Deanna's Daydreamer
12-13-2009, 01:50 AM
The waves wash ashore here. Seasons come and go, but the peace remains for all the local fishermen. Luzerne Lake near Greenville, Kentucky, is in Muhlenberg County. It's a reservoir, and so are the five other lakes nearby. But something strange blows in the wind around one part of Luzerne Lake, and it's the memory of what happened here. On Sunday mornings, the local populace goes to churches to hear the words of pastors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVrNCtUNfmc
who attempt to explain how good things can happen to bad people, and how bad things can happen to good people. They tell the locals that the Lord 'works in mysterious ways' but that don't mean all that much for the men in blue who discover murder victims floating in water. And few people who are not knowledgeable in forensics know that WATER does strange things to a dead human body. Since humans are born in water, and water is so crucial to life itself? Seems a cruel irony of life... that life can indeed END..... within water. And who knows WHAT LIES BENEATH the fibs, halftruths and lies that we tell our children? We tell them monsters do not exist, and yet we know that they really DO. We do the best we can for our kids, but inch by inch we let them go out into a world that we already know is far more dangerous than the world that WE grew up in.
The water in this part of Kentucky is a fisherman's paradise. Take your choice of the lakes nearby. But not one of the locals will ever forget what happened here... one cold winter night... in 1997.... at Luzerne Lake, Kentucky.
http://www.fishingworks.com/lakes/kentucky/muhlenberg/greenville/luzerne-lake/
http://www.city-data.com/county/Muhlenberg_County-KY.html
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taken from victims rights advocate Charlene Hall's website:
Robert Woodall pled guilty for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Hansen, 16, on January 1997. Sarah, a junior at Muhlenberg South High School where she was a cheerleader and band member, was abducted from the parking lot of a convenience store in Greenville. She was taken to nearby Luzerne Lake, where she was raped. Her throat was slashed and she was thrown into the water. Jurors heard gruesome testimony as sentencing got under way. They watched a videotape of the bloody crime scene at a lake in Muhlenberg County. In his opening remarks to the Caldwell Circuit Court jury, Muhlenberg County Commonwealth's Attorney Ralph Vick gave jurors explicit details about the crime and asked them to give Woodall the ultimate penalty. "There is only 1 punishment in this case and that is death; let the punishment fit the crime," Vick said. A jury of 5 women and 9 men was seated in the case. Woodall pled guilty to capital murder, rape and kidnapping in the January 1997 slaying of Hansen, a Muhlenberg South High School honor student and cheerleader. Prosecutors said there was no deal involved in the plea, and they are seeking the death penalty.
According to police, Hansen left her home on the night of Jan. 25, 1997, to rent a video at a Greenville convenience store. When she did not return, her parents notified police. Officers found the van she had been driving near Luzerne Lake near Greenville. Her body was found in the lake a short time later. Vick described the crime scene in graphic detail, telling jurors that the middle bench seat and driver's area of Hansen's van were drenched in blood. He also said an autopsy revealed the 16-year-old girl's throat had been slashed twice with a box cutter. "Sarah didn't die quickly, and she didn't die easily," he said. Vick said that although Hansen's throat had been slashed, she did not die from the wounds. "She was placed in the icy waters of Luzerne Lake and drowned," he said. Vick told the jury there were 2 aggravating factors in the case: that Woodall had kidnapped and raped Hansen before she was murdered as well as his prior record of sex offenses. Woodall served 3 1/2 years of a 5-year sentence in 1992 for sexual contact with a girl under 12.
The jury was seated the same day that tougher state laws on the release of sex offenders went into effect. Under the new laws, sex offenders cannot be released early for good behavior without entering the state sex-offender treatment program, and they must undergo 3 years of mandatory supervision and treatment after being released from prison. UPDATE: An execution of a Death Row inmate who kidnapped, raped and murdered a teen-ager in Muhlenberg County has been postponed indefinitely, the Department of Corrections said. Robert Keith Woodall was scheduled to be put to death Tuesday at the state penitentiary in Eddyville. However, Woodall had multiple avenues of appeal still available to him, so a stay of execution was not unexpected. The stay was ordered by Lyon Circuit Judge Bill Cunningham. Woodall pleaded guilty to kidnapping Sarah Hansen, 16, outside a convenience store in Greenville on Jan. 25, 1997. He slit her throat and raped her, then threw her nude body into Luzerne Lake. An autopsy indicated she drowned in the freezing waters that night.
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photograph of victim:
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/images/Sarah_Hansen.jpg
photograph of abduction rape monster Robert Keith Woodall:
http://www.corrections.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/301203B1-42A4-41B1-B87E-987E53CC5258/0/Woodall149x154.gif
"The Sarah Hansen story is one that has haunted Greenville for over 10 years."
http://www.14wfie.com/global/story.asp?s=9900730
Justice For All website:
http://www.jfa.net/
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation:
http://www.cjlf.org/
Charlene Hall contact email:
info@murdervictims.com
If you are a woman in Tennessee who has FINALLY had enough?
Call Lamar Alexander's office at (202) 224-4944 and tell them you want capital punishment laws enforced nationwide. Call Bob Corker's office at (202) 224-3344. Tell them you want a nationwide DNA database with supercray computers searching the banks of donors for matches 24 seven, and 365. Tell them you support three strikes laws, the federal death penalty, and SUPERMAX PRISONS for rapists, burglars, carjackers, and armed robbers. Unless you, as a woman, get mad enough to make it happen? It will NEVER HAPPEN. Unless women call them? It will NEVER get done. You have TWO MALE SENATORS, Knoxville woman;-- think about it. Because if it is a man's world? Then it's a MAN'S FAULT.
http://www.motionbox.com/videos/7a96d5ba101aeecbf5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVrNCtUNfmc
who attempt to explain how good things can happen to bad people, and how bad things can happen to good people. They tell the locals that the Lord 'works in mysterious ways' but that don't mean all that much for the men in blue who discover murder victims floating in water. And few people who are not knowledgeable in forensics know that WATER does strange things to a dead human body. Since humans are born in water, and water is so crucial to life itself? Seems a cruel irony of life... that life can indeed END..... within water. And who knows WHAT LIES BENEATH the fibs, halftruths and lies that we tell our children? We tell them monsters do not exist, and yet we know that they really DO. We do the best we can for our kids, but inch by inch we let them go out into a world that we already know is far more dangerous than the world that WE grew up in.
The water in this part of Kentucky is a fisherman's paradise. Take your choice of the lakes nearby. But not one of the locals will ever forget what happened here... one cold winter night... in 1997.... at Luzerne Lake, Kentucky.
http://www.fishingworks.com/lakes/kentucky/muhlenberg/greenville/luzerne-lake/
http://www.city-data.com/county/Muhlenberg_County-KY.html
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taken from victims rights advocate Charlene Hall's website:
Robert Woodall pled guilty for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Hansen, 16, on January 1997. Sarah, a junior at Muhlenberg South High School where she was a cheerleader and band member, was abducted from the parking lot of a convenience store in Greenville. She was taken to nearby Luzerne Lake, where she was raped. Her throat was slashed and she was thrown into the water. Jurors heard gruesome testimony as sentencing got under way. They watched a videotape of the bloody crime scene at a lake in Muhlenberg County. In his opening remarks to the Caldwell Circuit Court jury, Muhlenberg County Commonwealth's Attorney Ralph Vick gave jurors explicit details about the crime and asked them to give Woodall the ultimate penalty. "There is only 1 punishment in this case and that is death; let the punishment fit the crime," Vick said. A jury of 5 women and 9 men was seated in the case. Woodall pled guilty to capital murder, rape and kidnapping in the January 1997 slaying of Hansen, a Muhlenberg South High School honor student and cheerleader. Prosecutors said there was no deal involved in the plea, and they are seeking the death penalty.
According to police, Hansen left her home on the night of Jan. 25, 1997, to rent a video at a Greenville convenience store. When she did not return, her parents notified police. Officers found the van she had been driving near Luzerne Lake near Greenville. Her body was found in the lake a short time later. Vick described the crime scene in graphic detail, telling jurors that the middle bench seat and driver's area of Hansen's van were drenched in blood. He also said an autopsy revealed the 16-year-old girl's throat had been slashed twice with a box cutter. "Sarah didn't die quickly, and she didn't die easily," he said. Vick said that although Hansen's throat had been slashed, she did not die from the wounds. "She was placed in the icy waters of Luzerne Lake and drowned," he said. Vick told the jury there were 2 aggravating factors in the case: that Woodall had kidnapped and raped Hansen before she was murdered as well as his prior record of sex offenses. Woodall served 3 1/2 years of a 5-year sentence in 1992 for sexual contact with a girl under 12.
The jury was seated the same day that tougher state laws on the release of sex offenders went into effect. Under the new laws, sex offenders cannot be released early for good behavior without entering the state sex-offender treatment program, and they must undergo 3 years of mandatory supervision and treatment after being released from prison. UPDATE: An execution of a Death Row inmate who kidnapped, raped and murdered a teen-ager in Muhlenberg County has been postponed indefinitely, the Department of Corrections said. Robert Keith Woodall was scheduled to be put to death Tuesday at the state penitentiary in Eddyville. However, Woodall had multiple avenues of appeal still available to him, so a stay of execution was not unexpected. The stay was ordered by Lyon Circuit Judge Bill Cunningham. Woodall pleaded guilty to kidnapping Sarah Hansen, 16, outside a convenience store in Greenville on Jan. 25, 1997. He slit her throat and raped her, then threw her nude body into Luzerne Lake. An autopsy indicated she drowned in the freezing waters that night.
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photograph of victim:
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/images/Sarah_Hansen.jpg
photograph of abduction rape monster Robert Keith Woodall:
http://www.corrections.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/301203B1-42A4-41B1-B87E-987E53CC5258/0/Woodall149x154.gif
"The Sarah Hansen story is one that has haunted Greenville for over 10 years."
http://www.14wfie.com/global/story.asp?s=9900730
Justice For All website:
http://www.jfa.net/
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation:
http://www.cjlf.org/
Charlene Hall contact email:
info@murdervictims.com
If you are a woman in Tennessee who has FINALLY had enough?
Call Lamar Alexander's office at (202) 224-4944 and tell them you want capital punishment laws enforced nationwide. Call Bob Corker's office at (202) 224-3344. Tell them you want a nationwide DNA database with supercray computers searching the banks of donors for matches 24 seven, and 365. Tell them you support three strikes laws, the federal death penalty, and SUPERMAX PRISONS for rapists, burglars, carjackers, and armed robbers. Unless you, as a woman, get mad enough to make it happen? It will NEVER HAPPEN. Unless women call them? It will NEVER get done. You have TWO MALE SENATORS, Knoxville woman;-- think about it. Because if it is a man's world? Then it's a MAN'S FAULT.
http://www.motionbox.com/videos/7a96d5ba101aeecbf5