Real News Story That Reads Like an Opening For a Bad Joke

3 Deaf Lesbians from South Dakota...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/12/chainsaw.killing.ap/index.html

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) -- A woman accused of killing and dismembering her former lover's friend was convicted Thursday of premeditated murder and could become the state's first female defendant to face the death penalty.

Daphne Wright, 43, cried as the verdict was read.

The same jury that found her guilty will consider whether to sentence her to death by lethal injection.

Prosecutors said Wright was jealous of Darlene VanderGiesen, 42, because of her friendship with Wright's former lover.

The jealousy turned to rage that drove Wright to kidnap VanderGiesen, kill her, cut apart the body with a chain saw and burn it, according to the prosecution.

Prosecutors accuse Daphne Wright, 43, of abducting, killing and dismembering Darlene VanderGiesen, 42, in February 2006. Remains were found in a Minnesota ditch and a Sioux Falls landfill. All three women were deaf and knew each other through the deaf community.

"This is not a game. This is real life. And Darlene VanderGiesen is really dead," State Attorney Dave Nelson said. "This defendant really killed her. And that's what all of the evidence in this case proves."

Traci Smith, one of Wright's public defense lawyers, said prosecutors provided no evidence from the day VanderGiesen disappeared to prove kidnapping or murder, and instead focused on the dismemberment.

"Take yourself outside the emotions of the chain saw. This is a sad case. Darlene VanderGiesen died, and no verdict you bring is going to bring Darlene back," she said. "The state wants you to be distracted from the important aspects of this case: What happened on February 1st, 2006?"

Wright was found guilty of first-degree murder, first-degree premeditated murder and kidnapping.

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Goal

Ok I'm gonna try this again... I'm going to try to go back to school. Summer session @ CPCC begins registration at the end of the month, so I'm going to take 1 online class (either math or history... probably math).



I can handle 1 class... and if I can handle 1 class with a B average or better during the summer when all I want to do is be on the water - then I can definitely handle 2 classes during the fall session.

Pretty sure I'm going to start with the basics like English & Math.. then worry about the humanities stuff & electives required for an Associates Degree. Then if I get through all the requirements maybe I'll transfer to one of the UNC programs.

Man I'm gonna be 45 before I'm finished with school if I go at this pace... this is gonna be cracky.