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Post by spinaltap on Apr 22, 2010 5:27:37 GMT -6
Today's the day, stay or go ?
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Post by Californian on Apr 22, 2010 6:57:32 GMT -6
Today's the day, stay or go ? Looks like it's a go. The world will be better off without this creep. One fourth-trimester abortion, coming right up! ;D
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Post by Charlene on Apr 22, 2010 7:58:17 GMT -6
On the evening of Friday, March 10, 2000, 18-year-old Sophia Martinez left her house in her red 2000 Grand Am GTS around 10:15 p.m. on her way to a nightclub in El Paso. The next morning, her sister Mary Ann went to wake her for work but Sophia was not in her room. Mary Ann thought that Sophia had gotten up early and already left the house. When she received a call around 10:30 or 11 a.m. advising her that Sophia had not shown up for work, Mary Ann began making calls and trying to locate her sister. The New Mexico State Police then called to report that her sister’s car had been found but Sophia was missing. Her body was found the next day.
Officer Leticia Olivas of the El Paso Police Department was one of the crime scene technicians assigned to the murder case. On March 12, she went to the desert area off Junction 404 and O’Hara Road in New Mexico to recover Sophia’s car. By the time she arrived, the car had been towed but she documented and photographed the area. She observed tire impressions leading into and out of the area and tennis shoe impressions leading toward the highway. Authorities were unable to link the footprints to Michael Jaques. Olivas then went to the New Mexico State Troopers’ garage in Las Cruces where the vehicle was stored. She took interior and exterior pictures of the car. There were blood stains on the seats, the interior door panels, the steering wheel, the driver’s seat belt, and the rearview mirror. The passenger side window was shattered and broken out. From there, Olivas headed to northeast El Paso where Sophia’s body had been located. She had been shot five times in the head and face. One wound was on the right side of the back of her head, one through the center of her right eye, one through her right cheek next to her nose, and one to her left cheek. Sophia also received a grazing wound through her left eyebrow area. The medical examiner recovered four bullets and concluded that Sophia died as a result of brain injury from multiple gunshots. A fifth bullet was found in the vicinity where the body was discovered.
Sophia’s body also tested positive for sperm which was later matched to William Berkley, Jaques’s co-defendant. A toxicology report was negative for drugs and alcohol.
During their investigation, police found an ATM receipt in Sophia’s car and obtained the video surveillance tapes from the Government Employees Credit Union (GECU) on Viscount, where Sophia banked. The video showed that at 10:22:35 p.m. on March 10, Sophia approached the ATM and withdrew $20. At 10:24:05 p.m., an individual later identified as Berkley approached the passenger side of Sophia’s car with his arms extended. He pointed a pistol at Sophia at 10:24:09 p.m. and the passenger side window shattered. Berkley then moved around to the driver’s side and got into the backseat. A bleeding Sophia withdrew $200 from her account at 10:25:15 p.m. The video showed only one perpetrator; no other cars followed Sophia’s car as it left the bank.
Sophia’s murder generated a great deal of public interest and was featured on Crime Stoppers and America’s Most Wanted. A reward was offered for information in the case. On September 30, 2000, Heather Jacques, Jaques’s wife, contacted the FBI with information about Sophia’s death. By the time of trial, Heather and Jaques had divorced and she had begun using the name Heather Napiwocki. Heather received $51,000 in reward monies for coming forward with information. Police then contacted Jaques, who was in the El Paso County jail on an unrelated charge, and questioned him concerning Sophia’s murder. Jaques ultimately gave two written statements. According to these statements, Jaques was visiting Heather at the hospital on March 10 when his friend William Berkley arrived. Heather had been hospitalized for a kidney infection, although the record is unclear as to the actual date of her admission. Jaques thought Heather had been admitted on March 7 or 8; Heather testified that she entered the hospitalon March 10. Heather needed some personal items and Jaques and Berkley went to the couple’s apartment, which at that time was number 34 at the Amberwood Apartments. The men returned to the hospital and Berkley left, but he came back around 7 p.m. Jaques told Berkley that he needed money to pay his court costs and Berkley said he would take care of it. He asked whether Jaques wanted to break into a house. They began discussing different ways of getting the money and Berkley finally suggested a hold-up at an ATM.
Before leaving the hospital, Berkley stole some surgical gloves and KY jelly. The men then drove back to the Amberwood Apartments to visit Berkley’s friend, Amanda Cepolski, who lived in apartment no. 134. Berkley talked to Amanda for ten to fifteen minutes before returning to the car. He showed Jaques a black .22 caliber revolver, a black pullover sweater, and a black beanie cap. They began driving around looking for possible hold-up locations. They considered the GECU in northeast El Paso, but Berkley thought the area was too well lit with too much traffic. They went to a grocery store on Fairbanks Street but didn’t like that scenario either. Finally, they targeted the GECU on Viscount. Here, the lighting was poor and they parked by a rock wall fence close to the street running behind the bank. From this vantage point, Jaques could clearly see the ATMs. Berkley got out to hide in the bushes and wait for a car, and Jaques moved over to the driver’s seat. Berkley donned the black sweater, beanie cap, and surgical gloves, and took the gun with him. Jaques also put on a pair of gloves. Cars were coming and going at the ATM booths. When Jaques saw a new model car pull up, he flashed the headlights. Berkley emerged from the bushes and approached the car. Jaques couldn’t see what Berkley did until he walked around to the driver’s side. The car took off, and when Berkley didn’t return, Jaques realized he had left in the red car. Jaques drove back to the hospital around 10:45 or 11 p.m. and told his wife that Berkley had just robbed someone at an ATM. Around 2 or 2:30 a.m., a nurse came into the hospital room and told Jaques that a friend was waiting downstairs. Jaques went downstairs and met Berkley.
Sophia’s car was in the parking lot and the right front passenger side window was shattered. Berkley told Jaques that he had tried to open the passenger door but it was locked. He tried to break the window with the butt of the gun but it wouldn’t break. He fired a shot, but the window only shattered. When he went around to the driver’s side, he saw that the driver had been shot in the face. Berkley told her to open the automatic locks, and he got in the backseat. As Sophia tried to drive off, Berkley put the gun to her head and told her to withdraw $200. He then instructed her to drive to a secluded desert area that Jaques and Berkley called “the spot.” When they arrived, Berkley told her to get out of the car. He shot her in the face twice, and she fell to the ground. Berkley then emptied the gun into her while she was lying on the ground. Berkley had come back to the hospital because he needed Jaques’s help in getting rid of the car. Jaques told his wife he had to leave again.
Berkley drove Sophia’s car while Jaques followed in Berkley’s car. They drove out to the junction of Chaparral and O’Hara Road and turned westbound on O’Hara. Berkley passed through a cattle fence and ended up on a dirt mound. It was very dark and difficult to see, so much so that Jaques passed by Berkley without seeing him. He turned around and kept driving, finally coming upon Berkley walking along the road. Jaques picked him up. A few days later, Jaques and his wife were having a barbecue at their apartment. Berkley stopped by and had Sophia’s driver’s license and car keys with him. Berkley put the license on the grill to burn, and Jaques took the keys and threw them on the roof of the apartment complex.
Jaques also provided information about the gun. The last time he had seen it was in May 2000. It was located at Berkley’s father’s house in the night stand by the bed. And as it turned out, Jaques’s court costs of approximately $200--the underlying reason for the robbery--were paid in $20 denominations after the murder. Based on this information, the police executed a search warrant at Berkley’s father’s home and recovered a .22 caliber eight-shot revolver in the nightstand of the master bedroom. They also recovered Sophia’s keys from the roof of one of the buildings at the Amberwood complex and located metal fragments in apartment no. 34, Jaques’s former apartment. At trial, Sally Grew, a FBI firearms and tool marks examiner, testified that she was not able to determine for sure whether the recovered bullets were fired from the revolver, but it was possible. As for the metal fragments, Grew was not able to determine much of anything. Visually the bullets appeared similar because they had a brassy-colored coating, and some of the bullet fragments also had brassy colored coating on them. Diana Grant, FBI forensic examiner specializing in bullet lead analysis, testified that she found four of the bullets and the metal fragments to be analytically indistinguishable and chemically similar. They were likely to have originated from the same source of molten lead, although that didn’t necessarily mean that the bullets came from the same box of ammunition. The fifth bullet was analytically distinguishable, but possessed only a subtle difference.
Douglas Richard Bosanko, who owned a wrecker and locksmith business, testified at trial that on March 10, he was called out on a business call at Graham’s Nightclub on the westside of El Paso. He left from Chaparral, New Mexico and traveled up Lisa over War Road onto O’Hara Road, then to Interstate 10 and Artcraft. As he was crossing over O’Hara Road, he saw a car twenty-five to thirty feet off the road, and the dome light came on as he was passing. Bosanko saw someone get out of the vehicle. On his way home from the call, he saw the car was still there, but he did not see anyone. At the end of the Gap and Highway 54, Bosanko saw a Hispanic male pacing back and forth over the right-hand side of the road, so he pulled over and asked if he needed help. The male answered “No, bro, everything’s cool.” The male said that he was waiting on a friend to pick him up. Bosanko saw him continue to walk along the shoulder toward El Paso. Later, Bosanko identified an individual who was not Berkley. He was also later shown two photo line-ups but he was not able to identify anyone. He did, however, positively state that Jaques was not the man he had seen.
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Post by Charlene on Apr 22, 2010 7:58:58 GMT -6
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 22, 2010 9:59:38 GMT -6
He should be having his final visits at the Polunsky Unit right now. COs are probably boxing up the crap in his cell. Does anyone know whether he plans to be buried on Peckerwood Hill?
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Post by mike5 on Apr 22, 2010 10:10:45 GMT -6
He should be having his final visits at the Polunsky Unit right now. COs are probably boxing up the crap in his cell. Does anyone know whether he plans to be buried on Peckerwood Hill? I doubt it. He has parents and he has a wife. If the idiot wife can fly here all the time, she can cough up some money to bury him. Scumwives talk big but it doesn't seem like many of them will pony up the money for attys.
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Post by mike5 on Apr 22, 2010 10:15:32 GMT -6
The jerk still refers to Ms. Martinez as if they had some sort of relationship. Right. Like anyone who wasn't mentally ill would look twice at him.
Sophia was in school, planned to go to college and become a teacher, had a part time job, dressed nice, and owned her own car. As if she would go out with a high school drop out, illiterate, who treated women like $h*t, had an illegitimate kid, couldn't keep a job, and didn't have a pot to *deleted* in.
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Post by moonlight on Apr 22, 2010 11:27:32 GMT -6
This dude is a real bad guy and should go down as soon as possible.
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Apr 22, 2010 13:32:31 GMT -6
The more I read about this POS the more he needs to be put down. His claim that he knew the young lady is obscene. He is in denial for her murder and teh fact that he robbed, kidnapped, raped, and murdered the young lady. He is a scumbag and rabid dog and deserves to be treated as such.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 22, 2010 15:59:28 GMT -6
With an hour and nine minutes to go, he should be finishing his last meal about now. I know it might sound extreme to some, but I hope he experience at least a little bit of pain. On any account, I'm pretty stoked about this one.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 22, 2010 16:25:50 GMT -6
Sodium Thiopental...Check
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 22, 2010 16:29:52 GMT -6
Pancuronium Bromide...Check
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Apr 22, 2010 16:34:05 GMT -6
One scumbag on the gurney...Check....
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 22, 2010 16:37:10 GMT -6
Potassium Chloride...Check!
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 22, 2010 16:56:57 GMT -6
They should be just finishing strapping him down. Just a few more minutes to go
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Post by mike5 on Apr 22, 2010 17:01:24 GMT -6
Music....check!
♬ So long, farewell ♬ ♫ Auf Weidersehen, goodbye I leave and heave ♫ ♪ A sigh and say goodbye Goodbyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ♬
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Post by mike5 on Apr 22, 2010 17:03:12 GMT -6
With all the food they shovel in their mouths at the last minute and with their nerves, I'm amazed that they don't start screaming: Wait! I have to take a crap!
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Apr 22, 2010 17:04:40 GMT -6
That is what the Depends(Adult Diapers) are for.
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Post by mike5 on Apr 22, 2010 17:07:18 GMT -6
This fansite won't allow me to post a message. It seems that the thug lovers are fighting over the creep. Somebody - please post a response. goo.gl/71Ip
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Apr 22, 2010 17:12:36 GMT -6
They can fight over the chunks and pieces her family should be able to tear him into. This guy was a total waste of life and was in denial all his time in prison. He killed this young lady for no reason and blamed everyone but himself for his OWN ACTIONS.
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Post by Rev. Agave on Apr 22, 2010 17:26:22 GMT -6
He's most likely a "ghost" now. I imagine the official news release of the execution will be posted online in about an hour or so.
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Apr 22, 2010 17:29:18 GMT -6
List of his last meal...
_____________ His final meal was two BLT cheeseburgers, two jalapeño cheeseburgers, fried okra, french fries with ketchup and mustard, brownies, chocolate and vanilla ice cream, and three root beers _____________
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Post by mike5 on Apr 22, 2010 17:40:56 GMT -6
Why is the media reporting that he was to be executed at 5 pm when the standard time is 6 pm? Can't the MSM tell time?
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Post by Californian on Apr 22, 2010 17:51:42 GMT -6
Texas flushes the toilet yet again! ;D
Texas executes man convicted of killing student
Thursday, April 22, 2010; 7:39 PM HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The state of Texas has executed a man convicted of fatally shooting an El Paso high school senior after robbing and sexually assaulting her.
Thirty-one-year-old William Josef Berkley received a lethal injection Thursday night for the March 2000 shooting death of 18-year-old Sophia Martinez. Martinez's body was found in the West Texas desert after she was robbed at a drive-through ATM. She had been shot in the head five times and there was evidence she'd been raped.
Berkley is the sixth prisoner to be put to death this year in Texas, which executes more prisoners than any other state.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down Berkley's appeal late Thursday. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his appeal Wednesday.
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Apr 22, 2010 17:53:14 GMT -6
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by mike5 on Apr 22, 2010 18:01:12 GMT -6
Would have been nice if the bastard had admitted he murdered her before being executed. A creep to the very end....
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Apr 22, 2010 18:11:18 GMT -6
i saw ppl's comments, and left one too. The Good Reverends was a SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by mike5 on Apr 22, 2010 18:51:03 GMT -6
So many great comments!
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Post by mike5 on Apr 22, 2010 19:00:26 GMT -6
The thug lovers responses are always the same: When will the killing stop!!!!1!!!1!!!!!!!
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Post by spinaltap on Apr 22, 2010 19:07:21 GMT -6
say bye
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