Daniel Remeta:An in-depth portrait of the mass murderer that your society plans to legally murder on Tuesday
Joe1orbit
Hello,
Here is an interesting summation of the life and crimes of Daniel Remeta, the
40 year old MASS murderer, I guess he is more of a mass killer than a serial
killer, who slaughtered FIVE people during a 3 week long rampage in 1985. He is
now set to be legally murdered by your society in less than 48 hours, on
Tuesday.
We learn below that in addition to the 5 killings, Daniel also seriously
wounded 2 people. And that after his arrest Daniel was quite jubilant and
carefree. He laughed about his killing feats, and even asked to be legally
murdered via the death penalty, declaring that "I want them to pull the
switch". Well, IMO, your society has NO right to legally murder you, even if
you ask to be killed. I will mourn your death, in you do not win a last minute
stay of execution, recognizing that you are nothing more than a VICTIM of this
pathetic society.
We get the details of Daniel's five killings, which spanned several states,
committed during a 3 week time span. He killed a store clerk for his first
victim, then, just hours laterm he kidnapped & slaughtered two grain elevator
workers. Later, she shot an 18 year old gas station attendent SIX times, but
that lucky young man survived his wounds. He claimed victims in FL, AR, and KS.
Hey, nothing beats a good old cross-country killing spree.
It does not sound like any of the 5 killings were sexually motivated. Daniel
shot all of his victims, and there is no indication that he stabbed or
mutilated any of them. Robbery MAY have been PART of these killings, but it is
VERY clear to me that RAGE and hate and an internal, True Reality desire to
exterminate the lives of his feelow humans, was the primary motivating force
behind Daniel's rampage of death. When asked WHY he had chosen to kill, Daniel
simply replied: "I just like to kill people." Good answer! You just gotta do
what you like in life, if your true Reality compulsion/urge/motivation is
strong enough.
I hope that Daniel is relishing his accomplishments in life, and derives some
satisfaction over having killed five humans, as the clock ticks down towards
his likely legal murder at the hands of your hypocritically perverse society,
set for Tuesday morning.
If you would like to see a photo of Daniel, point your web browser to:
Although it is likely that this photo will only be on this web page for a few
hours, since this is from a DAILY newspaper.
So, was Daniel ABUSED as a child? Of COURSE he was. Virtually every single
serial or mass killer to ever have stalked your pathetic world, was himself a
VICTIM of overt, undeniable, and clear abuse, as a child. And this is true even
for those killers who DENY having suffered any childhood abuse. We learn below
that Daniel, at the age of 15, was shooting a rifle at people, at random, he
had stolen the rifle from his grandfather. Shades of Andrew Golden and Mitchell
Johnson, wouldn't you say? A deputy sheriff was able to convince Daniel to put
down the rifle, and surrender. He had fired shots at people, although he
apparently hit nobody. By age 15, he was already well known to Michigan
authorities, where he was born and raised. Since the age of 13, he had been
continuously in trouble with the law, and placed in juvenile detention centers
& prisons.
As a child, police were constantly called to Daniel's home, to break up
violent fights between adults who lived there. During one of these incidents,
at the age of FIVE, Daniel pointed a wooden toy gun at an arriving cop, and
pretended to shoot him. Daniel also HIT the cop, at age 5. Punching him in the
legs with as much force as his 5 year old body could muster.
Both of Daniel's parents were alcoholics. His father actively abused both
Daniel, and Daniel's mother. They divorced when Daniel was 10 or 11 years old.
Daniel's uncles were also alcoholics, and would often wake Danial and his
brother up, in the middle of the night, and FORCE the boys to physically fight
each other, for their drunken amusement. They would give the boys WEAPONS, and
literally engage in forced human cockfighting, with their 2 nephews, betting
each other on which boy would win the fights.
Social service and child welfare agencies were called numerous times, and
each time they chose to IGNORE the plight of Daniel. Your society chose to
allow this boy to suffer the torments of the damned, and to slowely embrace the
rage and hate that justifiably grew and developed within him.
YOUR pathetic society chose to allow this helpless little boy to remain in
the possession of incompetent and abusive adults, all in the name of preserving
the Sacred Family Unit/Blood Bond. Your society is GUILTY of having created
Daniel, and EACH one of you, who consider yourselves MEMBERS of society, are
MORE worthy of DEATH than Daniel could ever be!
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of the 3/29/98 online edition of The Traverse
City Record-Eagle newspaper:
March 29, 1998
A man with 'no conscience'
Local police, social workers remember Danny Remeta
By DIANE CONNERS
Record-Eagle staff writer
TRAVERSE CITY - John Block was a new deputy with the Grand Traverse County
Sheriff's Department in 1973 when he found himself face-to-face with a
15-year-old boy pointing a rifle at him.
The boy was Danny Remeta.
At 7:01 a.m. Tuesday, Remeta is scheduled to die in Florida's electric chair
for shooting a convenience store clerk in 1985 during a multi-state crime spree
in which he killed five people.
Back in 1973, when Block ran into Remeta, the boy had been shooting at
passersby near Grawn with a rifle he had taken from his grandfather's house.
Block went to disarm him.
"He was a very violent, troubled young man," said Block, who was thankful the
boy gave up. "The thing that was going through my mind was 'I don't want to
shoot a kid and kill him.' What are you going to do?"
By that time, Remeta was already well known to law enforcement officers here.
Since the age of 13 until he left Traverse City for good in 1985, he never
spent more than six months at a time out of jail or juvenile detention.
Lisa Dunn met Remeta at a party in December 1984. She was 18, had graduated
with honors from high school; he was nearly a decade older. Within a week she
had moved in with him.
A few weeks later, Remeta was jailed for breaking car windows during a drunken
rampage, during which he beat Dunn. She and Mark Walter, an 18-year-old former
altar boy from Suttons Bay, helped bail him out. Shortly thereafter, the
threesome headed south, armed with a .357-caliber Magnum revolver Dunn took
from her family.
They went on a crime spree that started Jan. 27, 1985 with a late-night armed
robbery in Copemish in Manistee County at the Gastown Party Mart on M-115.
In a six-day span, Remeta murdered five people in stops along the freeway in
Florida, Arkansas and Kansas. Two other people were shot in Kansas and Texas
but survived. Walter died in a shootout with police.
Remeta is scheduled to be executed for the first of the five murders, the
shooting death of 60-year-old Mehrle "Chet" Reeder, a gas station cashier in
Ocala, Fla.
Police who investigated the murders have said Remeta showed no remorse.
Block had that impression, too. Between 1968 and 1984 Remeta had 51 formal
contacts with the Traverse City police and the Grand Traverse County Sheriff's
Department. He was arrested on 14 juvenile offenses and four adult felony
crimes.
"There was no conscience or any humane feelings that he had," Block said.
By all accounts, Remeta's childhood was rough.
City police often were called to his house when he was a child to break up
fights among the adults, said Pat Hinds, now a captain with the Traverse City
Police Department. One of the things Hinds remembers is a 5-year-old Remeta
pointing a wooden gun at him during those incidents and "shooting" him. The boy
also hit him in the legs, trying to get him to leave and blaming the police for
the family's problems.
Both his parents drank heavily and his father Tom was physically abusive to his
wife Betty and their children, according to a forensic psychologist who
conducted an extensive background check for Florida attorneys after the 1985
crimes. They divorced when Remeta was about 10 or 11.
Also when he was about 10 Remeta's uncles would come over to his house
intoxicated around 2 a.m., according to the Florida investigation. They would
wake Danny and his brother and make the boys fight each other as if they were
in a cock fight, sometimes giving them weapons and taking bets to see who would
come out on top.
Hinds also remembers Remeta at that age. He and now-retired police officer
Clarence Anderson were called to the beach near Traverse City Light and Power
because of a report that kids were throwing stones. Remeta pulled out a knife
and threatened Anderson.
"My partner was very upset," Hinds recalled. "He actually thought he might have
to shoot this child. You are talking about a time when you didn't see kids
running around with knives. Here is this child who hates cops and is trying to
intimidate folks around him already."
Hinds said he wondered at the time, and wonders now: "How does a kid like that
stand a chance?"
When he was 21, Remeta was sent to the maximum security Marquette Branch Prison
for larceny in a building. He served the maximum sentence of nearly four years
because of a lengthy prison misconduct record, including inciting a riot.
"He was a problem prisoner," Administrative Assistant George Pennell said
Friday.
He was released in September 1984, just months before his crime spree.
June Soper, a former volunteer with the Grand Traverse County court system,
once thought he had more promise. She met him when he was about 16 or 17 and
had gotten out of juvenile detention. She had been trying to help his family.
"He was good looking, personable, bright," Soper said. "He was just so happy to
be out. He was anxious to find a job, do something. I don't know what went
wrong. Who knows what went wrong. Not in my worst nightmares did I think Danny
would do such a thing."
Soper doesn't believe in capital punishment. But there's no doubt in her mind
about where Remeta should be.
"Danny Remeta should never be let out of prison," she said. "He is dangerous."
She wonders, though, whether social agencies could have made more of a
difference. She remembered calling some of them when Betty Remeta and her
family were evicted from an Eighth Street home, literally thrown out with their
belongings on the lawn.
"They shrugged their shoulders," she said. "They didn't care. I guess they
didn't think they were suitable to support."
Stu Soule, now a Grand Traverse County circuit court referee, also wonders if
there's more he and others in the police and social service bureaucracy could
have done then, and what society can do now about the growing number of violent
children.
Soule met Remeta first as a sheriff's deputy on a warrant at the Remeta home
for stolen property and later as a magistrate. While he places a lot of blame
on the family, he's also seen Betty Remeta change over the years and give her
grandchildren the attention they need.
The Traverse City Record-Eagle could not reach Betty Remeta. She called Soper a
couple weeks ago and was "broken-hearted" that her son's execution date was
near.
Remeta had a previous March 14, 1990 execution stayed while he made several
appeals and his mother thought it meant he'd be in prison for life instead of
going to the electric chair.
"She misunderstood," Soper said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The following appears courtesy of today's Associated Press news wire, via the
3/29/98 online edition of The Orlando Sentinel newspaper:
Man who killed 5 faces electric chair Tuesday
Associated Press
Published in The Orlando Sentinel, March 29, 1998
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- He killed five people, seriously wounded two others,
laughed about it and initially asked to be executed, saying, ``I want them to
pull the switch.''
Thirteen years later, Daniel Remeta is fighting for his life.
Remeta, 40, a Traverse City native, is scheduled to die at 7:01 a.m. Tuesday in
Florida's electric chair for murdering a convenience store clerk. A temporary
reprieve last week was quickly lifted, and his attorney is making a last-ditch
appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mehrle ``Chet'' Reeder, convenience store clerk in Ocala, was the first person
Remeta killed during a three-week multistate crime spree that began with a
robbery in Michigan and ended in a shootout in Kansas.
Over the next couple of hours, Remeta would kidnap and then kill two grain
elevator workers near Colby, Kan. He also shot the elevator manager and an
undersheriff.
Both survived, as did an 18-year-old gas station attendant in Waskom, Texas,
whom Remeta had robbed and shot six times a few days earlier. Before heading to
Kansas, he robbed and killed a grocery store clerk in Dyer, Ark.
Remeta faces a death sentence in Arkansas and three life sentences in Kansas.
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The following appears courtesy of the 3/27/98 Associated Press news wire:
Ocala judge denies stay; Killer faces Florida electric chair
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - An Ocala judge Friday denied an appeal from Daniel
Remeta, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday for one murder during a
multistate killing spree 13 years ago.
Remeta, who once said he ``just liked to kill people,'' faces a death sentence
in Arkansas for a 1985 murder and life sentences in Kansas for three murder
convictions.
Remeta, 40, is supposed to be executed at 7:01 a.m. Tuesday. If he dies in
Florida's 75-year-old electric chair as scheduled, he will be the fourth killer
executed in Florida in a nine-day period.
Remeta killed Mehrle ``Chet'' Reeder, a 60-year-old Ocala convenience store
clerk, in February 1985 after walking up to the counter to buy bubble gum. When
Reeder rang up the purchase and opened the cash register, Remeta shot him.
As Reeder fell, Remeta shot him again. Remeta walked around the counter and
shot Reeder two more times before stealing about $52 from the cash register.
A native of Traverse City, Mich., Remeta was linked to four other killings
during a crime spree that stretched from Florida to Texas, Arkansas and Kansas.
He was charged in a crime spree that began with the murder of Reeder and ended
with two men kidnapped by Remeta and accomplices being slain execution-style
near Colby, Kan., in February 1985.
A convenience store cashier in Waskom, Texas, testified against Remeta at his
Florida trial after surviving being shot five times with the same gun used to
murder Reeder.
A federal judge in Kansas gave Remeta a stay of execution Wednesday, but the
10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver vacated that ruling Thursday.
In Florida, Circuit Judge Carvin Angel issued a two-page order Friday
dismissing Remeta's state appeal. The next step for his state lawyer will be an
appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Todd Scher is appealing the ruling by the Denver appellate court to the U.S.
Supreme Court. If Florida's high court reject's Remeta's state appeal, Scher
can ask the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for permission to file another
federal appeal.