In loving memory of ...

[Lotus Flower]

jbpro said:

I dont know how to post pictures but the links are here. If someone wants to they can put the pics up for me.

My precious daughter www.murdervictims.com/Voices/Rhonda_Hardin.htm


Shannon Nicole Paulk

missing.puellula.org/Memoriam/Paulk.html

Heaven LaShae Ross

www.amw.com/missing_children/case.cfm?id=27608

Judy,

Bless you for all you've been through and for sharing Rhonda's story. It touched me deeply, she looks just like my sister.

I'm so sorry! What a strong woman you are in the face of such unimaginable pain.

There are MANY MANY MANY people out there who haven't been touched by murder (anti and pro alike) who can very easily join together in this fight against these monsters.

There are TOO many Rhondas, Shannons and Heavens (precious names) out there!!! TOO MANY!!!!!!!!!!

My heart is saddened and I thank you again for showing her to us!

Here.... in this thread... they have their voice again, if only from a mom's word, a friend's writing... they're here and they have been heard, rest assured.

With love and sadness,

Shelli

[Lauren]

I would like to remember three victims who died because of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.


Tammy Homolka
("accidental" death from choking on her own vomit due to druging induced by her older sister)


Leslie Mahaffy
(captured by Paul and Karla because she was locked out of her home at one in the morning. Found her dismembered body in cement blocks in a lake)


Kristen French
(Captured by Paul and Karla on her way home from school, by giving Karla directions. She is noted saying to Paul on a videotape that recorded the abuse "Some things are worth dying for")



Too bad Kristen died for nothing. Paul is in jail still, but Karla is free walking the streets.

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Thank you, Lauren... what beautiful girls {{{{Leslie, Kristen, Tammy}}}}

[shawni]

jbpro said:

sickofit said:

jbpro- I am honored to post Rhonda's picture for you....she is beautiful

Thank you so much Heidi

She is beautiful just like her mother.

[shawni]

Im from Dallas TX so this case means a lot to me. Though her death was so sad, some good did come of it thank god.



missing.puellula.org/Memoriam/Hagerman.html

The AMBER Alert System began in 1996 when Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters teamed with local police to develop an early warning system to help find abducted children. AMBER stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response and was created as a legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and then brutally murdered. Other states and communities soon set up their own AMBER plans as the idea was adopted across the nation.

"AMBER Alert is a proven success and has helped rescue more than 230 children nationwide. More than 85 percent of those recoveries have occurred since AMBER Alert became a nationally coordinated effort in 2002.

[PIP]

shawni said:

Im from Dallas TX so this case means a lot to me. Though her death was so sad, some good did come of it thank god.



missing.puellula.org/Memoriam/Hagerman.html

The AMBER Alert System began in 1996 when Dallas-Fort Worth broadcasters teamed with local police to develop an early warning system to help find abducted children. AMBER stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response and was created as a legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and then brutally murdered. Other states and communities soon set up their own AMBER plans as the idea was adopted across the nation.

"AMBER Alert is a proven success and has helped rescue more than 230 children nationwide. More than 85 percent of those recoveries have occurred since AMBER Alert became a nationally coordinated effort in 2002.

Shawni that is wonderful that you posted Amber. She is still saving lives...

Thank you.

[shawni]

Lets also not forget.

The 2,948 confirmed victims of September 11th 2001 included innocent victims from 84 countries

3,251 children lost a Parent on that day...

The youngest victim was 2 year old Christie Hanson - The oldest victim was 85 year old Robert Grant Norton

All the innocent victims were just...

going to work ...at work ...traveling to see friends & family ...going on vacation ...trying to protect lives & property ...

This WILL make you cry.
www.jontzen.com/tribute.htm

After you hear the song that starts when you open the page
Watch #3 HIGHER FAITH
"ANGELS IN HEAVEN"

[phatkat]

If I may add to mine....I know my friend Kyle wasn't a murder victim, but he died well before it seemed right. Anyway, my mom just sent this to me and I thought it was really cool, especially since I'd just been thinking about him.

A True Story of Inspiration, The Story of Kyle’s Heart


One year ago, a man named Jack Hunt was dying of heart disease. Although Jack had always thought of himself as a fairly lucky guy, he found himself in the fight of his life. The local university worked to save him, providing him with numerous medications to prolong his life. Jack even had a pacemaker put in. However, his heart continued to deteriorate.


Over 100 miles away, a 22 year old named Kyle Hunlock, made a selfless decision to become an organ donor. On June 22, 2006 after a tragic accident that left Kyle brain dead, his heart and 7 other organs were harvested and donated.


In just the nick of time, as Jack was in the final stage of heart failure, Kyle’s heart saved his life. One can only imagine the depths of gratitude and emotion that someone being given a second chance at life would feel. Jack was so grateful that he wanted to learn about the young man who had thought enough of others to give such a generous gift. It was only months later that Jack made contact with Kyle’s parents, Carl and Dianna Hunlock. They were willing to share of their son’s life and the powerful legacy that Kyle left behind. Kyle was strong in faith, loyal, moral, and an excellent leader.


Jack learned that only months prior to Kyle’s death, he had signed up to participate in a 15 K marathon. Kyle had trained hard, losing weight and gaining muscle as he pushed to do his personal best, which was the theme of his life.


Participating in a marathon was something that Jack could never have dreamed of because of his heart disease. But now, with this new “well trained heart”, Kyle’s Heart, Jack felt compelled to sign up for the American Heart Association’s Mercy Mini Heart Marathon that will be held on March 24th and 25th of 2007. Jack was so inspired by what he had learned about Kyle that he named the team that will be joining for the event, “Kyle’s Heart”.


Kyle’s family believes that there is power in Kyle’s heart that reaches beyond its physical strength, and they want to support Jack and others like him who are battling heart disease. The family will be participating in the marathon with Jack. They have set a financial goal of earning $30,000.00 for the American Heart Association in honor of Jack and his courage to take on this marathon so shortly after his surgery.


Please help them achieve this goal and support the American Heart Association. Do it for all those like Jack, with the courage to compete, and for all those like Kyle, with the heart to give.

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phatkat said:

If I may add to mine....I know my friend Kyle wasn't a murder victim, but he died well before it seemed right. Anyway, my mom just sent this to me and I thought it was really cool, especially since I'd just been thinking about him.

A True Story of Inspiration, The Story of Kyle’s Heart


One year ago, a man named Jack Hunt was dying of heart disease. Although Jack had always thought of himself as a fairly lucky guy, he found himself in the fight of his life. The local university worked to save him, providing him with numerous medications to prolong his life. Jack even had a pacemaker put in. However, his heart continued to deteriorate.


Over 100 miles away, a 22 year old named Kyle Hunlock, made a selfless decision to become an organ donor. On June 22, 2006 after a tragic accident that left Kyle brain dead, his heart and 7 other organs were harvested and donated.


In just the nick of time, as Jack was in the final stage of heart failure, Kyle’s heart saved his life. One can only imagine the depths of gratitude and emotion that someone being given a second chance at life would feel. Jack was so grateful that he wanted to learn about the young man who had thought enough of others to give such a generous gift. It was only months later that Jack made contact with Kyle’s parents, Carl and Dianna Hunlock. They were willing to share of their son’s life and the powerful legacy that Kyle left behind. Kyle was strong in faith, loyal, moral, and an excellent leader.


Jack learned that only months prior to Kyle’s death, he had signed up to participate in a 15 K marathon. Kyle had trained hard, losing weight and gaining muscle as he pushed to do his personal best, which was the theme of his life.


Participating in a marathon was something that Jack could never have dreamed of because of his heart disease. But now, with this new “well trained heart”, Kyle’s Heart, Jack felt compelled to sign up for the American Heart Association’s Mercy Mini Heart Marathon that will be held on March 24th and 25th of 2007. Jack was so inspired by what he had learned about Kyle that he named the team that will be joining for the event, “Kyle’s Heart”.


Kyle’s family believes that there is power in Kyle’s heart that reaches beyond its physical strength, and they want to support Jack and others like him who are battling heart disease. The family will be participating in the marathon with Jack. They have set a financial goal of earning $30,000.00 for the American Heart Association in honor of Jack and his courage to take on this marathon so shortly after his surgery.


Please help them achieve this goal and support the American Heart Association. Do it for all those like Jack, with the courage to compete, and for all those like Kyle, with the heart to give.

Thank you, Phatkat... seems like too many die before it's right or fair. Kyle did indeed give a generous gift, and though that final gift, gave life to another......... and (sounds like) his heart (soul) lives on through that gift.


Lynne

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This unidentified little girl as featured on the excellent site the doenetwork

Case History
The victim was located in the Dog River, beneath the westbound lane of I-10 in Pascagoula, MS, on December 5, 1982. She was apparently thrown off the Interstate 10 bridge 36 - 48 hours prior to discovery.
Her body was found when a trucker called authorities to report a body of an adult wearing a blue plaid shirt and blue jeans, floating in the river. The Jackson County Sheriff's Office believes the body is the mother of the child found floating in the river. Detectives said the theory is based on the fact that a woman, who was obviously distressed and carrying a child, was seen walking on Interstate-10 on the previous friday night. This is further confirmed by a Moss Point woman who was monitering CB conversations that night. She said "truckers were 'raising-a-boat-load-of-Hell' between midnight friday and 1 a.m. saturday because a woman and child were walking on the interstate and refused to let anyone help her."
Authorities said a woman wearing a blue plaid shirt and blue jeans and carrying a child was seen near the scales at the Alabama line walking west on the interstate. She was reported walking in the westbound lane. A man who saw the woman said a pickup truck stopped but she refused to get into the truck.
Authorities speculate the woman may have thrown the child into the water and then jumped.
It is unclear if the body of the woman was recovered

Source: The Doe Network
www.doenetwork.org/

[PIP]

Thank you so much for pinning this thread!

~Heidi

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cyclone said:

What a little beauty ~ doesn't anyone miss her?! Unidentified is just too When I think of her, I'll call her Angel.

Do y'all notice the smiles that reach up into all these murder victim's eyes? I dunno... looking at each of them, I feel something special, like their eyes say so much about the spirit that dwelled there for awhile.

Thanks, Cyclone!

[pumpkin12903]

lauren said:

I would like to remember three victims who died because of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.


Tammy Homolka
("accidental" death from choking on her own vomit due to druging induced by her older sister)


Leslie Mahaffy
(captured by Paul and Karla because she was locked out of her home at one in the morning. Found her dismembered body in cement blocks in a lake)


Kristen French
(Captured by Paul and Karla on her way home from school, by giving Karla directions. She is noted saying to Paul on a videotape that recorded the abuse "Some things are worth dying for")



Too bad Kristen died for nothing. Paul is in jail still, but Karla is free walking the streets.

Yes, and that psycho bimbo just had a baby. These 2 prove there's truly evil people with no conscience. They've still never shown 1 speck of remorse.

[pumpkin12903]

Thanks for your kind words about my Dad and Grandma. I've been ready to see the Nutracker Suite again for the past few years. Once we can afford it, my fiance and I will go. It was too painful to think about going until the past few years. My Dad was "a rock". This may sound kind of strange, but a lot of good memories come from our last months together when I had a leg fracture. I couldn't work (I'd tried, but they wouldn't make the physical accomodations, etc., kind of a long story), and he took me to the orthopedist every week. On the way home we'd stop at the same convenience store and he'd get a beer and I'd get a Diet Coke. Mom said Diet Coke would "kill me" and wouldn't let us bring any in the house. She was serious. This is just 1 example of how sick her mind was then. So I ended up spending a lot of time with him as I couldn't work until I was well again. I'm thankful for this. It's strange, but good memories come out of our bad times, too. Good mixed in with bad. My brother I'm closest to is just like Dad. He keeps up traditions that Mom, Dad and Grandma did and I love that. So does some other family. Thanks again for your kind words about Dad and Grandma. This is a wonderful thread.

[PIP]

Captain Joe Cobo

May he rest in peace.

[bigmama]

I just wanted to say, I haven't been around much at all in quite awhile but had a few "minutes" tonight and thought I'd pop in and check out the threads and say hello to my friends. This was the first thread I opened and now I've gone and cried my way through it. Very nice thread Euro and thanks very much to everyone who's shared a murder victim but most especially to those of you who I've come to "know" on this board and whose loved ones I feel a special connection with... I think of you often and thank you for reminding me how precious and fragile life is... thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures and your precious memories.

[PIP]

Cari Crews was an honor student at Denton Ryan (and a National Merit Scholar). She was a gifted classical pianist and a good writer.

So many things she might have been. She planned to graduate early from high school and earn a doctoral degree in psychology. She dreamed of one day helping people by using animals in therapeutic treatment.

It might have been.

Rest in peace beautiful angel.

[eu.ro]

In memory of Carolin (21), who was stabbed to death in her flat in Passau, Germany, this February.

May she rest in peace,

euro.

[Kay]

Jesus Garza was an athlete who played both football and baseball for Ryan as a sophomore. He was interested in art, and he met Cari Crews in an art class the semester before they died.

[PIP]

kay said:

Jesus Garza was an athlete who played both football and baseball for Ryan as a sophomore. He was interested in art, and he met Cari Crews in an art class the semester before they died.

Oh sweet Kay! You found his picture! Thank you so much!

[Lauren]

All the victims of School Shootings.

[Lotus Flower]

Professor Librescu was among those dead. A holocaust survivor, he blocked the door as the killer shoot through the door. He told his students to run, they did and survived. He did not.

Two Professor's among the dead at Virginia Tech.

The dean of Virginia Tech's Engineering Science and Mechanics department said in an e-mail this morning that two of the department's professors were among the 31 people killed by a gunman at Norris Hall on Monday.

The dean, Ishwar K. Puri, offered this eulogy of Professors Liviu Librescu - whom students described on Monday as attempting to barricade his classroom door while they jumped from a window to safety - and Kevin Granata. Both, the dean wrote, were killed "while serving Virginia Tech."

Read the dean's remarks:

"Dr. Librescu and Dr. Granata were both world class researchers, excellent teachers, outstanding mentors to doctoral students, and fully involved in outreach to the profession.

"ESM is a unique interdisciplinary department, one of few in the US, and their presence greatly enriched our program. There are few programs in the US that have scholars of their caliber and in their particular disciplines on the same faculty.

"I grieve for them. They will be dearly missed.

"Liviu Librescu was born in Romania but his quest for freedom brought him to the United States.

"He was an exceptionally tolerant man who mentored scholars from all over our troubled world. He wrote many books and monographs, and his scholarly publications in a number of areas are among the most highly cited in the world. His research has enabled better aircraft, superior composite materials, and more robust aerospace structures. He was well known internationally.

"Over the last 10 years, he served as a member of the international advisory board of more than nineteen international conferences.

"Kevin Granata served in the military, and later conducted orthopedic research in medical hospitals. He came to ESM because our interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning excited him.

"He had many scholarly interests related to neuromuscular control, to stability as he and his students researched how people walk and run, muscle and reflex response, and robotics. The use of his research by other scholars worldwide had put him on a trajectory to become a notable star in these fields. He was one of the top five biomechanics researchers in the country working on movement dynamics in cerebral palsy.

"I hope that you will write in a manner that honors the memory of my fine deceased colleagues and describes our loss. What a tragedy!"

[Lotus Flower]

Professor Librescu


Professor Granata

Rest in peace. Sadly, more pictures will be released.

[Wickedlyamoral]

May all the victims in the Virginia Tech tragedy rest in peace.

[PIP]

Ryan Clark killed at Virginia Tech trying to save his fellow students

[Lotus Flower]

Virginia Tech Tragedy - April 16, 2007


Daniel Perez Cueva

Perez Cueva, 21, was a native of Peru studying international relations. Perez Cueva was killed while in a French class, said his mother, Betty Cueva.




Ryan Clark (right), Resident Assistant, Hero

Clark, a 22-year-old senior from Martinez, Ga., was called "Stack" by his friends, many of whom he met as a resident assistant at West Ambler Johnson Hall, where the first shootings took place.

He was "an amiable senior memorable for his ready smile and thoughtful ways," according to the student paper.

Clark was a fifth-year student studying biology and English, and hoped to pursue a doctorate in psychology, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience. He was well-liked and a member of the university's marching band, and carried a 4.0 grade-point average.

Courtney Dalton, who met Clark two years ago when they worked together at a campus restaurant, described him as helpful and a good listener.

"When I was upset about something, he would come over and ask, 'Are you O.K.?' ...If you ever needed to talk about your problems, he'd listen," she said.

"He was just one of the greatest people you could possibly know," friend Gregory Walton, 25, said after learning from an ambulance driver that Clark was among the dead. "He was always smiling, always laughing. I don't think I ever saw him mad in the five years I knew him."


"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13" (thank you Fisher)

[Lotus Flower]

Virginia Tech victims:


Mary Karen Read (right)

Friends remembered Read, a 19-year-old freshman from Annandale, Va., for her smile and her caring nature. Read was a fan of marching band and French.

"She was really caring, never had bad intentions for anybody, she put everybody else before herself," friends told FOX News on Tuesday.

Read was born in South Korea into an Air Force family and lived in Texas and California before settling in the northern Virginia suburb of Annandale.

She considered a handful of colleges, including nearby George Mason University, before choosing Virginia Tech. It was a popular destination among her Annandale High School classmates, according to her aunt, Karen Kuppinger.

She had yet to declare a major.

"I think she wanted to try to spread her wings," said Kuppinger, of Rochester, N.Y.




Christopher J. Bishop, Professor

Bishop, a 35-year-old German professor, wore his hair long, rode his bike to campus and worked alongside his wife in the foreign languages department at Virginia Tech, according to the Los Angeles Times. He was known for his gentle manner and generosity toward students.

"I don't think he was the type of person who had an enemy," Troy Paddock, a close friend whose wife, told the Times. "He was a very friendly person. He was a nice and helpful person."

The Georgia native was an avid hiker, movie and Atlanta Braves fan, and was said to be very popular with students.

"He was very outgoing, a very personable individual," Richard Shryock, the chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, told the Times. "He was someone who took teaching very seriously and was a good colleague to be with."

Bishop earned bachelor's and master's degrees in German and was a Fulbright scholar at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany.

According to his Web site, Bishop spent four years living in Germany, where he "spent most of his time learning the language, teaching English, drinking large quantities of wheat beer, and wooing a certain fraulein."

The "fraulein" was Bishop's wife, Stephanie Hofer.

[Lotus Flower]

Virginia Tech victims:



Emily Jane Hilscher (left)

Friends posting messages of tribute on Facebook.com Monday night remembered Hilscher, an 18-year-old freshman from Woodville, Va., as a vibrant girl with an engaging personality.

"Emily was a kind and wonderful person who always put a smile on my face," wrote Jessica Gould.

Hilscher, a freshman majoring in animal and poultry sciences, was known around her hometown as an animal lover.

"She worked at a veterinarian's office and cared about them her whole life," said Rappahannock County Administrator John W. McCarthy, a family friend.

According to several friends and neighbors of the family, her boyfriend, with whom she had attended high school and who is also a Virginia Tech student, had dropped her off for class before the rampage began.

A friend, Will Nachless, also 19, said Hilscher "was always very friendly. Before I even knew her, I thought she was very outgoing, friendly and helpful, and she was great in chemistry."




G.V. Loganathan, Professor

Loganathan, 51, was born in the southern Indian city of Chennai and had been a civil and environmental engineering professor at Virginia Tech since 1982.

Loganathan won several awards for excellence in teaching, had served on the faculty senate and was an adviser to about 75 undergraduate students.

"We all feel like we have had an electric shock. We do not know what to do," his brother G.V. Palanivel told the NDTV news channel from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. "He has been a driving force for all of us, the guiding force."

[Lotus Flower]

Virginia Tech victims:



Reema Samaha

Samaha, a freshman from Centreville, Va., was described as fun and energetic.

“She was in theater. She was just real upbeat. Always had a lot of energy. Always a great person to be around. She’d always make you laugh,” said friend Matthew Dockins, 19, a freshman civil engineering major.

He said he and Samaha were among about 50 graduates from Centreville High School that came to Virginia Tech, and she was a popular student.

“Everybody knew who she was,” Dockins said.




Matt La Porte

La Porte, a freshman from Dumont, N.J., was majoring in university studies. He had been an Air Force cadet at Virginia Tech, according to his former platoon leader, David Wheeler.

La Porte credited the Carson Long Military Institute in New Bloomfield, Penn., with turning his life around during his years there from 1999 to 2005. "I know that Carson Long was my second chance," he said during a graduation speech, printed in the school yearbook.

"Matthew was an exemplary student at Carson Long whose love of music and fellow cadets were an inspiration to all on campus," Carson Long said in a statement.

La Porte graduated third in his class and was also drum major for the school's drum and bugle corps during his senior year.

[Lotus Flower]

Maxine Turner (right)

Vienna, Va., Senior, Chemical Engineering


Daniel O'Neil
O'Neil, a graduate student in environmental engineering from Lincoln, R.I., graduated in 2002 from Lincoln High School and last year received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., before heading to Virginia, according to The Providence Journal.

A Lafayette publication said that while there, O’Neil was vice president of the Arts Society. His high school yearbook noted he was on the cross country and outdoor track teams, the drama club and the National Honor Society, according to the Providence Journal.

A high school friend, Steve Craveiro, said O'Neil played guitar and wrote his own songs. Craveiro described O'Neil as smart, responsible and a hard worker.

He said O'Neil was destined to be extremely successful.