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Subscribe to RSSA woman whose remains were found in the backyard of an Indiana man already charged with two other murders a decade apart apparently was strangled, according to news reports.
NBC station WAVE of Louisville reported Saturday that the remains found Friday in New Albany, Ind., were identified as those of 35-year-old Stephanie Marie Kirk, who disappeared in March. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that Floyd County Coroner Leslie Knable said the preliminary cause of death was strangulation and it was uncertain how long she had been dead.
"Relieved in a way," Kirk’s grandmother, Betty Kirk, told WAVE when asked her reaction. "Knowing that she's not tied up in a room somewhere held prisoner, or whatever. Now, she's in heaven with her mother."
The remains were found at the home of William Clyde Gibson, a registered sex offender charged in the death of 45-year-old Karen Hodella and 75-year-old Christine Whitis. Hodella disappeared in 2002, and her body was found early the next year. Whitis was found dead April 19 at Gibson’s mother’s home in New Albany. Gibson was arrested later that day.
Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson said Friday that after Gibson’s arrest he implicated himself in the deaths of Hodella and Whitis, the News and Tribune of Jeffersonville, Ind., reported.
Kirk, of Charlestown, Ind., was last seen when she left a friend's house in New Albany on March 25, perhaps to meet a man to go motorcycling, WAVE reported. Betty Kirk said it was unlike her granddaughter, who had a teenage daughter, not to contact her father.
"I want her to come home,” her father, Tony Kirk, said this week, WAVE reported. “She's got a daughter. We both miss her. We both worry about her, can't sleep. Her daughter can't sleep."
Crews began digging in Gibson's yard Friday based on information they developed earlier in the day.
A next-door neighbor, Melodie Shultz, told the Courier-Journal that she had known Gibson since childhood and that he had been in trouble with the law off and on, but that he had always been willing to help out around the neighborhood.
“You never know who is living next door,” Shultz told the Courier-Journal.
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Just your run of the mill next door psychopath.
He has already confessed to 2 of them , He needs A TRIAL that should take about 8 hrs and then needs to be hanged in public within 48hrs. Those in juvenile detention should be made to watch what they are headed for if they do not change.
You are everything I fear, if a government makes people watch executions as a threat when their young well...lets look at North Korea, China, Afghanistan, soon to be Russia and even the past Soviet Union. This is an unacceptable idea, your sick.
How else do you expect for these kids to learn and change their ways?? Parents don't discipline anymore, due to the fact they don't want to be hated by their off spring, FT. What's the difference between taking an unruly teens to a morgue to see a child killed in a auto accident, because of drunk driving? Death is death and it is final. Most teens dealths today are from their own actions. So shove it in their faces, you reap what you sow. Want to play stupid, it can be the last time you do.
Where are the faux news racebaiters made at MSNBC for not saying what this POS racial identity! Man you can tell when faux news admirer swallows the tea bag they are quite as the rats they are. Nice reporting MSNBC keep up the good work.
P.S.
Sign my petition to have sexual offenders get an automatic life with castration sentence. Who is with me, liberal that faux teaparty scumbags.
It is so scarey that this sick creep was able to blend in with the rest of society, who are not serial killers. It really does make you wonder about the people who live next door to you.
Marvin Young.......... Hate to burst your bubble. It's liberals that want LESS punishment for felons. I am a conservative and I personally think pedophiles should get the death penalty. Here this sucker is living and he should have been dead before the first woman was killed. Think about that when you say no to the death penalty like your liberal friends.
thomas star no you are part of the sickness that always wants to find excuses for why someone does something heinous instead of punishing them. A very large percentage of those in juvenile detention go on and commit even worse crimes as they get older. We need to start to actually insure that those who do things such as this can NEVER again do this, and we need to make the "young" know the true consequences of what they are doing.
Have juveniles watch execution? And how do you think this will cure potential psychopaths, by peaking their interests?
By letting them actually see they WILL DIE IF they murder another, it will not be jail and another chance. An execution is not a pretty sight especially a hanging but they will see it is final and permanent not a game you can reset. And they can see yes it can happen to you not just someone else.
What a freak!
"A registered sex offender." The sick freaks who don't want to get tough on sex offenders must be masturbating to these stories. Time to lock these sick ****s away for life on the first "sex offense". Anyone who's not on board gets ***** slapped. That's the way it is. No more perverse leniency for these creatures.
You can make that list for pissing behind a bush in many states. Or by someone looking in your window and seeing you naked.
Your tag 'em and bag 'em policy is woefully flawed.
And yet they keep turning up with bodies in their crawlspaces. No one was talking about the "title". Despite your misinformation, most sex offenders are registered for crimes against others. And I, along the rest of the people with common sense and who care about victims, are tired of these people out on probation raping kids and killing women.
Skinny dipping in a remote lake can get you on the list. NY Mike is correct.
It's true-and a 17 year old boy having consentual sex with his girlfriend who is 16 and a week from being 17 can get him on the list too. But the truth is, most people on that list deserve to be on that list. Forget the list. If they have truely done something to earn that badge they should just be in prison and done with. Let out the 20-year old sitting for having a little bag of pot and let the sub-humans have his spot.
What misinformation? At no point did I state that most people convicted didn't earn it.
All I did, was point out how flawed your "lock 'em all away for life" mindset is.
It's not I that is lacking common sense. It's laws that are set up with such a broad undefined reach that are. Would you be OK with being in jail for life for taking a leak behind a bush you thought you were alone at?
This isn't about locking up legitimate offenders like this guy clearly is. It's about people thinking the same punishment should be applied the same to all people, regardless if they actually touched another person or not.
Bill Lumbergh
Well?
takenaka
Same in AZ. Hawaii you could get on the list for kissing someone who didn't want kissed.. Crime of Sexual Battery.
Now we KNOW the world will end this year... takenaka and I agree on something.
Then change the laws so they are rational and either lock these animals up for a life of hard labor or execute them by a particularly slow and unpleasant method.
Enough is enough. Where is this going to end--when we're all terrified to step outside our doors?
You are all acting like I am focused on the category of "sex offender". First, you have provided no statistics on how many of these cases of people classified as sex offenders for relatively minor crimes account for the total number of sex offenders. Each and every one of you lazy dumb***es has your own state sex offender website, and you can go through the list of sexual offenders and their offenses for yourself. And I don't really care about the classification of "sex offender". I was referring to people with a history of sex offenses who are released to rape and kill kids and women. By calling them "sex offenders" I was referring to the 99% of them that actually are scumbags, and not the skinny dippers. But you are too busy making a self-important, completely obtuse, irrelevant case here about how certain states should not classify certain criminals as sex offenders. Do you think this serial murderer of women was classified as a "sex offender" for skinny dipping? Then what in the name of all f*** is your point!!
And b dune,
12 hours later?
I spent the day with my girlfriend playing tennis, riding our bikes, and having sex. Then I got back to the impotent task of mentally masturbating out scarcely read comments to anonymous people. Excuse the f*** out of me.
We got on this because YOU said they should be in for life on a first offence, in that case I could claim I saw anyone reading this comment naked in the window, and have them in jail for life. Now I know the patriot act lets the government do it but giving everyone the ability to jail someone indefinetly for no reason and without evidence is a horrible mistake, and you prove that with your faulty logic.
This is the kind of person who should NEVER BE LET OUT OF PRISON, once they are convicted and sentenced, with plenty of REAL evidence. What will it take in order for some of these laws to change? Would they change if one of the victims were a senators wife or mother, a congressmans grandaughter, or perhaps their little nephew, or their son?
We have WAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY too many sex offenders REPEATING their crime. Sex offenders are HIGH RISK to re-offend, often times just weeks or days after being let out early for their previous sexual offenses. They are a HUGE threat to any neighborhood or community, because the very large majority of the time they RE-OFFEND. At the VERY LEAST, they should be serving ALL OF THEIR SENTENCE.
Now I know why sex offenders get out in a few months and rape kids. We're dealing with complete morons. I've tried 100 times to get around the complete bull**** red herring about some guy naked in the window or a skinny dipper, which accounts for .001% if registered sex offenders, and isn't relevant in the argument no matter what their prevalance. Are you people that ignorant that you don't know there are more legal classifications in a sex crime than either "sex offender" or not. There are like, the specific criminal charges, full of details, like the type of crime whether the victim was under 12, whether they were raped, sodomized, forcibly fondled, etc. The Sex Offender label is for the registry. The guy who is labeled a sex offender for indecent exposure because he skinny dipped isn't beholden to the same punishment as the person who raped a child, who is also a "sex offender" Jesus, no one is saying that we're that stupid that we can't use the legal system a little more deftly than having "one crime" for all offenders. What we're saying is that sex offenders, true sex offenders, with victims, should be put away. YOU'RE NOT DOING THAT. For all your convoluted bulls*** about skinny dippers, you're letting CHILD RAPISTS out with lenient sentences, to rape and kill later. Deal with that with your "flawed logic". I guarantee you're a minority overall, so I won't even talk to you. I'll talk to the people who actually feel compassion for molested children and murdred/raped women. Let's put these sick f**s away. Let's make it a political issue.
"Sexual Predation" is not merely a crime, it is an addiction, which needs fed periodically, no less than a heroin or meth or alcohol addiction. THAT is why you cannot "rehabilitate" these sex offenders. It's why their unsupervised recidivism rate is close to 100% (you'll hear liberals claiming that the recidivism rate is much lower based on studies of released offenders, but what they don't tell you is that it is only lower during the period of strict supervision - once that ends, it spikes). So, knowing that they cannot be "cured", and knowing that they cannot be trusted, and knowing that they will continue to commit criminal acts and, moreover, that those acts will escalate, becoming both more frequent and more violent, then WHY is there any such thing as a "registered sex offender" (which implies that they were caught and convicted but are now free, for some reason, to roam the community)? There should only be two types of sex offenders - those not yet caught and the dead ones. There should be no "paroled" or "probationary" or "registered'/"house arrested" ones. There shouldn't even be any in prison, being fed and taken care of on the public's dime. No, once convicted, they should be hanged or shot or gassed or given a lethal injection (personally, I'd bury 'em all alive, but that's just me...). They are unfit to live in society. There is no reason, therefore, for society to tolerate their continued existence. Lose 'em. Lose 'em and remove the phrase "registered sex offender" from the lexicon.
Your comment is extremely well written and more than likely misunderstood by the masses that post on here! However, your suggestion on solving the preditor problem is what SHOULD be done, but in this country the perp has more options and laws FOR them than the victims. Besides, some 'good hearted, nosy, life in rose colored glasses' gets on a band wagon and starts preaching politial correctness and you can't kill another just because they've committed heinous crimes and are a total, abject failure as a human being and the other woose's start screaming about it and the next thing you know these worthless pieces of garbage are living better than some free person and we are ALL footing the bill so they can watch TV, exercise and eat three a day! What a hoot!
oldefart
"unfit to live in society"
Unless of course - they are Catholic priests.
It's true.......sex offenders suffer from what's termed as an 'IMPULSE DISORDER'. Their 'switch' is always on, because their brain is not wired the way other brain's are wired, and unless they are CONSTANTLY monitored, they WILL RE-OFFEND. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and one who does not re-offend is most likely NOT a true sex offender, but rather a person that made a VERY BAD CHOICE. This is not unheard of, but more than likely MOST sex offenders will re- offend.
Olfarte, killing every person regesterd as a SO is a bit extreme. Some people can be labled an SO for pissing in public and some kids happen to walk by and run tattling to thier parents! Maybe the guy couldn't hold it! Every crime needs to be looked at closely. This guy is the classic "boogy man" ultra creep-o our Mom's always warned us about and yes, he should be bled out through his balls. There is a definate glitch in the system because crazys like this go far too long without being caught while some poor bastard that sleeps with a girl that SAID she was 18 gets labeled a pedophile the rest of his life. Where is the justice?
Somehow you dumb asses manage to turn this into a liberal vs conservative argument. Wow, just wow.
I was thinking the SAME thing!
I wonder how many others he might have killed that we don't know about yet. May the families find some closure.
david1262 ~ True, true, true, since most sex offenders start offending as teens or even earlier, and their needs become exaggerated as the years go on. This could be just the tip of the ice burg with this sex offender, and we will probably NEVER know the true numbers or extent of most sex offenders victims.
How many innocent lives must be lost before this society steps up & deals with this type of crime in an intelligent, adult manner? Here again we have a registered sex offender committing multiple murders. You people who would stop the death penalty in these type of cases carry the guilt of the crimes when these people repeat offend. Instead of the unlikely possibility of making a mistake & killing an innocent person, you would let these beasts live to hurt & kill many innocent people. The next victim may be one of your own. Sleep with that on your conscience.
Just another example of why Capital Punishment is really needed..... Then again it really does not mean a Da`n thing when it takes 20 years to do it..... FRY, Shoot, Hang this guy already.....
Castration is the only viable solution other then death for these sick freaks. Same goes for the homosexuals. They are also freaks. Cut the juevos off and you solve 99.9% of the problems.
99.9% of the problem = you. So yah cut them off and maybe you'll stop thinking like a di*k.
Again it will all boil down to how much money we as a society is willing to spend on a problem or necessity such as education or law enforcement, roads, military and health care. Are pervs lives more important than society as a whole? For me, no. Execute, rinse, repeat. We are past the tipping point, money wise our standard of living is slipping.
WHAT WILL happen to these victims of a sexual preditor. their life is ruined it will cause great harm to them in any relationship they have in one way or another, and sense the preditor can not be fixed what do we do with them? how about a remote area in the desert for all of them to be taken and given the bare means to survive. and make sure they do not have away to escape, see the out come and what will be will be. in my opinion.
Enough with the war on drugs! Let these people out of our prisons now. We in the USA need to fill our prisons with the killers, rapists, violent assaults/attempted murders, and child molesters/rapists. Enough with the killers and sex offenders out on parole and early releases so they can re-offend other victims. Use our prisons for the true criminals that commit the crimes that are destroying our society!
With one out of 4 girls and one out of 6 boys sexually abused by the time they are 18 years old in the USA we have to focus on this and not who is smoking marijuana!
USA 2010 stats:
14,748 murdered
84,767 raped
778,901 assaults
Every day, in the USA, at least 3 women are murdered by their husband or boyfriend!
Look up the violent crime etc. stats (1,246,248) reported in 2010 in the USA and tell me
if our WAR ON CRIME should be the priority of the USA instead of the WAR ON DRUGS!
As I always say, 'You never know what goes on behind closed doors'.
The prisons are overflowing. The majority of Americans don't want even humane death penalties for vicious crimes. Bottom line violent criminals are being released and are sentenced to shorter prison sentences. They continue to prey on Americans. Even the 3rd offense ruling has been in some instances gotten around. Americans have to pay over 50,000 per year per inmate to keep them in confinement. Three hots and a cot. Fortunately there is a movement to fully implement farming back into prisons. These are not the brutal work prisons of the past these are reasonable work plans so that inmates can have the pride of feeding themselves.
Currently there isn't any psychological treatment for a psychopathic mental illness. Incarceration is the only way to safeguard citizens from their dangerous behavior. Of course for a psychiatrist to identify someone as a psychopath they would have to do extensive testing and would have to have the approval of the defense attorney and no defense team is going to agree to having their client diagnosed with this condition. Studies show that if intervention does not happen before 4 years of age there is little hop that they will overcome the condition.
hello out there, isn't someone in charge around that city ???
anybody with common sense out there ???
Not to worry they were probably just Islamic honor killings so thats ok.
maybe if their were not hookers on every corner there would be less serial killers
mike75er ~~Hookers are not responsible for serial killers. Serial killers have their OWN ESCHEWED twisted brains. Serial killers don't just target hookers. Some target men only, some target only blonds, some target only children of a certain age, etc. Get your facts together before you keep making an ignorant fool of yourself.
It is so sad that these women perished at the hands of this man. How wicked one must be to enjoy taking the life of another? Can such a person find redemption? Unfortunately death for people such as this is too good. Many will say he deserves death, yet the greater sentence that would inflict great psychological torment, would be for him to remain in solitary confinement for the remainder of his life, with no means of taking his life to cut short his sentence, with a little tin speaker continually repeating the Commandment, "Thou shalt not kill.", over and over again, until he is driven mad with remorse, or goes completely insane, which ever works.
I agree that sex offenders should be dealt with quiclky, harshly, and permanently. I also agree with the origonal concept behind the sex offender registry. However, the stigma and intended effect of being a registered sex offender has been watered down because as some have stated skinnydippers, teens having consensual sex, and other possibly lewd but not sex offender types have been added to the registry. We shouldn't have to ever wonder why someone is a registered sex offender as in whether they are on the list for something very minor that doesn't even fit the origonal meaning of the registry. These minor offenses shouldn't even be on the list to begin with, but because they are we see someone is registered we have to wonder why they are on the list and possibly discover that it is because of some of the very minor offenses mentioned earlier. Those people being on the list serves to water it down. If these people weren't on the list then learning that someone is a registered sex offender would be an alarm, as it was intended to be, and not cause us to even wonder why they might be on the registry to begin with. We would know that the sex offender registry is reserved soley for the perpetrators of serious sex related crimes. Adding the minor offences to the registry only serves to water down it's effect and in some cases cause people to doubt it's validity.
To patter123 "when will it all end? when we are afraid to step out of our doorways?"
Yes, that is what it will take. When Grown Men fear for their aXXholes, then and only then will rapists be put away. Only when Grown Men are targeted will Everyone get protection from rapists. Look at the number of rapes that happen and are not reported or nothing happens when they are reported. Look at the number of children who are raped or abused and nothing happens. Only when Grown Men are afraid of rape will Women and Children gain a measure of protection and rapists will then be jailed or executed. Either that or America will have to vote in more Women as judges and members of Congress
Well, I dont know about some people but to put them in prison isnt working, a death row inmate in the State of California costs the taxpayers $100,000.00 per year. I`m tired of paying for freeloaders that will never benefit society. If there is no doubt to their crime,do away with them.
So we register incurable criminals why? Wasn't this predicable? Hang em high!
Sadly - REPUBLICAN justice is to blame. DEB - you are DEAD on right!!
Republicans should STOP giving LONG PRISON SENTENCES for pot smokers and back alley/brush urinaters& skinnydippers, AND save the prison space for the REAL CRIMINALS: MURDERERS, RAPISTS, and especially BANKERS and WALL STREET CROOKS!!
But that's REPUBLICAN justice for you. WASTE TAXPAYER MONEY going after the MINNOWS and GUPPIES while letting the SHARKS AND BARRACUDAS off FREE!!!
Sadly, too true, Scooter.