Posted on 01/27/2005 5:17:39 PM PST by NativeTexun
POSTED: 1/26/05 9:17 AM UPDATED: 1/26/05 4:34 PM
By Chris Minor
EAST MOLINE, Illinois -- The dismembered body of a missing East Moline teenager has been found, and a classmate tonight is under arrest for her brutal murder. Sarah Kolb is charged with first degree murder in the death of Adrianne Reynolds, 16.
Prosecutors announced the murder charge at a news conference at Illinois State Police Headquarters this morning.
Authorities believe Adrianne was strangled and beaten with a wooden handle in a car in broad daylight at a Taco Bell parking lot in Moline. Later, her body was taken to Mercer County in an attempt to burn it.When that didn't work, her body was cut into pieces and dumped at Black Hawk State Park.
Authorities made the discovery around midnight.
Adrianne's father and stepmother, Tony and Joann Reynolds had reported their daughter missing when she failed to show up to work after school on Friday.
Kolb and Reynolds were classmates at Blackhawk Outreach Center in East Moline, an alternative school for kids trying to get their GED's. Friends there tell Newschannel 8 that Kolb had made a death threat against Reynolds the day she disappeared, and say Kolb was jealous of the new kid in school. Reynolds had been attending the school for just a few weeks, after coming to East Moline from Texas to live with her dad.
In court today, Judge John Bell read court documents that stated the crime was committed ''while acting with another,'' but so far, only Kolb has been charged.
Kolb, who told the judge today she works at the movie cinemas in Davenport, is being held at the Mary Davis juvenile detention center in Galesburg on $1 million bond.
POSTED: 1/26/05
By Vanessa Van Hyfte
EAST MOLINE -- Sarah Kolb and Adrianne Reynolds were classmates at Black Hawk Outreach Center. Their fellow classmates remember the chilling threats made the very day Adrianne disappeared.
"[Kolb] had mentioned to a few people that she was going to kill her," said Jackie Martinez, 17. "She [said], 'I don't care.' She told people she wasn't afraid to kill her and she would do it and she's not scared."
Adrianne was the new kid at school just a few weeks. She was trying to make a fresh start and earn a General Education Diploma.
"She was pretty and funny," said Betty Wilson, 16.
And the boys noticed. Wilson says that's what threw Sarah into a jealous rage.
"They just had some problems over boys and Sarah was upset," Wilson recalled.
Wilson said Kolb had been a student here for over a year and was popular.
"Sarah was really nice," said Wilson. "She got along with everyone and all the sudden Adianne came in, and it's totally different, she says, 'I will kill her, I will kill her.'"
Wilson was one of the last people to see Adrianne alive on Friday afternoon.
"I just saw Adrianne and Sarah and two males get into the car. I heard they were going to Taco Bell to get lunch."
Wilson says Adrianne wasn't looking for trouble. She only wanted to make a fresh start, desperate to fit in with the "in" crowd.
"Adrianne really wanted to be Sarah's friend. That was all she wanted."
Maybe Sarah was a "bad seed." Seem to be lots of "bad seeds" popping up everywhere lately.
Johnny Lee Williams who kidnapped and murdered Megan Holden from the Tyler, TX Wal-Mart.
Ever notice how after the fact, the killer is described as "nice" and/or "outgoing," etc..? The kid who killed another classmate here in Denver was also described as such, also as "hardworking," among other adjectives. They're always great up until they commit a crime. So are most serial killers.
Yep....the quiet type too.
This whole case is pretty scary. A third teen was arrested yesterday. Sounds like he's doing a lot of talking too.
Scary kids.
Sam berkowitz, he became a Christian and seems to have made a life for himself in prison) on an intellectual level.
Oh please you actually believe that. Psychopaths like a leopard NEVER change their spots. He's doing the Christian routine because he knows it gets him in favor on the inside. On the inside he is no longer the big fish. Psychopaths are habitual liars, manipulators. They NEVER EVER CHANGE.
Right - the more things change, the more they remain the same.
Why wideeyed doesn't use paragraphs ... in his own admission ..
>>'cause i'm pseudo-hip and us shi**y hardcore kids never use paragraphs 'cause they're scene. <<
I thought he was pseudo dead?
oh wait... uh, oh never mind. (rolls "eyes") Give me strength.
Some details coming out now of the gruesome nature of the crime....
http://www.reviewatlas.com/articles/2005/02/02/news/local/news3.txt
East Moline teen was burned, dismembered in Mercer County
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 3:45 PM CST
It should be noted that some information published in this article contains graphic details and may be not be suitable for all readers.
By Cathy Decker/Staff Reporter
Aledo Times Record
In less than an hour the details of the murder of Adrianne Reynolds, 16, of East Moline were revealed by investigators in charge of the case during the Rock Island County preliminary hearings of two teenagers, each charged with two counts of murder and one count of concealment of a homicide.
The details revealed a gruesome scenario of a brutal murder, involving choking and a blunt object, an attempt at concealment by burning the body, subsequent dismemberment and an attempted burial of parts of the body.
The two teens each pleaded not guilty to the charges and asked for jury trials. Both are being tried as adults. Trials have been set for both Sarah A. Kolb, 16, and Cory Charles Gregory, 17, for April 4, 2005. Kolb, who went before Judge James Teros after the Corey Gregory preliminary hearing and arraignment, appeared with her attorney F. Michael Meersman, public defender. She waived her right to a preliminary hearing and pleaded "Not Guilty" during the arraignment.
A jury trial has been set for April 4 at 9:30 a.m., with the pretrial hearing set for March 28 and a final plea negotiations date set for March 31.
Assistant States Attorney Mark Senko asked the judge to approve a major disclosure 413 that will allow the court to have blood, saliva and hair samples taken from Kolb. The judge agreed.
Cory Gregory was the first to appear before Judge Teros with his attorney Steve Hanna at the 8:30 a.m. preliminary hearing held Tuesday, Feb. 1.
Mark Senko, Rock Island assistant states attorney first questioned Special Agent Michael John Scheckel, who said he oversaw the case of Adrienne Reynolds when she was first declared missing on Jan. 21. He told the court he was contacted by the East Moline Police Department to assist in the investigation of the disappearance of Reynolds.
He said the investigaton led to discussions with both Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory, who were last seen with Reynolds on Friday, Jan. 21.
He told the court he interviewed Gregory on Jan. 21, 22 or 23.
Agent Scheckel said Gregory told him that he, Sarah and Adrianne left school on Friday at around noon and drove to Taco Bell on The Avenue of the Cities and Kolb and Reynolds had an argument in the parking lot of Taco Bell.
He said Gregory told him that they subsequently made up after the argument and then drove to a McDonalds restaurant in East Moline. There they let Reynolds out in front of the restaurant and went through the drive through. After getting their food and coming around to the front, Reynolds was gone.
Scheckel said the first interview with Gregory lasted between an hour and one and a half hours.
He said during the second inverview with Gregory there were some substantial changes to the story. "Mr. Gregory was in contact with his attorney, Steve Hanna," Scheckel said.
Gregory told the agent "Sarah Kolb was responsible for the death of Adrianne Reynolds."
Gregory told the agent that he was in the back seat and Reynolds and Kolb were in the front seat and they got into a fight and both were choking each other.
Gregory also maintained that Kolb reached into the back seat and took a wooden handle that had duct tape on it and struck Reynolds in the head. The fight continued with more choking.
He said he got out of the back seat and went to the front seat and Kolb moved the body from the front to the back.
They then drove to Kolb's residence in Milan and pulled the car into the garage. At her house, the agent was told Kolb got a gas can and a tarp and headed for Big Island. At Big Island Gregory alleges that Kolb took Reynolds out of the back seat, wrapped her in the tarp, put her into the trunk and then drove out to Mercer County.
The agent said Gregory said they drove out to a pasture in the Millersburg area and Kolb took the tarp out and drug it to a wooded area and the body was set on fire.
"He claimed he was simply a witness," said Agent Scheckel.
He said the body was set on fire and at one point they went back to Aledo to buy more gasoline.
He said they left the body there, then returned to it on Sunday.
On Sunday they had a saw in Sarah's car and it was alleged that Sarah cut off the head, the arms and cut the torso in half. "The fire had already removed the legs from the body," Gregory told him.
He said the head and arms were placed in a black plastic garbage bag and the remainder of the body was placed in a nearby brush pile.
The agent said he was told that the two of them then loaded the plastic bag into the trunk of Kolb's car and drove to Black Hawk State Park. "He said they went down near the river and started digging a hole."
They hit an impasse with the hole when they hit metal and discovered it was a manhole. The manhole cover was removed and they replaced the cover after putting the black plastic bag into it.
Agent Scheckel said, "He denied doing any of these acts." After the interview Gregory led detectives to the spot in Black Hawk Park.
"We attempted to remove the manhole cover," said Scheckel.
The assistant state's attorney Senco then asked Scheckel to describe Kolb, He said she was about five-foot, two inches and around 110 pounds.
Scheckel then described the officer who was attempting to remove the manhole cover as being around six-foot tall and weighing more than 200 pounds. "He struggled with the manhole cover," said Scheckel.
Senco asked whether Scheckel thought Kolb was capable of removing the cover by herself.
"I didn't think so," Scheckel said.
"Was it confirmed that it was Adrianne Reynolds?" Senco asked.
"I believe so, yes," said Scheckel.
Officer Scheckel then revealed that he had another tip in the case from Pat Corbin, who contacted the Moline Police Department and the Illinois State Police about her grandson, Nathan Gaudet, who is a freshman at the Black Hawk College Outreach Center.
Agent Mike Brown, a Moline officer, said that the grandmother stated that on Sunday, Jan. 23 Kolb and Gregory came to her residence and picked up her grandson, Nathan. He left her home with a book bag, which he told her was filled with "shirts".
She said her grandson had been at Cory's for the day.
On Wednesday, Jan. 26, Pat and Nathan's mother heard about the arrest of Kolb and realized the book bag was still at the grandmother's house. Corbin said she found it in the furnace room of her residence. Besides a pillow, "inside the book bag was a small mitre saw."
He also said "there appeared to be blood on the saw." Senco asked Scheckel about the interview with Nathan.
"Nathan said Sarah and Cory picked him up on Sunday and told him to bring a saw."
Nathan talked to the agent about how they went out to the Millersburg area to a pasture. "He was shown the body of Adrienne Reynolds."
"He and Mr. Gregory began sawing up Adrienne's body," Scheckel added.
He said Nathan confirmed that they next transported the black bag to Black Hawk State Park and that the other body parts were placed in a brush pile in the pasture.
Senco asked Scheckel if Nathan said anything to him about the death of Adrienne Reynolds?
He said that Cory said that Sarah choked Adrienne and Cory took a belt and wrapped it around Adrienne's neck and finished the job.
Senco asked Scheckel if the cause of death had been determined?
"I don't know," said Scheckel.
Gregory's attorney Steve Hanna asked Scheckel if he had any information that the crime was planned or premeditated?
Scheckel said no.
Hanna then asked "Is there any physical evidence that he (Gregory) did participate in this crime?"
Scheckel indicated that there was none at this time."
Senco then called up a second officer to testify. Mike Britt, police officer with the Illinois State Police assigned to investigate the death of Adrienne
Reynolds was interviewed.
He told the court he interviewed Nathan Gaudet Monday.
Gaudet told the officer that two days prior to Reynolds' disappearance he was riding in Sarah Kolb's car and the topic came up in conversation asking the question: "Did he think he could kill somebody?"
The three, Kolb, Gaudet and Gregory were discussing this topic.
Gaudet told officer Britt that he was not present when the confrontation took place between Kolb and Reynolds. "He didn't know anything about it until Sunday," Britt said.
Britt then told about the officer when Kolb and Gregory came to his grandmother's house Sunday they asked him if he had a saw and he didn't so he went back into the house to get one.
On the trip out to Mercer County Gaudet said they resumed the conversation about killing somebody. "They asked him if he believed that they had a dead body," said Britt.
"He said he really didn't believe it until they showed him the body."
He also said that Cory told him that when they were in the Taco Bell parking lot Cory was holding Adrienne's arms while Sarah was fighting with her. He said Cory thought that Sarah was the one who choked Adrienne to death, but afterwards Cory put a belt around her neck until they arrived at Big Island.
"In the first interview he (Nathan) said that Cory did some of the cutting," said Britt.
In later interviews Nathan admitted that Cory just pulled her legs off after they burned.
He said they let the body burn for six hours.
Britt testified that the evidence was consistent with that scenario. Reynolds was identified through dental records, Britt said.
The defense attorney had no questions for Britt.
Finally, Senco asked Judge Teros to grant a disclosure to take blood, saliva and hair samples from Gregory, with no objections from the defense. Judge Teros granted the request.
After the preliminary hearing, an arraignment was held. The defendant pleaded not guilty and a trial date was set for April 4 at 9:30 a.m. The pretrial hearing was set for March 28 at 1 p.m. and Judge Teros set March 31 at 8:30 as the date and time for the final date for any plea negotiations.
A third teen, Nathan Gaudet, 16, was set to appear in court Tuesday as a juvenile. He was arrested Monday and was being held in a juvenile facility in Peoria. Rock Island States Attorney Terronez could not reveal Tuesday morning what charges have been filed against the juvenile or whether he will be charged as an adult at a later date.
Adrianne's family has gone threw a lot of pain recently. I know. I am part of her family. Her stepmother is my cousin and she has lost an uncle over the weekend. She is not just greeving for one loss, she is greeving for two. I think the press needs to leave the family alone and let them have some space. They are hounding them and they don't feel comfortable. Andrianne was a sweet and beautiful girl. Sarah Kolb better get the death penalty and so should that Cory kid. I just don't understand why anyone in the Taco Bell where this all took place didn't call 911. If someone would have just called the police Adrianne would still be alive and happy. Adrianne was trying to make her life better, that is why she moved to her father's. That life was better than what she was living in Texas and she had a loving family. Her brothers loved her very much and would do anything for her without any question. Adrianne was very mature for her age and all she was wanting to do was to show everyone she can do something with her life. NO she didn't live the greatest life growing up, but she was trying to straighten it out just unfortunately she can't do that now thanks to an immature brat that thinks she needs to have attention for the boys. For that she is getting all the attention she deserves and I hope if she doesn't get the death penalty she rots in jail for the rest of her life, same goes for the boy. The don't deserve to get the chance to do this again. I do feel sorry for their families b/c as far as they knew they were trying to straighten out their lives also, but they weren't all they ended up doing was ruining it even more. I was surprised anyone would want to kill Adrianne. She had so much going for her after she got her GED. She was a great singer and always had loved music. That was her passion in life. They took that away from her and her family and now they should pay. I also can't believe it was all over b/c Adrianne was prettier than her. Hell I don't see how any girl can't be prettier than her. She looks like a boy tring to be a girl. I believe everyone that is involved with the murder should be trialed as an adult and they should all be convicted too. They deserve everything coming to them.
Woman do you read posts on this thread.
You also edited my comments. I basically stated that if Berkowitz ever did know what he did was 'wrong' it was on an intellectual level because he's not capable of feeling remorse.
But I disagree. The VAST majority of psychopaths cannot change whatsoever. But the fact that not all psychopaths are killers and not all kill the same way would reveal that there are DEGREES to their psychopathy. But even Berkowitz has said he should never be let out because you can't trust people like him.
Oh, another thing: Psychopaths are actually VERY BAD LIARS. My take on it is if people were picking up on that from Berkowitz they wouldnt have let him communicate to FoxNews when that sniper was killing in Dc/MD/NoVA. Again, maybe he only recognizes it on an intellectual level but that wasn't my point, really.
I'm sorry for your family's loss. Not much I can say except that I hope justice is served.
As for the parking lot, sometimes(not always) no one is around to see and if the windows were up, people driving through might not have noticed.
As for the so-called motive, I almost wonder if this Sarah monster just wanted to kill someone and the pretty and vibrant Adrianne was the perfect vessel for her hatred of self because Adrianne was everything she wasn't and would never be.
Please Texun, -read- my posts. I realize maybe the capitals threw you off somewhere, but I stated that I "did NOT want to be different."
There is nothing any of us can say that would help you and your family members deal with the terrible pain and loss over Adrienne being murdered, except that this is the right place to find supporters - please know that we are out here and we are grieving with you from afar. I just wish I could be on the jury in that courthouse when the trial comes so I could convict, convict, convict!
Well, you did say in your journal that you were in trouble for "threatening your father's life."
And you did post a message to Sarah on her site saying you "hope she makes it thru this."
That's not DIFFERENT?
And some say there is no point to RAP music... One thing is certain its not music... it must be a political statement.. or just a statement of some other kind..
Your online life shows how "different" you are.
Sorry, but this is a forum for people with conservative views. Most don't buy into art and/or violence. Art maybe .. but not with the violence added.
If you'd make your posts readable, they could be read.
I'm eighteen. Teenagers and parents fight. Maybe a little differently in a "liberal" household than yours, but me and my father have a decent relationship and that was one incident that is behind us both.
And is it too much to hope an old friend makes it through such a situation alright? The alledged act is sickening, but I had -JUST- read about it when I posted and had no idea of the details. My goodness.
Fighting and threatening a parent's life are two entirely different things. I had some battles with my parents but I'd hate to think what would have happened to me if I'd thereatened their lives. I'd never even venture the thought!
But input = output. All one has to do to see what you and your associates are all about is to "read all about you" on www.deviantart.com
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