Amazing how this does not make the news.

[VITE1]

Woman killed for tip money, 2 men charged, 1 at large - Post-Tribune

Woman killed for tip money, 2 men charged, 1 at large

By Carole Carlson [email protected] | 648-3154 May 23, 2012 3:49PM
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Michael A. Craig Jr., age 22, of Merrillville. | Provided Photo~Sun-Times Media


Updated: May 24, 2012 11:20AM



SCHERERVILLE — Three men have been charged with killing 24-year-old Jacqueline Gardner and taking the tip money she earned from her restaurant job on May 19.

One of the three men, Stephen Lee Henderson, 25, of Gary, is still at large and considered armed and dangerous, Schererville police said Wednesday.

In custody at the Lake County Jail are Michael A. Craig, 22, of Merrillville, and William Blasingame III, 30, of Harvey, Ill.

All three were charged with murder and a second count of murder in the perpetration of a robbery.

Gardner lived in the 8000 block of Alpine Lane in the Hidden Creek apartment complex, south of Pine Island. She was shot in the hallway outside her apartment about 11:30 p.m. Saturday after she arrived home from work at Joe’s Crab Shack in Merrillville.

A witness heard cries for help and saw three males enter a black Oldsmobile Aurora and leave the area, according to charging documents. The witness recorded the license plate number and gave it to police.

Timothy Sarcia, who police said was Gardner’s live-in boyfriend, told police he was inside their third-floor apartment when he heard heavy footsteps and a struggle in the hallway outside of his apartment door. Through the peephole, he saw a man putting a chokehold on Gardner. He called 911 and screamed for help, he told police.

When he opened the door, he found Gardner lying on the hallway floor unconscious.

Gardner was taken to Methodist Hospitals Southlake campus in Merrillville where she died about 12:20 a.m. Sunday.

Police recovered a 12-gauge shotgun shell in the hallway. Gardner’s $85 in tip money was missing, according to the charging documents.

Police found a smart phone inside the black Oldsmobile found behind the residence of William Blasingame III in Harvey, Ill.

The last time the phone’s GPS function was used was in front of Gardner’s apartment, police learned. The phone also displayed the address of Michael Allen Craig Jr. The phone showed several calls made to Stephen Lee Henderson on the same day.

Police also found what appeared to be blood on the seat and blood on a T-shirt.

Sarcia identified a photograph of Henderson as the man putting a chokehold on Gardner. A second witness identified Craig as one of the men running from the apartment.

In a statement, Craig said he and Blasingame and Henderson waited for about 15 minutes for Gardner to arrive home. He said Blasingame got out of the car and followed her inside the outside door of the building. He said Henderson went inside with a shotgun with a pistol grip. Craig said he heard screaming and gunshots and he saw Henderson and Blasingame run out the door.

Craig’s live-in girlfriend told police she worked with Gardner at the restaurant and when she came home about 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, Craig, Henderson and Blasingame were in the apartment playing a video game.

A visitation for Gardner is from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Lawn Funeral Home in Burbank, Ill. The funeral is at 11:30 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. She will be buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.

Schererville Police Cmdr. Brian Neyhart said Schererville detectives worked around the clock to solve the homicide, with assistance from the Northwest Indiana Major Crimes Task Force, the Lake County Crime Lab and the Lake County coroner’s office.

[Cybercowboy]

If it didn't make the news, how do you have a story on it?

Seriously though, those three guys need to fry for that.

[Burro (He/Haw)]

If it didn't make the news, how do you have a story on it?

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

If it didn't make the news, how do you have a story on it?

Seriously though, those three guys need to fry for that.

Duh.

Three guys hunt down a kill a young girl for 85.00 in Tip money an it makes maybe two articles in the local paper.

This type of thing happens so often the new does not feel the need to report it. Thats the disgusting part.

[Cybercowboy]

Originally Posted by VITE1

Duh.

Three guys hunt down a kill a young girl for 85.00 in Tip money an it makes maybe two articles in the local paper.

This type of thing happens so often the new does not feel the need to report it. Thats the disgusting part.

I see your point but it's been this way for a long long time. Heck, back in 1977 I witnessed the aftermath of a brutal murder, where a deranged guy stabbed a really nice young woman in the parking lot of the Joplin mall something like 60 times, then slit her throat. She walked in a daze into the mall, tried to say something to me, and collapsed on a shoe display where she took her last breath right there in front of my horrified self. I knew her as she often came in to the restaurant I worked at then.

It made local news for a day or two, and then a few years later when they did a story on the murderer, who had been out of the mental ward for a few years and had a family. He "served" just a few years in the mental ward for a pre-meditated murder. He rode in the back of her car for something like 60 miles, hiding, and sprung his attack when she parked at the mall. The family of the girl found out the killer was free and living large by reading that article in the local paper. He was living with his new family just a few blocks away.

[78SA]

All murderers should be hanged by the neck till they are dead. In public as a warning to anyone else that wants to kill someone.

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by 78SA

All murderers should be hanged by the neck till they are dead. In public as a warning to anyone else that wants to kill someone.

Singapore does that. Has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.

[CBonsall]

[NEED-A-VETTE]

Originally Posted by 78SA

All murderers should be hanged by the neck till they are dead. In public as a warning to anyone else that wants to kill someone.

I'm ok with this.

[Cybercowboy]

How about this one?

[Sea Six]

Originally Posted by 78SA

All murderers should be hanged by the neck till they are dead. In public as a warning to anyone else that wants to kill someone.

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the first guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

...

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).



Right?

[Cybercowboy]

Originally Posted by Sea Six

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the first guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

...

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).



Right?

Nope. What you do is get a convicted murderer to pull the lever on the guy ahead of him. Think of it as a self-eating watermelon.

[DJ_Critterus]

Timothy Sarcia, who police said was Gardner’s live-in boyfriend, told police he was inside their third-floor apartment when he heard heavy footsteps and a struggle in the hallway outside of his apartment door. Through the peephole, he saw a man putting a chokehold on Gardner. He called 911 and screamed for help, he told police.

What an incredible pussy. You help your loved ones, not scream for somebody else to help. I bet he screamed like a little girl, too.

Next, was there any mention of race or was it left out for a reason? I think it was left out.

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by Sea Six

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the first guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

...

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).



Right?

Execution is legally sanction killings. We need more of them.

Darwinism does work.

[ft laud mike]

Originally Posted by Sea Six

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the first guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).

...

And then the guy who hanged him would have to be hanged (for killing the last guy).



Right?

Wrong, carrying out a court ordered sentence is no more murder than killing an enemy combatant in wartime.

[Yerf Dog]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

What an incredible pussy. You help your loved ones, not scream for somebody else to help. I bet he screamed like a little girl, too.

[Fasglas]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

What an incredible pussy. You help your loved ones, not scream for somebody else to help. I bet he screamed like a little girl, too.

Next, was there any mention of race or was it left out for a reason? I think it was left out.

Yep, scream for someone else to help. Yeah, right..

Gary, IN? We know the deal. Hunt 'em down and shoot 'em like the vermin they are.

[RxCritical]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

What an incredible pussy. You help your loved ones, not scream for somebody else to help. I bet he screamed like a little girl, too.

Next, was there any mention of race or was it left out for a reason? I think it was left out.

[Sea Six]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

Nope. What you do is get a convicted murderer to pull the lever on the guy ahead of him. Think of it as a self-eating watermelon.

Or a vacuum cleaner that sucks itself up.