Detectives suspect Brother Thompson of MURDER

by Nathan Natas 14 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  Nathan Natas

  http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_082604WABsuspiciousdeathKC.b7515e1c.html

  Disabled woman found dead in Seattle apartment complex
  
  09:19 AM PDT on Friday, August 27, 2004

  KING5.com

  The victim lived at a home for the disabled.

  SEATTLE ? Police are investigating the suspicious death of a woman in a home for the disabled in the Sandpoint area of Seattle, next to the Ronald McDonald House.

  Police say a woman is dead and notorious serial rapist Curtis S. Thompson is now the focus of the investigation.

  Thompson was arrested last Tuesday. The woman was last seen alive last Sunday.

  A friend checked on the disabled woman, who is believed to be in her late 30s or early 40s, after she had not heard from her for several days, and found her dead with severe signs of trauma Thursday afternoon.

  Sources told KING 5 that detectives believe Curtis Thompson could be tied to the case.

  Convicted of raping four women in the 1980s, Thompson served 16 years in prison and was out last year. But he was arrested again last Tuesday after allegedly assaulting two women in an elevator in the University District.

  The home where the woman was found dead Thursday is just blocks away from Thompson's mother's house. That house borders the Burke-Gilman Trail.

  Sources close to the investigation say the M.O. here is similar to Thompson's.

  Neighbors say the victim was disabled and depended on a wheelchair to get around.

  The victim's name has not yet been released.

  Thompson is being held on $5 million bail for investigation of robbery, assault, kidnapping and disarming a police officer.
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  avishai

  That woman might still be alive if they had capital punishment for rapists. And yet they say capital punishment is'nt a deterrent, that it's barbaric. Letting guys like this out is barbaric, not merciful. What is wrong with our society?
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  Nathan Natas

  City of Seattle Bicycle Program
  Burke-Gilman Trail - History

  Born as a Railroad
  
  In 1885 Judge Thomas Burke, Daniel Gilman and ten other investors set out to establish a Seattle-based railroad so that the young city might win a place among major transportation centers and reap the economic benefits of trade. Their plan was to start along today's Burke-Gilman Trail route and go north to Sumas and connect with the Canadian Transcontinental line. Their Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad, though it never got past Arlington, Washington, was a major regional line serving Puget Sound logging areas. The line was aquired by Northern Pacific in 1913 and continued in fairly heavy use until 1963. The Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Burlington lines were merged in 1970 to become Burlington Northern Railroad. In 1971 Burlington Northern applied to abandon the line.
  
  A Multiple Use Trail
  
  Citizens quickly recognized the non-motorized transportation and recreational potential in the railroad line and launched a movement to acquire the right-of-way for a public biking and walking trail. Objections from residents living near the proposed trail were overcome and the City of Seattle, the University of Washington and King County cooperated in developing the route. The original 12.1 miles of the trail connecting Seattle's Gas Works Park and King County's Tracy Owen Station in Kenmore were dedicated on August 19, 1978.
  
  The trail was recently extended west through Seattle's Fremont neighborhood to Eighth Avenue NW. The trail also reaches east to Redmond by means of the Samammish River Trail.
  
  A Major Urban Route
  
  The Burke-Gilman Trail is an outstanding success and has been beneficial to the neighborhoods which it passes through. The trail has become a major transportation corridor that serves thousands of commuter and recreational cyclists. It demonstrates that when the proper facilities are provided many people will chose healthy, pollution-free, non-motorized modes of travel.
  
  The trail can at times be busy and even crowded with cyclists, walkers, joggers and skaters. Busy periods require all users be especially watchful, cautious, and respectful of others. Fast cyclists must adjust their speed to suit the conditions or use alternative routes. All trail users must keep to the right.
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  ohiocowboy

  That is so distressing and sickening that the legal system lets people like that free again. Aren't there people in Law enforcement that should keep an eye on someone like this? Or, is it too far out of the way from Krispy-Kreme to care?

  Now, he is arrested, there will be trials-AGAIN, and convictions. And we get to pay for it all-AGAIN! Not to mention the emotional distress he has caused families-AGAIN! They should have kept him locked up, if not put him out of his misery.
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  Nathan Natas

  OhioCowboy said,

  That is so distressing and sickening that the legal system lets people like that free again. Aren't there people in Law enforcement that should keep an eye on someone like this? Or, is it too far out of the way from Krispy-Kreme to care?

  I understand your anguish, but the cops are not the people to blame in this case. The cops are the ones who CAUGHT Thompson each time he offended, and the cops are the ones who run the prison in which Thompson resided prior to his release.

  The blame for Curtis S. Thompson's release lies squarely on the majority of the twelve bleeding heart jurors who decided to act AGAINST the recommendation of the prosecutor and psychiatric experts.

  Those morons may now have blood on their hands!

  If the universe was just - and it isn't - Thompson would have visited their homes, no one else's.

  This is something for every one of us to remember when we are called for jury duty. Leave the "bleeding heart" at home. Save your compassion for the VICTIMS.
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  jwbot

  it just seems that in this society (and worse in other countries) that rape is not seen as an incredibly horrific crime deserving of at least-life in prison especially for a serial rapist or one who will strike again. Hell, even me, a bleeding-heart liberal would have loved to see this man kept in jail for life for the first rape offence. He is an evil, evil man.
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  Scully

  It will be interesting to find out whether Brother Thompson recently went door-to-door in the same neighbourhood where this murder occurred. Or whether anyone in his "church" will provide a pretty alibi for him.

  Love, Scully
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  avishai

  Conservative = a liberal who's been mugged
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  jimbob

  Now he's gone from raping to murder?? I hope to god they give him the death penalty!! Of course, then the JW's will say he's paid for his crime with death and be resurrected...
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  wasasister

  Other than the one line in the one newspaper story, is there any confirmation that this piece of crap was an active JW? Anyone know the congregation? Any statement from the elders?? Was he a prison conversion?