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Post by ccatt on Aug 26, 2005 13:59:56 GMT -6
not really a death penalty case (but it should be), so i'm posting it here, the mods can move it if it should be in one of the DP forums... found it on another site and looked into it.. it's definatly a good case for the death penalty if i've ever heard one www.paroleblock.com/pbsarawestcrime.htmlit speaks for itself.. he's up for PAROLE in 2010 This is a post from another site (not a death penalty site) from someone under 18 trying to help.. BACK ON FEBRUARY 13, 1993 THERE WAS A LITTLE SWEET, INNOCENT, KIND LITTLE 5 YEAR OLD WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED HER NAME WAS SARA WEST. THE GUY WHO MURDERED HER IS SET TO BE ABLE TO GET PAROLE IN 2010 AND MY LOCAL TOWN AND EVERYONE IS TRYING TO GET 10,000 SIGNATURES TO STOP THIS MAN FROM GETING PAROLE! HE DOES NOT DESERVE IT! I ASK THAT WILL YOU ALL PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION? AND PLEASE PASS THE WORD ALONG TO YOUR FRIEND & FAMILY MEMBERS! PLEASE GO HERE AND SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM TO SIGN THE PETITION! PLEASE DO NOT IGNOR THIS! PLEASE HELP TO TO KEEP THIS BUMPED SO WE CNA GET EVERYONE ON EHRE TO SIGN IT! WE FORTUNALYL ARE 1/2 WAY THERE WITH 5,000 SIGNATURES! www.paroleblock.com/pbsarawestcrime.html(Scroll down to sign the petition!) THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR HELPING THIS FAMILY!
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Post by Forever on Aug 26, 2005 14:33:46 GMT -6
not really a death penalty case (but it should be), so I'm posting it here, the mods can move it if it should be in one of the DP forums... found it on another site and looked into it.. it's definatly a good case for the death penalty if i've ever heard one www.paroleblock.com/pbsarawestcrime.htmlit speaks for itself.. he's up for PAROLE in 2010 This is a post from another site (not a death penalty site) from someone under 18 trying to help.. BACK ON FEBRUARY 13, 1993 THERE WAS A LITTLE SWEET, INNOCENT, KIND LITTLE 5 YEAR OLD WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED HER NAME WAS SARA WEST. THE GUY WHO MURDERED HER IS SET TO BE ABLE TO GET PAROLE IN 2010 AND MY LOCAL TOWN AND EVERYONE IS TRYING TO GET 10,000 SIGNATURES TO STOP THIS MAN FROM GETING PAROLE! HE DOES NOT DESERVE IT! I ASK THAT WILL YOU ALL PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION? AND PLEASE PASS THE WORD ALONG TO YOUR FRIEND & FAMILY MEMBERS! PLEASE GO HERE AND SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM TO SIGN THE PETITION! PLEASE DO NOT IGNOR THIS! PLEASE HELP TO TO KEEP THIS BUMPED SO WE CNA GET EVERYONE ON EHRE TO SIGN IT! WE FORTUNALYL ARE 1/2 WAY THERE WITH 5,000 SIGNATURES! www.paroleblock.com/pbsarawestcrime.html(Scroll down to sign the petition!) THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR HELPING THIS FAMILY! I become really sick when i read this horrible crime. Normally I'm against DP, but in cases where children are involved I am strongly pro. But in this case there is also a teenager involved as a murderer and not a adult. How is it in Gods name possible that such a guy is so pervert and had such horrible ideas. There must be a reason for that. I find it very difficult....
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Post by ccatt on Aug 26, 2005 14:37:38 GMT -6
there's an old saying, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...
it doesn't mean he gets it from his parents, but most likely his environment has alot to do with it.
I'm not pro, or anti, it depends onthe case, this particular one, or any case involving innocent children, i'm most definatly pro, especially when there is no doubt at all about the guilt. The fact that he's up for parole actually makes me sicker than the actual crime does.. is this what's happening to justice in this country? someone like this has a chance to be free?
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Post by limbololly on Nov 13, 2005 18:19:32 GMT -6
even if this isn't a death penalty case i still think he should never be released - he took away something that can never be replaced, a child. He deserves to rot!!
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Post by Eminey1 on Nov 14, 2005 10:59:33 GMT -6
The link doesn't seem to be working, I need to sign!!!!!
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Post by Charlene on Dec 6, 2005 19:03:10 GMT -6
Not only is the link not working, the entire site has vanished. However, I found a news article with information regarding protesting the release of this killer. Petition power
The petition can be signed at the Zanesville Police Department between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The station is located at 332 South St. Letters opposing Shafer's release can also be written to the Ohio Parole Board at 1050 Freeway Drive North, Columbus, Ohio, 43229, include inmate number A279420. The rally is being planned for a date closer to the hearing. |
Grandmother's goal: Keep killer in prison By STEPHANIE A. GREEGOR Gannett News Service Editor's Note: Some material in this story may be too graphic for younger readers. The murder of 5-year-old Sara West was a brutal crime. ZANESVILLE -- Her goals are simple. One courthouse rally, 10,000 signatures and as many letters as she can convince folks to write. And before February 2010, 70-year-old Shirley West of Zanesville intends to have everything she needs to keep a "satanic" killer behind bars. "From day one, I decided was going to get a petition going," West said of a possible parole hearing for 28-year-old inmate Billy Joe Shafer, who killed her 5-year-old granddaughter. "I just want to be ready so when he comes up for a parole hearing, I'm ready for him." Shafer pleaded guilty to aggravated murder with a gun specification after brutally raping and murdering Sara West on Valentine's Day in 1993. Shafer was 16 years old when he committed the crime. Though Shafer's parole hearing is not scheduled for another 4 1/2 years, West is getting older and she wants to make sure she has "her ducks in a row" while she's still healthy. West already received more than 2,000 signatures in less than a week. Shafer is being held at the Madison County Correction Center in London and is expected to have his first parole hearing in March of 2010, according to the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. "I would like to think there's a lot of people that feel this young man needs to remain incarcerated," said Muskingum County Sheriff Bob Stephenson. "I just feel for the safety of the community, that justice still needs to be served and he needs to remain where he's at." Stephenson said the murder affected the community and the officers who responded in different ways, but "when it's a child it's even more bothersome." "It's something you think about day or night -- how something like this could happen in our community," he said. "It was a pretty sad situation, it really was." Seth, then age 3, was at the 2555 Ridge Road residence at the time the crime was committed around midnight, but was unharmed. According to West, Shafer made it known his only regret that evening was that he "didn't have time to do Seth." "People need to be fighting against people like him," West said. "He's just crazy. We just can't have him out there." According to the petition West is circulating throughout Ohio, Shafer was a sexual predator who confessed to planning the murder for weeks before it happened. West said the information on the petition came from case documents she read and it was reviewed by the Muskingum County Prosecutor's Office. While the family does not know the progression of events that happened to Sara, the petition states Sara was raped, shot in the head and disemboweled. She was found with her throat cut twice from ear to ear and satanic cuts all over her body. Shafer drank her blood and sexually abused Sara's body after she died. He cut the 5-year-old open and ran his hands and arms inside of her whole body. In Shafer's own words from his confessions, the murder "was all done with a great feeling of euphoria, liken to a drug high." "It was the most gruesome murder in history that I can recall," said Chief Eric Lambes of the Zanesville Police Department. "We don't need this type of person out in our community." Sara's father, Kevin West of Roseville, could not be reached for comment. Her mother, Tracy Hickman, and brother, Seth, now live in South Carolina. Originally published July 27, 2005
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Dec 7, 2005 10:48:55 GMT -6
What were they thinking??? This guy does not deserve to spend his life in prison...I do not care if he is under 18...He deserves to die and painfully at that...This guy cannot be changed, cannot be corrected, nothing can be done to him except killing him...
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Post by truth1 on Dec 7, 2005 11:20:05 GMT -6
That scumball should have been sentenced to death. I highly doubt he will be released. If he is, I hope the victim's family takes care of him.
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Post by Dea on Dec 8, 2005 10:55:22 GMT -6
The sad thing is that his age prevented him from getting the true sentence he deserved. A couple of years older and he would have. Keeping him in prison with parole is the best thing to work for now.
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Post by cynthiak on Dec 8, 2005 19:54:45 GMT -6
fry him
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Post by Sandoval on Dec 11, 2005 20:53:51 GMT -6
No way! He should be locked up forever.
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Post by anna_marek on Dec 19, 2005 10:51:49 GMT -6
This is an absolutely horrifying case, ccat. It is a neccesary public service to inform us of the this-you did a pulic service in doing so. I hate to post an article with the horrifying crime details of Sara's rape and murder and a pic of the evildoer obscenely placed near Sara's picture, but we have to mobilise and keep the monster locked up. www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050724/NEWS01/507240311&SearchID=7321536352318In Germany, sadly this monster would now be free if he, at age 16, murdered in 1993. Recently the Germans enacted legislation to put these predators into psychiatric clinics after their maximum 10 year prison sentences in Germany, but the predators sentenced before this legislation or by negligent judges who didn't demand the additional detention after prison-well these dangerous predators will be out on the street to murder again as they generally do.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2006 3:50:37 GMT -6
A terrible thought that he might get free. I hope the mentioned petition is successful.
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Post by Moonbeam on Feb 11, 2006 9:52:06 GMT -6
That was horrendous to just read about That guy should never ever see the light of day ever again. I could kill him myself.
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Post by Elric of Melnibone on Feb 11, 2006 13:11:50 GMT -6
He may not be eligble for the death penalty, but he should never get out. EVER. I hope that he is never released.
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Post by spur on Feb 11, 2006 19:54:39 GMT -6
The sad thing is that his age prevented him from getting the true sentence he deserved. A couple of years older and he would have. Keeping him in prison with parole is the best thing to work for now. Thats OK Dea...at least he will be able to be released in a few years and kill again...I bet they give him the death penalty then so its all good..............gezzzzzzz!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2006 20:07:29 GMT -6
The murder of a child is the mosr horrible crime that a single person can committ. The petition is a great thing and when it finished this monster will be there to rot forever. But personally, i think he should be put in general population in a prison in Huntsville, Texas and the prisoners informed of his crime so they could tear him apart limb from limb. The prisons down here are full of guys that have kids.
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Post by sassie201 on Feb 20, 2006 11:12:30 GMT -6
In my mind if the kid is old enough to kill he is old enough for the death penalty. I always become extremely angry when someone takes a child's life. I also wonder what went on their life that would make someone want to kill a child. I read a LOT of true crime, but this is the first of have heard of this story. My heart goes out to the little girl and her family.
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Post by josephdphillips on Feb 20, 2006 11:18:42 GMT -6
In my mind if the kid is old enough to kill he is old enough for the death penalty. I always become extremely angry when someone takes a child's life. I also wonder what went on their life that would make someone want to kill a child. I read a LOT of true crime, but this is the first of have heard of this story. My heart goes out to the little girl and her family. My philosophy as well, Sassie. Welcome to the board!
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Post by californian on Feb 27, 2006 22:04:15 GMT -6
Just because he's "eligible for parole" in 2010 doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Charles Manson has been up for parole hearings since 1977. think he'll get out?
He'll die in prison. And no one will mourn his passing.
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Post by middleofnowhere on Mar 11, 2006 0:49:59 GMT -6
That is so disturbing. How can you murder an innocnet child? USA is full of some sick freaks. Keep in jail forever!!
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Post by Sandoval on Mar 12, 2006 0:09:05 GMT -6
Put him out of our misery!
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Post by crystal221 on Oct 3, 2019 21:13:47 GMT -6
there's an old saying, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree... it doesn't mean he gets it from his parents, but most likely his environment has alot to do with it. I'm not pro, or anti, it depends onthe case, this particular one, or any case involving innocent children, i'm most definatly pro, especially when there is no doubt at all about the guilt. The fact that he's up for parole actually makes me sicker than the actual crime does.. is this what's happening to justice in this country? someone like this has a chance to be free? He definitely doesn't get it from his father who has put his son's victim before his son by speaking out against his son being paroled and helping her family in their quest to keep him behind bars for the rest of his life. Some people are just born a pyschopath, that likely is the case with him.
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