a media name given to an unidentified Belgian serial killer, who committed five murders between January 1996 and July 1997 in or near the city of Mons. The name was allegedly chosen because of the high precision of dismemberment the victim's bodies had endured. Then they were placed in plastic bags "clearly visible on the roadside or on a channel embankment". In February 2007, Smail Tulja was arrested in Montenegro at the behest of the United States authorities after being suspected of committing the murders in Belgium as well as a similar murder in 1990 of his wife in New York. Also, in Albania two murders are said to have been committed, which also put Tulja under suspicion. In February 2009, in the US, the suspect was charged with the murder of his wife (according to another source), while Montenegro did not extradite him as a citizen. The suspect was sentenced in July 2010 by a Montenegrin court for the murder of Mary Beal to twelve years in prison. In 2012, Montenegrin media reported that Tulja died in prison in February of that year.

bracelet

my medic alert bracelet is awesome but annoying since it's huge and loose.

tired

i'm super tired. i ran around for a few hours and my legs are super sore since i've got scoliosis and my legs are sore

weight watchers

i just started today. i ate nearly all my points today and walked around like crazy. i'm taking a break and resting my legs. i'm hoping i'll have more muscle in my legs today since i'm walking around.

passed out

i passed out today. i was so tired and cranky i needed a nap. i needed it and my legs hurt

Golden State Killer

The Golden State Killer is a serial killer, serial rapist and serial burglar who committed 50 rapes in Northern California during the mid-1970s and murdered twelve people in Southern California from 1979 through 1986. Other monikers include the Original Night Stalker, East Area Rapist, the East Bay Rapist, and the Diamond Knot Killer. The "Golden State Killer" moniker was coined by true crime writer Michelle McNamara. The crimes initially centered on the then-unincorporated areas of Carmichael, Citrus Heights and Rancho Cordova, all east of Sacramento, where at least fifty women were raped between June 18, 1976, and July 5, 1979. Some suspect that earlier incidents in Visalia are also connected. In 2001, several of the Northern California rapes were linked by DNA to murders in southern California. All of the DNA-linked assaults occurred in Contra Costa County, but the distinctive modus operandi (MO) of the rapist makes it very likely the same man was also responsible for the attacks in the Sacramento area. His last known crime, the only one after 1981, took place in 1986. Several suspects were cleared through DNA, alibi, or other investigative means and methods. On June 15, 2016, the FBI and local law enforcement agencies held a news conference to announce a nationwide effort and a US$50,000 reward for his capture. On April 25, 2018, Sacramento Police announced the arrest of suspect 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo on two counts of first-degree murder. Investigation into this case- Detectives connect the crimes: Prior to officially connecting the Original Night Stalker to the East Area Rapist in 2001, some law enforcement officials, particularly several from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, sought to link the Goleta cases separately to the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker. These postulated links were considered primarily due to similarity in modus operandi. One of the already linked Original Night Stalker double murders did take place in Ventura, California, 40 miles southeast of Goleta, while the remaining murders took place in Orange County, California, a further 90 miles to the southeast. In 2001, several rapes in Contra Costa County believed to have been part of the East Area Rapist series were linked by DNA to the Smith, Harrington, Whithuhn, and Cruz murders. In 2011, DNA evidence proved that the Domingo–Sanchez murders were committed by the Original Night Stalker. Suspects eliminated- Throughout the course of the investigation into the Golden State Killer murders, the following persons were eliminated as suspects: Brett Glasby – From Goleta, California, considered a suspect by investigators in Santa Barbara County. He was murdered in Mexico in 1982, prior to the murder of Janelle Cruz, so was eliminated as a suspect. Paul "Cornfed" Schneider – A high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Schneider was a career criminal living in Orange County, California, when the murders of the Harringtons, Manuela Witthuhn, and Janelle Cruz occurred. In the late 1990s, while serving time at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, Schneider provided a DNA sample to authorities. This sample cleared him as the Golden State Killer. Joe Alsip – A business partner of the victim Lyman Smith. Alsip was a friend of the Smiths and visited their home on High Point Drive in Ventura the day before the murders. Alsip's pastor claimed that he had confessed to him, during a family counseling session, but this confession was considered dubious by the Ventura County District Attorney's Office. Nevertheless, Alsip was arraigned for the murders of Lyman and Charlene Smith in 1982. After the preliminary hearing, however, all charges against him were dropped. He was also tested in 1997 for DNA and was cleared. In November 2002, journalist Colleen Cason wrote a newspaper series about the Golden State Killer murders for the Ventura County Star. According to Cason's articles, Detective Larry Pool of the Orange County Sheriff's Department visited California's Death Row at San Quentin State Prison in an attempt to locate the Golden State Killer. Detective Pool suspected that the Golden State Killer had been captured and sentenced to death for some other violent crime. Nevertheless, none of the genetic samples collected from Death Row inmates at San Quentin matched the DNA of the Golden State Killer. Continuing investigation: On June 15, 2016, the FBI released further information in relation to the crimes including new composite sketches, along with testimonies from victims and local/federal investigators. A press conference was held this same day in Sacramento, local and FBI law enforcement agencies announced a US$50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the East Area Rapist. The initiative includes a national database to support law enforcement investigating the crimes and to handle tips and information. Joseph DeAngelo arrest: On April 25, 2018, Sacramento Police announced the April 24 arrest of a suspect in the case; 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo (born November 8, 1945). DeAngelo, a former police officer in both Auburn and in Exeter, was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Responses: The Original Night Stalker/East Area Rapist case was the motivating factor in the passage of legislation leading to the establishment of California's DNA database, which authorizes the collection of the DNA of all the accused and convicted felons in California. California's DNA data retrieval and storage program is considered by researchers to be second only to Virginia's in size and effectiveness in solving cold cases. While the California DNA database motivated by this case has solved numerous previously unsolved cold cases across the country, no suspect for the original case was identified until 2018. Significance: The case was a factor in the establishment of California's DNA database, which collects DNA from all accused and convicted felons in California and has been called second only to Virginia's in effectiveness in solving cold cases.

Next week

Next week is my last week of classes and I'm having a lesson with my visiting teachers and missionaries. I'm super excited and can't wait

vegetarian lasangua

i'm eating vegetarian lasagna today. i love it since i'm a vegetarian.

Little Miss 1565

The best-known victim of the circus fire was a young blonde girl wearing a white dress. She is known only as "Little Miss 1565", named after the number assigned to her body at the city's makeshift morgue. Oddly well preserved even after her death, her face has become arguably the most familiar image of the fire. Her true identity has been a topic of debate and frustration in the Hartford area since the fire occurred. She was buried without a name in Hartford's Northwood cemetery, where a victims' memorial also stands. Two police investigators, Sgts. Thomas Barber and Edward Lowe, photographed her and took fingerprints, footprints, and dental charts. Despite massive publicity and repeated displays of the famous photograph in nationwide magazines, she was never claimed. Barber and Lowe spent the rest of their lives trying to identify her. They decorated her grave with flowers each Christmas, Memorial Day, and July 6. After their deaths, a local flower company continued to decorate the grave. In 1991, the body was declared to be that of Eleanor Emily Cook, despite the fact that her aunt and uncle had examined the body and it did not fit the description they provided. The Connecticut State Police forensics unit compared hair samples and determined they were probably from the same person. The body was exhumed in 1991 and buried next to her brother, Edward, who had also died in the fire. Proposed identifications: In 1981, Lowe's widow announced that Lowe had identified the child and contacted her family, but they had requested no publicity. In 1987, someone left a note on the 1565 gravestone reading Sarah Graham is her Name! 7-6-38 DOB, 6 years, Twin. Notes on nearby gravestones indicated that her twin brother and other relatives were buried close by. In 1991, arson investigator Rick Davey (along with co-writer Don Massey) published A Matter of Degree: The Hartford Circus Fire and Mystery of Little Miss 1565, in which he claims the girl was Eleanor Emily Cook and from Massachusetts. Davey also contends that there was a conspiracy within the judicial system to convict the Ringling defendants, and that Segee was the arsonist. Prior to writing the book, Davey spent six years researching the case and conducting his own experiments as to how the fire really may have started. He described the original investigation both "flawed and primitive", though he did not work on the original case. Eleanor's brother Donald Cook had contacted authorities in 1955 insisting that the girl was his sister, but nothing came of it, and Donald later worked with Davey to establish her identity. Donald believes that family members were shown the wrong body in the confusion at the morgue. Ongoing questions of the girl: Various assertions put forth in A Matter of Degree have been fiercely disputed by investigators who worked on the case, as well as by other writers, most notably Stewart O'Nan, who published The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy in 2001. O'Nan points to the fact that Little Miss 1565 had blonde hair, while Eleanor Cook was a brunette. The shape of Little Miss 1565's face and that of Eleanor Cook are dissimilar, and the heights and ages of the two girls do not match up. Perhaps most significantly, when shown a photograph of Little Miss 1565, Eleanor's mother Mildred Corintha Parsons Cook immediately stated that this was not her daughter. She firmly maintained that stance until her death in 1997, age 91. Badly injured in the fire, Mrs. Cook had been unable to claim her two dead children, and was too emotionally traumatized to pursue it later. She had been told that Eleanor was not in any of the locations where bodies were kept for identification. She believed that Eleanor was one of two children who had been burnt beyond recognition and remain unidentified. O'Nan thinks she may be body number 1503. He further points to the differences in the dental records of Eleanor Cook and the records made of Little Miss 1565 after her death. As O'Nan and others have pointed out, the most likely scenario is that a family claiming a body early on mistakenly identified Eleanor Cook as their own child and she is buried under that child's name. Even when "Little Miss 1565's" picture ran in the papers, they failed to recognize her as their own due to their desire to put the traumatic event behind them. While DNA analysis could end this debate definitively, the logistics of exhuming all the likely candidates for this mix-up make this unlikely. With the questions over whether Eleanor Cook is the true identity of Little Miss 1565 still unanswered in the eyes of many, the body was exhumed after the release of A Matter of Degree and buried in Southampton, Massachusetts, next to the body of Edward Cook, the brother of Eleanor Cook and a victim of the circus fire himself. In 1992, her death certificate was officially changed from the previous identification of "1565". Since then, the Cook family has raised questions about whether the body is indeed that of Eleanor Cook, and some investigators have come to believe Eleanor's body may have been another of the unclaimed bodies from the fire and not Little Miss 1565.

finally

i'm getting SOME relief from my scoliosis pain. it's not severe but i took a "nap" or as i call it "taking a rest while listening to music". anyhow i've got some tenderness in my arm and that's killing me

my uber

a friend who gave me a ride home from church called herself "my uber".

end

it's nearly the end of the semester. it's awesome since i'll have more free time.

debunks that theory

my mom's been trying to get me to do hand modeling for YEARS but I've always refused since i have a scar on my knuckle. now i'm interested and my mom doesn't seem to want to do it any more. there goes that theory moms are their kids BFFs.