Fatal crushing tied to sexual practice
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The following appears courtesy of the 10/25/99 online edition of The
Tampa
Tribune newspaper:
10/25/99
Fatal crushing tied to sexual practice
Tribune Staff
The death of a 28-year-old man found lying in a specially dug ditch in
June,
the rear wheel of his sport utility vehicle atop a board over his
midsection,
introduced investigators to ``crushing.''
``It's a case that is uncomfortable,'' said Assistant State Attorney
Bernard
Romero. ``And it makes you wonder about people out there.''
After Bryan Loudermilk's death, detectives questioned his wife,
Stephanie. She
mentioned some videotapes. The tapes gave detectives a whole new case.
They saw Stephanie Loudermilk, identified by a cryptic tattoo on her
lower leg,
stepping on rabbits and mice until they were dead. She has been charged
with
cruelty to animals, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years
in
prison.
According to court records, witnesses told detectives that Bryan
Loudermilk had
been involved in crushing for nearly 10 years and sold crush videos via
the
Internet. Investigators are still looking into the possibility of foul
play in
his death.
People have been making and selling videos of animal-crushing for sexual
arousal for at least a decade, said Jeff Vilencia, owner of Lakewood,
Calif.-based Squish Productions, which makes and sells tapes of
insect-crushing.
Vilencia said he knew Bryan Loudermilk since 1992 and had seen crush
videos he
had made, but didn't think Loudermilk sold them.
Vilencia said he thought Loudermilk got someone to roll the truck onto
him on
purpose, but thought it was ``kind of weird'' that he went unattended
for a
period of time; usually such acts are carefully monitored by a second
person.
``We also know that, at one point in time, he had actually experimented
with a
small vehicle driven up onto him,'' said the lead investigator,
Okeechobee
County sheriff's Detective William Garrison.
A recent high-profile California animal cruelty case stemming from crush
videos
led to the drafting of a federal law that would ban the videos'
creation, sale
and possession with intent to sell. On Wednesday, the House of
Representatives
passed the law and it headed to the Senate.
Estimates of the size of the clandestine industry range from fewer than
a
thousand people to a market with annual sales of $1 million.
Stephanie Loudermilk's case is only the third known crushing inquiry to
result
in criminal charges, The Palm Beach Post reported in a story Sunday.
In the Okeechobee video, shot from the knees down, authorities say
Stephanie
Loudermilk, 28, and an unidentified woman can be seen stepping on a
rabbit with
its hind legs bound. They are not stomping the creature. After about 10
steps,
the rabbit appears to be dead.
Tom Connors, a deputy district attorney for Ventura County, Calif., who
testified before the House regarding the new legislation, said
animal-crushing
is an extension of a foot fetish. Some men find that suffocation
heightens
sexual excitement and like to fantasize about being crushed to death by
women,
he said.
"They internalize the pain of suffering of the animals to imagine
themselves
being crushed by a woman," Connors said. "Obviously they could only have
this
done once, so they transfer their feeling to the animals."
PHyatt1962
How sick is this?
Lo52964
writes
>string em up!
>
>
>How sick is this?
>
No, throw them in the bin. I've seen damn near everything in almost 30 years,
but when I first heard of crushing, I almost didn't believe it. It is harder to
get emotionally behind than sex with children.
" Don't talk to me about justice, it is bad enough to be mixed up with the
law."
LO5 2964
Mark Denman
>
>
> No, throw them in the bin. I've seen damn near everything in almost 30 years,
> but when I first heard of crushing, I almost didn't believe it. It is harder to
> get emotionally behind than sex with children.
Oh yes - it's much worse to harm animals than it is to harm children.
--
Mark Denman ~W.W.J.J.D.?~ <"what would judge judy do?">
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