Colton Barrera Still Needs To Be Found

Colton Barrera, the seventeen year old boy who disappeared in Russell, Kansas four years ago, is still missing and his case needs more attention. The media and law enforcement apparently cannot get the advertisements and endorsements to support telling the general public that this young man is missing, so I will run his picture again. Here is a link to the Facebook page that has been set up for discussion of his case and to spread the word. Four years is a long time for a family to look for a missing child.

 

Kansas Judge Talks To Witness, Ex Parte

A judge in Marysville, Kansas, has a case on her docket. The two parties involved in the case, the defendant and the witness for the prosecution, have been ordered to leave each other alone and keep their amounts of personal contact to a minimum. But the witness for the prosecution still perceives reasons to hound the defendant, asking him for personal information for purposes involving her own affairs. Instead of waiting for defendant to contact his attorney and go through the proper channels for all contact and information necessary to the existing situations in the lives of all involved, the witness for the prosecution decided to call the courthouse and complain that the defendant was keeping his distance from her, as ordered. So what happened? A secretary transferred the prosecution witness's phone call straight to the chambers of the judge scheduled to try this case. The judge proceeded to converse with the witness, behind the backs of the defendant and his attorney.

This kind of behavior of the part of a judge is highly inappropriate. In fact, according to the Judicial Code Of Conduct for judges in the state of Kansas, an ex parte communication is extremely unethical. How can a judge remain unbiased when her secretary transfers phone calls directly to her from witnesses for the prosecution? There really is no way, and this never should have happened. The Supreme Court in Kansas will certainly hear about this, and the next time Judge Hecke runs for the bench, the incident will be common knowledge in Marshall County, Kansas.

 

Corrupt Kansas Attorney Gets A Surprise

A lawyer who represents "the people" in a region or Northeast Kansas got a surprise. She had fully expected to intimidate an innocent person into entering a guilty plea to a crime he did not commit. He stood up for himself, and for the Truth, and pleaded not guilty. It is my very good fortune to know this man.

 

Kansas Cop Forces Mother To Abandon Children

While taking care of some business at the local courthouse here in beautiful Northeast Kansas, an officer came barreling through the hallway, making everyone clear space for him to march a young woman, whom he had just arrested, down the hall. He sat her down, momentarily, on a bench. Then she recognized me, having met me in the past, (this is a small community, and her children are close in age to my children) and called out my name. She explained to me that the police had taken her into custody and had left her children, ages five and seven, by themselves! She wanted me to call her mother on my cell phone and ask her to go watch them...that was all. As I began to oblige, the officer grabbed my arm and snatched my cell phone away from me. While I continued to grasp the cell phone, he hollered, "If you help her, I will arrest you, too!" He stopped me from dialing, but found himself not technically savvy enough to remove the phone number, and he further screamed, "End it!", letting go of both yours truly and the cell phone.

My husband explained to me that earlier in the day, there had been a big drug bust in the area, and quite a few people had been arrested for violating prohibition laws. He was also of the opinion that the officer had put the woman in this position deliberately, so as to force her to choose, when deciding who to call, between her mother and her lawyer. Furthermore, if social services had been sent to her home, and taken the children, the mother could also be charged with child neglect and abandonment, even though the police had taken her into custody. And asking me to call her mother to take care of the children had somehow become criminalized behavior.

What the hell is the matter with everyone in Northeast Kansas? Times were, during my misspent youth, my big mouth and my boozy breath were factors that almost got me arrested, more than once. Now that I am "old"......as per my childrens' descriptions.....and a little more conservative, no one looks at me and thinks "outlaw", these days. But I'm gonna get arrested for calling someone's mother to go babysit her children? Kansas law enforcement, have you lost your minds? Or is this another way you feed the human trafficking market you call a foster care system?
 

In Case You Missed Church This Sunday

If you missed church this Sunday, or even worse, have not heard the gospel at all, perhaps you should listen to the seal!

 

Missouri Amber Alert

A thirteen month old little girl and a car got stolen in Missouri today. In Springfield, Mo. a 2002 grey Nisson Maxima was stolen, along with the two children who were left inside while their father ran into the grocery store. Leaving one's children in the car unsupervised is always a bad choice......the missing little girl is named Harmony Blue. Her four year old brother was dropped off after the thief noticed he was in the car, and later reunited with his father. Anyone who knows anything about this is asked to call the Missouri Highway Patrol at 417-864-1810.

 

Harmony Blue was found safe.

 

Search Dogs Looking For Dylan Redwine

Dylan Redwine and his brother, Cory

 

In the aftermath of Dr. Phil's coverage of the Dylan Redwine case, there is also more information about the searches done by cadaver dogs. Two more dogs, in addition to the dogs used by the La Plata County Sheriff's Office, have identified the scent of a human under the ice in Vallecito Lake. It was stressed that the scent was merely that of a person, (the dogs have been trained to hone in on the scent of humans) and that dog the was not given an item specifically infused with Dylan's scent. No matter who is under the ice, it seems as if the appropriate thing to do is find the person. Mark Redwine and any enablers are probably getting very nervous at this point. Perhaps one day in America's future, custody cases in family law court will be decided according to what is in the best interest of the child.