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Showing Original Post only (View all)Police affidavit offers chilling details of teacher's slaying [View all]
CNN) -- Philip Chism, the Massachusetts teenager accused of raping and killing his algebra teacher, became visibly upset when the teacher, Colleen Ritzer, spoke about the teen's home state of Tennessee after class, according to a police affidavit unsealed Friday.
A ninth grade student told investigators that she was in class with Chism and Ritzer after school on the day of the crime, the affidavit said. She said the teacher and Chism were talking about China but, at some point, Ritzer mentioned the student's home state of Tennessee.
Chism became "visibly upset," the student said. When Ritzer noticed that Chism was upset, she changed the subject, said the unidentified student, who described Chism as "talking to himself."
The affidavit, in chilling detail, offers the first hint of a possible motive in last month's gruesome killing of the popular high school teacher. Ritzer, 24, was allegedly raped with an object and had her throat slashed. A handwritten note found next to her body said, "I hate you all."
A ninth grade student told investigators that she was in class with Chism and Ritzer after school on the day of the crime, the affidavit said. She said the teacher and Chism were talking about China but, at some point, Ritzer mentioned the student's home state of Tennessee.
Chism became "visibly upset," the student said. When Ritzer noticed that Chism was upset, she changed the subject, said the unidentified student, who described Chism as "talking to himself."
The affidavit, in chilling detail, offers the first hint of a possible motive in last month's gruesome killing of the popular high school teacher. Ritzer, 24, was allegedly raped with an object and had her throat slashed. A handwritten note found next to her body said, "I hate you all."
Rest at: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/22/justice/massachusetts-danvers-school-killing/index.html?sr=fb112313teacherslaying2a
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That's just bizarre. I smell an undiagnosed paranoid schizpohrenic..........
kestrel91316
Nov 2013
#1
We have dozens in our garage. My husband used to pick them up at Ace and
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#3
True. I wonder if it wasn't something he could have grabbed from a maintenance cart or something.
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#6
What on earth does that have to do with whether or not he's schizophrenic????
kestrel91316
Nov 2013
#13
fourteen is when the voices started with my brother, but he had smaller problems for years before.
bettyellen
Nov 2013
#12
thanks- I don't think they made a distinction back then - childhood schizophrenic vs adult onset ?
bettyellen
Nov 2013
#25
Thank you, it was horrible for my Mom. She was blamed for it, of course, and it really knocked
bettyellen
Nov 2013
#28
Can we stop shaming the mentally ill and saying all horrific crimes are done by them?
Kurska
Nov 2013
#14
Very much so, our society very heavily stigmatizes any kind of mental healthcare
Kurska
Nov 2013
#24