Criminal alien suspect in Linnik kidnapping/murder named person of interest in second case Update and bumped: Charged with 50-plus counts of child rape
Update: This will make you sick…
Terapon Adhahn, the man suspected in the kidnapping and murder of Zina Linnik and the person of interest in the death of Adre’anna Jackson, has been booked into the Pierce County Jail on multiple unrelated charges, including more than 50 counts of child rape.
According to the Pierce County Proescutor’s Office , Adhahn was booked into the Pierce County Jail on one count of kidnapping and three counts of first degree child rape for the May 31, 2000 kidnapping and rape of an 11-year-old girl who was found duct taped to a tree at Fort Lewis.
Adhahn has also been booked on one count of first degree rape, three counts of second degree rape and three counts of third degree child rape involving a girl who lived with him in Spanaway between 2001 and 2005. Probable cause documents indicate the girl told investigators that she was raped once or twice a week and that the total number of rapes was somewhere between 150 and 200. In some of the cases the girl, who lived with Adhahn between the ages of 12- and 15-years-old, told police she would sometimes be restrained. She said she ran away after the last rape in which she allegedly told Adhahn “No, I’m not doing that anymore.” The documents say “the defendant pointed a gun on her and told her to ’shut up and just do it.”"
Update: Adhahn has been charged…50-plus counts of child rape…Video of my appearance on John Gibson’s show discussing the case and the Deport Them Now campaign.
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KOMO TV reports on the latest development in the case of Thai immigrant Terapon Adhahn, suspected of kidnapping/murdering 12-year-old Zina Linnik…and now suspected in a second, horrifying case:
The man suspected of killing 12-year-old Zina Linnik has been named as a person of interest in the death of Adre’Anna Jackson, who was found dead in a Pierce County field in 2006.
Lakewood Police Lt. Dave Guttu said officers went back and showed Terapon Adhahn’s photo to residents in the Tillicum neighborhood where Adre’Anna lived, and several people said they saw him in the area around the time Adre’Anna disappeared.
Police found “he is commonly known as a handy man in that area,” Guttu said. “Stores or apartment complexes or individuals have used him as a handy man.”
The 10-year-old girl was last seen alive when she left for school December 2, 2005. Her remains were found April 4, 2006 by two young boys who were playing in a field.
The Pierce County Medical Examiner was not able to determine a cause of death.
Adhahn, 42, is expected to be charged in the kidnapping and death of Zina Linnik, who was taken from behind her home on July 4.
He provided the information that led police and FBI agents to the body and he is currently being held by federal immigration authorities.
Officials on Monday said they obtained a search warrant allowing them to collect a DNA sample from Adhahn, which could be used to connect him to other cases currently under review.
Linnik, whose body was found by police and FBI agents in a rural wooded area, died of “homicidal violence,” the Pierce County medical examiner’s office concluded.
The Seattle P-I adds this graphic:
This is Adre’Anna:
Stop the criminal alien revolving door.
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Sounds reasonable to believe that he is responsible for this one too and many more. If he was a criminal in his home country as I believe was stated then he is going to be one here just the same.
He should have never been allowed to enter our country and if we had stricter laws and enforcement these kids would still be alive.
Say no to a Sanctuary Country!
Rena
Fence.
Fence.
Fence.
Fence.
You’d think the American people would be more adamant about some sort of fence when illegal aliens take our children from our backyards, rape them, and kill them.
On multiple occassions.
Our government is pathetic; I have no interest in turning to them to protect my child. Concealed weapons permit, private school, gated community. I’ll take the steps my impotent government won’t.
Well now maybe he’ll get death for sure in case he made a deal on the linnik case.
There are recent studies that indicate that the application of the death penalty saves as many as 18 lives or as few as 3. The most recent one was actually done by a professor who opposes the death penalty.
In 2005, there were 16,692 cases of murder and non-negligent manslaughter nationally. There were 60 executions.
The studies’ conclusions drew a philosophical response from a well-known liberal law professor, University of Chicago’s Cass Sunstein. A critic of the death penalty, in 2005 he co-authored a paper titled “Is capital punishment morally required?”
“If it’s the case that executing murderers prevents the execution of innocents by murderers, then the moral evaluation is not simple,” he told The Associated Press. “Abolitionists or others, like me, who are skeptical about the death penalty haven’t given adequate consideration to the possibility that innocent life is saved by the death penalty.”
Sunstein said that moral questions aside, the data needs more study.
Critics of the findings have been vociferous.
Some claim that the pro-deterrent studies made profound mistakes in their methodology, so their results are untrustworthy. Another critic argues that the studies wrongly count all homicides, rather than just those homicides where a conviction could bring the death penalty. And several argue that there are simply too few executions each year in the United States to make a judgment.
“We just don’t have enough data to say anything,” said Justin Wolfers, an economist at the Wharton School of Business who last year co-authored a sweeping critique of several studies, and said they were “flimsy” and appeared in “second-tier journals.”
“This isn’t left vs. right. This is a nerdy statistician saying it’s too hard to tell,” Wolfers said. “Within the advocacy community and legal scholars who are not as statistically adept, they will tell you it’s still an open question. Among the small number of economists at leading universities whose bread and butter is statistical analysis, the argument is finished.”
Several authors of the pro-deterrent reports said they welcome criticism in the interests of science, but said their work is being attacked by opponents of capital punishment for their findings, not their flaws.
“Instead of people sitting down and saying ‘let’s see what the data shows,’ it’s people sitting down and saying ‘let’s show this is wrong,”‘ said Paul Rubin, an economist and co-author of an Emory University study. “Some scientists are out seeking the truth, and some of them have a position they would like to defend.”
The latest arguments replay a 1970s debate that had an impact far beyond academic circles.
Then, economist Isaac Ehrlich had also concluded that executions deterred future crimes. His 1975 report was the subject of mainstream news articles and public debate, and was cited in papers before the U.S. Supreme Court arguing for a reversal of the top U.S. court’s 1972 suspension of executions. (The court, in 1976, reinstated the death penalty.)
Ultimately, a panel was set up by the National Academy of Sciences which decided that Ehrlich’s conclusions were flawed. But the new pro-deterrent studies have not gotten that kind of scrutiny.
At least not yet. The academic debate, and the larger national argument about the death penalty itself — with questions about racial and economic disparities in its implementation — shows no signs of fading away.
Steven Shavell, a professor of law and economics at Harvard Law School and co-editor-in-chief of the American Law and Economics Review, said in an e-mail exchange that his journal intends to publish several articles on the statistical studies on deterrence in an upcoming issue.
My apologies for not copying and pasting the entire pro-death penalty argument. Below is page 1 from AP posted on the CBS News website. Read this first and then the above.
Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey.
The steady drumbeat of DNA exonerations — pointing out flaws in the justice system — has weighed against capital punishment. The moral opposition is loud, too, echoed in Europe and the rest of the industrialized world, where all but a few countries banned executions years ago.
What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument — whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder. The analyses say yes. They count between three and 18 lives that would be saved by the execution of each convicted killer.
The reports have horrified death penalty opponents and several scientists, who vigorously question the data and its implications.
So far, the studies have had little impact on public policy. New Jersey’s commission on the death penalty this year dismissed the body of knowledge on deterrence as “inconclusive.”
But the ferocious argument in academic circles could eventually spread to a wider audience, as it has in the past.
“Science does really draw a conclusion. It did. There is no question about it,” said Naci Mocan, an economics professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. “The conclusion is there is a deterrent effect.”
A 2003 study he co-authored, and a 2006 study that re-examined the data, found that each execution results in five fewer homicides, and commuting a death sentence means five more homicides. “The results are robust, they don’t really go away,” he said. “I oppose the death penalty. But my results show that the death penalty (deters) — what am I going to do, hide them?”
Statistical studies like his are among a dozen papers since 2001 that capital punishment has deterrent effects. They all explore the same basic theory — if the cost of something (be it the purchase of an apple or the act of killing someone) becomes too high, people will change their behavior (forego apples or shy away from murder).
To explore the question, they look at executions and homicides, by year and by state or county, trying to tease out the impact of the death penalty on homicides by accounting for other factors, such as unemployment data and per capita income, the probabilities of arrest and conviction, and more.
Among the conclusions:
Each execution deters an average of 18 murders, according to a 2003 nationwide study by professors at Emory University. (Other studies have estimated the deterred murders per execution at three, five and 14).
The Illinois moratorium on executions in 2000 led to 150 additional homicides over four years following, according to a 2006 study by professors at the University of Houston.
Speeding up executions would strengthen the deterrent effect. For every 2.75 years cut from time spent on death row, one murder would be prevented, according to a 2004 study by an Emory University professor.
On July 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm, publiuswarmac9999
Thank you for siting the source and article. Very interesting.
“the application of the death penalty saves as many as 18 lives or as few as 3.” If it saved one it is worth it. It as well saves taxpayers money when they are put to death within 10 years because if not they could spend up to 50-60 years on the taxpayers dime if given life.
I don’t know if this guy’s guilty or not…that’s for the courts to decide.
However, there have been a lot of brutal crimes committed by illegal “immigrants” who had had multiple previous run-ins with the law.
Apologists, such as Geraldo Rivera, will argue that most immigrants, legal and illegal are only entering to find work and live productive lives. They will also say that citizens commit horrible crimes as well. OK. They will say that illegals commit proportionately fewer crimes than citizens. I don’t know whether or not that is true but, even if it is, I don’t care!
I’m interested in the 100% figure. This is the number that applies to the number of murder victims who would still be alive if their killers had been deported when they had their first arrest. I don’t care if it’s one, one hundred, one thousand or more. 100% is 100%. If Adhahn is guilty then, had he been deported, Linnik would be alive. 100% of her. THAT’S the important figure.
One other point: I don’t think it should matter if the immigrant is legal or illegal. They should be deported if they commit a crime.
According to Geraldo Riveira, Al-Qaeda are crossing Rio Grande ‘only to find work here’. They ‘only did their work’ on 9/11 alright, didn’t they? As for dubya, what ‘family values’ these beasts bring? Oh Ok.. that is just a cover to let your chronies make a blood-buck off of criminals while you cash in on the vote. American children be damned. There.. now it addes up!
When did children of both sexes and young college women become targets of blood thirsty murderers? It may have started when they no longer felt threatened by those young innocent’s fathers and brothers that would have lynched them from the nearest tree, with very few questions asked. Same goes for the number of pregnant women murdered every year. There is a presumption now that with the “right story” they might just stand a chance of getting off - if found guilty, there are years of appeals left. We may have to look to the Saudi Justice System to see if beheadings deter crime. There is little condemnation of it from human rights groups.
Michelle, just caught you on John Gibson/Fox News - great job. As usual, you had your facts ready and delivered them like a surgeon.
I had Carol Taber of Family Security Matters on my radio show yesterday. The statistics she gave were staggering.
There are about 267,000 illegal immigrants in our prisons who may have committed up to 7 million criminal acts. Many of these were violent crimes. Many of the criminals are multiple offenders who should have been deported after the first crime.
I made the point to Carol that it is much easier to get the government to reform a law already on the books or pass a needed piece of legislation than it is to get them to enforce laws already on the books. For that, we must rely on the government’s will to do so.
Sorely lacking on this and most issues having to do with illegal immigration.
Too many American lives have been lost senselessly at the hands of illegal aliens. American families are suffering grievious losses because of our corrupt government. I still contend that our borders are not being secured in large part because it would lead to losses in illegal drug profits by corrupt government officials, both Mexican and American. Also, if the borders were secure and the illegal aliens returned to their home countries their governments would be besieged by the unrest caused by their poverty stricken citizens which could lead to revolt. Corrupt governments want to keep the status quo.
Fence wouldn’t have stopped this monster, however this case underscores the overwhelming need of tight immigrant laws and an immediate revamping of the entire immigration system starting with enforcement first then moving to streamline the process with better use of technology to allow those legally standing in line to gain entrance. We should also begin working better with the various countries of those applying to gain legal status, and anyone in line unable to meet a new, more strict, background check should not get in, period.
Pray for our country friends. This is sad and sickening news.
I have just one question.
We have more than enough home grown murderers, so why do we have to import a whole bunch more now?
I forget.
Oh I remember now, so employers like Tysons Foods and Del Monte can have cheap serf labor.
Monster. What else can be said about this guy?
Michelle-
Deport them? Why? They’ll just come back. More strict measures need to be taken on scum like this.
Aside from that, WHERE IS MY FENCE?!
And so the Demoncrats can add to their voting blocs.
Yes, all these creeps should be handled with “Extreme Prejudice”. Too bad more foolish leaders continue to make their communities “sanctuary” cities for this human garbage, pandering to the growing third world invasion by kissing up to greedy business and voting interests.
Any day now we will hear how it’s only a few bad apples. How can our politicians be so blind? It’s now well known that we are apologetic about enforcing law here in the US, and that child molesters get therapy instead of execution. What did we expect?
First, may I say that I would love to see these criminals confined to “house arrest” in the homes of the politicians and judges who turn them loose on US, for several years. After they have done justice on the homes of the judges and politicians, then we execute them.
You think I am ugly - go do a “MAN ON THE STREET” survey and ask if anyone that feels that way is “ugly”.
Or any other CRIMINAL conduct, for that matter - and particularly the crimes of violence fully warranting the Death Penalty IN A TIMELY MANNER.
Deportation would be too good for this guy; he would only sneak back in and kill again. Death would be the only suitable outcome for the grievances he has caused to children and their parents. If this guy walks away from this that is all the evidence you need that our justice system is corrupt and worthless. Better he gets a bullet in the head walking out of the courthouse, anyway that’s what I would do if I were one of the fathers…
Ooooh. According to Amnesty International, Thailand still uses capital punishment. So their government won’t be staging protests, interfering in court, and using the U.N to criticize the U.S., like Mexico does every time one of their upstanding citizens murders Americans in Texas.
Except the girls were raped and murdered in Seattle; Washington has a death penalty on the books but they never hand it out.
The compact formed by the original 13 states in agreeing to being subject to a federal government based on the federal government providing for the common defense and promoting the general welfare of its citizens.
For whatever reason, our federal government has not only breached this compact, it is actively working against these principles.
Geraldo= “But he would have had to do these crimes in Thailand if he was deported. As it was, we saved the Thai parents the problem.”
I agree that we have to start with the felonious illegal alien population but we need to get them all.
Remember they are all criminals (hence the word ‘Illegal’ we preface their name with)
-DR
I pray that these childrens’ deaths don’t go unnoticed by the masses. Why isn’t this all over the idiot box news?
This morning I saw my local Fox affiliate note that Loudoun County, VA is following in the footsteps of Prince William County, VA in denying County services to illegals — a five-second blurb — which they followed by announcing that they would be interviewing some Marxist from “Human Rights Watch” to explain how immigration enforcement is tearing families apart and causing divorces.
We are still not winning as long as the left runs the media. Where’s that Fairness Doctrine? We could have Michelle Malkin on PBS or NPR every day! Somehow we have to make sure these deaths are not forgotten.
Your appearance with John Gibson on Fox News was terrific. You made your point extremely well, and I thank you for your courage and dedication. The illegal alien invasion has been allowed to go on way too long, and I’m 100% with you in trying to stop it any way we can. That we don’t even remove criminal illegals guilty of crimes other than illegally entering our country is frustrating beyond belief.
Deport the criminals first, and fast.
If we built rafts out of those obnoxious whiskers that Geraldo calls a mustache, we could sail quite a few illegal aliens back to their foreign shores and save the taxpayers some moola.
Since I don’t watch any MSM outlets anymore I’m wondering if they have presented this case? If they have I’ll bet it was very limited. They are too busy putting out the lies that most Americans want illegal aliens to have a pathway to citizenship or that Republicans will lose the WH because that are adamant about securing our borders.
As an aside, if this guy was arrested in 2000 for multiple child rapes why had he not been tried and in prison? How many illegals (and citizens) are on the streets for years before crimes they have been arrested for are tried?
As the mother of an eleven-year-old girl, I have several appropriate suggestions for dealing with Mr. Adhahn.
All rape charges and violent charges need to have the deportation law held in place no matter what plea bargain is made. In other words, if the original charge would include deportation, then the deportation clause can NOT be negotiated out.
It must be included no matter what the final plea might be. Period. Non negotiable.
Are these legal immigrants or illegal immigrants committing a ton of crimes?