Shipping Container Serves as Chamber of Horrors
Bo Raxo
You want some true crime? It doesn't get any truer than this, baby.
White supremacist likes to pick up black crack ho's, chain them up in a
shipping container next to his house, and rape and torture them. Oh,
and sell drugs out of it, too.
The police had no idea about his chamber of horrors. They broke in to
bust him for the drugs, and found some poor woman he'd kept in there
for two weeks.
His defense - it was all consensual. Maybe the sockmen can take up a
collection for his defense, it sounds like their classic rap.
Bo Raxo
--
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
better
than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask
not
your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed
you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you
were
our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/13431204.htm
'A chamber of horrors'Police say a West Deptford man imprisoned and
tortured women in a shipping container in his backyard.By Wendy
RudermanInquirer Staff WriterWest First Avenue in West Deptford had
been a relatively quiet dead-end street until about two years ago.
Then one day a flatbed truck with a steel shipping container rolled up
the block, stopped at a blue rancher, and deposited the box in the
backyard.
Neighbors thought Jerome L. Wigmore Jr., a drywall contractor who lived
there with his wife, Betty, and mother-in-law, Alice Boozer, was using
the container to store his work equipment.
"I thought, 'Hey, that's a pretty good idea for a tool shed,' " Kenneth
Koen said last week. "I didn't know it was going to end up being a
chamber of horrors."
According to police, Wigmore held at least two women captive in the
padlocked container, which he had turned into living quarters complete
with air-conditioning units.
The women were kept on a raised platform bed in a secret back
compartment in the container, guarded by a pit bull named Snow, police
said.
"When he left, he locked the women inside so they couldn't get out,"
West Deptford Police Chief James Mehaffey said in an interview this
month. "They couldn't get down off the bed to get out. If they got
down, the dog got them."
During days-long captivity, Wigmore sexually assaulted and tortured his
victims, burning one woman's leg with a blowtorch and punching her in
the chest in July, according to prosecutors and police.
Boozer, who owns the house, said that she saw her son-in-law with small
"blowtorch canisters" but that he told her they were for a heater in
the container. Although Boozer acknowledged that Wigmore - who has a
history of felony convictions and had become a white supremacist in
prison - could be violent at times, she said that she was not quite
convinced he was capable of torturing women and that she was suspicious
of their stories.
Boozer said her daughter, a 39-year-old bus driver who married Wigmore
three years ago, did not want to be interviewed.
Wigmore, jailed on $150,000 cash bail, agreed to an interview and then
declined, saying his lawyer advised against it. The lawyer, Joseph C.
Corbi, did not return phone calls. After Wigmore's bail hearing last
month, Corbi suggested that the alleged captives were in fact "willing
participants."
Wigmore, 36, is charged with aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping and
criminal restraint, in addition to drug offenses for allegedly selling
cocaine out of the windowless 8-by-20-foot gray cargo box.
The unidentified victims are black women whom Wigmore picked up off
Camden's streets, police said.
Relatives and neighbors described Wigmore as a menacing presence who
zoomed up and down the block on a dirt bike with a plate that read
"666" - a number associated with the devil - and yelled racial slurs at
black children in the neighborhood.
Neighbors nicknamed him "Psycho Jerry" or referred to him simply as
"the Menace." He beat his dog with his fist and accused neighbors of
"spying" on him, residents said. He recently "head-butted" Boozer,
giving his 75-year-old mother-in-law a black eye, Mehaffey said. By all
accounts, Wigmore was, as one person on the block put it, "the
neighborhood terrorist."
His head is shaved bald; his forearms and the back of his neck are
adorned with swastika tattoos. He once hung a Nazi flag from the
doorway of the container and used a Confederate flag as a curtain in a
front bedroom window.
"I was offended by it," neighbor Loriann Lope, who is white, said in an
interview last week. He joined an Aryan group while in state prison on
drug charges from 2000 through 2001, Boozer said.
"He likes black women, I guess," Boozer said during an interview late
last month. "That's why I can't understand him being an Aryan."
Boozer, a widow and retired fruit packer, said she saw Wigmore take
"crack whores from Camden" into the container on a few occasions but
thought they had gone voluntarily to get high.
On Oct. 27, a police SWAT team broke into the container with a bolt
cutter during a drug bust and found a 27-year-old Camden woman inside.
Police said that the woman, whom they did not expect to find, had been
in the steel box for nearly two weeks.
"Why in the hell did he have to do that when he had a wife right here?"
Boozer said. "Why did he have to do his dirty work so close to the
house, like he was rubbing it in?"
Wigmore forbade her and her daughter to enter the container, Boozer
said.
"It's not like he said, 'C'mon, Mom, want to see what I've got going on
in there?' " said Boozer, who likes to spend time stocking her many
bird feeders and throwing peanuts to the squirrels in her wooded
backyard. Wigmore rigged two video cameras on top of the container and
placed a third camera in a nearby tree so he could use a monitor inside
to see anyone approaching, Mehaffey said.
Some neighbors also could see what Wigmore was watching - on their home
televisions because the cameras apparently sent a signal that nearby
TVs could pick up. Neighbors said they saw a steady stream of people
come and go.
"We would watch his backyard on Channel 14," said Koen, who lives two
doors away. "Here this guy is selling drugs and he has a camera that's
broadcasting it to the whole neighborhood. How stupid is that?"
Detectives arrested Wigmore after a two-month investigation. During the
October raid, police found a "substantial" amount of drugs inside the
container, as well as the captive woman.
Like Boozer, neighbors said they thought the women they saw entering
the container were free to leave, though there were signs suggesting
otherwise.
In two incidents, during the summer or early fall, Koen said,
half-dressed women came "screaming" from Wigmore's property, ranting
about an attack dog and waking neighbors in the middle of the night.
One woman ran by Koen's house carrying her bra and underpants. She
dropped the underpants on Koen's driveway apron, he said.
"The next day, I picked them up with a stick and threw them back on
Jerry's property," Koen said.
Ann Booth, who lives next door to Wigmore, said she, too, heard a woman
screaming one night when the weather was warm and her windows were
open.
"My husband and I both sat straight up in the bed," Booth said. Lope
said she and her husband were jolted awake about 5:30 one October
morning by a woman, dressed in a T-shirt and sweatpants, yelling on
their front lawn.
"She was screaming, 'Somebody help me. He's trying to hurt me. He's
trying to sic the dog on me,' " Lope recalled.
Lope's husband called the police, but the woman took off before they
arrived, she said.
Mehaffey said police responded at least once to a report of a woman
screaming - the incident was just one of an assortment of 911 calls and
complaints involving Wigmore.
After Wigmore's arrest, a 31-year-old woman from Monroe Township came
forward and told police that he had imprisoned her in the container for
a few days in mid-July.
During a bail hearing last month, Assistant Prosecutor Audrey Curwin
said Wigmore had picked up the woman in Camden. She went willingly into
his car. Once she was inside, he knocked her out with a punch, Curwin
said, and she woke up in the container. He punched her in the chest and
burned her twice with a blowtorch, then blindfolded her and dropped her
off on a street somewhere, Curwin said.
A few days after Wigmore's arrest, Boozer posted $75,000 bail for him,
putting $8,000 on her credit card and using her house as collateral,
though police rearrested him hours after his release on new charges.
Boozer said she did it because he threatened her daughter during phone
calls from jail and she feared what would happen if she didn't.
"Even though he's locked up, he still holds a lot of power over her,"
Boozer said about her daughter.
netuse...@yahoo.com
It sounds like someone should take interest in the local PD, and their
apparent inability to find the cause for the "assortment of 911 calls
Bo Raxo
netuse...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Bo Raxo wrote:
> > You want some true crime? It doesn't get any truer than this, baby.
> >
> > White supremacist likes to pick up black crack ho's, chain them up in a
> > shipping container next to his house, and rape and torture them. Oh,
> > and sell drugs out of it, too.
> >
> > The police had no idea about his chamber of horrors. They broke in to
> > bust him for the drugs, and found some poor woman he'd kept in there
> > for two weeks.
> >
> > His defense - it was all consensual. Maybe the sockmen can take up a
> > collection for his defense, it sounds like their classic rap.
> >
>
> apparent inability to find the cause for the "assortment of 911 calls
> and complaints involving Wigmore."
>
Excellent point. But we're talking about Philly, so don't hold your
breath.
edi...@netpath.net
China arrive at West Coast ports. The containers generally have a
small improvised vent or two, an improvised portajohn, some kind of
improvised lighting - and a couple dozen stowaways!
No $4 to park! No $6 admission! http://www.INTERNET-GUN-SHOW.com
Bo Raxo
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> On 20 Dec 2005 14:11:41 -0800, "Bo Raxo" <Cheneys...@deathsdoor.com>
> babbled on and on about
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> --
> Phaet
> "Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey"
>
> "The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered
> considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more
> destructive of respect for the government and the law of
> the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
> It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime
> in this country is closely connected with this." --Albert Einstein
> "My First Impression of
the USA", 1921
Bo Raxo
"Phaethon" <wednesda...@3.am> wrote in message
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> On 20 Dec 2005 14:11:41 -0800, "Bo Raxo" <Cheneys...@deathsdoor.com>
> babbled on and on about
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> >
>
They aren't the same place? ;]
<Hey, I'm from California, it's all the same to me...>