38 y.o.man turns himself in to cops,admits killing 19 y.o.girl in 1979,was never even a suspect,now faces possible Life sentence,in KS
Joe1orbit
Hello,
Here is the type of news item that just makes me shake my head over the lack
of self-love that permeates the True Reality of so many of you humans. Way back
in 1979, in Kansas, a 19 year old boy named Daniel Leroy Crocker murdered a 19
year old girl. He strangled the gal, that he met just hours earlier, to death.
He committed this murder in a tactically astute way. In fact, he literally
committed a PERFECT murder. Police never arrested anyone in connection with
this murder, and Daniel was NEVER even considered as a suspect. He literally
got away with committing the perfect murder. Even police admit, today, that "we
could and would have never solved this case", were it not for the CHOSEN
actions of Daniel, in BETRAYING HIMSELF.
You see folks, a week or so ago, Daniel confessed the murder to a MINISTER.
Always nice to see the pasthetic god myth destroying yet another life. On
Tuesday, Daniel walked into a police station and confessed to the killing. He
lived a gloriously free life for 19 years, and then, for NO rational reason, he
chose to sacrifice his freedom. Why would he do that? Well, IMO, no matter what
claims of "regret" or "newfound morality" Daniel claims, the CORE REASON for
turning himself in involves SELF HATRED. It's just so sad and pathetic how you
humans are BROKEN DOWN by your society, and come to consider your own lives and
welfare to be worthless and disposable.
I have nothing but scorn for Daniel. Do I respect his True Reality? Of
course. He had a right to kill the girl at age 19, and if he eventually came to
regret his act and feel remorse later on, that's cool too. But I do NOT accept
the validity of his choice to DELIBERATELY punish HIMSELF. Just like I respect
murder but condemn suicide, so too must my logical and insightful brain condemn
this choice that Daniel has made, so deliberately punish himself.
Daniel is now facing first degree murder charges, and a possible Life prison
sentence. There is generally no statute of limitations on murder,
unfortunately. But believe it or not, in this case, prosecutors WANTED to
charge Daniel with rape and aggravated battery charges, along with the murder
charge, ALL relating to this SAME 1979 murder. But the INSANE laws of your
society DO dictate that the statute of limitations for rape and battery IS less
than 19 years. But the MURDER charge can still be imposed. How ridiculous, to
establish these limitations, but only to impose them upon certain criminal
acts!
The only lucky break here is that even though KS did reinstate the death
penalty in 1994, Daniel will not face any possibility of receiving it, since he
committed the murder in 1979, when his state was slightly MORE rational, more
civilized, than it is in 1998. Always nice to see a society deteriorating and
sinking into ever deeper perverse hypocrisy.
Daniel is married, and has 2 children. His wife actually ENCOURAGED him to
surrender to police. But this terrible development is NOT the fault of his
wife, or any minister. It is Daniel's fault. He hates himself. He is a victim
of your society. A STUPID victim, who has made a STUPID choice, at age 38. How
SAD that he was WISER at age 19, when he committed the murder, than he is at
age 38.
Police say that there is no indication that Daniel has committed ANY other
crimes during the past 19 years. He has no criminal record at all. When I read
about this case, I can't really focus on the positive nature of the
undetectable murder and Daniel's 19 glorious years of freedom. Nope, my focus
is on his STUPIDITY, and the tragedy of the fact that he chose, for no rational
reason, to deliberately HURT HIMSELF in a profound and life-altering way.
If you would like to view a small photo showing the 19 year old murder
victim, Tracy Fresquez, as she looked prior to her 1979 murder, you can point
your web browser to:
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/home.pat,local/30da6506.923,.html
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of yesterday's Associated Press news wire:
Man Surrenders in '79 Kansas Death
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- For almost two decades, police had kept open the case
of a slain 19-year-old woman. No arrests were made. Detectives periodically
reviewed the case.
During that time, Daniel Leroy Crocker led what some considered an exemplary
life. He had two children. He managed a warehouse in Chantilly, Va. He was
never suspected in the 1979 death of Tracy Fresquez.
``Had he not come forward, we would have not solved this case,'' said Johnson
County District Attorney Paul Morrison. ``In the 18 years I've been a
prosecutor, I've never seen a case unfold this way.''
Crocker, 38, turned himself in to Kansas authorities on Tuesday. He was charged
Wednesday with first-degree murder and is facing a sentence of life in prison,
the penalty that was in place in 1979, without chance of parole for at least 15
years. Kansas reinstated the death penalty in 1994.
The Rev. Al Lawrence helped arrange Crocker's surrender.
Lawrence said a friend from church brought Crocker to the minister last
Thursday. At Crocker's behest, Lawrence called Johnson County, Kan.,
authorities.
Crocker left behind his wife, Nicolette, and two children. He quit his job and
took care of family business before surrendering, authorities said.
Mrs. Crocker stood resolutely behind her husband's decision, Lawrence said.
``She was a very encouraging spirit,'' said Lawrence, who works for Reston,
Va.-based Prison Fellowship Ministries, the group founded by Watergate figure
Charles W. Colson.
Calls by The Associated Press on Thursday to the couple's home rang unanswered.
Morrison said Thursday he believes the Crockers had lived in Virginia for a
dozen years. Morrison has found no evidence that Crocker had a criminal record,
he said.
Ms. Fresquez' fiance found her strangled in her Shawnee apartment early on Oct.
6, 1979.
Officials' believe Ms. Fresquez met Crocker, who was 19 at the time and living
in Lenexa, Kan., at a convenience store just hours before her death. Morrison
would not discuss evidence but said prosecutors are ``very comfortable'' they
have enough to support the charge.
Crocker was held Thursday in the county jail on $100,000 bond. His next court
appearance is scheduled for Oct. 1.
Authorities dropped an attempt to pursue rape and aggravated battery charges
because the statute of limitations had expired.
AP-NY-09-24-98
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The following appears courtesy of the 9/24/98 online edition of The Kansas
City Star newspaper:
Virginia man turns himself in nearly 19 years after Shawnee woman's murder
By TONY RIZZO and RICHARD ESPINOZA - Staff Writers
Date: 09/24/98
Minister Al Lawrence hears from a lot of men about to go to prison, men who
have been tried and convicted and have no choice. When Daniel Leroy Crocker
talked to him last week, it was different.
Crocker wanted to turn himself in for a nearly 19-year-old Johnson County
murder. He had never been a suspect. Now he asked Lawrence to help him and his
family deal with the consequences to come.
"Knowing that nobody knew anything, it would take a man of great faith to take
that step," said Lawrence, who works with Prison Fellowship Ministries in
Virginia.
On Wednesday, Crocker, 38, of Chantilly, Va., was charged in Johnson County
District Court with first-degree murder in the 1979 death of Tracy Fresquez.
The 19-year-old woman was found strangled in her Shawnee apartment.
Crocker flew to Kansas City Tuesday night and turned himself in to a detective
who was 10 years old at the time of the murder.
"He wanted to get something off his chest that had been bothering him for
years," said Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison. "I've been doing
this for 18 years and I've never seen anything like this."
Upon learning of the break in the case of his daughter's homicide, Louis
Fresquez said Wednesday: "What (the killer) ruined in my family is really
beyond words."
Crocker, who is married and has two children, managed a warehouse until he quit
his job last week. He apparently has no criminal record, Morrison said.
Authorities now think Tracy Fresquez met Crocker at a convenience store near
her home hours before she died. Crocker, who was also 19, lived in Lenexa at
the time.
Morrison said he could not discuss specific evidence, but he said authorities
were "very comfortable" that the allegation could be corroborated by physical
evidence left at the scene.
During a brief court appearance, District Judge William Cleaver appointed the
public defender's office to represent Crocker. He was being held in the Johnson
County Jail. Bond was set at $100,000.
Fresquez was killed on the night of Oct. 5 or the morning of Oct. 6, 1979, in
her apartment at 7525 Garnett St.
Detectives actively investigated the crime for several months, but Crocker's
name never came up in the investigation, said Shawnee Police Lt. Ron Copeland.
"None of her circle of friends would have known this individual," he said.
Detectives went over the case file every three years or so, but nothing new
came up, said Shawnee Police Chief Tom Hayselden.
"It was total frustration because when the Metro Squad disbanded and put
everything in our laps, we had exhausted all leads," Hayselden said. "There
were two suspects at that time, but nothing panned out on those guys."
Morrison, who joined the district attorney's office about six months after the
killing, said that the case had remained open and that he had reviewed it
several times since he became district attorney in 1988.
Morrison said he received a call from Lawrence, the minister, last Thursday.
"He said he knew an individual who confided that he had committed a horrible
crime in Kansas many years ago," Morrison said.
After Lawrence relayed a few details, Morrison said he recognized it as
Fresquez's murder.
"He indicated that he was helping this man who was interested in making things
right, to use his words," according to Morrison.
Fresquez's family heard about the charge against Crocker on Wednesday morning.
Her father thinks the unsolved murder took years of life from his wife, who
died six years ago from multiple sclerosis.
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," Louis Fresquez said.
Tracy Fresquez had recently graduated from Turner High School in 1978 and
turned 19 less than a month before she died. She was planning to enroll in
business classes at Johnson County Community College and was getting career
experience in the credit offices of J.C. Penney. She rode a bike for fun and
was engaged to be married.
"She was a happy person; things were starting out real well," her father said.
The day she died, Fresquez told her parents that she was staying home from work
with a sore throat. Authorities said Wednesday that she met Crocker at a
convenience store.
People at a party near Fresquez's apartment described a man who left her home.
Shawnee police released a sketch of the man, but never found anyone who matched
the image.
Crocker's wife said he went to authorities as part of his long effort to turn
his life around.
"He's a Christian," Nicolette Crocker said from the couple's home in Chantilly,
a town of about 4,000 near Washington, D.C. "It's not just a religious thing;
it's his lifestyle since the incident. It sobered him up to get back on the
right track."
The Crockers' neighbors at the Meadows of Chantilly mobile home park knew the
family as trustworthy Christians and were shocked to hear about the murder
charge.
Daniel Crocker sometimes surprised his next-door neighbor by taking care of her
yard, and a couple who lives behind the family never minded when he took their
ladder to work on his own home, because they knew he'd bring it right back.
"He was a very honest person and an honorable person," said Audrey Curley, who
lives behind the Crockers. "Very kind, proud and mannerly. He was very
well-read in the Bible."
If convicted, Crocker faces a sentence of life in prison with no chance of
parole for at least 15 years, under Kansas law in place in 1979.
His next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 1.
Lawrence said Crocker is prepared for what will come.
"This is not a crime just between a person and God," Lawrence said. "There are
issues of justice that need to be dealt with. My faith respects the law of the
land."
Grnbrier
joe1...@aol.com (Joe1orbit) wrote:
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> You see folks, a week or so ago, Daniel confessed the murder to a MINISTER.
>Always nice to see the pasthetic god myth destroying yet another life.
I read about this in the Washington Post at lunch about an hour ago. I
immediately wondered if you'd seen it, Joe. It had your name written all over
it!
Sure enough, as soon as I get back from my Chilean sea bass with carmelized
onions, rice, squash, garlic bread, fruit plate, milk, iced tea, and coconut
cake, here was your post to polish off my luncheon!
It's amazing...the pervasivness of this god/churchy horseshit with all of it's
attendant minions and lackeys. I see in your attached AP wire article that his
*wife* helped to dupe him into surrendering to the lord (LOLOL):
from Joe's AP article:
>The Rev. Al Lawrence helped arrange Crocker's surrender.
>``She [Daniel's wife] was a very encouraging spirit,'' said Lawrence, who
works for Reston,
>Va.-based Prison Fellowship Ministries, the group founded by Watergate figure
>Charles W. Colson.
Charles Colson was, of course, that whacked-out dolt from Nixon's White House
who found 'god' when he was being somebody's bitch in prison...I guess it's not
hard to segue from ONE reason for being on your knees to ANOTHER... all in the
name of god!
Sad story here, Joe. Poor Daniel should have kept his big yap shut.
Doogie
> Take care, JOE
Joe1orbit
joe1...@aol.com (Joe1orbit) wrote:
>
><snip for space>
>
>> You see folks, a week or so ago, Daniel confessed the murder to a MINISTER.
>>Always nice to see the pasthetic god myth destroying yet >>another life.
grnb...@aol.com (Grnbrier) Wrote:
>I read about this in the Washington Post at lunch about an hour ago. I
>immediately wondered if you'd seen it, Joe. It had your name written all over
>it!
Hello Doogie,
Yup, it certainly is the kind of news item that catches my eye and makes me
shake my head over the stupidity of you humans.
>Sure enough, as soon as I get back from my Chilean sea bass with carmelized
>onions, rice, squash, garlic bread, fruit plate, milk, iced tea, and coconut
>cake, here was your post to polish off my luncheon!
Yup! I am pretty quick on the trigger sometimes. This news item is actually a
day old, I saw it on yersterday's news wire, but was too busy with other things
to post it. Since nobody else posted it, I found the time to finally do so,
today.
Sounds like you had quite an exotic lunch! Hope it was tasty. All I had was 2
Healthy Choice Garlic Chicken Milano frozen TV dinners. :)
>It's amazing...the pervasivness of this god/churchy horseshit with all of
>it's
>attendant minions and lackeys.
Yup. The god myth is a very valuable governmental TOOL, used to dominate,
appease, and dictate to the masses.
I see in your attached AP wire article that
>his
>*wife* helped to dupe him into surrendering to the lord (LOLOL):
Yup, she sure did.
>from Joe's AP article:
>
>>The Rev. Al Lawrence helped arrange Crocker's surrender.
>
>>``She [Daniel's wife] was a very encouraging spirit,'' said Lawrence, who
>works for Reston,
>>Va.-based Prison Fellowship Ministries, the group founded by Watergate
>figure
>>Charles W. Colson.
>Charles Colson was, of course, that whacked-out dolt from Nixon's White House
>who found 'god' when he was being somebody's bitch in prison...I guess it's
>not
>hard to segue from ONE reason for being on your knees to ANOTHER... all in
>the
>name of god!
I wasn't too familiar with what role Charles played in the Watergate affair.
Thanks for the info. Yup, the god myth is VERY flexible, useful to brainwashed
slaves and manipulative con artists alike.
>Sad story here, Joe. Poor Daniel should have kept his big >yap shut.
That's exactly what he should have done. 19 years of pleasure, following the
murder, thanks to INTELLIGENCE on Daniel's part, and now years of suffering,
due to his newfound stupidity. I have no sympathy for stupid choices, but I do
recognize that society is guilty of having MADE Daniel stupid and self-hating.
Take care, JOE
>Doogie
>> Take care, JOE