More info on Terry Samuel Arnold,convicted killer of 1 gal & serial rapist of 4 others in Canada,now prime suspect in two MORE unsolved,1980's gal murders,he proclaims his innocence,DNA test results still pending,is already serving Life sentence
Joe1orbit
Here's a slightly more detailed article on 38 year old Terry Samuel Arnold,
the convicted SERIAL rapist of 4 young gals, convicted KILLER of a fifth in
Canada, who is NOW being named by police as a PRIME suspect in two OTHER
unsolved murders of young gals.
We, as in the Canadian pigs and all other interested parties, are still
waiting for the results of DNA analysis tests. These tests COULD positively
link Terry to the 2 other harvestings. This is NOT good news for Terry, because
even though he is already serving a Life prison sentence, he DOES have parole
eligibility after 25 years, and to have two MORE murders credited to him, would
almost totally DESTROY any chance for Terry to win parole.
We get a few more details on how BRUTALLY unjust all societies are, because
CONTRARY to what is CLAIMED, suspects/defendents do NOT enjoy a PRESUMPTION of
innocence, and prosecutors literally NEVER have to prove ANYONE Guilty "beyond
a reasonable doubt", in order to WIN convictions.
Here, as regards one of the two unsolved gal murders, this one occured WAY
back in 1981, a fellow named Thomas Sophonow was put on trial THREE TIMES for
this ONE murder, spent FOUR YEARS in prison. Why?? Because the Canadian
judicial system, JUST like the amerikkkan system, does NOT recognize a
presumption of innocence and REFUSES to even come CLOSE to requiring
prosecutors to PROVE a defendent Guilty. After TORTURING Thomas, totally
destroying his life, what do the PIGS and Canadian societal leaders do now??
They APOLOGIZE to him, a WORTHLESS verbal apology, that is what a
citizen-slaves whose entire life has been DESTROYED by his fascist society,
receives! What would be a PROPER redress of this injustice?? How about the
PAYMENT of one BILLION dollars, to Thomas?! That would be APPROPRIATE. That
would deliver the right MESSAGE to society. That would SAVE other innocent
societal victims from being railroaded. That would GIVE Thomas the POWER to
SHAPE the future path of the society that committed an unforgivable atrocity
against him. A BILLION dollars would EMPOWER Thomas. But what does he get?? A
verbal apology! As a SLAVE, he is supposed to and expected to just shrug his
shoulders and decide that his society was "trying to do the right thing", when
it chosae to destroy his life. Utterly outrageous!
Unbelievably, the local province totally DENIED Thomas' request for monetary
compensation, because "he had never been proven innocent." Ha! Beautiful
demonstration of LIMITLESS hypocrisy, citizen-slaves enjoy NO presumption of
innocence at trial, and yet if FREED years later for being INVALIDLY convicted,
they DO have to PROVE their INNOCENCE in order for society to shell out a
single PENNY for the LIFE DESTRUCTION that it committed!
Meanwhile, Terry IS wisely DENYING that he had anything to do with these two
1980's girl murders. Says Terry: "I would have been arrested a long time ago if
they truly had anything against me. They are trying to bloody my name the same
way they (did to Sophonow). They're coming after me to clear their own names.
All of a sudden, I'm a suspect. This is a wild goose chase." Even though it MAY
have been tactically smarter to say NOTHING, I do feel that these types of
comments are unlikely to HURT Terry. And Terry is ABSOLUTELY right. The PIGS
have TWO unsolved murders of young gals, dating back to 1981 and 1987. They
have a DEMONIZED victim in Terry, who has already been CONVICTED of serially
raping young girls and killing one young girl, so they KNOW how EASY it would
be to COERCE a jury into convicting Terry of these two other girl murders. They
KNOW they do not have to come anywhere CLOSE to proving Terry guilty, and they
essentially do not CARE whether or not he committed these 2 murders. They just
want to CLEAR the two unsolved cases and get CREDITED for "solving" them.
Absolutely PERVERSE, the way in which societies allow INVALID prosecutions and
convictions like these, to occur!
At least for the next few hours, you can view a BLURRY, apparently fairly old
photo of Terry, in police custody, over at:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
This page is UPDATED every day, so the photo will LIKELY no longer be there,
by tomorrow.
Also note how the PIGS used BLATANT DECEIT and LIES, plain and simple, to GET
Terry to "confess" to the one murder that he was convicted of. Pigs dressed up
like OUTLAW BIKERS, SOUGHT OUT Terry, TOLD him that they would make him a
member of an "elite biker gang", IF he showed them EXACTLY how and where he had
committed his murder. And he DID. Yes, Terry was VERY stupid to fall for this
trick, but that does not change the fact that in a SANE society, it would be
TOTALLY ILLEGAL for police to engage in these types of EVIL DECEPTIONS.
Stay Strong, Terry!
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of yesterday's Canadian Press news wire:
June 13, 2000
Convicted B.C. killer suspected of other slayings in Western Canada
WINNIPEG (CP) -- A man serving a life sentence for the murder of a British
Columbia girl in 1991 is believed to be a suspect in the deaths of two other
teenagers in Western Canada.
Barbara Stoppel was killed in the Winnipeg doughnut shop where she worked in
1981. Denise Lapierre's body was found in a back lane in Calgary in 1987.
Calgary police said they are still waiting for DNA evidence to see whether
Terry Samuel Arnold, 38, may have been responsible for the slaying of Lapierre,
17. She was found near where both she and Arnold were living at the time.
"He lived within a block of her residence in June of 1987 when she was
murdered," Calgary Sgt. George Rocks said Tuesday.
"We're not saying Mr. Arnold is the only suspect. He is a suspect."
In Winnipeg, police have refused to confirm it officially, but police sources
told the Winnipeg Sun they consider Arnold also to be a suspect in Stoppel's
murder.
Only last week police apologized to Thomas Sophonow, a man tried three times
for Stoppel's slaying. He spent four years in prison for a murder police and
justice officials now concede he didn't commit.
A judicial inquiry is being established to look into what went wrong and to
determine whether compensation should be paid.
He had some advice for police.
". . . take your time, take your time don't rush don't be pressured by the
media or the attorney general's department," Sophonow told CTV News.
Sophonow was freed in 1985 after his third trial by the Manitoba Court of
Appeal because of legal errors during the proceedings.
The Manitoba government had denied his request for compensation for his time
in prison, however, saying he had never been proven innocent.
Stoppel was 16 when she was killed in the doughnut shop where she worked as a
waitress, about one kilometre away from an apartment building where Arnold is
believed to have been living at the time.
Arnold is serving a life sentence in a British Columbia prison with no chance
of parole for 25 years. He was sentenced last year for the 1991 murder of
Christine Brown, 15. Her body was found in the woods near Penticton, B.C., in
1992.
Brown's parents described her as a troubled girl who had repeatedly left her
home in Kimberley, B.C. It wasn't until 1994 that dental records confirmed the
identity of the remains found in Penticton.
In an elaborate 1997 sting operation, police elicited a confession from Arnold
and he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Brown's death. However, he was allowed
to withdraw that plea and was later charged and convicted of first-degree
murder.
Arnold has also served time in New Brunswick for sexually assaulting girls
aged 10 to 16.
The Winnipeg and Calgary police investigations have each applied modern
techniques and criminal profiling to so-called cold cases.
But in the case of the Winnipeg Police Service, its willingness to look beyond
Sophonow is relatively recent. For years the force maintained it had charged
the right man for Stoppel's slaying.
The Winnipeg Sun said police were given Arnold's name as a possible new
suspect before Sophonow's final trial but dismissed him.
Sophonow and Arnold are remarkably similar in appearance.
Winnipeg Police Const. Bob Johnson would only say Tuesday that police are
continuing to investigate. He said they won't name their suspect until they're
ready to lay charges.
Rocks said the Calgary investigation is also continuing.
"We're in the process of sending more exhibits to the crime labs to have them
analysed and interpreted."
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The following appears courtesy of today's Canadian Press news wire:
Wednesday 14 June 2000
Murder suspect says he's innocent of Calgary-Winnipeg slayings
WINNIPEG (CP) - A man serving a life sentence for the murder of a British
Columbia girl in 1991 says he's innocent of two other slayings police are
investigating.
"I would have been arrested a long time ago if they truly had anything against
me," Terry Samuel Arnold, 38, said from the prison in British Columbia where he
is serving a life sentence he received last year for the murder of Christine
Marie Brown in 1991.
Police in Winnipeg and Calgary are investigating the possibility that Arnold
may have been responsible in two other slayings.
Barbara Stoppel was killed in the Winnipeg doughnut shop where she worked in
1981. Denise Lapierre's body was found in a back lane in Calgary in 1987.
Arnold was living in each city at the time of the murders.
Calgary police are still waiting for reports on DNA evidence but Arnold said he
has co-operated with police, gave them samples of his DNA three years ago and
has heard nothing in response.
He said when Winnipeg police interviewed him they told him only that he was a
possible witness in the Stoppel case.
"All of a sudden, I'm a suspect," he said. "This is a wild goose chase."
Winnipeg police and Manitoba justice officials apologized last week to Thomas
Sophonow, the man tried three times and convicted twice for Stoppel's slaying
before he was finally freed by the Manitoba Court of Appeal in 1985.
They admitted a review of the evidence shows they had the wrong man.
A judicial inquiry is going to look into the case and determine whether
Sophonow deserves compensation for the four years he spent in prison.
Sophonow urges caution before anyone else is charged.
"Take your time, take your time, don't rush, don't be pressured by the media or
the attorney general's department," Sophonow has said.
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The following appears courtesy of the 6/14/00 online edition of The Calgary
Sun newspaper:
Wednesday, June 14, 2000
Lapierre evidence sent to crime lab
By PETER SMITH, CALGARY SUN
Calgary police -- waiting for DNA evidence from Scotland Yard in England in a
13-year-old unsolved murder -- may soon get help from much closer to home.
Homicide detectives yesterday sent more evidence from the Denise Lapierre
murder case to the RCMP crime laboratories in Edmonton.
"We have processed some more evidence from this case and it's presently on the
way to the crime laboratory for forensic analysis," said Staff Sgt. George
Rocks of the homicide unit.
Police aren't saying what the evidence is, but Rocks hopes it might produce a
DNA breakthrough in the case before the long-awaited results from Scotland Yard
are received.
Lapierre, 17, was found murdered and dumped naked and washed on June 21, 1987,
in an alley near her home after she'd stormed out of her own graduation party
24 hours earlier.
The main suspect in the Lapierre slaying, Terry Samuel Arnold, 37, is now
considered by Winnipeg police as the prime suspect in the 1981 murder of
16-year-old Barbara Stoppel.
Last week, Winnipeg apologized to another man, Thomas Sophonow, after he was
re-leased after spending years in prison wrongly convicted of the Stoppel
murder.
Arnold is already in prison, serving a life sentence for the first-degree
murder in 1991.
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The following two news articles both appear courtesy of the 6/14/00 online
edition of The Winnipeg Free Press newspaper:
Wednesday, June 14, 2000
I didn't do it: Stoppel suspect
Police have no evidence, B.C. inmate says
Wed, Jun 14, 2000
By Leah Janzen
THE NEW suspect in the Barbara Stoppel murder says he's being railroaded by the
same police tunnel vision that put Thomas Sophonow in jail for a murder he
didn't commit.
In an interview yesterday from his "Valley Chateau" dormitory at the Mission,
B.C. prison where he edits the inmates' newsletter, Terry Samuel Arnold, 38,
maintained his innocence in the Stoppel murder and said police have no evidence
against him.
"I would have been arrested a long time ago if they truly had anything against
me,'' he said. "They are trying to bloody my name the same way they (did to
Sophonow). They're coming after me to clear their own names."
Winnipeg police sources have confirmed Arnold is a suspect in Stoppel's murder.
Other sources say the police investigation surrounding Arnold could take up to
two months.
Yesterday they established a tip line at 986-4629 for people to call who may
have more information on Stoppel's killing.
Sophonow had some advice for police yesterday.
"Take your time, don't rush, don't be pressured by the media or the attorney
general's department," he told CTV News.
Arnold is currently serving a 25-year life sentence after he was convicted in
1997 of first-degree murder in the bludgeoning death of Christine Marie Browne,
16, whose body was found in dense brush near Hedley, B.C. in 1992.
Calgary police have also named Arnold a prime suspect in the death of teenager
Denise Lapierre, who was found murdered in a back alley the day after her high
school graduation party in 1987.
Arnold also spent 80 months in a New Brunswick prison for sexually assaulting
four teenage girls.
But yesterday, Arnold said he willingly provided DNA samples to Calgary police
more than three years ago to clear himself in the Lapierre murder and has heard
nothing in response.
Sgt. George Rocks of the Calgary police service said Arnold is the prime
suspect in Lapierre's murder and a variety of DNA evidence has been sent to
Scotland Yard in England for analysis.
He would not confirm whether Arnold's DNA was collected and sent for analysis.
Rocks said the investigation is hindered by the fact that Lapierre's body was
washed after she was killed, making the collecting of DNA samples very
difficult.
Rocks said Calgary police are still investigating the old murder case and are
pleased that Arnold will remain in jail while they gather evidence.
"Time is on our side,'' he said. "We're going to keep investigating and working
with the new technology to ensure we have a strong case."
But Arnold said Calgary police -- and Winnipeg police who interviewed him about
three months ago -- aren't laying murder charges because they don't have any
proof he was involved in the killings.
When Winnipeg police went to B.C. to interview him in jail, Arnold said they
told him he was a possible witness.
"All of a sudden I'm a suspect,'' he said. "This is a wild goose chase."
Arnold admits he was in Winnipeg at the time of Stoppel's murder -- he lived
here for much of his youth.
But he denies having any involvement in her death despite his resemblance to a
composite drawing that was released at the time of the girl's death in 1981.
Arnold said he spent much of his life in Winnipeg -- from the time he was 12
until he was a young adult. He said he was born in Ontario and moved to Alberta
before coming to the city with his mother and siblings.
Arnold and his family lived first in a Fort Rouge apartment building before
moving to the core area when he was a teenager. While he doesn't deny he was in
the city the night Stoppel was murdered, Arnold maintains he has a "strong
alibi" to explain his whereabouts at the time of the killing. He declined to
give details, but challenged police to check it out. Arnold accused Winnipeg
police of harassing his mother and brother since he has been identified as a
suspect. He said his mother's home was searched and some of her personal items
were seized and his brother was "harassed" by local police in recent months.
After being interviewed by Winnipeg police about three months ago, Arnold said
he offered to take a lie detector test to prove his innocence. He said the
police did not take him up on his offer and did not request he submit DNA
samples. "If they asked me to, I would," he said.
Stoppel was found in the bathroom of an Ideal Donut shop in St. Boniface on
Dec. 23, 1981. She was strangled with a length of twine and left for dead. She
died six days later.
Last week, Sophonow -- who spent four years in jail and 15 years trying to
clear his name -- was exonerated by Winnipeg police and an inquiry into the
case has been called by Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2000
Stoppel suspect a killer
Con in B.C. prison serving life for 1992 slaying of 16-year-old girl
Tue, Jun 13, 2000
By Leah Janzen
A 38-YEAR-OLD man serving a life sentence in a B.C. jail for the killing of a
teenage girl has been identified as the prime suspect in the Barbara Stoppel
slaying.
Sources close to the case say Terry Samuel Arnold has been singled out as a
result of evidence that has been unearthed during the reinvestigation into
Stoppel's killing.
According to sources, Arnold was in Winnipeg at the time of Stoppel's death and
was living close to the St. Boniface doughnut shop in which she was found with
a length of twine twisted around her neck on December 23, 1981.
Arnold was in jail in Moncton, N.B. in 1997, serving time for a sexual assault,
when Kelowna police fingered him as the man responsible for the 1992 murder of
Christine Marie Browne, 16, who was found bludgeoned near Hedley, B.C. in
October 1992.
Undercover RCMP officers enticed Arnold back to B.C. once he was released from
prison by promising him he would gain entry into an elite biker gang if he
walked them through Browne's murder.
He showed the officers exactly where he'd left the teenager's body and
described how he'd bashed her head in with a piece of wood.
He was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in May 1997 and is
currently serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years in a B
.C. prison.
Yesterday, Christine Browne's father, Karl, said his daughter was a runaway who
was working with a travelling carnival when she was killed.
He and his wife were expecting their daughter to return home in the summer of
1991, but she never did and while police located her body in 1992, they were
unable to identify her for two years.
Browne wondered whether mistakes by Winnipeg police in 1991 may have allowed
his daughter's killer to be free at the time of her death.
"I guess he'd likely have been in jail,'' he said from his home in B.C. "But we
all make mistakes. I won't hold the police responsible for the death of my
daughter. They went with the information they had at the time.
"And really it's excellent news," he said upon hearing Arnold is a suspect in
another murder. "The longer he's in jail, the happier I'll be."
Sources close to the case say police did not know about Arnold -- who matched
the description of the tall, thin cowboy identified as Stoppel's killer -- when
they began investigating Stoppel's murder in 1981.
He was eventually located by someone close to the case who tipped police off to
his whereabouts around the same time as Thomas Sophonow was facing a second
trial as the accused murderer.
But police "failed to follow up" on the tip, said the source.
Sophonow was the man police focused on in the months following Stoppel's
murder.
He was their main suspect and he eventually was arrested and tried three times
for her killing.
In 1985, the Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled the numerous trials and appeals
amounted to a miscarriage of justice and acquitted Sophonow.
Just last week, Winnipeg police Chief Jack Ewatski publicly exonerated Sophonow
and apologized to him for the years he's spent trying to clear his name.
And Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh ordered a formal inquiry in to the case to
determine what went wrong and whether Sophonow is eligible for financial
compensation for the four years he spent in jail and the 15 years he spent
fighting for his innocence.
If police knowingly disregarded a strong suspect, the impact may be huge for
Sophonow when Justice Peter Cory rules on how much compensation the man should
receive.
Patrick Lebecque, Stoppel's boyfriend at the time of the murder, said he never
believed Sophonow was the killer and is pleased to hear the police have a new
suspect in the case.
"Let's hope they get the right one,'' he said. "It would be nice to put this to
rest."
-- With files from Gordon Sinclair Jr.
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