A day or two after I posted about the Caylee Anthony story, a missing 6 year old was reunited with his family. Cole Puffinburger, was reunited with his Las Vegas family 87 hours after his gun-point abduction. The 6 year old boy had been abducted by a suspected Mexican drug-dealer. Puffinburger had been found Saturday night on a quiet street outside a Methodist church in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Cole Puffinburger

Robert Puffinburger would not comment on Cole's mother or her father, 51-year-old Clemens Tinnemeyer, who police say may have stolen millions from dealers involved in trafficking methamphetamine. Tinnemeyer was scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate Monday in Riverside, Calif. He was arrested there Friday and was being held in nearby San Bernardino on a material witness warrant issued by a federal court in Nevada. Las Vegas police didn't know whether Tinnemeyer had a lawyer. Police have declined to elaborate on what role he played in the drug operation or whether the kidnappers had been seeking a ransom.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081019/ap_on_re_us/nevada_boy_abducted

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Once again, this is another missing children story that our media has not made us aware of. I understand that the media cannot do a story on every missing child case. But when they do, what makes that case any more important than another? When Elizabeth smart went missing, her picture was plastered all over TV's in america. Everyday the news would be Elizabeth Smart this, Elizabeth Smart that. She was abducted at the age of 14, I would be more worried about a 6 year old than a 14 year old. I know that's the wrong way to look at it, but at the age of 14, I believe you have a better chance of escaping or being found. What angers me is that not only did Elizabeth Smart get media attention while she was missing, which she should have, but she is still receiving media attention today, 6 years after the fact. She's been on the cover of People Magazine and she has appeared on numerous talk shows.

I've heard enough about Elizabeth Smart. This post isn't about me having a grudge against Elizabeth Smart, because I certainly do not. Look, I'm glad that Elizabeth was reunited with her family after being kidnapped for 9 months. But the media attention that she received was...obnoxious. Once they found her a news conference should've been held, and that should've been the last that we heard of her. I don't understand why we need to be reading about her 6 years after the fact. Instead of making americans aware of the past, make them aware of the present.

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Matthew K. Snyder

If you haven't noticed in my previous posts, I write about things that interest myself and things I think others should be made aware of. For the past 4 and a half months I have been following a story that I believe many Americans have not paid very much attention to. That story being the one of the missing 3 year old little girl, Caylee Anthony. Caylee had supposedly gone missing in the middle of June, when her grandmother, Cindy Anthony, had reported her missing. Cindy Anthony had not seen little Caylee for days and became alarmed when she smelled the odor of a "dead body" in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car. Cindy Anthony later revised her statement saying the stench was from old pizza.

When police questioned Casey Anthony on the whereabouts of her daughter, she stated that Caylee was with a babysitter. The so-called babysitter, Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, had been said to have been caring for the child for over two years. When police located a local woman named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez, the woman denied every having contact with the Anthony's. Caylee's grandmother, Cindy, said she had no reason to doubt the account of the babysitter. However, over the three year's that Caylee was alive and living at Cindy Anthony's house, Cindy had never met the alleged babysitter.

Casey Anthony

Right from the beginning of this case authorities were having problems separating fact from fiction. Especially when Caylee's grandparents, Cindy and George Anthony, told police that the last time they saw their granddaughter was on June 8, 2008, but there was evidence to the contrary. Police found a video tape, recorded on June 15th, 2008, that shows Caylee reading a book. When the Anthony's were questioned about the time discrepancy, Cindy Anthony said that she had been confused about the dates. She then remembered taking Caylee to see Caylee's great-grandfather on Father's Day. When authorities began to question Casey Anthony, they immediately found discrepancies in what she had told law enforcement in her signed statement.Much of the information Casey gave, starting with the babysitter account, turned out to be a lie. Casey also claimed she had been investigating Caylee's disappearance on her own. Therefore is why she did not contact police earlier. However, friends and family denied being asked by Casey about Caylee. Photos of Casey partying while Caylee was missing were then
published by various broadcasting stations.


During the investigation, police discovered hair samples and a stain in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car. Though there were claims that the stain was Caylee's blood, this fact has not been publicly confirmed. Instead, a lead investigator on the case said the hair was the major deciding factor leading authorities to believe that Caylee had indeed been in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car. Together with these findings, authorities "air tested" the area of the car trunk to determine if a decomposing body had been stored there. The results of the air test were sent to a "body farm" at the University of Tennesee. These results confirmed that a body had been in the trunk.


Since Caylee's disappearance, Casey Anthony has been arrested 4 times.

• August 21, 2008: Casey Anthony was released after one month incarceration. She walked out of the Orange County Jail after her $500,200 bond was posted by California Bounty Hunter Leonard Padilla and his nephew, Tony Padilla, a bail bondsman.

• August 29, 2008: Casey Anthony was arrested again at her house for charges of forgery, fraudulent use of personal information, and petty theft for forging $700 worth of checks and using her friend's credit card's without permission. Leonard Padilla subsequently rescinded the $500,200 in bail due to a lack of cooperation from Casey Anthony.

• September 5, 2008: Casey Anthony was released again on bail after being fitted with an ankle bracelet. Her $500,000 bond was posted anonymously. It was later discovered that Casey Anthony's parents, Cindy Anthony and George Anthony, signed a promissory note for the bond.The bond was posted by two separate bond offices for $250,000 each.

• September 15, 2008: Casey Anthony was arrested a third time on charges of theft.

• October 14, 2008: Casey Anthony is indicted by a grand jury to face possible murder charges and arrested for the fourth time.

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This whole case is asinine! I don't know where to start. First let's address the awareness, or lack there of, on this case. I've brought Caylee's case up in conversation plenty of times, and it seems as though most of the reactions I receive sound like the following.

"So what do you think of the Caylee Anthony case?"

"The whoey, whatty case?"

"You know the case about the little girl who went missing in Florida?"

"Didn't realize there was one."

Stuff like that bothers me, I remember years ago when Elizabeth Smart went missing and the whole country was in an uproar. Now a days I can't even carry on a conversation about it. I don't see what the difference is. Maybe it's because our country has grown used to the idea that children go missing everyday. So basically it just seems like our country has adapted a "What else is new" attitude on these sorts of things. It's a shame how I watch the news every morning, and on the day that Casey Anthony was indicted I heard nothing on the news. Instead I watched Kathy Lee Gifford's dog run on a treadmill. Seriously, who gives a f*ck.


Now back to the actual case. If you ask me, Casey Anthony undoubtedly guilty. She did, she murdered her little girl. But, I do think that there is a good chance that she may walk. From what authorities have made public, there isn't any hardcore evidence. No body, no blood, and no murder weapon. What the authorities have going for them is the samples of hair, a stain in the trunk, and it has been confirmed that there was a corpse in Casey Anthony's trunk. It's going to be a challenge to convict her unless they find the body, which sadly, will not happen. The confirmation of a body in Casey's car could potentially put her behind bars. But I don't think it's enough. I hope to god that the authorities have more evidence that they haven't made public. Even though she may walk on a murder charge, she still has charges of fraud, theft, and child neglect. So either way, Casey Anthony will be doing some prison time.


Now that you've heard my opinion on the case, allow me to hear yours. Do you think Casey Anthony murdered her own daughter? Do you think that Caylee is even dead? Should the grandparents be indicted on aiding and abetting or obstruction of justice charges?


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A woman admitted that she helped her troubled 14 year-old son build an arsenal of weapons by buying him a .22 calibur handgun, a .22 calibur rifle, and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle equipped with a laser scope, and gunpowder.

Michele Cossey, age 46, pleaded guilty on child endangerment charges on Tuesday in Norristown, PA. Cossey admitted that she had previously bought her son a .22 calibur handgun, a .22 calibur rifle, a 9mm semiautomatic rifle with laser scope and gunpowder, which investigators state he was using to build grenades. Pennslyvannia State Prosecutors say her son, Dillon Cossey, came to idolize the Columbine High School Shooters and was planning an attack on Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, which some former Columbine students attended.

Bullied over his weight, Dillon Cossey had left public school in seventh grade to be home-schooled by his mother. Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney, Christopher Parisi, said he thought the purchasing of weapons was "an attempt to boost his self-esteem...".

Dillon Cossey at his October 14th court date.

Michelle Cossey's sentencing hearing won't happen until after she undergoes a psychiatric evaluation. The maximum possible prison term is 3½ to 7 years, but her defense attorney she could get less than a year or even just probation under Pennslyvannia sentencing guidelines.

Michele Cossey attending her son, Dillon, court hearing.

Dillon Cossey was sentenced to a Juvenile Treatment Facility where he could remain until the age of 21. The judge who sentenced Cossey said that Michele Cossey had fostered a "me-and-mom-against-the-world" attitude in her only child.

Authorities did not think the school attack was imminent, but the boy did amass an arsenal -- knives, swords, BB guns, .22 calibur handgun, 2 rifles and partly assembled homemade grenades -- in his bedroom at his Plymouth Township home.

Police learned of the planned attack when Cossey invited a friend to join him. The friend went to police last fall.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/23/bullied.student.guns.ap
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/12/student.arsenal/

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This is a story I came across today and quickly caught my interest. Over the years I have read my share of school shooting articles. It's a shame that I have read so many. I always find myself interested in why the person did it. And I always ask myself another question, where the hell were the parents? In this case the parent was buying the weapons for her son. Now I have to ask, what was the parent thinking? I understand that you love your son. If you want to buy him something, buy him something nice, like a bike. Don't go buying him a semiautomatic weapon with a laser scope. Would'nt that be a signal? I couldn't image the conversation that had occured.


"Hey mom?"
"Yes?"
"Would you buy me a semiautomatic weapon?"
"Of course I will! I'll even buy you a hand gun and some gunpowder."
"That way you can make grenades too".
"Thanks mom! You're the best!"
"I love you too son".



If the world wasn't screwed up as it was, now we're resulting to buying our children weapons. Not only are we buying them weapons, but there is no punishment. Wow, Dillon Cossey will spend the next seven years of his life in a Juvenile Treatment Facility. What makes people think that when he's 21 he'll be able to live as a functioning member of society? Oh, and the mother could get probation. All our judicial system is now a days is a slap on the wrist. We worry too much about giving people a second chance and not enough on the punishment at hand.


So what do you think? Does the Cossey family deserve harsher punishments?

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Speaking Only In Vowels,
Matthew K. Snyder