HE MAN WOMAN HATERS CLUB

Glenn Sacks, Ned Holstein, Dr. Richard Gardner, Warren Farrell…just to name a few….are all a part of a group of men who insist that poor little them get discriminated against, abused and women are just downright mean to them….poor little fellas.     

Right Spanky?

The best part of their little club is that not all MEN feel as they do. They know  the reality IS that woman are abused more often than men….AND men do have many more advantages than that of a women.

Another former member of this group is George Sodini. George seethed with anger and frustration toward women. He couldn’t understand why they ignored him, despite his best efforts to look nice. He hadn’t had a girlfriend since 1984, hadn’t slept with a woman in 19 years.

“Women just don’t like me. There are 30 million desirable women in the US (my estimate) and I cannot find one. Not one of them finds me attractive,” the 48-year-old computer programmer lamented in a chilling diary he posted on the Internet.

For months, he also wrote vaguely about using guns to carry out his “exit plan” at his health club, where lots of young women worked out.

Yesterday his plan was executed.

He went to the sprawling L.A. Fitness Club in this Pittsburgh suburb, turned out the lights on a dance-aerobics class filled with women, and opened fire with three guns, letting loose with a fusillade of at least 36 bullets.

He killed three women and wounded nine others before committing suicide.

“He just had a lot of hatred in him and (was) hell-bent on committing this act, and no one was going to stop him,” Allegheny County Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said Wednesday.

The 4,610-word Web diary appeared to be a nine-month chronology of his plans to end his misery with a shocking act of carnage at the health club. He portrayed himself as painfully and inexplicably lonely.

“Every evening I am alone, and then go to bed alone,” he wrote. “I see twenty something couples everywhere. I see a twenty something guy with a nice twentyish young women. I think those years slipped right by for me. Why should I continue another 20+ years alone?”

It was unclear when the Web diary was posted and whether it had been updated online repeatedly since November or posted in its entirety recently. Moffatt said investigators are trying to determine whether anyone saw it online before the rampage.

“If anyone knew of it, they would have a moral and ethical obligation and legal obligation to bring it forward,” the police superintendent said.

Killed were Heidi Overmier, 46, of Carnegie, a sales manager at an amusement park; Jody Billingsley, 37, of Mount Lebanon, who worked for a medical-supply company; and Elizabeth Gannon, 49, of Pittsburgh, an X-ray technician at Allegheny General Hospital.

“She can’t be gone,” said Gannon’s next-door neighbor and close friend, Carl Rady, who knew her for 35 years and said she loved to work out and pamper her dog. “It can’t happen that way.”

Sodini was a member of the health club and had been there two times Tuesday before he came back at night, police said. He did not have a relationship with any of his victims, according to police.

In his Web diary, Sodini wrote of planning the attack since at least November and said he tried to carry it out when the same Tuesday-night aerobics class met on Jan. 6. “I cannot wait for tomorrow!” he exulted the night before. But he backed out at the last moment.

“It is 8:45PM: I chickened out!” he wrote. “I brought the loaded guns, everything. Hell!”

In his diary, he complained that women “don’t even give me a second look ANYWHERE” even though he was tan and fit and claimed to dress well and smell nice. He listed his status as “Never married.” In a chilling addition, he recorded the date of his death as Aug. 4, 2009.

On that evening, he walked into the health club wearing black workout gear and a headband, and entered the “Latin impact” class with four guns.

Jordan Solomon, 14, said she thought it was weird when a man walked into the all-female class and put a black duffel bag on the ground and reached into it.

“All of a sudden all the lights went out and I turned around, he started firing. I turned around and I saw him holding a gun,” she said.

Solomon said the man was expressionless, and she didn’t hear him say anything as he sprayed bullets. The teenager ran out of the room and into the parking lot, bolting into a restaurant where she told the workers to call 911.

Lauren Dooley, 27, who was exercising on a treadmill on the second floor, ran down the fire escape and out the rear of the building, where bystanders were applying pressure to victims’ gunshot wounds.

“You just feel like you’re in a movie … a horrible movie where someone comes in and unleashes fire on everyone. You just don’t know what to do,” Dooley said.

She returned to the gym Wednesday morning to retrieve her purse and cell phone, but the doors were locked. A sign read: “Each of us in the LA Fitness family are shocked and saddened by the senseless acts of violence that took place at our Bridgeville club Tuesday evening.”

Sodini did not have a criminal record, and he legally bought the guns he used, police said. Sodini used his cell phone a few minutes before the shooting, but Moffatt would not say whom he called.

Sodini’s family issued a brief statement: “Our hearts and prayers are with the victims and their families and we pray for the full recovery of the survivors.”

Six patients remained hospitalized, including the aerobics instructor, Mary Primis, 26, who was listed in fair condition. Primis is pregnant but said doctors told her the baby is fine.

Authorities initially had difficulty identifying the victims because they had workout clothes on and weren’t carrying wallets.

Sodini graduated in 1992 from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in computer science and had worked as a systems analyst at a Pittsburgh law firm since 1999.

A neighbor, Connie Fontanesi, said Sodini was so anti-social that “we really didn’t learn anything personal about him.”

Roberta Kozel, co-owner of Salon IAOMO, said Sodini was a regular at the tanning salon and last visited on Saturday.

The best line of all….“He was just pretty normal, a little quiet — like the classroom nerd,” Kozel said.

My predication from the He-Man Woman Haters Club? I’m sure they will blame women for not wanting to be with this psychopath….guess women saw more than a nerd.

Rest In Peace HEIDI, JODY and ELIZABETH

THE TERMINATOR

HE WON'T BE BACK Gov. Schwarzenegger Cut 100% of Domestic Violence Funding and What Californians Can Do About It

Please look at WHO is getting the grants, and look at the bar chart below — in 2009, suddenly, it’s Zero.” (OR data not in yet?). . . .

I know some of these groups. Others I don’t.  They’re doing training and web-based webinars, conferences, etc.

They are not STREET-level help, and this is the bulk of the funding, too:

Here’s who got the money in CA in 2008:

ASIAN-AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM	California	$400,000	1831831360
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS	California	$75,000	005138644
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION FUND	California	$1,323,812	6183756870

in 2007:

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS	California	$75,000	005138644
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELESDIV OF ADOLES M	California	$75,000	52277936 0
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	California	$95,648	084516632
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION FUND	California	$1,394,127	6183756870
SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY SVCS INC	California	$75,000	1134077790

(2006 — no one; 2005):

Recipient Name	State	Federal Funding (for this search)	DUNS Number
ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH	California	$400,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELESDIV OF ADOL	California	$75,000
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION FUND	California	$1,125,689
SOUTH BAY COMMUNITY SVCS INC	California	$75,000

Now look at 93.591.  It’s going straight to the COALITIONS, one/state.  Even though the title includes the word “grants to battered women’s shelters,” I don’t think the money ever gets to these shelters through these grants.

http://www.usaspend ing.gov/faads/ faads.php? reptype=r&detail=-1&datype=T&sortby=t&cfda_program_ num=93.591&database=faads&recip_id=67668&fiscal_year= 2006&record_num=f500

California Alliance Against Domestic Violence (WHO?)

The Feds are instead sending money DIRECTLY to the State Coalitions Against Domestic Violence, under the new “grant” program # 93.591, which contains the words “Grants to Battered Women’s Shelters” IN it, but the money is not going to probably go to shelters.  It is going to web-based trainings such as the ones we were looking at by the Battered Women’s Justice Centers.  It is getting centralized and streamlined.

this category “93.591″ only came into being in 2008.

93l.592 is also for shelters, and we should ask EVERY recipient what they did with their money.

FVPF, a group that (I heard) is majorly responsible for the VAWA passing to start with, has had a real injection of federal funding (including under 93.592, which is SHELTERS, but it’s a high-class conference and training initiative.

Murderers

Sorry we can’t stomach the father rights agenda anymore….remember…

GOOD FATHERS DON’T KILL

GOOD FATHERS DON’T KILL

GOOD FATHERS DON’T KILL

GOOD FATHERS DON’T KILL

GOOD FATHERS DON’T KILL

GOOD FATHERS DON’T KILL

GOOD FATHERS DON’T KILL

GOOD FATHERS DON’T KILL

http://www.indystar.com/article/20090623/LOCAL0503/906230356/

MURDERER

BROWNSBURG, Ind. — In the last minutes of Father’s Day, police believe, a Brownsburg man violently stabbed his estranged wife to death.The couple’s two daughters, ages 8 and 12, slept with their mother as the attack began before midnight Sunday. The girls ran and escaped injury, police said.

“Daddy stabbed Mommy,” one of the girls said in a 911 call after her father left early Monday. They hid in a closet about 20 minutes, police said.

Joseph L. Warnock, 41, is charged with murder in the death of Angela A. Warnock, 38. He was arrested about 9 p.m. Monday north of Brownsburg and taken to Hendricks County Jail in Danville.

Detectives said Angela Warnock was stabbed many times. Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Charles Morefield described injuries to her arms as “defensive wounds, like she tried to resist.”

“This looked like a crime of passion,” he said.

A judge had ordered Joseph Warnock to stay away from the family home in the 10400 block of Splendor Way in the Eagle Crossing subdivision, about a half-mile west of 56th Street and Raceway Road on the Hendricks-Marion county line.

Shortly before midnight, Warnock parked in a church lot about a quarter-mile from the home, walked through farm fields and broke in the patio door, investigators believe. He stabbed his wife with a steak knife, a weapon he apparently took to the house, detectives said.

Police and their dogs tracked Warnock to the church lot but didn’t find him during a search around Eagle Creek Park and nearby areas on the Northwestside of Indianapolis.

Sheriff’s officials said a caller reported seeing a man matching Warnock’s description sitting next to a utility box in the 10500 block of East County Road 600 North — about a quarter-mile from the Warnock home.

An off-duty officer working night security at Eagle Crossing arrested Warnock without incident, sheriff’s officials said.

“Our officers recognized him immediately,” Morefield said. “He just put his hands in the air and gave up.”

Warnock was shirtless and wearing shorts and tennis shoes. He was dirty and had light scratches on his body — the kind that might come from running through twigs, Morefield said.

FRONT PAGE NEWS…CNN

For some of us, CNN is the official news source, meaning, it ain’t even important, unless we see in on CNN! So many murders, murder-suicides, and familicides have taken place since 2009 began, but few of them have made it to CNN headlines.

Many local news sources have made trivial attempts at explaining the deaths and the perpetrators’ motivations. There have been maybe one or two great articles that do not site the economy exclusively (See 52 Days of Domestic Violence Flu), because it’s not really the economy, but rather the thinking that prevails in a paternalistic society like ours. (See The Murder Suicide Epidemic: Larger Longitude Study Debunks “Mother Killer Myth” and, Family Annihilations, Murder-Suicides: Warning Signs Go Unheeded Because We Normalize Them and, Join Up the Dots)

This front page article on CNN (as of 10pm 5/19), Despondent dads driven to kill loved ones, presents multiple reasons behind why these fathers choose to murder. The economy is cited as a stressor, but at least it doesn’t overpower the fact that murder is still a choice that is being made by those thirsty for power and control. The two reasons cited are “revenge” and “despondency.”

Mental health was also cited as a factor (as usual):

Case Western researchers found that more than three-fourths of the offenders in 30 murder-suicides in the Cleveland, Ohio, area had signs of mental illness. Half of the men had borderline personality disorders, which trigger significant mood upheavals, impulsiveness and feelings of worthlessness.

So, now that this information has been provided, what are we going to do with it?

I’ll warn you, CNN, that you may get some hate mail/emails/phone calls and a nasty campaign from fathers’ rights groups in the near future for posting this article (like Lifetime Network and the DART bus ads). They will say that you are doing fathers a disservice, and that not all men are violent, and that this piece is misandrist, and that you have been infiltrated by the feminazis that also took over the family court…never mind the fact that many women, children and a few innocent men are dead and continue to die almost weekly, never mind that you are not talking about ALL men, never mind that this society spends all of its time talking about this and that bad mother (and when men abuse, women are “failing to protect”), never mind that society remains intent on using the field of psychology to exclusively label and punish women/mothers (the Mother’s Act, Parental Alienation), never mind that those who control the media outlets are men.

And I ask again, now that this information has been provided, what are we going to do with it? More will die next week. More restraining orders will be ignored, more judges will disregard the law, more psychologists will violate ethics…What are we going to do?

I just noticed that CNN’s Father-Killer Timeline, to which I linked above, is utterly inadequate. Please visit Violence Against Women and Children News Central, Intimate and Domestic Violence in the News, Violent Angry Men, and Chaos Theory’s murder-suicide map for more accurate accounts of the 2009 murders.

Also read great comments on Shakesville!:

Also, it’s telling that you don’t see nearly as many mentally ill women killing their spouses for reasons not related to domestic violence. If mental illness were the sole reason men so often kill their wives and children, mentally ill women would be doing it, too. Instead they usually hurt themselves or, sometimes, their children…

JUDGE BIVONA

The days of the good ol’ boys club is drawing near. The below video is just the beginning of all of us mothers who are networking and building our own empire built on love, understanding and JUSTICE FOR ALL!

MAYDAY

http://www.smh.com.au/national/anger-at-law-that-fails-children-20090503-arfs.html?page=-1

Anger at law that fails children

• Adele Horin
• May 4, 2009

Emotional…rally organiser Barbara Biggs with supporters in Sydney yesterday. Photo: Sahlan Hayes

THE names of 22 children killed by their fathers on access visits hung from a makeshift clothesline in a city park yesterday as more than 100 women and some men gathered to vent their anger at the Family Court of Australia and the law it must enforce.

At the emotion-charged rally, a mother named Carolyn pinned a photo of her two sons to an orange and a blue T-shirt on the line where their fate was revealed: “shot and killed”. She tried to talk but handed her story to rally organiser Barbara Biggs to read.

“When the police came to the door, I was the one who told them my boys were dead,” she said. “I didn’t grieve when it was confirmed. I’d already spent seven years grieving every time they went on an access visit. Every time I feared they would not return.”

The rally was part of a national campaign to push changes to the Family Law Act, which critics say is putting children’s safety at risk after amendments in 1995 and 2006 put greater emphasis on shared parenting.

Some women in the crowd covered their faces with scarves to protect their anonymity but others spoke openly of their experiences and expressed anger at the law’s strict confidentiality provisions that they said protected the perpetrators of abuse and violence, not the children.

The act prohibits the media from reporting identifying details of families involved in Family Court proceedings, even when the children are dead, or have reached the age of 18 and wish to tell their own accounts of court-ordered access.

A Sydney University academic, Lesley Laing, told the rally and its supporters that women with abusive or violent partners enter a family law system where the “ideological view is that shared parenting is the norm and anyone opposing that is swimming against the tide”.

She said almost 50 per cent of Australians surveyed believed women in custody battles made up or exaggerated claims of abuse and violence even though the evidence was to the contrary.

Carolyn said the day she left her abusive husband in 1995 he had threatened to kill the children. It took him another seven years to do it.

She said it was unfortunate that 1995 was the year the act began to change in favour of fathers’ rights. The boys’ father had originally won custody but when that was reversed two years later, she reluctantly agreed to access visits, having been told by the court she was malicious.

Few in the crowd were dry-eyed when Carolyn’s words were read: “How many children must we bury before something is done about this failing judicial system that is supposed to be there to protect our children?”

A 13-year-old boy who had come with his mother and grandmother from a regional town to attend the rally said he had been the subject of a custody battle for more than five years. He was required by the court to live with his father, who wanted to take him overseas. “I want to live with my mum,” he said, “and maybe see my dad once a month for an hour or two.”

Also coming under fire from speakers were court-appointed experts, including psychologists and psychiatrists who, it was charged, made hasty assessments of parents that carried huge weight in court.

Carolyn said a court-appointed expert had assessed her as having difficulties with “social functioning” and “anxiety” while her ex-husband was said to have a “reasonably balanced profile” with no pathological or criminal features evident.

IRRESPSONSIBLE FATHERHOOD

Not too Responsible Fatherhood: Blaming, Shaming, and Gaming

This is in direct response to When Divorce Kills: How Gender Bias Pushes Some Men Over the Edge. You must [find it and] read it first.

In the past two weeks…? Why limit the time period. There have been more than a dozen murders since the new year began.

Ending in the deaths of “innocent children”?…There goes that catch phrase that I spoke about yesterday. Also, see how framing the “innocent children” conveniently leaves out any other victims who are adults…and also dead. I wonder how their families feel about that.

A father in distress? Many Americans are in distress right now, and always and are not killing; but notice how the author frames it as “losing all that he held dear.”..as if loss=the right to murder.

There is nothing “high profile” about these cases. There is an epidemic of men committing familicides and only SOME happened to make it to the main news section. Some. Within days, all is forgotten and the next murder occurs with the same sensationalism and shock. It has become a perfunctory reaction.

This doesn’t stereotype fathers. What it does it make us cautious of divorcing men, men who cannot take control of their emotions so they seek control by violent means. A “malicious stereotype” would be one that specifically intends to do harm. These men are intending to do harm. These murders are premeditated. Stop playing the stereotype card and call it what it is, reality.

Good fathers are good fathers. We can recognize them. Or, hell, maybe we can’t…because it seems like every time a White man commits a murder, the community wants to talk about what an upstanding, church-going, philanthropist, volunteer-coach, music-instructor, role-model he was.

We are not talking about “most fathers” when these stories hit the media. We are talking about men who use violence as a solutions to their problems and a society that is content with accept it as is. But we must point out the common denominator in these murders: the men are killing women and children who were often times family members or [former] lovers.

Domestic violence doesn’t have to be “gender specific” in order for us to notice that FACT that men are committing these types of murders. Don’t try to rule out gender when it is convenient. No one doubts that women commit violence however forcing it as an issue is an attempt to neutralize the problem. Shifting the focus.

Divorce is stressful for men because they lose the control that they “held dear.” The gender bias affects women because of the patriarchal structure of our society that puts women at the bottom of the totem pole with structures in place that benefit men.

Most men do not lose of their children, they give it up freely to the one who has been doing the primary caretaking–mom. A loss of custody would mean that custody was taken from someone who originally had it. A father that was a primary caretaker, that had his child “taken” away from him, would be a father who lost custody. Therefore 85% of mothers do not “win” custody, they get it. Stop framing this as a game.

Myth — Family courts are biased against fathers in custody disputes.

Fact: “Despite the powerful stereotypes working against fathers, they are significantly more successful than is commonly believed. The Massachusetts [gender bias] task force, for example, reported that fathers receive primary or joint custody in more than 70 percent of contested cases.”

Schafran, Lynn Hecht, “Gender Bias in Family Courts,” American Bar Association Family Advocate, Vol. 17, No. 1, p. 26

Ruth I. Abrams & John M. Greaney, Report of the Gender Bias Study of the Supreme Judicial Court [of Massachusetts] 62-63 (1983), also citing similar finding from California and other parts of the nation.

Fact: “The various gender bias commissions found that at the trial court level in contested custody cases, fathers won more than half the time. This is especially significant in light of the fact that not only do fathers win more often in court when they take these cases to trial, but also that an overwhelmingly higher percentage of fathers gain primary custody — by any means — than were ever the primary caregiver of their children during marriage. Statistically, this dashes the argument that ‘only the strongest cases are taken to trial,’ and in fact indicates an extraordinary bias against mothers and the value of mothering and mothers’ work.”

liznote re the more than 40 state gender bias task force reports. Available from the National Judicial Education Program, 9 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013.

Also see: AZ Battered Mothers Testimony Project Report

And why add the piece about “divorced and separated men are 2 1/2 times more likely to commit suicide than married men”? Oh, because the part that would typically follow a statement like that is, “So let’s support the natural/biological family,” or “You see, the court system is killing fathers.”

Yeah, whatever. How about this one?

Men with a [perceived] loss of control are 2 1/2 times more likely to commit suicide, murder-suicide, and familicide than men who feel that they are in control.

There is no “notion” that divorced/estranged fathers don’t want/need continuing contact with their children. The notion is that if you renege on your familial responsibilities (to be with your friends, or new girlfriend, leaving your children behind) you have shown that your children are not a priority. This is not meant to imply that in order to have a relationship with your children, you must be exclusive with the mother. What it means is that you establish your priorities by your actions.

A father is “estranged” because of his own behavior. A father decides when being a father is important to him and he decides this on his own time. Mothers are generally [considered] mothers 24/7. If the loss of the children is so painful, it is the father’s responsibility to compensate for this–killing the children does not do so. (Also, asking the mother to patch your relationship with your children by speaking well of you, or telling lies in your favor, is not you taking responsibility.)

Good book plug.

If all these fathers need is “someone who understand,” why don’t father’s groups promote counseling for them? Why force litigation? Who wins?

What many a father’s groups provide for these men, is a pep rally to talk about what a bitch his ex was and how unfair the family court system is (often time, before he even gets into the court to know for himself). Perhaps they actually rev these men up…

And now let’s get to the heavy political controversy that is being swept under the rug:

Illinois, like the rest of the states, receives grants from the U.S. government, via the Administration of Children and Families (ACF), under the name of Responsible Fatherhood. This money is supposed to be used to help low-income fathers break economic barriers so that they can make financial contributions to their children’s upbringing via a relationship with the child. The grant money is also used for incarcerated fathers for re-entry into the workforce for the same reasons.

Myth — Increasing fathers’ visitation time and custody rights makes them more amenable to paying child support.

Fact: “As researchers began to stop collecting their data mainly from fathers and began to explore the relationship between visiting and paying child support in longitudinal studies, the theory that increased visitation would result in increased child support compliance began to wane. In 1993, the Office of Economic Research, U.S. Bureau of Labor undertook a study based on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The NLSY is a survey of more than 12,000 men and women who are interviewed annually since 1979. The authors of this study found contrary to previous studies, increases in visitation have no effect on changes in child support.”

THE LINK BETWEEN VISITATION AND SUPPORT COMPLIANCE, Laura Wish Morgan with Chuck Shively of the Department of Social & Health Services, Washington State. http://childsupportguidelines.com/articles/art200012.html

In reality, some of this Responsible Fatherhood money is being used to target fathers for a custody changing scheme under the guise of access and visitation. Attorneys are provided to fathers so that they can seek custody of their children. The division of Child Support states that MORE money has been collected under this system when in fact child support arrears are being waived, and child support awards are being reduced, or eliminated.

You don’t have to do a lot of digging, as the article I am calling into question, gives enough information for you to get started. Remember Blagoveich. Think about the President’s agenda:

Strengthen Fatherhood and Families: Barack Obama has re-introduced the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act to remove some of the government penalties on married families, crack down on men avoiding child support payments, ensure that support payments go to families instead of state bureaucracies, fund support services for fathers and their families, and support domestic violence prevention efforts. President Obama will sign this bill into law and continue to implement innovative measures to strengthen families.

Yeah right.

Illinois.

Is the answer to hold women hostage in marriage out of fear that their husbands may kill them and their children? Is the answer to give mentally unstable men custody of their children and access to their former spouses.

Maybe the answer is NOT restraining orders and GPS. Maybe we should create a Father’s Act, to determine the psychological stability of men at the time of conception, and at divorce, as society seems exclusively and disproportionately fixated on mother-pathologies.

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR

WHEN WILL THIS STOP?!

ATLANTA — Three people were killed and at least one was injured in Athens, Ga., on Saturday when a University of Georgia professor opened fire at a community theater, police officials said.

George M. Zinkhan III, a professor at the University of Georgia, was being sought by the police.

The police identified the gunman as George M. Zinkhan III, a professor of marketing at the university’s business school. He was at large early Saturday evening.

The coroner for Athens-Clarke County, Sonny Wilson, said the shootings occurred around 12:30 p.m. Police officers responding to a call at the Athens Community Theatre, near downtown, said they had found three adults killed by gunfire. News reports said that one to three other people had been injured.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitutio n identified one victim as Marie E. Bruce, 57, the wife of Mr. Zinkhan and the president of the theater’s board of directors. Beth Kozinsky, the membership director for the theater, told the newspaper that the other victims were Ben Teague, 63, and Tom Tanner, 40, also theater officers.

Athens is 70 miles east of Atlanta.

An alert on the university’s Web site identified Mr. Zinkhan as “a suspect in a shooting off campus” and warned, “Use extreme caution if contact is made.”

Students were informed by a text alert.

“Some people are kind of freaking out,” said Carolyn Crist, a junior and the editor of the campus newspaper. “Some people are honestly nonchalant.”

A biography of Mr. Zinkhan, 47, on the university Web site said he was the co-author of two books, on consumption and electronic commerce, and had served as editor of The Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and of The Journal of Advertising. He received a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1981 and a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College in 1974. He joined the faculty at the University of Georgia in 1994.

Either immediately before or after the shooting, Mr. Zinkhan dropped off his two children at the home of a neighbor. “He indicated that he needed someone to watch his kids for an hour,” the neighbor, Robert Covington, said in a telephone interview. “He said there had been an emergency.”

Mr. Zinkhan’s children are now in the custody of the police, Mr. Covington said.

Another neighbor, Dana Adams, described Mr. Zinkhan as disarmingly quiet. “He was the kind of strange character that did not talk,” she said. “But I never thought he’d do something like this.”

Josh Gurley, 21, a university junior who was in Mr. Zinkhan’s course on consumer buying behavior, said the professor unexpectedly canceled class last week and said students did not need to take the final exam.

UPDATE!

GEORGE ZINKHAN BODY FOUND

Fugitive muder suspect George Martin Zinkhan III dug his own grave and covered himself with debris before firing a single bullet into his head, investigators told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

His well-hidden body was discovered Saturday by cadaver dogs in thick woods about 1,000 yards from an elementary school.

His body was removed a few hours later and sent to the State Crime Lab. Athens-Clarke County police are holding a news conference at this hour.

The dogs found the body about a mile from where Zinkhan’s red Jeep Liberty was recovered more than a week ago in some woods not far from his home in Bogart, in Clarke County.

The body has tentatively been identified as Zinkhan’s until the state medical examiner can make a final identification using dental records.

When Zinkhan’s jeep was found on April 30, police swarmed over the area looking for traces of the fugitive. The body was found outside the original search area, sources said Saturday. According to WAGA-TV, searchers returned to the area with dogs on Friday with no results. They resumed the search Saturday morning.

U.S. Marshals, Athens-Clarke County police and officials from the coroner’s office were on the scene when an AJC reporter arrived at 1:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Officials took the body away at 1:45 p.m.

Georgia Bureau of Investigations spokesman John Bankhead said the body had been taken to the crime lab and an autopsy and identification would be completed by the end of the day Saturday.

The playground at Cleveland Road Elementary School was cordoned off as a crime scene. A short distance away, toddlers and their parents were attending a birthday party in the school’s gym.

Aaron Clanton, a teacher at the school, arrived Saturday morning around 10:40 a.m. for his son’s party that was supposed to take place at the school playground. Clanton said police were already on the scene. They told him Zinkhan’s body was found about 1,000 yards behind the playground, in the woods.

Zinkhan, 57,was the subject of a nationwide manhunt since April 25 when three people were shot dead at Athens Community Theatre near the university campus — Zinkhan’s estranged wife, Marie Bruce, and Ben Teague and Tom Tanner.

All three were members of the Town & Gown Players. They were attending a luncheon with a few dozen current and former members that afternoon.

Witnesses said an argument ensued between Bruce and Zinkhan, who left the party. He returned with two handguns and started shooting, hitting Bruce, Tanner and Teague multiple times.

Zinkhan then went back to his car, in which his daughter, 10, and son, 8, were waiting. He drove the children to a neighbor’s house and asked Covington to watch the kids because there was an emergency.

A respected professor of marketing at UGA’s Terry School of Business, Zinkhan eluded authorities for nearly two weeks.

Police believed they caught a break April 30 when they found the Jeep Liberty. But a search by dozens of heavily armed law enforcement officers over more than 300 acres of Clarke and Jackson counties failed to locate Zirkhan.

Last Saturday, authorities staked out Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Zirkhan had purchased an airline ticket for a May 2 flight to the Netherlands, where he taught part time at an Amsterdam university and owned a home there. But again, there was no sign of him.

Police later said his passport had been recovered in the Jeep.

Law enforcement authorities intensified their search for leads in the case in recent days, distributing a GBI sketch of Zirkhan clean shaven and without a beard. The Athens-Clarke County Police Department on Thursday offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to his arrest

MATERNALISM

ROSIE THE RIVETER 2009

When I am asked where I get my determination, strength and guts. I tell them I was doomed from the start. I was a child of an unwed mother in 1968 and a had Grandmother who could get the attention of President Kennedy and fought for my Grandfather’s disability and got it.

Just as our President,  growing up with thoughts of heroes and dreams and having no “biological” father’s influence, I had dreams too. In my childhood I watched women burning their bras on TV, women picketing for abortion rights and all the others that they would make a difference.

Here I am almost 41 years old and the ERA is still not passed.

Mr. President women are dying in increasing amounts due to lack of protection by police, courts, social services and various other government agencies and shelters.

Mr. President literally thousands of mothers are losing custody to abusers in Family Court. We are being stalked by the abuser we finally got the courage to leave and we pay dearly. We lose our most precious gifts, our children. Our children are suffering at the hands of abusive men who physically, emotionally and even sexually abuse their children. Family Courts are giving our abusers access to us by way of “Shared Parenting” or “Equal Parenting”, it doesn’t work. Then when abusive men lose control, just as we’ve seen recently with killings of women and children, abusive men lash out. I ask you to please look at VAWA, Responsible Fatherhood Intiatives and other programs that punish women for being “maternal” and protecting their children. We are not necessarily “Feminists” we are “Maternalists” and we want our children safe and happy, as any Mother would.

This may be just the first warning call to our President but it should be well understood that this call to action to my President is truth, faithful, honest and humbly requested…….NOW.

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HAPPY EASTER DADDY

Boy’s suicide could affect dad’s domestic battery case

Prosecutors reviewing charges against Olympia Fields man

By Steve Schmadeke |Tribune reporter

April 15, 2009

A 12-year-old Olympia Fields boy’s Easter suicide could mean that domestic battery charges brought about two weeks ago against his father—who is alleged to have beaten the boy for not letting out the dog—will be dropped.

Menyarri Capehart hanged himself at his family’s two-story brick home in the 2800 block of Paris Road on Sunday; he was pronounced dead at 1:42 p.m. in St. James Hospital.

On Monday, the day attorneys in the domestic battery case were scheduled to appear in court, the Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled Menyarri’s death a suicide.

“It’s a horrible set of circumstances,” Bernard Shelton, the attorney representing Menyarri’s father, Daniel, said Tuesday. As far as charges being dropped, “That’s not something we can control, but that’s the indication we got yesterday when the case was up. Until we get in there and see, I don’t know,” he said.

Shelton said his client is devastated [he should be more than devasted, drawn and quartered seems apropo] by his son’s death and is grieving with his wife. Capehart denies ever striking the boy and plans to fight the charges if the case continues, he said.

Police responding to a 911 hang-up call at the family’s home on March 30 found Daniel Capehart, 31, on the driveway with a 6-inch cut on his forehead, said Andy Conklin, a spokesman for the state’s attorney’s office.

Capehart’s wife told police he had come home drunk and punched Menyarri in the chest for “not letting the dog out before school,” Conklin said. The blow caused Menyarri to lose his breath, he said. After Capehart’s wife told him “not to touch her son like that,” he threw food at her and was coming after her when she struck him with a frying pan, Conklin said. She has not been charged.

With their main witness now dead, [just one by my count] prosecutors are reviewing the case, which is due back in court on May 1, Conklin said.

sschmadeke@tribune.com