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~ Mark Christeson, 31Jan17, (MO) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: December 30, 2016, 12:26 pm
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State of Missouri vs. Mark A. Christeson
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Case Facts: On Saturday, January 31, 1998, Christeson, 18, and
his cousin Jesse Carter, 17, who were living in the home of a
relative, David Bolin, concocted a plan to run away. The Bolin
home was located in a rural area near Vichy, Missouri. Susan
Brouk, along with her children, twelve year old Adrian and nine
year old Kyle, lived about a half mile away. On Sunday morning,
February 1, 1998, after Mr. Bolin left for work, Christeson and
Carter each took shotguns and went to Ms. Brouk’s home. After
hiding outside for a few minutes, they entered the home and
found Adrian and Kyle sitting on the living room floor. Ms.
Brouk came in from the kitchen and encountered Carter binding
her children’s hands with shoelaces that he had brought for that
purpose. Christeson forced Ms. Brouk into her daughter Adrian’s
bedroom at gunpoint, where he then raped her on Adrian’s bed.
When Christeson brought her back out to the living room, Carter
bound her hands behind her back with a piece of yellow rope. Ms.
Brouk said “you had your fun, now get out.” At some point during
the confrontation, Ms. Brouk and Kyle were both struck in the
head with a blunt object.
About that time, Adrian recognized Carter and said “J.R.,”
Carter’s nickname, and “Jesse Carter,” which prompted Christeson
to tell Carter “we got to get rid of ’em.” They forced Ms. Brouk
and her children into the back seat of Ms. Brouk’s Bronco and
also loaded her television, VCR, car stereo, video game player,
checkbook, and a few other small items. Christeson drove down
the highway, down a gravel road, and then across a neighbor’s
field to a pond at the edge of a wooded area.
They forced Ms. Brouk and her children to the bank of the pond.
Christeson kicked Ms. Brouk just below her ribs with enough
force that she was knocked to the ground. Christeson then placed
his foot on her mid-section, and reached down and cut her throat
with a bone knife. She bled profusely, but she did not die
immediately, and as she lay on the bank of the pond, she told
Adrian and Kyle that she loved them. Then Christeson cut Kyle’s
throat twice and held him under the pond water until he drowned.
Carter pushed Kyle’s body farther out into the pond so the body
would sink. At Christeson’s direction, Carter retrieved cinder
blocks from a nearby barn, and while there, heard Christeson
fire a shot from one of the shotguns. When Carter returned to
the pond, Adrian was struggling to free herself from Christeson.
Carter held Adrian’s feet while Christeson pressed down on her
throat until she suffocated, and Carter then pushed Adrian’s
body into the pond. While Ms. Brouk was still alive, but barely
breathing, Christeson grabbed her arms and Carter grabbed her
legs, and they threw her into the pond on top of her children’s
bodies. As she drowned, Carter went into the woods to get a long
stick, which he used to push the Brouks’ bodies further out into
the pond.
Christeson and Carter returned to Mr. Bolin’s property in the
Bronco and parked it near a garbage pile. They took one of the
shotguns back into Mr. Bolin’s house, loaded their personal
belongings into an Oldsmobile, and then drove the Oldsmobile
back to the garbage pile and transferred their belongings to the
Bronco. At that point, they drove off in the Bronco, eventually
heading west on Interstate 44.
Ms. Brouk’s sister, Kay Hayes, thought it was unusual that Ms.
Brouk and her children did not come to Sunday dinner, as
planned, but she was not concerned until Tuesday evening, when
she called Ms. Brouk’s home and there was no answer. That
evening Ms. Hayes called another sister, Joy Lemoine, to inquire
if she had heard from Ms. Brouk, but she had had no contact
either. When family members went to Ms. Brouk’s house the next
evening, they discovered that Ms. Brouk’s prescription glasses
and the children’s and Ms. Brouk’s coats were still in the house
and that the television, VCR, and Bronco were missing. They
called the police, and that night officers from the Maries
County Sheriff’s Department secured the home and searched the
premises.
The next morning, officers in a Missouri State Highway Patrol
helicopter conducting an aerial search spotted a body floating
in a pond located slightly southeast of the Brouk’s residence.
After landing the helicopter in a field just south of the pond,
they found the bodies of Ms. Brouk, Adrian, and Kyle partially
submerged. The officers then investigated the area around the
pond and found a sixteen-gauge shotgun shell on the south bank,
some leaves and soil splattered with blood, shoe impressions,
and two cinder blocks on the west bank near the area where the
bodies were recovered. There were also tire impressions leading
from the pond to the garbage pile on Mr. Bolin’s property where
Christeson and Carter had parked the Bronco.
In the meantime, Christeson and Carter were driving from
Missouri to California. On the way, they sold several items of
Ms. Brouk’s property to pay for gas and food. Christeson also
pawned the sixteen-gauge shotgun at a pawnshop in Amarillo,
Texas. On February 9, 1998, a detective with the Riverside
County Sheriff’s Department, stationed in Blythe, California,
recognized Christeson and Carter from their photographs on a
flyer that had been circulated by law enforcement officials, and
later that day the fugitives were arrested.
Missouri officials continued to investigate the crimes. A
medical examiner’s autopsy report showed that the cuts to Ms.
Brouk’s neck were not severe enough to cause her death
immediately and that the actual cause of death was drowning.
Autopsies also revealed that Ms. Brouk and Kyle had hemorrhaging
or bleeding under the scalp, indicating a blunt impact injury or
blow to the head, and that there were two superficial cuts
across Kyle’s neck, but that he, too, died from drowning. Adrian
died from suffocation, but there also was a small, shallow
puncture wound in Adrian’s left arm that could have been caused
by a pellet from a shotgun shell, although no pellet was
present. DNA testing performed by the Missouri State Highway
Patrol Crime Laboratory established that genetic material from
semen recovered from Ms. Brouk’s body and from Adrian’s sheets
matched Christeson’s genetic profile. Firearms-identification
testing established conclusively that the sixteen-gauge shotgun
that Christeson pawned in Texas was the one that fired the shell
found on the bank of the pond.
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Re: ~ Mark Christeson, 31Jan17, (MO) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: January 30, 2017, 4:03 pm
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Convicted triple killer Mark Christeson’s execution set for
January 31--
January 24, 2017
A convicted triple killer from central Missouri is scheduled to
be executed next Tuesday in Bonne Terre.
37-year-old Mark Christeson has been convicted of three counts
of first degree murder and is under three death sentences.
Christeson and his cousin, Jessie Carter, were convicted of
killing Susan Brouk, 36, and her two children near Vichy in
mid-Missouri’s Maries County in January 1998.
The children were Adrian, 12, and Kyle, who was 9.
Authorities say Ms. Brouk was raped and her throat was cut. She
was thrown into a pond and drowned.
Kyle Brouk was stabbed and held under water, to drown. Adrian
died from suffocation, and her body was also dumped in the pond.
Christeson and Carter were both captured in the state of
California in February 1998.
Carter later testified against Christeson. Carter, 36, is
serving a life sentence at the maximum-security prison in Bonne
Terre, without the possibility of parole.
Christeson is currently incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional
Center in Mineral Point. The Missouri Department of Corrections
will have to transport him to Bonne Terre, where executions take
place.
The Missouri Supreme Court scheduled the January 31 execution
back on October 12.
Christeson’s attorneys are trying to block the execution. He’s
scheduled to die by lethal injection.
Source:
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Re: ~ Mark Christeson, 31Jan17, (MO) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: January 31, 2017, 6:30 am
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Missouri inmate faces execution for killing family in 1998--
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
ST. LOUIS – Susan Brouk and her two children were driven to a
pond in rural Missouri on Feb. 1, 1998. The mother had been
raped before she and her young son were stabbed and then thrown
into the pond to drown. Brouk's young daughter was suffocated.
On Tuesday, nearly 19 years to the day after the attacks, one of
the killers is set to be executed.
Mark Christeson, 37, is scheduled for lethal injection at 6 p.m.
at the state prison in Bonne Terre. His attorneys have asked the
U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, arguing among other
things that his trial lawyers were unqualified, but the court
has yet to rule.
If the lethal injection is carried out, it will mark Missouri's
first execution since May.
The appeal argues that Christeson's trial lawyers were so inept
that they missed a deadline for a federal court appeal, which is
a standard procedure in death penalty cases. The issue was also
the focus of his 2014 appeal to the Supreme Court, which halted
his execution just hours before it was set to be carried out.
His lawyers have also argued that he has an IQ of 74 and was
mentally incapable of understanding his legal rights during his
original trial.
Maries County prosecutor Terry Daley Schwartze, who prosecuted
the original case, called the killings "brutal."
"If there is a person who deserves the death penalty, it is this
defendant," Schwartze said.
Christeson's attorney, Jennifer Merrigan, declined comment when
reached by phone Monday.
Christeson was 18 when he and his 17-year-old cousin, Jesse
Carter, decided to run away from a home outside Vichy in
south-central Missouri where they lived with a relative.
The two teenagers took shotguns and went to a home about a
half-mile away where Brouk lived with her 12-year-old daughter,
Adrian, and 9-year-old son, Kyle. The cousins planned to steal
Brouk's Ford Bronco, Schwartze said.
When they arrived at the home, the cousins tied the children's
hands with shoelaces. Investigators said Christeson forced Brouk
into a bedroom and raped her, but when they went back into the
living room, Adrian recognized Carter and said his name.
"We've got to get rid of 'em," Christeson told Carter, according
to court records.
The family was forced into the Ford Bronco. Christeson and
Carter loaded the SUV with electronics and other items and drove
to a pond, according to investigators.
Court records indicate that Christeson kicked the 36-year-old
mother in the ribs and cut her throat, and then cut Kyle's
throat and held the child under water until he drowned. Carter
held Adrian while Christeson pressed on her throat until she
suffocated, and then Carter pushed the girl's body into the
pond.
As Brouk struggled to stay alive, the cousins tossed her into
the pond, where she drowned.
Brouk's sister alerted authorities a few days later that the
family was missing. A Missouri State Highway Patrol helicopter
spotted one of the bodies in the pond, leading to a search that
found the bodies of all three victims.
Meanwhile, Christeson and Carter drove to California, selling
Brouk's household items along the way. A detective in
California's Riverside County recognized the cousins from photos
police had circulated. They were arrested eight days after the
killings.
Carter agreed to testify against his cousin. He was sentenced to
life in prison without parole.
Missouri executed 16 men from 2014 to 2015, second only to the
23 executions in Texas over the same two years. Last year,
Missouri had just one execution, largely because most of the 25
men on the state's death row have appeals remaining or are
unlikely to be executed due to medical or mental health
concerns.
Source:
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Re: ~ Mark Christeson, 31Jan17, (MO) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: February 1, 2017, 1:58 am
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Missouri man executed for 1998 murder of mother, & her 2
children--
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
BONNE TERRE, Mo. -- Nearly 19 years to the day that Susan Brouk
and her two children were taken to a Missouri pond and killed,
one of the men responsible for the crime was put to death
Tuesday. The execution came one day shy of the 19-year
anniversary of the killings.
Mark Christeson was given a lethal injection - Missouri’s first
execution since May. Christeson, 37, was hours away from
execution in 2014 when the U.S. Supreme Court granted a
temporary stay. This time, though, the court allowed the
execution to proceed, and Gov. Eric Greitens declined a clemency
request for Christeson, the first inmate to be put to death
since the Republican took office.
As the execution drug was administered, Christeson appeared to
mouth “I love you” a couple times to people who were gathered to
watch the lethal injection on his behalf. Soon, the inmate’s
eyes closed.
He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. CST, eight minutes after the
lethal injection, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.
The killings of Brouk, her 12-year-old daughter, Adrian, and
9-year-old son, Kyle, traumatized the rural area around the
south-central Missouri town of Vichy.
“It was a heinous crime. I’m just happy to see justice finally
served,” said Maries County Sheriff Chris Heitman, who witnessed
Christeson’s execution. “I have regrets for the family that it
took so long, but I hope it provides closure to them.”
The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in 2014 amid concerns about
the ineptitude of Christeson’s earlier lawyers, who missed a
2005 deadline to file a federal appeal of his death sentence -
standard procedure in death penalty cases. Attorneys for
Christeson again argued that he deserved a federal court review,
and raised concerns about his mental competence, claiming he had
an IQ of 74. But this time, the courts declined to step in.
Statement from Gov. Eric R. Greitens:
"Tonight, as we remember Susan, Adrian, and Kyle Brouk, our
thoughts and prayers are again with their family members and
loved ones. The acts of violence that took this 36-year-old
mother, her 12-year-old daughter, and her nine-year-old boy were
unspeakably cruel.
Susan was a single mother whose life revolved around her
children. Adrian was a seventh grader who did well in school and
played volleyball. She hoped to one day be a veterinarian or a
teacher. Kyle was only nine. He played soccer and dreamed of
being an Army officer. They were a loving family, living a quiet
life in a rural community. Their hopes and dreams were taken
away by these evil crimes.
The man who was found guilty by a jury of raping and murdering
Susan and murdering her two beloved children, Kyle and Adrian,
has now had his sentence carried out. We know that a Missouri
family will always miss and grieve the young mother and her two
children who have been gone for nearly 20 years. Tonight, we
grieve with them.
The process of justice on this matter has now reached its
conclusion. We pray for comfort and healing for the families and
friends whose lives have been deeply affected by these
unspeakable crimes, so that they may find closure and peace. I
ask that Missourians join me in keeping the family of Susan,
Adrian, and Kyle Brouk in their thoughts and prayers tonight."
Source:
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