January 2008

Gary Michael Hilton pleaded guilty today in the death of Meredith Emerson on the North Georgia Mountains. A plea agreement was signed earlier today and he was quickly sentenced to life in prison without parole.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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So I haven’t really had the time today to think of anything I wanted to write, much less actually write it down…

It was a pretty uneventful day at work, which is a good thing. RePete is still sick, although no longer running a fever, and I think I may be catching something from her. I felt under the weather all day, very hot and wanting to barf. Of course as far as I am concerned (and the other district managers) the new health rule don’t apply for us and if I can get my ass out of bed I have to be at work. That will work until a health inspector catches one of us at work and then the shit will hit the fan.

I am still pretty much butting heads with my most experienced manager and it seems to get worse every week. He will make changes to the schedule but not actually change the damn thing on the wall itself so I have no clue he’s made changes. He is scheduling people for shit like seventeen hour shifts on his day off and then acts surprised when they hang me.

He was going to leave me without a cook this afternoon and have his favorite guy cooking the day shift, expecting me to work a double shift in his store. I caught wind of it and called him yesterday to let him know he had to get it covered before he took his day off. He half-assed covered it. I still got hung and had to call someone else in. Then he leaves me two frigging bank deposits from Saturday and Sunday to make. If I stole the damn things they would take them out of HIS check. Yeah, I am sure they would do lie detector tests and I would end up in jail but the money would be his responsibility because we bank daily. Not only that but there are personal loans out of his safe that he’s making to his employees and that’s a no-no. I think that next week if there are any I will have to write him up and charge him for them. He is next in line for a promotion and that kind of crap is no way to get it done. See, I have a deal with the bank. I don’t make loans, they don’t make waffles. I guess he missed that class…

Enough ranting. It’s late and I need to hit the sack.

Updated – Brianna Denison’s Body Found!
There is new DNA evidence which links the disappearance of Brianna Denison in Nevada to another sexual assault and kidnapping.

Reno Police are saying that the suspect they are most likely looking for is white, in his mid-thirties, drives a truck or SUV, has facial hair and is in good shape.

Police are saying that the DNA links the disappearance of Denison and the December assault of a college student in the area and leads them to believe that a sole attacker was responsible for both cases.

Police believe that the man lives in the area or knows the campus well and are asking for help from anyone that may have seen someone acting suspiciously or perhaps their behavior has changed radically over the last few weeks.

This map from the Reno Gazette-Journal shows the locations of the abductions that might be related to this case over the last three months.

During the kidnapping on December 16th the suspect knocked the 22-year-old student unconscious, made her perform a sex act on him, and then drove her back to her apartment.

According to the police his DNA profile does not yet match any of the convicted offenders entered into the national DNA database, but apparently scientists have been complaining that the database is severely backlogged. Just how behind they are I am not sure.

They are saying now that the fluid found on Brianna’s pillow was her blood and that they also found her attacker’s DNA at the scene. They are saying that the pillow could have been used to restrain or smother her.

There is new DNA evidence which links the disappearance of Brianna Denison in Nevada to another sexual assault and kidnapping.

Reno Police are saying that the suspect they are most likely looking for is white, in his mid-thirties, drives a truck or SUV, has facial hair and is in good shape.

Police are saying that the DNA links the disappearance of Denison and the December assault of a college student in the area and leads them to believe that a sole attacker was responsible for both cases.

Police believe that the man lives in the area or knows the campus well and are asking for help from anyone that may have seen someone acting suspiciously or perhaps their behavior has changed radically over the last few weeks.

assaults This map from the Reno Gazette-Journal shows the locations of the abductions that might be related to this case over the last three months.

During the kidnapping on December 16th the suspect knocked the 22-year-old student unconscious, made her perform a sex act on him, and then drove her back to her apartment.

According to the police his DNA profile does not yet match any of the convicted offenders entered into the national DNA database, but apparently scientists have been complaining that the database is severely backlogged. Just how behind they are I am not sure.

They are saying now that the fluid found on Brianna’s pillow was her blood and that they also found her attacker’s DNA at the scene. They are saying that the pillow could have been used to restrain or smother her.

Some of the pit bulls seized from Atlanta Quarterback Michael Vick’s home are going to be ready for adoption soon.