Published by Fred Guerra on 30 Aug 2008
Associated Press - August 29, 2008 4:45 PM ET
LAMPASAS, Texas (AP) - A Fort Hood soldier was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a murder-for-hire plot in which his wife was shot to death.
40-year-old Army Sgt. 1st Class Donald Dean Gower was sentenced yesterday after jurors convicted him of capital murder.
His wife Hidi Gower was killed last summer outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars pool hall.
Published by Fred Guerra on 28 Aug 2008
By Alan King
BALTIMORE (NNPA) - Bishop Cephas Richardson is a man who wears many hats —as a volunteer at a homeless shelter, an assistant at a civic association and as pastor of a Pentecostal church on West Baltimore Street.
But despite his activism and wide-ranging community involvement, Richardson had never considered volunteering his service as an advocate against domestic violence. That is, until his neighbor, Patricia Marble, was murdered on July 11 and her boyfriend, Sampson Ashby, was arrested by police as the prime suspect.
The couple had argued that day outside of their apartment building in the 1100 block of Gleneagle Road, according to the police report. Ashby, 27, had taken some sort of item from Marble, 28, and attempted to drive off in a red Ford truck before she climbed halfway through the driver’s side window to retrieve the item.
With Marble still hanging out of the window, the police report says, Ashby crashed the driver’s side of his truck into a telephone pole in an alley behind the apartment and drove off, leaving Marble’s body lying in the narrow backstreet. MM
The Voice
Published by Fred Guerra on 28 Aug 2008
By Connie Leonard Â
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - WAVE 3 has uncovered disturbing new information in the murder of a Pleasure Ridge Park woman. On the same day 68-year old William “Gerry” Seidl was arraigned in his wife’s murder, WAVE 3 obtained new court documents and courtroom video. Both show that a judge denied a domestic violence order for the victim even though she had been granted one by another judge in the past who felt her life was in danger.Â
One day after a judge denied to grant Dorene Seidl a domestic violence order, Gerry Seidl picked up his guns from authorities. Three days after that, police say Seidl shot and killed his wife.Â
“She had three judicial findings of domestic violence,” said Marcia Roth, a victim’s advocate with the Mary Byron Foundation.
Published by hheiner on 25 Aug 2008
SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELOR needed at Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center to provide counseling and advocacy for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse/sexual assault as well as community education. LPC/LMSW and bilingual preferred. Email info@hcwc.org or call 512-396-3404 for application packet. Applications due on September 5th, 2008 by 5 p.m. FT exempt. EOE
