Thank you AZU and Valigator!

Thanks to the tireless efforts of AZU members and Valerie "Valigator" Parkhurst, the 2012 RSOL Conference in Albuquerque was the most successful conference for reforming the nation's sex offender laws to date. So for that, we should thank them for their efforts.

The vigilantes did what they could to sabotage the conference. They sent out their propaganda pages to the local media. Now, I'm not exactly trusting of the media. However, the media's skepticism of the info sent to them by the trolls led them to genuine interest in the RSOL Conference. The coverage was non-stop. As a result, a number of local registrants discovered the movement. RSOL-New Mexico's membership grew in numbers. People stopped in to share their stories and join the cause.

The media tried upselling the "controversy" aspect, of course. There was eve a town hall meeting set up by the APD to address the "controversy." The only controversy was the number of people who showed up. Three people, not counting police and RSOL members- counting them, that was seven people. I guess the trolls were expecting people rioting in the streets or something. Well, there was not. We were not targeted. The three day event went off flawlessly. What the conference DID receive from the locals was new membership. Maybe the media should no have mentioned they only received a dozen emails and calls, pretty much all I'm sure came from Davie, FL, Jacksonville, FL, and Nashville, TN, not Albuquerque, NM.

Wow, those wacky Albuquerqueans sure know how
to pack a stadium. Not.

Maybe now, the trolls will realize all their blind hatred and stupidity is not shared with the public as a whole. People who were truly curious as to what the reform movement stands for can simply see the fruits of our labor, not just what some group of haters have to say. Many showed up to thank the RSOL for fighting these laws.

Were there supposed to be protests against the conference? I haven't seen them. Maybe they took that proverbial wrong turn like Bugs Bunny?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no7xEmZramk

And then the trolls claimed certain speakers were not going to attend the conference due to their "efforts." Wonder who they thought were speaking at the event? Because every keynote speaker RSOL put on the schedule was there, on time and available after the conference to speak to the media. Hm. Maybe they thought Walsh and Lunsford was going to show up? Maybe they should've "taken that left toyn at Al-bu-koy-kie"  as well.

All in all, if our wonderful troll buddies did anything for us, it was giving us free publicity. So we should thank them for all their hard work  in promoting the cause.

David Rowe cries to media as he gets a taste of his own medicine

David Rowe and his twisted vigilante group No Peace For Predators has been threatening and harassing people online. After discovering the hard way that his victims are fighting back, Rowe is on the defensive, and turns to the media claiming he is now a victim of "harassment" and "bullying". *Ahem*.

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/videos/news/child-advocate-targeted/vCNDzg/

Child advocate targeted online

Reported by: Ryan Smith Email: rsmith@ActionNewsJax.com

Print Story Published: 6:17 pm Share Updated: 6:55 pm 

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. -- A local man who's devoted his life to fighting against child sexual predators is now being targeted by those very offenders.

David Rowe and his team have done a lot in our area to make sure offenders are known to the public. “The way I look at it is somebody has to do something. Pedophilia has become a full blown epidemic."

He formed No Peace for Predators after Somer Thompson was kidnapped and murdered. Ever since then, the watchdog group works to expose who they call the worst of the worst, sex predators. Just last year, they got an ice cream truck out of the hands of registered sex offender, Jackie Hall. If someone like Hall moves to the area, Rowe and his team spread the word with fliers. 

“We go to their next door neighbor’s house; we go to the stores they shop in. Everywhere they could possibly lay foot and we put their faces everywhere,” said Rowe. 

But now, Rowe says, an underground group of registered sex offenders are trying to do the same thing to him. “They're trying to paint me as this monster."

Nah, your words cast you as a monster.

According to Rowe, disgruntled sex predators are distorting his character on blogs and social media sites like Facebook. They call him a violent vigilante. Action News did some digging and discovered that Rowe was recently arrested for fighting at a local bar. 

They forgot to add the fact he bragged about his fight online, claiming "gold teeth hit the floor"

But he says that doesn't make him the monster, some are calling him online. 

“That we go out and do harm to these people and that's not the case at all. We've never touched anybody,” said Rowe. “We're here to let the people know who these guys are, what they've done and what they're capable of doing." 

Rowe says he reported the group, Campaign for Freedom, to Facebook but the content has not been taken down. Campaign for Freedom says it's devoted to ending vigilantism and reforming sex offender laws.

Earth to Rowe-- we don't have to paint you as a monster, you do a good job of that by your own actions.

See Rowe in action below:

Valerie "Valigator" Parkhurst in a NUT-shell

This post is a very brief summary of Valerie Parkhurst.

So just who IS Valerie "Valigator Parkhurst? Simply put, she's a vigilante (both online and offline), a gun-toting Tea Party nut, an alcoholic, a racist, and a criminal.

Sadly, Val has been given numerous opportunities to show the world how wicked she is, and we've discussed her a lot already, but here I simply want to hit the high points. 

According to the Orlando Sun-Sentinel, Ol' Valigator has been harassing those convicted of sex crimes since the mid-1980s. She claims she "only targets the worst of the worst," but we know different. Valerie was best known for her 2007 arrest for pulling a gun on a registrant she was harassing, also mentioned in the article. 

Lt. Wayne Boulier, Davie police spokesman, said he can understand that neighbors are concerned when a registered sex offender moves into a community. "Still, that doesn't justify pulling out a gun and threatening to kill people," he said.

Val's attorney referred to her as a "modern-day Annie Oakley." Hm. Annie Oakley was a turn-of-the-century entertainer known for her shooting. Maybe he's at least half right. Other bloggers were quick to point out Valerie's 2007 arrest was her SECOND assault charge. 

Dec 26, 2007

Parkhurst wants people to understand she does not just 'fly off the wall.' An avid target shooter who practices clay shooting at least once a week, she applies the same focus to finding information about violent sex offenders.

This her second aggravated assault charge. It's obvious she does fly off the handle. She could have stayed with her vehicle and waited for the police. 

From this statement.

It's an eye-opener,' said Judy Cornett, founder of Safety Zone Advocacy Inc., a nonprofit group that aims to protect children and help victims.'You don't want to agitate them [sex offenders]. I think that it probably would have been more in her interest to call 911 and let the police handle it. But sometimes when we panic, we make mistakes.'

She made a mistake and must pay for it.

She expects the sex offenders to pay for their mistakes and in facts adds to their punishment.

justice101

Hollywood, FL

Reply »|Report Abuse|Judge it!|#2Dec 26, 2007

The statement of her going after only vioent sex offenders is a blatant lie. She never discriminated. Anyone even suspected was targeted.

Her lawyer had her shut down her blog because of all her incriminating statements. But it is too late, it will be available by the isp and her hard drive will be forensically recovered since she will surely have erased everything.

And then lets get into all the hate emails she sent....this is going to be fun.

Another person posted Val's previous arrest record:

Case Summary

Broward County Case Number: 96014408CF10A

State Reporting Number: 061996CF014408A88810

Court Type: FELONY

Case Type: FELONY

Incident Date: 08/03/1996

Filing Date: 08/29/1996

Court Location: BROWARD COUNTY CENTRAL COURTHOUSE

Case Status: Disposition Entered*

Case Parties

Relationship Last Name First Name Middle Name Party Type Sex Race D.O.B. D.O.D. ID Type ID Number

001 PARKHURST VALERIE DEF F W 11/19/1955 BCCN 0186912

001 JOHNSON CHARLES PERRY JR PA BARID 000000793914

UNASSIGNED NOT ON FILE JUDGE JUDGE UA

Key Dates - Future Scheduled Events

There is no key date information available for this case.

Counts

Select Count Count Status Statute Statute Description Filed On Filed By

001 CLOS FXXL784021 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT 08/29/1996 FORT LAUDERDALE PD

Related Cases

There is no related case information available for this case.

Valerie was married to another Felon, Alfred Brainerd Parkhurst, who absconded supervision. They have since divorced although she still keeps his last name.

http://www.clerk-17th-flcourts.org/bccoc2/pub... 

Case Summary

Broward County Case Number: CACE90009947 State Reporting Number: 061990DR009947AXXXCE

Court Type: CIVIL DIVISION - CIRCUIT COURT Case Type: DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

Incident Date: N/A Filing Date: 04/02/1990

Court Location: CENTRAL COURTHOUSE Case Status: Disposition Entered*

Case Parties

Relationship Last Name First Name Middle Name Party Type Sex Race D.O.B. D.O.D. ID Type ID Number

001 RODRIGUEZ CARLOS A AT BARID 000000000000

001 RODRIGUEZ CARLOS A AT BARID 000000000000

001 PARKHURST VALERIE PL

002 PARKHURST ALFRED BRAINERD DF

TOBIN VICTOR JUDGE JUDGE 02

Key Dates - Future Scheduled Events

There is no key date information available for this case.

Related Cases

There is no related case information available for this case.

Alfred Parkhurst died in 1991. I wonder if Valerie Parkhurst had anything to do with it. PS: Does anyone notice the HUGE age difference? Alfred was born in 1919, Parkhurst was born in 1955. That would be about 36 years of age in difference. Valigator is more like Anna Nicole than Annie Oakley.

This screenshot also confirms that Alfred Parkhurst was a convicted felon:

No one should be surprised she was not only allowed to express her opinion in the Sun-Sentinel, 

and had the audacity to create an online Free Valigator petition (which never reached its goal of 100 signatures), law enforcement eventually dropped the charges. 

Valerie is also known for being a pesky blogger with a penchant for harassment (which culminated in her 2007 arrest). What what long-time readers may not be aware of is once upon a time, Val supported Once Fallen. I even have a screen shot and link to prove it :)

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/fort-lauderdale-fl/T7TVV572T6P0SBD38#c10

Amazing huh? Yup, we emailed. We talked on the phone. I even signed her petition. I even had ol' Valigator on Episode 8 of the ReFORM Radio Show. And she even attacked AZU on my behalf:

But I've known her long before that, through a defunct site called "sexcriminals." It was an open forum for both sides of the sex offender issue to duke it out on sex offender topics. Not sure why Val defended me against douchebags like "Anti," "PVulcan," and "DP1", but she was there. It certainly was surprising given Val's hate was pretty clear even back then:

However, as even my fellow activists will admit, I can be as hard on my friends as I can my enemies. I don't tolerate certain things, like Val's well-documented hate of Hispanics:

And yes, she's an ultra-Conservative right wing nut. Among her other profiles, her account at "Patriots For America", which state on their mission page, "Make no mistake, Patriots For America members will not waste time personally attacking (family, religion, etc) politicians but we will aggressively attack the liberal, socialist, anti-America positions, policies, and decisions being made by the Obama Administration and United States Congress." Val is also on the "Patriot Action Network", another place where you find such stimulating topics as "Is Harry Reed a Pedophile?" Maybe that's why even ol' Valigator is afraid of making her profile public. 

And quite frankly, I was quite embarrassed by Val. You have no idea how many drunken rants I've endured over the years trying to understand why she has such deep-seeded hatred of Hispanics, liberals, the homeless, and ex-offenders. I hoped to use that "friendship" to get through to her, but she was unremorseful and unrepentant. 

As I continued to dig into "The Life and Times of Val" as she puts it, an interesting name popped up. Justin A. Collison. So who is Justin A. Collison? Well, he runs a self-employment painting and pressure cleaning business out of VALERIE PARKHURST'S home. But wait, there's more!

There was Justin A. Collison, who was in the news recently, in trouble for an unprovoked attack on a black homeless man; he's also the son of a Sanford Police Lieutenant, and he was forced to pay restitution for the unprovoked attack.  And we refer back to the mysterious poster who was once again quick to make the connection between Valerie Parkhurst and Justin A Collison:

Hey Valigator. Are you any relation to Justin Collison, the son of a Sanford police lieutenant, who was caught on video beating up a homeless man in early December? I know you name is Valerie Gay Parkhurst aka Valerie Gay Collison and that you were married to a felon named Alfred Brainerd Parkhurst. You were born November 19th, 1955 and know a man named Chaffe Scarborourgh. All this information is available online.

So Valerie Parkhurst is really Valerie GAY Collison. And apparently a Collison is a higher up in the police force. Coincidence? Maybe. Is this Justin Collison related to Valerie? Most likely. 

Collison has been in trouble with the law before but never convicted. He was arrested four years ago, accused, along with another man, of shooting a motorist in the chest after a beer bash at his grandfather's ranch in Volusia County. Prosecutors dropped that case, though, after they failed to determine which of the two pulled the trigger. And at age 17, Collison was charged with beating and choking his girlfriend and damaging her home. Prosecutors dropped those charges after his family paid for repairs and the girl stopped cooperating.

So Val is claiming this is just a big coincidence. But what are the chances there are two Justin Collisons so close to each other in the same state, with Val bragging of having connections with law enforcement, and we see a cop's son with the same name in the internet beating homeless people on Youtube. But, Valerie expects us to believe this is one big coincidence. If these are not the same people, it is hard to believe Collisons are not connected somehow. 

Despite all this, Val is distrusting of police:

Guess what? She's also suspicious of the homeless:

Since I decided I could no longer tolerate the Valigator insanity, I finally exposed her and as a result, she has taken to attacking me on a regular basis. Today she proclaimed she sent letters to my neighbors about me (a criminal offense by the way), but this is merely her latest cry for attention in a long line of stupid actions over the years. 

I love how she has changed her view of the "antis," going from calling them "a bunch of kids playing keyboard warriors" to calling them "child advocates."

So as of now, she's hosting a blog targeting reform advocates on Facebook and trying to unite the various vigilante sites. So she sometimes calls herself "Stop Florida Action Committee" and sometimes her real name.

Her only friends are fellow trolls like Cynthia Harvey:

Val has claimed to have chased registrants away:

Another Val rant, combining "illegals" and "sex offenders":

Val supporting serial killer Patrick Drum:

In Val's "old age", she finds the real cops a "last resort" for handling problems:

Val suggests cutting foreigners in half:

And I haven't even included the incidents where Val has contacted the children of those she attacks (I don't have screenshots for those but the complaints are out there). 

Here is Val opposing the concept of putting ex-felons back to work:

Val isn't well-liked wherever she goes:

http://blog.timsmith.com/2010/02/19/operation-smoking-gun.aspx

Bob wrote:

How is Chief Adderley supposed to know about every homeless persons background within the city of Fort Lauderdale? The valigator is living on fantasy island. I think Adderley handled the matter properly. Once he found out about the problem, he addressed it. It sounds like you want Adderley to violate peoples constitutional rights. If the Validator isn't happy with the way Fort Lauderdale is being run, well then I suggest you move. Or if you feel you can do a better job running the city, why don't you run for office instead of being a monday morning qb.

The deeper one digs into the "life and times of Valigator," the more you'll find yourself wondering why she's even allowed to live free when she is a bigger danger to society than those she attacks? Only in FloriDUH!

PS: As for anyone who thinks I'm only "gay-bashing" by referring to Valerie Parkhurst as a lesbian, well, Valerie Parkhurst admits to being gay:

Cynthia Harvey opposes drug testing those on welfare. Wonder why huh?

I believe Cynthia Harvey, aka "Trillian Gently," as she's calling herself today, is on drugs. I don't have a problem with welfare, but I support measures to drug test those collecting governmental assistance.

Hm. Do you think ol' Cynthia Harvey is hiding something? 

We already know she is a raging alcoholic, much like her lover Valerie Parkhurst, but I wonder is they swap more than Spit and Old Milwaukee?

And substance abuse makes you believe things that are unreal, like everything they ever say. 

Occupy Stupidity: The scary link between extreme feminism and vigilante groups

Whether you love or hate the Occupy movement, the intent of it was to bring together those from all walks of life in SOLIDARITY against the "1%" of the world who holds the power and wealth over the rest of us. The words SOLIDARITY and UNITY are used a lot to describe the movement. The 99%.

However, some who have joined the movement have ulterior motives. There is no greater example than that of the "Occupy Patriarchy" cult. When South Park mocked the 99%, maybe they had these nuts in mind, because they claim they are the "52%", which apparently means women are the majority so that really means that men need to rally for their rights as minorities.

in February 2012, in Boston Massachusetts, the Occupy Boston group was holding a general assembly. A subgroup called the Occupy Boston Women's Caucus was trying to expel sex offenders from being allowed to participate in the Occupy movement. they were blocked, and some left in disgust. I have already discussed the details of the problems the feminists are causing in the Boston occupy movement on my once fallen blog.

Norma "Jinx" Jones

However, it is the situation and the Nasville Occupy movement that is a bigger concern. Cynthia Harvey of the Evil Unveiled website, under her other pseudonym Trillian Dent, is an active member of Occupy Nashville. Her close associate in the movement is Norma Jinx Jones, who is well-known as a provocateur and an extremist that many of the Nashville occupiers want no part of.

Just so you'll know there is a definitive link, here is Norma's crap blog:

http://occupydixie.blogspot.com/2012/05/evil-unveiled-at-occupy-nashville.html

Dumb Norma jinxes Cynthia Harvey by once again confirming "Veronica's" identity.

Also, while I was at "Victoria's" home to speak with her,

So how much longer will Cynthia Harvey deny her identity? Maybe a little visit to her slave house will change that :)

But I digress. Feminists are latching on anything that remotely sounds anti-woman. So what are they up to these days?

Nothing like going around chanting 'Vagina! Vagina!" I'm going to Occupy the Red Light district down in Nashville and chant that.

Biker Assholes Advocating Killing member busted for theft

Because bikers are such "fine, outstanding" citizens. Ahem.

It's an old article, 2011, but BAAK is behind BACA in terms of members getting caught committing crimes.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/01/28/millbury_firefighter_charged_in_thefts/


Millbury firefighter charged in thefts
Man also accused of extortion, fraud, and embezzlement


By Gary V. Murray
Telegram & Gazette Staff / January 28, 2011


WORCESTER — Bail was set at $1,000 cash for a Millbury call firefighter arrested yesterday on charges of stealing from the Fire Department and a charity he set up, extorting money from a local church, and workers’ compensation fraud.


Robert Giannette, 46, was arrested after what a prosecutor said was an exhaustive police investigation.


Giannette was arraigned in Central District Court on two counts of larceny of more than $250, embezzlement of more than $250 by an association member, extortion by false report of a crime, and workers’ compensation fraud.


Giannette posted $300 cash bail set at the police station after his arrest, but Judge Paul L. McGill increased the bail to $1,000 cash or $10,000 with surety, citing a history of defaults on Giannette’s one-page criminal record.


Giannette was taken into custody by court officers when he was unable to post the increased bail.


Giannette started a motorcycle club charity called Bikers Against Abusing Kids and used money donated to the group for personal expenses, police said. He told members of the charity that he was seeking nonprofit status, police said.


The charity is not a nonprofit organization, police said, asking that anyone who donated to it to contact them.


On Sept. 21, Giannette and several other members of the charity went to the home of a man who was being investigated for indecent assault and battery on a child, but who had not yet been charged, said Detective Kimberly Brothers. Armed with a sword in a sheath, Giannette allegedly knocked on the door and handed the man literature related to the charity’s activities.


The man called police after the visit, and police told Giannette not to interfere, according to the detective. The next day, Giannette went to the man’s place of employment and gave his employer more material from the charity, police said. The man was later fired from his job, Brothers said.


Police also said Giannette, who is receiving workers’ compensation while out on medical leave from the Fire Department, extorted money from a local church he did some painting for. Giannette told the church that if he was not paid money he was owed, he would go to the town and report what he said were code violations and a lack of proper permits at the church, police said.


A search of Giannette’s apartment Wednesday found several items that the Fire Department later said were stolen, including an ax and firefighting “turnout gear,’’ Brothers said.


Giannette’s court-appointed lawyer, Peter B. Clifford, said the Fire Department property police found in Giannette’s apartment was equipment he needed when called upon to fight fires.


Clifford, who asked that his client be released on the previously posted $300 cash bail, said the financial allegations against him may involve “as little as $1,800.’’


He also said Giannette had a legitimate workers’ compensation claim

Bithlo man guilty of beating 78-year-old man to death

I would investigate groups like No Peace For Predators (David Rowe), Predator Patrol (Judy Cornett), Stop FL Action Committee (Valerie "Valigator" Parkhurst), and Bee Aware/ Bzz Busted (Barbara Farris). I wouldn't doubt a connection between one or more of these Florida groups and these monsters.

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/trial-continues-man-involved-fatal-bithlo-beating/nPyk5/


Updated: 12:06 p.m. Friday, July 20, 2012 | Posted: 5:50 p.m. Thursday, July 19, 2012
Bithlo man guilty of beating 78-year-old man to death


ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A Bithlo man will spend the rest of his life in prison for beating to death a 78-year-old man he mistakenly thought was a sex offender
Robert Pascale, 22, had no reaction on Friday as the judge read the “guilty of first-degree murder’’ verdict in the 2010 slaying of Hugh Edwards. The sentence carries a mandatory life sentence.
Prosecutors said Pascale and Michael Garay, who had previously been convicted, beat Edwards to death with a baseball bat in May 2010 because they thought he was a sex offender.   
On Friday, paramedics had to be called to Orange County Courthouse after Ruth Pascale, the defendant’s mother, was overcome with emotion and collapsed on the courtroom floor. She did manage to walk out of the courthouse on her own.
Moments after the verdict, Robert Pascale said as he was being led away, "It's not over until God says it is. I'm still coming home."
Prosecutor William Jay emphasized during closing arguments that Pascale admitted several times, including in an interview aired on WFTV, that he beat Edwards with a baseball bat.
Pascale’s attorney, Roger Weeden, argued that his client was only guilty of aggravated assault and not premeditated murder. Weeden said Pascale chose not to testify in his own defense because prosecutors could have then asked him about his prior felony convictions for robbery, battery and grand theft.
Garay is already serving a life sentence.

So Anonymous thinks Amy Lee of Evenescence is a pedo-head

More proof any group taking cues from Absolute Zero United/ Evil-Unveiled is mentally handicapped.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/wenjiazhao/2012/07/25/anonymous-targets-singer-and-record-company-in-operation-pedochat/


Anonymous targets Amy Lee and Wind-Up Records in Operation PedoChat


Operation PedoChat, Anonymous’ operation against child pornography and pedophiles, has received a new target. The infamous hacktivist group has put Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee  and her record company Wind-Up Records on its hit-list over allegations that Amy Lee’s lawyers are preventing a witness from reporting child pornography and other online offences.


The allegations involve the Evanescence fan forum EvThreads and were made in the UK House of Commons by Member of Parliament John Hemming. In a petition that was presented on July 17, Hemming claimed that lawyers acting for Amy Lee and her manager Andrew Lurie had compelled Sam Smith, a user on EvThreads, to sign a contract that prevented him from reporting a number of offenses on the site. These include “drugs offences that have been expressly admitted by the alleged perpetrators”.


What drew Anonymous’ attention, however, is this: Hemming also reported that Smith noticed Amy Lee’s former employees publishing child pornography-related content on “a site other than EvThreads”.  Such content included “paedophile material including a story about sexual offences against a physically disabled male minor and cartoons with pre-teens in lawful poses but with sexualised captions, including sexual activity with animals and one caption regarding a toddler consuming human faeces”.


Smith apparently tried to contact Lee’s and Lurie’s lawyers in March 2011 for permission to report these activities to the authorities. When this failed, three Members of Parliament filed a motion requesting that Lee and Lurie allow Smith to report.


So far, these allegations seem a little fishy. For one, there is no evidence behind any of these allegations: It is currently unknown if Amy Lee or Evanescence had intended for child pornography to be on the forum, or even that they had coerced Smith to sign a silencing contract. (The MPs made these accusations under parliamentary privilege, and so are protected against libel and slander charges.) Then there is also the puzzling question as to what impact a UK House motion can have on a US-based website.


But Anonymous believes that these accusations are true, and is planning action against the involved parties.  In addition to the online attacks, the group also asks their supporters to picket Evanescence’s upcoming UK concerts in full masked gear. In their press release, they state:


“For the good of our followers, for the good of mankind, and for our own enjoyment we shall expel from the Internet and systematically destroy Amy Lee and Andrew Lurie unless they agree to cease and desist their selfish and corrupt actions. Members of the collective are invited to take action against EvThreads.com, EvFanClub.com, Evanescence.com and WindUpRecords.com.


For now, EvTheads.com now redirects viewers to their Facebook page.

'Nobody deserves this'

For some reason, Google didn't post this, so I'll repost it.

http://www.sequimgazette.com/news/article.exm/2012-06-13__nobody_deserves_this_

'Nobody deserves this'

Published on Wed, Jun 13, 2012 
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Gary Lee Blanton and his wife, Leslie Blanton, hold sons Skylar, left, and Gary III, right, in December 2010 at Seattle ChildrenÃâs Hospital. Photo courtesy of Leslie Blanton

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seek death penalty.

by AMANDA WINTERS

Sequim Gazette

Standing in a crowded courtroom, holding her fidgeting 1-year-old baby boy, Leslie Blanton didn’t hold back when a smirking Patrick Drum, accused of murdering her husband, looked in her direction.

“You left them without a dad,” she sobbed as two Sheriff’s corrections deputies led Drum out of the courtroom and back to jail.

Moments earlier, Clallam County Prosecutor Deb Kelly charged Drum with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of Gary Lee Blanton Jr., 28, and Jerry Wayne Ray, 55.

Investigators believe Drum killed the men because they were listed sex offenders. But they also were fathers, husbands and sons, their families say. “He thinks it’s wonderful he’s killed my husband and my children’s father,” Leslie Blanton said the next day. “All because of the (sex offender) registry.”

Gary Blanton Jr. pleaded guilty in 2001 to third-degree rape in Thurston County. He was 17 and accused of raping a 17-year-old disabled girl. Leslie Blanton said the two were dating and it was the girl’s parents who pursued the charge.

Ray pleaded guilty in May 2002 to two counts of first-degree child rape involving a 7-year-old and a 4-year-old. He completed outpatient sex offender treatment and served court-ordered community custody.

Ray’s father, Paul Ray, said his son was married three times and his current wife lives in Port Angeles. Jerry Ray had three children with his first wife, he said.

Helpful son

Paul Ray said his wife, Juanita Ray, died almost two years ago after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Along with Jerry Ray, they had two other sons and one daughter they raised in Missouri and California, he said. The couple moved to Port Angeles in 1994 and Jerry Ray lived with them off and on until three years ago, when he moved in permanently.

Jerry Ray, who suffered a back injury eight years ago that prevented him from working, would help out around the house, his father said.

In the weeks before his death, Jerry Ray spent a couple hours a day painting the house white with brown trim, Paul Ray said.

Along with being an excellent cook who could make “anything you want,” Jerry Ray drove his father anywhere he wanted to go.

“He was my chauffeur,” Paul Ray said. “He liked to do it. Wherever I needed to go he’d take me. I’ll miss that.”

Jerry Ray was cremated. No service was held.

“I’m hanging in there,” Paul Ray said, adding he’ll turn 84 this month. “I’m by myself now.”

Loving husband

Leslie Blanton remembers her husband as a man who was rough around the edges but fought for what he thought was right.

“Gary was so misunderstood,” she said. “He was just all heart.”

The couple met when Gary Blanton was 19, and though people warned him about her bad reputation and told him not to get involved with her, he loved her anyway, she said.

“Gary just made me feel like nobody else could,” she said. “He made me feel like I was the center of his universe and the center of his life.”

When she gained 80 pounds during pregnancy, he painted her toenails. When other girls made advances, he ignored them.

“I liked how Gary made it known when it came to anybody, I’m the one he picks,” she said.

Married in 2008, they had ups and downs just like any other couple, she said. But no matter how badly they fought, he never gave up and always made sure she knew he loved her, she said.

While she gave birth to their sons, Gary Blanton III, 2, and Skylar, 1, it was her husband who caught the babies and was the first to hold them after spending hours kissing her forehead and thanking her for giving him a family, she said.

“Gary always told me, ‘You’re the only one that I love for the rest of my life, Leslie, the only one that’s going to be my wife, the only one that’s going to have my babies,’” she said.

Charged with child abuse, Gary Blanton had to live apart from the family until he stood trial, scheduled for this August. Leslie Blanton said her husband discovered Skylar, who has Down syndrome, had a broken arm after he was in the care of a babysitter all day.

“Being away from us crushed him,” she said, adding he complied with everything the courts asked so he could visit his family as much as possible. “We were still waiting to get him home.”

Leslie Blanton said no courts, monsters or anything else can keep her from her husband.

“When I’m done here in this life and our kids are grown and I have grand-babies and it’s time to go to Jesus, I’m going to go home to my husband,” she said. “We’ll have our life back together.”

Lighthouse Christian Center in Port Angeles has established a donation fund for the Blanton family to cover Gary Blanton’s funeral expenses. To donate, send a check made out to “Lighthouse” for the “Blanton Memorial” to the church at 304 Viewcrest Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362, or go online to www.lighthousepa.org. For more information about the fund, call the church at 452-8909.

“He didn’t deserve this,” Leslie Blanton said. “Nobody deserves this.”

Reach Amanda Winters at awinters@sequimgazette.com.