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The Rachel Rose Burkheimer file
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Subject: Pretty White Girl Killed by Black
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Burkheimer jurors to start deliberating today
By Jennifer Sullivan
Times Snohomish County bureau
Yusef Jihad
EVERETT --Yusef Jihad was the r
ingleader of a heavily armed gang that robbed drug dealers, according to prosecutors. He thought Rachel Burkheimer should be taught a lesson for hanging out with rivals, but when he feared she would go to police, Jihad called for her death, prosecutors said.
But Mickey Krom, Jihad's attorney, painted a different picture during his closing argument ye
sterday. He said that Jihad didn't have anything to do with the woman's Sept. 23, 2002, slaying and that several witnesses are lying.
After hearing about three weeks of testimony
, ju
rors
will begin
their deliberations today. If they find Jihad, 34, guilty of aggravated first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping, he will be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Burkheimer, 18, of Marysville, was found buried near Gold Bar on Oct. 4, 2002. Prosecutors said John Anderson, her ex-boyfriend, shot her several times in the head after Jihad ordered him to "finish" her off.
"This
is Rachel Burkheimer," Deputy Prosecutor Michael Downes said as he held up her photo during his closing argument yesterday. "Rachel Burkheimer paid the price for running afoul of these people."
Since the trial began, Downes has relied on the testimony of four men and a teenager charged in connection with the case
to show that Jihad led their gang and made most of the key decisions on Sept. 23, 2002.
All five of those people have pleaded guilty to reduced charges in exchange for their t
estimony
against
Jihad, Anderson,
22, and John Whitaker, 23. Anderson and Whitaker will be tried later this spring.
Witnesses have said that on the day of her death, Burkheimer was lured to Jihad's duplex under the guise that Anderson wanted to speak with her. But shortly after arriving, Anderson punched her in the face.
Downes said Burkheimer was "hogtied" and carried into Jihad's garage. She was held hostage for several hours before being shoved into a duffel bag. Anderson, Whitaker and two ot
her defendants then drove Burkheimer to a remote site near Gold Bar, where Anderson shot her, Downes said. Earlier this week, Jihad testified that he never caused harm to Burkheimer. He said she was a good friend, and he even warned her that Anderson wanted to hurt her.
But Downes said Burkheime
r "got on the outs" with Jihad's gang. He said it was Jihad who ordered Anderson to lure her to his house on Sept. 23, 2002. He also said it was Jihad who or
dered that B
urkheimer be
put in the garage and, s
oon after, he called for her slaying.
"This kidnapping never ended until Rachel Rose Burkheimer was dead," Downes said yesterday. "Once Yusef Jihad decided that Rachel is a threat and something should happen, it happens very quickly."
Since the trial started, Krom has talked about Anderson's propensity for violence and the lies told by the people who have pleaded guilty.
"When the state does deals with the devil, you can't expect the truth," Krom said. "(Jihad) didn't
kill anyone."
Krom asked jurors to either acquit Jihad or find him guilty of first-degree kidnapping.
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By Jennifer Sullivan
Times Snohomish County bureau
Yusef Jihad
EVERETT --A South Everett man on trial in the slaying of Rachel Burkheimer, 18, ordered her death because he feared she would tell police she had been beaten and held captive in his home, a witness testified yesterday.
Yusef Jihad spoke about the slaying with Jeffrey Barth while the two were fleeing police on a bus to California, Barth testified. Jihad and Barth were neighbors in a South Ever
ett duplex where Burkheimer had been held and beaten prior to her slaying on Sept. 23, 2002.
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Jeff Barth
Barth, 23, said Jihad was angry because Burkheimer was beaten and held capti
ve at his house on t
he day of her death
. He feared that if Burkheimer were relea
sed, she would go to police. Burkheimer had been lured to the home under the ruse that her former boyfriend, John Anderson, wanted to speak with her.
Barth said Jihad and Anderson believed Burkheimer had tried to lead them into a trap set by rivals. He said the men thought she should be taught a lesson.
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John Anderson
"He (Jihad) told John Anderson he had to finish what he started," Barth testified in Snohomish County Superior Court. "He didn't trust John Anderson could let her go and she wouldn't go to police."
Jihad, 3
4, faces life in prison without parole if convicted of aggravated first-deg
ree murder. He also is charged with first-degree kidnapping and conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping. Barth, one of seven men an
d a teenage boy charged
in connection with Burk
heimer's kidnapping and slaying, has pleaded
guilty to first-degree kidnapping with a firearm in exchange for his testimony against Jihad, Anderson and a third defendant, John Whitaker. Mickey Krom, Jihad's defense attorney, yesterday accused Barth of lying to investigators until he finally decided to plead guilty.
Four other people have pleaded guilty to similar charges with the promise that they would also testify against the three men. Anderson, 22, and Whitaker, 23, face life in prison if convicted of aggravated first-degree murder. Both are to be tried later this spring.
On the day of Burkheimer's slaying, Anderson and Jihad had some friends lure Burkheimer to Jihad's duplex, Barth said. Shortly after the Marysville woman a
rrived, Anderson stormed in, Barth said.
For some reason, An
derson hit Barth and Whitaker in the face before grabbing Burkheimer's hair and punching her in the eye, Barth said.
Barth said he grabbed a
gun from the waist of his
pants and tried to get Anderson to fight him outside the
duplex. When Anderson, who also had a gun, refused, Barth left.
Other witnesses said Burkheimer was then tied up with tape and taken into Jihad's garage.
When Barth returned to Jihad's side of the duplex to retrieve a bag of marijuana, he said Jihad told him Burkheimer was tied up in the garage. After snorting cocaine with Jihad, Barth said he went into the garage to have "words with Anderson."
Barth said he was still angry about being punched and tried to pick a fight with Anderson. When Anderson refused, Barth left the garage. Barth said he left the duplex after Jihad's girlfriend, Trissa Conner, threatened to call police. Witnesses have told police that a short time later, Burkheimer was
shoved into a large duffel bag and thr
own into the back of a sport-utility vehicle.
That night, Anderson, Whitaker and two other men drove Burkh
eimer to a remote site outside
Gold Bar, where Anderson alleg
edly shot and killed her, according to court documents.
Barth, Jihad and Whitaker were arrested at a Los Angeles-area motel more than two weeks after Burkheimer's slaying.
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Another Guilty Plea In Rachel Burkheimer Slaying
November 14, 2002
By KOMO Staff & News Services
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A second teen defendant has entered a guilty plea in the brutal Everett-area abduction slaying of a young woman.
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EVERETT - A tee
nager described as the driver in the abduction and killing of
an 18-year-old woman has pleaded
guilty to murder, the second defen
dant to come to terms with prosecutors.
As part of the plea agre
ement with Matthew Andreas Durham, 17, of Lynnwood, documents filed Wednesday in Snohomish County Superior Court indicated Rachel Rose Burkheimer of Marysville was killed after she broke up with her boyfriend and began seeing another man.
Some of her friends have described both men as drug dealers and enemies, investigators wrote, offering the most complete description of what they believe was the motive.
Eight people have been arrested in the case, the latest on Tuesday.
Nathan T. Lovelace, 16, a Lynnwood High School junior, appeared Wednesday in Everett District Court, a day after he was arrested for investigation of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Bail was continued at $100,000.
Prosecutors initially charged Durham with aggrav
ated first-degree murder but, because of he is yo
unger than 18, could not have sought the de
ath penalty. If convicted of aggravat
ed murder, he would have faced life in
prison without parole.
Deputy prosecutor Michael Downes said he would r
ecommend nearly 26 years in prison for Durham and Maurice Carlos Rivas, 18, of Lynnwood, who also was charged with aggravated murder before he pleaded guilty last week to first-degree murder.
Both have promised to testify against the remaining defendants and will be sentenced after any trials are completed, Downes said.
"There's six to go, but it's something," Burkheimer's sister Meghan said. "The more people are involved, the sicker it gets."
Burkheimer's ex-boyfriend, John Phillip "Diggy" Anderson, 20, of Mukilteo, and John A. "Whit" Whitaker, 22, of Everett, are charged with aggravated murder. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty in their cases.
Lovelace, who has not been charged with a crime, moved a pingpong table in his f
amily's garage to make r
oom for a car
in which Anderson and three others planne
d to hide while waiting to grab Burkheimer, investigators wrote in court documents.
That scheme collapsed when Lovelace's father came home early from work.
Burkheimer's friends told investigators she had talked of being on a "hit list" with Anderson and of having been beaten, raped and held by him for as long as three days after she started seeing one of his enemies, reportedly a rival drug dealer.
According to court documents, Burkheimer was lured to the home of Yusef "Kevin" Jihad, 32, of Everett, where she was beaten, bound, gagged and stuffed into a sports bag Sept. 23.
Jihad is charged with first-degree murder. Jeff S. "Fats" Barth, 22, who lives next door to Jihad, and Tony J. Williams, 20, of Des Moines, are each charged with first-degree kidnapping.
It was Durh
am who led authorities to Burkheimer's body soon after he was ar
rested Oct. 4.
In a statement submitt
ed Wednesday in court, Durham admitted h
e knew
she was going to be killed when he drove Anderson, Whitaker and Rivas to a gravel pit east of G
old Bar with the petite young woman in the bag.
Anderson told her to "lie down on the ground in a shallow grave. I saw (him) shoot Rachel and kill her," he said.
Memorial Fundraiser
A benefit concert will be held at 7 p.m. on Nov. 23 to help raise funds for memorial costs. The bands Shortsighted and Union Slough will perform at the Turning Point Community (the old bingo hall) at 1410 8th St. in Marysville.
(this was sent to me by an NNN and EURO reader)
The Rachel Rose Burkheimer file
<br
Subject: Pretty White Girl Killed by Black
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/loca...kheimer01m.html
Burkheimer jurors to start deliberating today
By Jennifer Sullivan
Times Snohomish County bureau
Yusef Jihad
EVERETT --Yusef Jihad was the r
ingleader of a heavily armed gang that robbed drug dealers, according to prosecutors. He thought Rachel Burkheimer should be taught a lesson for hanging out with rivals, but when he feared she would go to police, Jihad called for her death, prosecutors said.
But Mickey Krom, Jihad's attorney, painted a different picture during his closing argument ye
sterday. He said that Jihad didn't have anything to do with the woman's Sept. 23, 2002, slaying and that several witnesses are lying.
After hearing about three weeks of testimony
, ju
rors
will begin
their deliberations today. If they find Jihad, 34, guilty of aggravated first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping, he will be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Burkheimer, 18, of Marysville, was found buried near Gold Bar on Oct. 4, 2002. Prosecutors said John Anderson, her ex-boyfriend, shot her several times in the head after Jihad ordered him to "finish" her off.
"This
is Rachel Burkheimer," Deputy Prosecutor Michael Downes said as he held up her photo during his closing argument yesterday. "Rachel Burkheimer paid the price for running afoul of these people."
Since the trial began, Downes has relied on the testimony of four men and a teenager charged in connection with the case
to show that Jihad led their gang and made most of the key decisions on Sept. 23, 2002.
All five of those people have pleaded guilty to reduced charges in exchange for their t
estimony
against
Jihad, Anderson,
22, and John Whitaker, 23. Anderson and Whitaker will be tried later this spring.
Witnesses have said that on the day of her death, Burkheimer was lured to Jihad's duplex under the guise that Anderson wanted to speak with her. But shortly after arriving, Anderson punched her in the face.
Downes said Burkheimer was "hogtied" and carried into Jihad's garage. She was held hostage for several hours before being shoved into a duffel bag. Anderson, Whitaker and two ot
her defendants then drove Burkheimer to a remote site near Gold Bar, where Anderson shot her, Downes said. Earlier this week, Jihad testified that he never caused harm to Burkheimer. He said she was a good friend, and he even warned her that Anderson wanted to hurt her.
But Downes said Burkheime
r "got on the outs" with Jihad's gang. He said it was Jihad who ordered Anderson to lure her to his house on Sept. 23, 2002. He also said it was Jihad who or
dered that B
urkheimer be
put in the garage and, s
oon after, he called for her slaying.
"This kidnapping never ended until Rachel Rose Burkheimer was dead," Downes said yesterday. "Once Yusef Jihad decided that Rachel is a threat and something should happen, it happens very quickly."
Since the trial started, Krom has talked about Anderson's propensity for violence and the lies told by the people who have pleaded guilty.
"When the state does deals with the devil, you can't expect the truth," Krom said. "(Jihad) didn't
kill anyone."
Krom asked jurors to either acquit Jihad or find him guilty of first-degree kidnapping.
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<b
r>Burkheimer
jury told of bus-trip statement <
/b>
By Jennifer Sullivan
Times Snohomish County bureau
Yusef Jihad
EVERETT --A South Everett man on trial in the slaying of Rachel Burkheimer, 18, ordered her death because he feared she would tell police she had been beaten and held captive in his home, a witness testified yesterday.
Yusef Jihad spoke about the slaying with Jeffrey Barth while the two were fleeing police on a bus to California, Barth testified. Jihad and Barth were neighbors in a South Ever
ett duplex where Burkheimer had been held and beaten prior to her slaying on Sept. 23, 2002.
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r='0' alt='user posted image' />
Jeff Barth
Barth, 23, said Jihad was angry because Burkheimer was beaten and held capti
ve at his house on t
he day of her death
. He feared that if Burkheimer were relea
sed, she would go to police. Burkheimer had been lured to the home under the ruse that her former boyfriend, John Anderson, wanted to speak with her.
Barth said Jihad and Anderson believed Burkheimer had tried to lead them into a trap set by rivals. He said the men thought she should be taught a lesson.
[img]http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2001846277.jpg
John Anderson
"He (Jihad) told John Anderson he had to finish what he started," Barth testified in Snohomish County Superior Court. "He didn't trust John Anderson could let her go and she wouldn't go to police."
Jihad, 3
4, faces life in prison without parole if convicted of aggravated first-deg
ree murder. He also is charged with first-degree kidnapping and conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping. Barth, one of seven men an
d a teenage boy charged
in connection with Burk
heimer's kidnapping and slaying, has pleaded
guilty to first-degree kidnapping with a firearm in exchange for his testimony against Jihad, Anderson and a third defendant, John Whitaker. Mickey Krom, Jihad's defense attorney, yesterday accused Barth of lying to investigators until he finally decided to plead guilty.
Four other people have pleaded guilty to similar charges with the promise that they would also testify against the three men. Anderson, 22, and Whitaker, 23, face life in prison if convicted of aggravated first-degree murder. Both are to be tried later this spring.
On the day of Burkheimer's slaying, Anderson and Jihad had some friends lure Burkheimer to Jihad's duplex, Barth said. Shortly after the Marysville woman a
rrived, Anderson stormed in, Barth said.
For some reason, An
derson hit Barth and Whitaker in the face before grabbing Burkheimer's hair and punching her in the eye, Barth said.
Barth said he grabbed a
gun from the waist of his
pants and tried to get Anderson to fight him outside the
duplex. When Anderson, who also had a gun, refused, Barth left.
Other witnesses said Burkheimer was then tied up with tape and taken into Jihad's garage.
When Barth returned to Jihad's side of the duplex to retrieve a bag of marijuana, he said Jihad told him Burkheimer was tied up in the garage. After snorting cocaine with Jihad, Barth said he went into the garage to have "words with Anderson."
Barth said he was still angry about being punched and tried to pick a fight with Anderson. When Anderson refused, Barth left the garage. Barth said he left the duplex after Jihad's girlfriend, Trissa Conner, threatened to call police. Witnesses have told police that a short time later, Burkheimer was
shoved into a large duffel bag and thr
own into the back of a sport-utility vehicle.
That night, Anderson, Whitaker and two other men drove Burkh
eimer to a remote site outside
Gold Bar, where Anderson alleg
edly shot and killed her, according to court documents.
Barth, Jihad and Whitaker were arrested at a Los Angeles-area motel more than two weeks after Burkheimer's slaying.
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http://www.komotv.com/news/story.asp?ID=21405
Another Guilty Plea In Rachel Burkheimer Slaying
November 14, 2002
By KOMO Staff & News Services
Audio : KOMO 1000 NEWS
A second teen defendant has entered a guilty plea in the brutal Everett-area abduction slaying of a young woman.
Hear Audio Report
Audio requires the use of the free QuickTime Player.
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Email This Story
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sion
EVERETT - A tee
nager described as the driver in the abduction and killing of
an 18-year-old woman has pleaded
guilty to murder, the second defen
dant to come to terms with prosecutors.
As part of the plea agre
ement with Matthew Andreas Durham, 17, of Lynnwood, documents filed Wednesday in Snohomish County Superior Court indicated Rachel Rose Burkheimer of Marysville was killed after she broke up with her boyfriend and began seeing another man.
Some of her friends have described both men as drug dealers and enemies, investigators wrote, offering the most complete description of what they believe was the motive.
Eight people have been arrested in the case, the latest on Tuesday.
Nathan T. Lovelace, 16, a Lynnwood High School junior, appeared Wednesday in Everett District Court, a day after he was arrested for investigation of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Bail was continued at $100,000.
Prosecutors initially charged Durham with aggrav
ated first-degree murder but, because of he is yo
unger than 18, could not have sought the de
ath penalty. If convicted of aggravat
ed murder, he would have faced life in
prison without parole.
Deputy prosecutor Michael Downes said he would r
ecommend nearly 26 years in prison for Durham and Maurice Carlos Rivas, 18, of Lynnwood, who also was charged with aggravated murder before he pleaded guilty last week to first-degree murder.
Both have promised to testify against the remaining defendants and will be sentenced after any trials are completed, Downes said.
"There's six to go, but it's something," Burkheimer's sister Meghan said. "The more people are involved, the sicker it gets."
Burkheimer's ex-boyfriend, John Phillip "Diggy" Anderson, 20, of Mukilteo, and John A. "Whit" Whitaker, 22, of Everett, are charged with aggravated murder. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty in their cases.
Lovelace, who has not been charged with a crime, moved a pingpong table in his f
amily's garage to make r
oom for a car
in which Anderson and three others planne
d to hide while waiting to grab Burkheimer, investigators wrote in court documents.
That scheme collapsed when Lovelace's father came home early from work.
Burkheimer's friends told investigators she had talked of being on a "hit list" with Anderson and of having been beaten, raped and held by him for as long as three days after she started seeing one of his enemies, reportedly a rival drug dealer.
According to court documents, Burkheimer was lured to the home of Yusef "Kevin" Jihad, 32, of Everett, where she was beaten, bound, gagged and stuffed into a sports bag Sept. 23.
Jihad is charged with first-degree murder. Jeff S. "Fats" Barth, 22, who lives next door to Jihad, and Tony J. Williams, 20, of Des Moines, are each charged with first-degree kidnapping.
It was Durh
am who led authorities to Burkheimer's body soon after he was ar
rested Oct. 4.
In a statement submitt
ed Wednesday in court, Durham admitted h
e knew
she was going to be killed when he drove Anderson, Whitaker and Rivas to a gravel pit east of G
old Bar with the petite young woman in the bag.
Anderson told her to "lie down on the ground in a shallow grave. I saw (him) shoot Rachel and kill her," he said.
Memorial Fundraiser
A benefit concert will be held at 7 p.m. on Nov. 23 to help raise funds for memorial costs. The bands Shortsighted and Union Slough will perform at the Turning Point Community (the old bingo hall) at 1410 8th St. in Marysville.
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