Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Warrants say man confessed
Photo of Mrs. Edrington and her two sons at link.
GARNER -- Early Saturday morning, 19-year-old Kenneth R. O'Neal left a party at a neighbor's house and walked into his home, sobbing. He phoned a friend, waited for a ride and headed to Harnett County, his family told police over the weekend.
A few hours later, O'Neal called home, according to a search warrant made public Tuesday. When a Garner investigator answered the phone at his mother's house, O'Neal told the detective his name and agreed to speak with police.
O'Neal told officers how he entered 101 Madrid Court, across the street from his home. He walked up the stairs with a knife and spotted 15-year-old Amanda "Raechel&qu
ot; Maynard standing in a bedroom, according to search warrants.
"He saw A
manda but did not know her name," a search warrant states. "When she saw him, she screamed, and he ran to her and started stabbing her."
O'Neal then sexually assaulted Raechel, according to a search warrant.
He told police that he later returned to the party, tossed the knife sheath in a trash can and washed the blood off his hands, according to a search warrant. At the party, he told a few jokes, played the piano and returned to his home at 102 Madrid Court.
"When he got there, he told his mother that he had heard a woman scream from across the street," a search warrant states. "[He] asked her to call the police, which she did."
Officers arrived at Raechel's duplex and found the Garner High School freshman in a bedroom, according to search warrants. The girl's head was battered, and her body was partially clothed.
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n style='color:red'>O'Neal was arrested Saturday on charges of murder, forcible sexual offense and burglary in connection with Raechel's death.
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Building a timeline
As the homicide investigation continued, detectives searched for evidence while piecing together what occurred between the time of Raechel's slaying and the call to 911 at 3:13 a.m., according to search warrants.
O'Neal initially told investigators he had stabbed Raechel more than once and left the knife in Raechel's house near her body, according to a search warrant.
Agents with the City-County Bureau of Identification combed the crime scene Saturday but could not find the knife. The next day, a search warrant states, officers searched behind O'Neal's house and discovered a knife with the handle stuck in the ground.
Because of conflicting statements from O'Neal, investigators were uncertain whether the knife they found was used in the killing, according to sear
ch warra
nts.
Detectives were also not sure what O'Neal's mother and sister knew about the slaying, according to search warrants.
O'Neal called his friend for a ride at 3:05 a.m., accor
ding to search warrants; his mother called 911 eight minutes later and told dispatchers she had heard a woman scream.
"By the time she called police saying she heard a scream, the victim could have been dead as long as 30 minutes," search warrants state.
Investigators don't know whether O'Neal's mother lied about the time she heard the scream or whether she heard the scream at all, according to the search warrants.
An impression of a woman's shoe was left in the kitchen of Raechel's home, according to search warrants. "It is possible that [O'Neal's mother or sister] entered the victim's house to see what had happened and what Kenneth was crying so hard about," the warrants state.<b
r>
When d
etectives searched O'Neal's home, they seized CDs, two composition books with writings, two tank tops and a wooden box, according to a search warrant. They obtained a DNA sample from O'Neal, along with one from his mother, Donna.
Girl's mother explains
Standing Tuesday afterno
on outside First Presbyterian Church in Garner, Raechel's mother, Tammy Edrington, said she was disgusted when police relayed the contents of O'Neal's confession to her. She declined to comment specifically about the police investigation.
Edrington gave a brief news conference outside the church before visiting hours began for her daughter. Standing with her two sons, Travis and Eric Maddix, Edrington lashed out against comments in a column by Barry Saunders in Tuesday's News & Observer that questioned why it took police 12 hours to be able to reach her about her daughter's death.
"It's easy to blame the mom," Edringt
on said. "I
didn't kill my daughter."
She added that she was at a New Year's Eve party in Wendell the night before her daughter was killed. She told a reporter Sunday that she thought Raechel was planning to spend New Year's Eve with a friend but that she didn't know the friend's last name or her address.
Police attempted to contact Edringt
on before 6 a.m. Saturday but did not reach her until that afternoon, Garner police spokesman Jon Blum said.
Edrington said a friend called her cell phone at 10 a.m. Saturday with news of her daughter's death. She said she was so distraught that she was unable to drive back to Garner. She said another friend drove her back but got lost along the way.
Holding on to a stuffed pig and a blanket belonging to Raechel, Edrington said her family is not doing well.
"I saw my daughter for the first time today," she said, referring to the girl's body. "That's not my daughter."
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Mrs. Edrington is right to be mightily pissed off. People are trying to blame her by saying she isn't a good mother etc. to take the heat off that savage nigger. I don't know if she's a good mother or not, but there is no doubt in my mind that had Mrs. Edrington been home on New Year's eve there would have been two murders and two rapes.
T.N.B.
Warrants say man confessed
Photo of Mrs. Edrington and her two sons at link.
GARNER -- Early Saturday morning, 19-year-old Kenneth R. O'Neal left a party at a neighbor's house and walked into his home, sobbing. He phoned a friend, waited for a ride and headed to Harnett County, his family told police over the weekend.
A few hours later, O'Neal called home, according to a search warrant made public Tuesday. When a Garner investigator answered the phone at his mother's house, O'Neal told the detective his name and agreed to speak with police.
O'Neal told officers how he entered 101 Madrid Court, across the street from his home. He walked up the stairs with a knife and spotted 15-year-old Amanda "Raechel&qu
ot; Maynard standing in a bedroom, according to search warrants.
"He saw A
manda but did not know her name," a search warrant states. "When she saw him, she screamed, and he ran to her and started stabbing her."
O'Neal then sexually assaulted Raechel, according to a search warrant.
He told police that he later returned to the party, tossed the knife sheath in a trash can and washed the blood off his hands, according to a search warrant. At the party, he told a few jokes, played the piano and returned to his home at 102 Madrid Court.
"When he got there, he told his mother that he had heard a woman scream from across the street," a search warrant states. "[He] asked her to call the police, which she did."
Officers arrived at Raechel's duplex and found the Garner High School freshman in a bedroom, according to search warrants. The girl's head was battered, and her body was partially clothed.
<spa
n style='color:red'>O'Neal was arrested Saturday on charges of murder, forcible sexual offense and burglary in connection with Raechel's death.
</span>
Building a timeline
As the homicide investigation continued, detectives searched for evidence while piecing together what occurred between the time of Raechel's slaying and the call to 911 at 3:13 a.m., according to search warrants.
O'Neal initially told investigators he had stabbed Raechel more than once and left the knife in Raechel's house near her body, according to a search warrant.
Agents with the City-County Bureau of Identification combed the crime scene Saturday but could not find the knife. The next day, a search warrant states, officers searched behind O'Neal's house and discovered a knife with the handle stuck in the ground.
Because of conflicting statements from O'Neal, investigators were uncertain whether the knife they found was used in the killing, according to sear
ch warra
nts.
Detectives were also not sure what O'Neal's mother and sister knew about the slaying, according to search warrants.
O'Neal called his friend for a ride at 3:05 a.m., accor
ding to search warrants; his mother called 911 eight minutes later and told dispatchers she had heard a woman scream.
"By the time she called police saying she heard a scream, the victim could have been dead as long as 30 minutes," search warrants state.
Investigators don't know whether O'Neal's mother lied about the time she heard the scream or whether she heard the scream at all, according to the search warrants.
An impression of a woman's shoe was left in the kitchen of Raechel's home, according to search warrants. "It is possible that [O'Neal's mother or sister] entered the victim's house to see what had happened and what Kenneth was crying so hard about," the warrants state.<b
r>
When d
etectives searched O'Neal's home, they seized CDs, two composition books with writings, two tank tops and a wooden box, according to a search warrant. They obtained a DNA sample from O'Neal, along with one from his mother, Donna.
Girl's mother explains
Standing Tuesday afterno
on outside First Presbyterian Church in Garner, Raechel's mother, Tammy Edrington, said she was disgusted when police relayed the contents of O'Neal's confession to her. She declined to comment specifically about the police investigation.
Edrington gave a brief news conference outside the church before visiting hours began for her daughter. Standing with her two sons, Travis and Eric Maddix, Edrington lashed out against comments in a column by Barry Saunders in Tuesday's News & Observer that questioned why it took police 12 hours to be able to reach her about her daughter's death.
"It's easy to blame the mom," Edringt
on said. "I
didn't kill my daughter."
She added that she was at a New Year's Eve party in Wendell the night before her daughter was killed. She told a reporter Sunday that she thought Raechel was planning to spend New Year's Eve with a friend but that she didn't know the friend's last name or her address.
Police attempted to contact Edringt
on before 6 a.m. Saturday but did not reach her until that afternoon, Garner police spokesman Jon Blum said.
Edrington said a friend called her cell phone at 10 a.m. Saturday with news of her daughter's death. She said she was so distraught that she was unable to drive back to Garner. She said another friend drove her back but got lost along the way.
Holding on to a stuffed pig and a blanket belonging to Raechel, Edrington said her family is not doing well.
"I saw my daughter for the first time today," she said, referring to the girl's body. "That's not my daughter."
*************
Mrs. Edrington is right to be mightily pissed off. People are trying to blame her by saying she isn't a good mother etc. to take the heat off that savage nigger. I don't know if she's a good mother or not, but there is no doubt in my mind that had Mrs. Edrington been home on New Year's eve there would have been two murders and two rapes.
T.N.B.
