Polygamist Call Was A Hoax

Authorities were looking for who they thought was a 16-year-old girl that tipped them off saying she was forced to marry a 50-year-old man at a polygamist compound in Texas.

Authorities couldn't find that girl and now we may know why.

A Colorado Springs woman was arrested on charges of false reporting to authorities and is being investigated for her alleged involvement in the call that tipped authorities off to possible abuse at the Texas polygamist compound.

Police say they arrested 33-year-old Rozita Swinton at her home on Wednesday. The Texas Rangers were in Colorado Springs apparently as part of their investigation involving the compound in Texas.

They left and have not filed any charges on Swinton and the Colorado Springs Police spokesman said he could not discuss any aspects of the Texas case.

Swinton has been arrested before on charges of making false reports to authorities. According to records the charge against Swinton was made in connection to calls received by police in February indicating she was 13 years old and trapped in a basement-- all a lie. LINK

The News & Observer is reporting today, what we suspected a month ago, that UNC student body president Eve Carson was alive and with the two killers at the ATM. Look at the above picture and see if you can see a face to the left of the headrest.

Our look into this

Carolyn Ann Futrell, convicted Wednesday of a Felony manslaughter charge was basically sentenced to time served. She had already spent over 2 years in jail prior to being bonded out to await trial. Futrell is now historically guilty of being the person responsible for the death of 7 year-old Kayla Allen. Many sitting on the jury had no idea that she would not have to immediately go to prison for a couple of years. One might assume that because the jurors only spent 6 hours deliberating the charges, the lesser charge that even Carolyn herself agreed on must have been a quick way for the jurors to go home. Why else? Because the evidence was so lacking that there was no way to convict Futrell on First Degree Murder? I doubt it. But it was a tough decision to make, the defense did an excellent job muddying the water. So the fat lady has sung and it is all over now but the bitterness which has reached a peak on both sides of the aisle. Fortunately or unfortunately 100% of the jurors were unable to agree with one another on the guilt of Futrell. Fortunately though, the ultimate justice is not in the jury's hands, it is where the real truth lies. I would imagine that Kayla's estate will sue Futrell and attach a lien against any future income. By sitting in court for over a week listening to testimony important to the civil suit against the Onslow County Department of Social Services I am convinced that DSS shares a large responsibility for the death of sweet Kayla. This is a long way from being the last we ever hear about Kayla Allen.

Mark chapter 6, in verses 17 and 18, the Lord is saying: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. " Believers can be murdered though.

Mercy.

For two years Carolyn Langford-Ochoa-Allen-Futrell sat in the Onslow County jail thinking about how best to defend herself on capital murder charges filed against her for the poisoning death of 7 year old Kayla Allen. After her release she continued working on her defense with her public defenders Rick Miller and Kevin Peters for another 2 years while she worked for Chloride in Burgaw, NC. During a total of nearly 5 years Ms. Langford-Ochoa-Allen-Futrell had plenty of time to think of how she would be answer the question, did you kill Kayla Allen?

Well, when the time came to answer to question Ms. Langford-Ochoa-Allen-Futrell about it she said, "I would never." I would never? How about "I DID NOT kill Kayla Allen"? What the hell does "I would never" mean?

It is just this sort of language that frustrates me when I look for reasons to support the recent guilty verdict of involuntary manslaughter and not a NOT GUILTY decision on the First Degree Murder charge.

Just like when asked if she ever "popped" Kayla in the mouth for "sassing" her and the defendant answered, "I mean it's not like it knocked her off her feet or anything." By the way, according to Ms. Langford-Ochoa-Allen-Futrell, Kayla was reported to be either a year and a half or three years old, she couldn't remember.

She also couldn't remember or didn't have an excuse for why the 911 call came at 11:14 when she testified she was checking on Kayla so that they could get to the 11 AM service at church when she discovered her laying in bed. The best the defendant could come up with was that after washing loads (plural) of laundry, taking a 30 minute shower, dressing, eating popcorn, and watching television she walked into Kayla's bedroom thinking Kayla must have fallen asleep. It was time to go to church and Kayla isn't answering. Ms. Langford-Ochoa-Allen-Futrell walks in touched Kayla's leg, turns her over and sees vomit, blood and smells "pee and poop" right before she "freaks out." "It's a sight I wouldn't want to put on anybody, they wouldn't have to see it."

So, so far Ms. Langford-Ochoa-Allen-Futrell says she "wouldn't" hurt Kayla, not didn't hurt Kayla, but "wouldn't" and that she would like to hide Kayla's body. I believe that's what she meant by saying "It's a sight I wouldn't want to put on anybody, they wouldn't have to see it."

But what is the most troubling is the lack of the ability to recognize time. He recollection of time varied from report to report and even in court she failed to answer the simple question, "what time were to planning on leaving for church?" Let's just say that the defendant was planning on getting to church exactly at 11, it is a 5 minute drive, a couple of minutes to park and walk inside. You would have to leave sometime before 11. Perhaps 10 minutes till 11. Yet the 911 call came 14 minutes AFTER 11. 24 minutes of WHAT???? "Freaking out?"

And just like no one could remember what time the two boys and husband Greg left Sunday morning to go to hunting class, "before the sun came up" even though an alarm clock must have been set, apparently no one on the jury remembered much of anything either.

Go ahead Carolyn wipe those crocodile tears off your face, you are not guilty of intentionally killing an innocent child. Congratulations. Good thing I didn't bet on the verdict, if I would have, I would be bankrupt because I would have bet the entire ranch on the jury finding her guilty of First Degree Murder. But then what do I know?

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AFTER A PLAYING OF A MINUTE LONG VIDEO TAKEN OF KAYLA AT HER SCHOOL ON THE FRIDAY PRIOR TO KAYLA’S DEATH SHOWING KAYLA FULL OF LIFE.

Prosecutor for the State, Ernie Lee's last couple of minutes of his closing arguement to the jury prior to them being excused to deliberate the guilt or innocence of Carolyn Ann Futrell, 37 yr old woman charged with the poisoning death of 7 year old Kayla Allen in Onslow County.

Ladies and gentlemen Kayla wasn’t a girl that suffered from allergies and a cold on Friday August the 22nd, does this look like a girl that was throwing up? Ladies and gentlemen the State contends that she was a healthy normal little girl on August the 22nd 2003, not until August the 24 under the care control and custody of this defendant was she killed, was she murdered, and ladies and gentlemen you may recall that Jessica Powell (the therapist) said this, she said that she was loving, quiet, compassionate, bright, active, someone that just wanted to be loved. (Unintelligible) She also said she was resilient, would bounce back. But ladies and gentlemen she could bounce back from unexplained bruises, she could bounce back from being thrown into the door frame, she could bounce back from a black eye, she could bounce back from the fear of being beaten for receiving a red card from school, (a disciplinary infraction at school) but ladies and gentlemen she could not bounce back from being poisoned August 24th 2003, this little girl could not bounce back, why did this happen? Was it because of the anger and punishment from this defendant over here, was it because she went in there and said” look its late you better get up and you’re still not up for church” Is it because she did not clean her room up, is it because she is angry about something else. Is it because she talked back to Carolyn Futrell who rather than popping her in the mouth like she did when she was 18 months or 3 years old, she did this.  And ladies and gentlemen this little child is so resilient, this 49 pound, compliant, loving, and well behaved 7 year old, could not bounce back from being poisoned with atroban, this child could not bounce back from having to endure and live through 8 swallows of atroban, she was not resilient enough to resist the intentional act of the defendant, And ladies and gentlemen (unintelligible) called out, (unintelligible again) , she probably said mom stop. (Lee gets choked up here) In this occasion if this child, so young, died of ingestion of Atroban (unintelligible) which from all the evidence submitted by the State indicates this product was deliberately, intentionally given to her, this was more than just neglect as claimed by the defendant and by DSS, this was more than neglect, this was an intentional act by the defendant, she intentionally caused it by (unintelligible) and for that ladies and gentlemen the State would ask you, without apology, that you convict this defendant for First Degree Murder, why, because she has placed herself here by not by what we have done but by her own act on August the 24th 2003. The State without apology requests that you find the defendant guilty as charged.

Audio recording of Erine Lee's final 3 minutes of his closing arguement. ( turn up the volume)

Read more about the trial

Read about Futrell's testimony

JACKSONVILLE, NC - I have decided to try and keep my mouth shut regarding the First Degree Murder trial of Carolyn Futrell who is accused of poisoning to death young Kayla Allen, a 7 year old child in her care. But sitting in court for the past week has me chomping at the bit to say just this ONE THING... "It's the evidence stupid!" All the testimony about swallow volume, black eyes, stuffy nose, valued employee, etc is just a bunch of talk. Talk that dilutes the true evidence in this case which should be extremely simple for any idiot to grasp. The evidence is: The child drank poison. The poison found in a Dasani water bottle tucked away behind a pink Barbie pillow in Kayla's bed contained nearly the exact same chemical properties as the 50cc (3.5 ounces) of fluid found in Kayla's stomach at autopsy. Did you hear me? Nearly the EXACT same properties. There was no milk, Fruit Loops, no nothing except POISON and a drop or two of stomach fluid, and perhaps blood. (the poison would have eaten away at Kayla's mucous lining in her stomach, mouth and throat.) The poison in the bottle did not look like water, did not taste like water nor smell like water. It smells like kerosene according to the police report. Kayla is not retarded and neither are we, yet we are asked by a scholarly defense witness to believe someone with a stuffy nose can't tell the difference between gasoline and water. (next time you have a stuffy nose see if you can taste the difference between tea and water, Coke and Mountain Dew) All said and done, Kayla drank poison. A poison that does not have a "knock down" effect like cyanide, this poison allows the person to suffer, for perhaps an hour before they succumb to heart failure but not before the lungs fill with blood and dissolved tissue and the victim begins to suffocate. Kayla, my two-year old and even my dog would never have drank a second sip, much less at least 3 shot glasses worth. Stick to the evidence please, for Kayla's sake.

The killer of Christina Lauterbach and her child will more than likely wave extradition out of Mexico to escape the hell-hole conditions of Mexican jails as he awaits the inevitable handoff to face trial in the US. Laurean will be spared the death penalty if convicted for the murder of the 20 year old Lauterbach. Laurean stayed in contact with his wife and reportedly begged her for money. The authorities had this information 2 weeks ago according to a Jacksonville Daily News report. When captured walking into an internet cafe' Laurean gave up without a fight. He told an AP reporter that he loved the woman he killed. Can he hurt the Lauterbach family anymore than he has already? Laurean was picked up one year to the day he raped Maria.

Something to think about

Past Blue Line stories regarding the murder

Compliation of news accounts can be found here

Photo Gallery including funeral

UNC alumnus Mohammed Taheri-azar apparently will not be tried in Orange County for his crazed attempt at killing the 9 students he ran over in 2006.

Taheri-Azar's demeanor in court appearances has been unpredictable: He has quietly read the Quran, and politely asked to represent himself and to fire his court-appointed attorney. Once, he was led out of the courtroom after calling his attorney a moron and saying he hated Americans and Jews.

Even though District Attorney James Woodall has said he believes Taheri-Azar is competent for court proceedings apparently the Judge disagrees. There is no courtdate listed on the AOC website.

Mohammed Taheri-azar's mental issues

The recently deposed NC State lawmaker was convicted today of 3 Felonies stemming from his deception and lack of moral compass during the early stages of his community's effort to establish a museum to commemorate Wilmington's 1898 Governmental Coup, where the existing local officials were forcefully removed from office and run out of town during a white led rebellion that left black people dead and fleeing for their lives. For scamming, cheating, and failing to pay his bills, Wright was sentenced to at least 6 years in prison. His sentence began immediately and was taken to a medium security prison to spend the night.

Immediately after being sentenced to prison by Judge Hight, Thomas Wright removed his wallet and reached around and pulled what looked to be a pouch resembling a bank bag from the middle of his back and handed it to his attorney Doug Harris. Many have wondered why Mr. Wright had not worked to cooperate with investigators on other wrongdoings in the legislature such as the "new" video poker like bingo machines. One might suspect the pouch has something of importance in it otherwise why conceal it beneath his coat. Why not have it in his other files and records he brought into court everyday? After he set the pouch and wallet down he turned to his wife Joyce and winked then was led out of the courtroom, behind closed and locked doors to begin his transformation from the most powerful African American legislator in North Carolina to prison inmate. Wright will spend the night in a medium security prison.

More about Thomas Wright's trial

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"I AIN'T NO QUEER."

Apparently Sheriff Sid Causey pissed off Erase the Hate, a gay advocacy organization, for using homophobic words to describe his relationship with Wilmington Police Chief Ralph Evangelous. There is a scheduled day of silence on April 14 to protest the Sheriff's insensitivity towards gay and lesbian civil rights. Flyers such as the one seen above have been spotted in gay clubs and in mailers. At this time there is no indication whether or not Causey was calling Evangelous gay or if Causey was just admitting he is gay since, "I ain't no queer" is actually a double negative which of course means that Causey said "I am queer" More on this later.

THE REMAINS OF PAMELA WALDHER HAVE BEEN FOUND IN HARNETT COUNTY ...ANOTHER YOUNG COUNTY WOMAN REMAINS MISSING

Pamela Waldher went missing January 2005. Her story can be found on NC WANTED and on our blog site crime.blogs.com.

On January 5, 2006 Harnett County resident Susan Renee Andersen, 19, did not come home from work. Her family has not heard from her since. The Harnett County Sheriff's Office claim they spoke with someone purporting to be Susan in May of 2006. The Harnett investigators closed the case after that even though they did not have any proof of life that would have required law enforcement to visually identify her. The CUE Center for Missing Person's was recently asked, by the Andersen family, to help in the search for their missing daughter. Since CUE's involvement in July the Sheriff 's Office has reopened the missing person case. After that, the Sheriff's Office has refused to respond to repeated phone calls and email messages. The family assumes the investigators have failed to locate Susan or any one who has seen her since she failed to return home after work January 5, 2006. CUE Center Press Release

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WHY IS PEYTON STRICKLAND DEAD ?
Peyton Strickland, 18 was shot and killed in a paramilitary raid by the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office and the UNCW Police. Strickland, unarmed and at home, was killed, according to Sheriff Causey, for failing to open the door in proper time. Causey said, "If this boy would've come to the door - opened the door - we probably wouldn't be talking," . Autopsy report shows that Deputy Chris Long's shot to Strickland's head passed thru a door prior to hitting Mr. Strickland. NHSD and UNCW Police were in the process of serving a search warrant for a stolen Playstation video game.
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