Originally Posted by Veelyn

13 year old Tiffany Sabourin http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/lis.../msg01453.html was raped, stabbed, and decapitated on the Lindenwood University Campus in St. Charles, MO. in 1998 by a student. Friday, May 8, 1998 MISSOURI: A Lindenwood University student and his 15-year-old friend have been charged in the decapitation of Tiffany Sabourin, 13, of Wentzville. Jason Shipman, 21, and his close friend, both of St. Charles, have confessed to the killing and were charged Thursday, police said. Shipman also was charged with statutory rape and armed criminal action. Sabourin was stabbed to death on the Lindenwood campus sometime after midnight April 26, said Tim Braun, the St. Charles prosecuting attorney. Her headless body was dumped behind a bank near the entrance to the athletic fields. It was found that Sunday morning at 6:50 a.m. by a Lindenwood student who was walking to work. Sabourin's head was found in a portable restroom nearby on campus, Braun said. A police source said the girl had been fatally stabbed at the top of her back after she was raped and sodomized. Then, almost as an afterthought, the knife was used to cut off her head, and it was put in the portable toilet, near the Lindenwood athletic field, the source said. Shipman enrolled as a student at Lindenwood in January and had lived on campus, but he left school the day Sabourin's body was found, said St. Charles police Capt. Pat McCarrick. The 15-year-old, who was being held at the Juvenile Justice Center in St. Charles, has been charged with murder under the state juvenile code. *I will never forget this case. It has struck with me every since I first heard it. It is so sickening*

I was on Facebook and found this after my sister had posted it:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...J1EKJ.facebook

I have been reviewing some of the newspaper clippings from that time all day today.
Anyhow I just had a bunch of flash backs from my childhood as Tiffany Sabourin was a close friend and was like family. My mother and hers (Dawn) were friends then and still are. Dawn is like a second mother to me as well to my younger sister. I was 11 years old when my mother told me what had happened to Tiffany. Its still hard to imagine that she is gone and in such a gruesome way! I still see images of Dawn crying like she had lost everything. Tiffany was Dawns oldest daughter, she has two boys Derick and Jacob, and the youngest is Brittany. I have had a different perspective on these things after it had hit home.

The kidnapping and murder of Jessica Lunsford http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jessica_Lunsford

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Jessica Marie Lunsford (October 6, 1995 – February 27, 2005) was a nine-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Homosassa, Florida in the early morning of February 24, 2005. Believed held captive over the weekend, she was raped and later murdered by 46-year-old John Couey who lived nearby. The media covered the investigation and trial of her killer extensively. On August 24, 2007, a judge in Inverness, Florida sentenced Couey, a convicted sex offender, to death for kidnapping, sexually battering, and First degree murder of Jessica.

I remember my mom talking about the Taliban blowing up the Buddhas of Bamiyan and her being so upset about it.

Originally Posted by laloki

The moon landing The assassination of Robert Kennedy Troop withdrawal from Vietnam Watergate Sacking Gough Whitlam (Australia's Prime Minister) by the Governer General

All of this, except the last one. Glad I am not the only old lady here, lol.

Murder of John Lennon
The Black Panther kidnapping/murder
The unsolved disappearance of a schoolgirl who was my age - her name was Gemma Tate. I still think about her and her poor family, even today.

I also remember the Natalee Halloway case, the kidnapping (and return of) Elizabeth Smart and the Madeline McCann disappearance.

Watching the challenger explosion as a 6th grader. Still makes me cry.

Watching magic Johnson announce he has HIV - It became real then

And the kidnapping and subsequent brutal murder of Adam Walsh which irreparably altered childhood. Nd still makes me cry.

There was good news- I watched the Berlin wall come down and the princess Di and prince Charles' fairy tale wedding day.

-the OJ Simpson white bronco car chase (I remember sitting on the floor in front of the tv eating a fudge popsicle)
-9/11 attacks. I was getting dressed for school and my sister came running down the hall yelling "WORLD WAR III"
-the DC Sniper. We watched new coverage of it in class and I remember the guy sitting next to me said the killer was white because "a brotha would kill another brotha"
-the Sharon Tate murder. I wasn't alive then but I had a old newspaper book with the top headlines and I remember being captivated by her and the Manson Family.

Originally Posted by clu13

Watching the challenger explosion as a 6th grader. Still makes me cry. Watching magic Johnson announce he has HIV - It became real then And the kidnapping and subsequent brutal murder of Adam Walsh which irreparably altered childhood. Nd still makes me cry. There was good news- I watched the Berlin wall come down and the princess Di and prince Charles' fairy tale wedding day.

I remember a lot of what is posted here, but these especially. I was 9, I think, when Adam Walsh was kidnapped and a few months later I remember my mother taking me to the mall, of all places, where I was fingerprinted and put in a "chilf registry". I remember there being what seemed like hundreds (but was more likely dozens) of people there doing it. You are right clu13, it changed childhood forever.

Originally Posted by caitlin1214

I remember my mom talking about the Taliban blowing up the Buddhas of Bamiyan and her being so upset about it.

At the time, I didn't really understand why she was so upset.

I knew the basics like they were considered idols by the Taliban and that's why it was ordered that they be blown up.

So it was the Taliban blowing up historical statues.


But I later found that museums were offering money to the Taliban for the statues and that there were options and the Taliban picked the most destructive one.



I also know that Japan and Switzerland, along with other countries, have pledged support to rebuild these statues.

i was hight school class of 99 the same year that one school had a shooting :(

i also remember when people dressed up like hommie the clown going around bating people up in the chicago area

I remember watching reports about the Columbine shooting on the TV in my freshman dorm lounge.


(Around that time I had to periodically leave school to go to my hometown hospital to bank blood for an upcoming surgery. I remember during one of my sessions I was reading an article about the whole thing in Time magazine.)

Jessica Tate and Holly Wells abduction and murder...I just had my daughter, in hospital thinking 'OMG bringing a daughter into this wicked world'

Elvis Presley death I was eight. I remember the news bulletin.

Diana's death on my way back from a wedding and a party.

Ted Bundy's execution
Fall of the Berlin wall