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    George C. Brinkman, Jr. - Ohio Death Row


    Suzanne Taylor, 45 (far left), and her two daughters, 18-year-old Kylie Pifer (center) and 21-year-old Taylor Pifer (right)


    Roberta and Rogell John





    Standoff with suspect in North Royalton murders comes to an end

    By Darren Sweeney
    FOX 8 Cleveland

    BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- Brunswick Police took a man into custody early Tuesday morning following a standoff on Valley Forge Drive that began Monday night.

    Brunswick Police confirmed George Brinkman, 45, was the man taken into custody just before 5:30 a.m.

    Police suspect him in the murders of a mother and two daughters in North Royalton. Suzanne Taylor, 45, and her two adult daughters, 21-year-old Taylor Pifer and 18-year-old Kylie Pifer, were found inside their home Sunday evening.

    Police said the man knew the people who lived in the Brunswick home. There was a woman inside the home when the standoff began around 9 p.m. Monday, but she was released unharmed.

    Lt. Robert Safran, Brunswick Police, said Brinkman was taken to the hospital immediately after he was taken into custody.

    "No shots fired, but a taser was utilized to take him into custody," Lt. Safran said.

    Safran said negotiators will able to communicate with Brinkman by yelling through a window.

    "Most of it was done face-to-face," he said.

    "When you negotiatie with someone obviously you want it to be a peaceful ending," Lt. Safran said.

    The standoff ended just as the sun was coming up.

    "It helps to operate under the cover of darkness," he said.

    North Royalton Police will continue the investigation.

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    North Royalton triple homicide may be linked to North Canton double slaying, police say

    By Evan MacDonald
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    NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio -- The man investigators identified as a suspect in the deaths of a North Royalton mother and her two daughters is also a suspect in the killings of a Stark County couple, police said.

    The 45 year-old man arrested Tuesday at the end of a nine-hour standoff in Brunswick lives minutes away from the North Canton home where a husband and wife were found dead Monday evening, records show.

    Investigators believe the North Canton killings are related to a North Royalton triple homicide, North Royalton Detective Dave Loeding said Tuesday morning. The 45-year-old man was in possession of evidence that linked him to the North Canton homicides when he was taken into custody, Loeding said.

    Investigators have not disclosed the 45-year-old man's relationship to either the North Royalton or North Canton victims.

    A Stark County Sheriff's office spokeswoman declined to say whether the 45-year-old man is a suspect in the North Canton killings. But she said Tuesday morning that investigators are preparing to release information on new developments in the case.

    No charges have been filed in connection with the North Royalton or North Canton homicides.

    The 45-year-old man was arrested Tuesday morning following a standoff at a home on Valley Forge Drive in Brunswick. Officers entered the home just before 5:30 a.m. and used a stun gun on the man, who was holding a gun, Brunswick Lt. Robert Safran said.

    The standoff began just after 9:30 p.m. after investigators became aware the man was at the home. The woman who owns the home left unharmed, police said.

    The man was wanted for questioning in the deaths of Suzanne Taylor, 45, and her daughters Taylor Pifer, 21, and Kylie Pifer, 18, police said. The three women likely died Saturday at their home on Ridge Road in North Royalton, police said.

    Taylor was stabbed at least once, but investigators have not determined how she or her daughters died. Investigators did not recover a knife at the crime scene.

    Hours before the standoff occurred, the Stark County Sheriff's Office found Rogell Eugene John, 71, and his wife Roberta Ray John, 64, dead in their home on Mt. Pleasant St. NE in North Canton, according to a news release. Investigators have not said when or how they died.

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    Update: Aggravated Murder Charges Filed for Deaths of Rogell and Roberta John

    Aggravated murder charges being filed against George Brinkman for deaths of Rogell & Roberta John in Stark County.

    Neighbor says murder suspect, George Brinkman, was house sitting for victims, Rogell & Roberta John.

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    Suspect in five Northeast Ohio homicides contacted news reporter before arrest, police say

    By Evan MacDonald
    cleveland.com

    NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio - The man investigators identified as a suspect in five homicides contacted a local television reporter shortly before he was arrested at the end of a Brunswick standoff, police said.

    George Brinkman, 45, exchanged Facebook messages with a WOIO-Channel 19 reporter in the hours before and during the nine-hour standoff, Brunswick Lt. Robert Safran said.

    The news station notified the police department, and investigators asked her to stop talking to Brinkman, Safran said. The conversation ended at that time, he said.

    "We got the impression that [Brinkman] wanted to get his story out there before we released any more information," Safran said Tuesday afternoon.

    WOIO-Channel 19 reporter Lacey Crisp reached out to Brinkman on Monday because he is friends on Facebook with three women found dead Sunday in North Royalton, according to a story posted on the news channel's website. Investigators on Tuesday identified Brinkman as a suspect in the homicides.

    "She saw him as a family friend, so she reached out to him on Facebook," WOIO-Channel 19 news director Fred D'Ambrosi said Tuesday in a phone interview.

    Brinkman initially agreed to an on-camera interview to discuss the three women and his relationship to them. But he later revealed he was at the standoff scene in Brunswick, D'Ambrosi said.

    The news channel contacted the police department because it was unclear at the time if others might be in the house with Brinkman, and possibly in danger, D'Ambrosi said.

    "We made the ethical decision that we needed to let the police know," he said.

    Crisp asked Brinkman to surrender, but Brinkman later accused her of working with police and said she "stabbed [him] in the back," the news channel's story says.

    Brinkman also denied any involvement in the homicides and said he broke his hand days earlier at work, the story says.

    Brinkman is charged with murder in the deaths of Lake Township residents Rogell Eugene John, 71, and his wife Roberta Ray John, 64, the Stark County Sheriff's Office said. The sheriff's office secured a warrant for Brinkman's arrest but he remains in custody at the North Royalton Police Department, officials said.

    The North Canton couple was found dead Monday afternoon in their home on Mt. Pleasant Street NE in North Canton. They died from gunshot wounds, the Stark County Coroner's Office said.

    Brinkman has not been charged in connection with the deaths of North Royalton resident Suzanne Taylor, 45, and her daughters Taylor Pifer, 21, and Kylie Pifer, 18, police said. The three women likely died Saturday at their home on Ridge Road in North Royalton, police said.

    Taylor was stabbed at least once, but investigators have not determined how she or her daughters died. Investigators did not recover a knife at the crime scene.

    Investigators learned Monday that Brinkman was at a woman's home on Valley Forge Drive in Brunswick. A SWAT team surrounded the house just after 9:30 p.m., and officers took him into custody early Tuesday, police said. The woman left the home unharmed.

    Officers entered the home just before 5:30 a.m. and used a stun gun on Brinkman, who was holding a gun, Safran said.

    Brinkman's criminal history includes misdemeanor convictions for passing bad checks, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, records show.

    Brinkman was a squatter who was house-sitting for Rogell and Roberta John before they were killed, the Stark County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Brinkman previously was in a relationship with the couple's daughter, sheriff's deputies said.

    Several neighbors said Tuesday that they did not know the couple well, apart from friendly waves as they passed by on the street.

    Neighbors near Brinkman's last known address on Norriton Circle in North Canton said he moved out approximately two years ago, and that they did not know him well.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    George Brinkman charged with three counts of aggravated murder for North Royalton killings

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    NORTH ROYALTON - Police in North Royalton have charged George Brinkman with 3 counts aggravated murder, 3 counts kidnapping, and 1 count tampering with evidence in the deaths of three women who were found in their home on Sunday.

    Brinkman was arrested Tuesday following an overnight standoff with authorities in Brunswick. He is accused of murdering Suzanne Taylor, 45, and her daughters, Kylie Pifer, 18, and Taylor Pifer, 21, of North Royalton.

    Vigil planned for mom, daughters killed in North Royalton Wednesday night


    According to reports, it's likely the three women were killed a day before their bodies were found on a bed inside their Ridge Road home Sunday.

    Arraignment is scheduled for Thursday morning in Parma.

    Brinkman is also facing charges for the deaths of two people in Stark County.

    On Monday night, the bodies of 71-year-old, Rogell John II and his wife, Roberta John, 64, were found inside a home at the 1300 block of Mt. Pleasant NW in Lake Township, just north of Canton. It has not been made clear when the couple died.

    Stark County Court records show Brinkman has been charged with two counts of murder. The couple was shot, but an official cause of death has yet to be determined.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    $75M bond set for Ohio man accused of killing 5 people

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    PARMA, Ohio – A man charged with killing five people kept his head bowed and wiped away tears Thursday during a court appearance where a judge set a $75 million bond on aggravated murder charges in the deaths of a mother and her two college-age daughters.

    George Brinkman Jr. didn't enter a plea during the brief appearance in Parma Municipal Court. He was charged Wednesday in the deaths of Suzanne Taylor and her daughters, 21-year-old Taylor Pifer and 18-year-old Kylie Pifer. Their bodies were found Sunday at their home in North Royalton, a suburb about a half-hour's drive south of Cleveland.

    Judge Timothy Gilligan read the charges aloud, revealing that Suzanne Taylor's throat was slit, Kylie Pifer was strangled with a phone cord and Taylor Pifer was smothered. A North Royalton police detective has said all three women were found facedown on a bed.

    The case was sent to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court where a grand jury will consider whether to indict Brinkman and he will be appointed attorneys.

    Brinkman was charged Tuesday in Stark County with two counts of murder in the deaths of 71-year-old Rogell Eugene John and 64-year-old Roberta Ray John at the couple's home in Lake Township near Canton. Investigators have said Brinkman was watching the Johns' house while they were on vacation. Their bodies were found Monday.

    Suzanne Taylor's mother told WJW-TV that Brinkman and her daughter graduated from high school together and were longtime friends, but had never been romantically involved.

    "We had meals together. He spent holidays here," Marcia Taylor said. "I mean, he was a friend. So I don't know what made him so angry."

    Kylie Taylor attended Bowling Green State University, and Taylor attended Kent State.

    Police and federal agents arrested Brinkman at a friend's home early Tuesday after a nine-hour standoff.

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    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Judge says George Brinkman slit North Royalton mother's throat, suffocated daughters

    By Kaylyn Hlavaty
    News 5 Cleveland

    CLEVELAND - George Brinkman, the man accused of killing a mother and her daughters in North Royalton and a couple in Lake Township appeared in Parma Municipal Court on Thursday.

    RELATED: Who is George Brinkman? Suspect in the Lake Township and North Royalton homicides

    Brinkman is charged with the following in relation to the North Royalton homicides:

    • three counts of aggravated murder
    • one count of tampering with evidence
    • three counts of kidnapping

    As the judge read off the charges, Brinkman was visibly shaking and looking down in court.

    In court, the judge said Brinkman killed mother Suzanne Taylor by slitting her throat with a knife. He allegedly used a telephone cord to strangle Kylie Pifer, 18, and smothered 21-year-old Taylor Pifer of North Royalton with a pillow.

    Brinkman waived his right to a preliminary hearing and his right to bond. The judge set his bond at $75 million.

    RELATED: TIMELINE: Tracking the connection between North Royalton and Stark County homicides

    Brinkman's case will be transferred to Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

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    Predator and prey: George Brinkman saw himself as a wolf, but the five people he’s accused of killing didn’t sense danger

    By Amanda Garrett
    The Akron Beacon-Journal

    George Brinkman Jr. began 2017 as a sleeping wolf.

    On New Year’s Day, the 45-year-old telephone book delivery man updated his Facebook profile picture to show his Native American symbol: Wolf Moon.

    “You have faced many obstacles in your life, but this has helped to make you strong,” said words emblazoned over the image of a slumbering predator. “You can be seen as a loner but you love your small group of friends very much, even if you rarely express it.”

    Eighteen days later, Brinkman’s wolf awoke — his profile picture now showed a menacing wolf with yellow eyes baring its teeth.

    And finally, after going dark on Facebook, Brinkman emerged last week in the real world and attacked, officials say.

    Five people — all of whom knew Brinkman — were killed in their homes over three or four days.

    Brinkman faces murder charges for each death and is jailed as grand juries in Cuyahoga and Stark counties consider formal charges against him.

    Investigators haven’t publicly speculated on what may have prompted the killing spree.

    It appears the mother and her two daughters killed in North Royalton didn’t know the retired couple killed in Lake Township just outside North Canton.

    But as friends and family of the dead mourned this week, a common thread emerged: All of those who died were exceptionally compassionate people who tried to help others, including Brinkman.

    And none saw Brinkman as a predator, let alone themselves as possible prey.

    Growing up together

    Suzanne “Suzi” Taylor and George Brinkman grew up together in Cleveland’s largest suburb, Parma, during the 1970s and 1980s when it was a middle-class powerhouse of new homes and prosperity.

    From the outside, it looked ideal: Parents largely felt safe letting their kids bicycle the tree-lined streets or run free through the Cleveland Metro*parks that snaked their way through the city of nearly 100,000.

    But families had their troubles and the Brinkmans’ problems appear to have started in 1977, when George Brinkman was about 5. Cuyahoga County court records show that’s when his mother filed for divorce from his father, but they don’t say why.

    At the time, Barbara Brinkman — who died in recent years — listed her address only as a post office box in Cleveland. George Brinkman Sr. — who lives out of state and couldn’t be reached for this article — was listed in court records as living at the Cleveland Psychiatric Institution, an inpatient center for people with mental illness.

    The divorce never went anywhere, but five years later, after George Brinkman Sr. moved to a suburb of Los Angeles, court records show that he initiated divorce proceedings from Barbara and, this time, the divorce went through.

    George Jr., his little brother, Steve, and his mom were living in an apartment near Big Creek Reservation in the MetroParks.

    After Suzi graduated from Valley Forge High School in 1990, she went to Hiram College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree studying psychology, sociology and political science, her LinkedIn page says.

    Brinkman graduated from Valley Forge one year after Suzi.

    What Brinkman did next is unclear, but he remained tethered to Suzi, who went on to marry, have two daughters — Taylor and Kylie — divorce, marry another man, divorce a second time and become a real estate appraiser.

    Some say Brinkman hoped his friendship with Suzi would turn romantic. But if Brinkman did, it didn’t stop him from dating other women, including the daughter of Gene John, a Stark County man who started his own phone book delivery company.

    Gene and Bobbi

    Gene and Bobbi John met at a Parents Without Partners event in the late 1990s after each divorced.

    Gene was 6 years older than Bobbi and had a daughter and son. Bobbi had two boys.

    Friends said they were well matched.

    Gene was a Vietnam veteran who earned a Bronze Star for heroism as a combat engineer, said Denny Myers, who first met Gene when they were in first grade in East Canton. After the war, Gene tried sales and managing a music club for a while, but ultimately returned to Stark County and worked as circulation director for The Independent, Massillon’s newspaper and a sister publication of the Canton Repository.

    He was passionate about veterans, his family genealogy, helping others and cooking lavish meals such as standing rib roasts or legs of lamb, Myers said.

    “I guess you could call him a renaissance man,” Myers said.

    Bobbi, a special education educator, also grew up in Stark County.

    One of her high school friends said Bobbi’s career was inspired by her little brother, who had Down syndrome. Bobbi worked at a couple of schools before being hired around 1998 to run all of the programming for children with special needs at Stow-Munroe Falls City Schools.

    At the time, children with developmental disabilities were often forced to leave their home schools for classes elsewhere. Bobbi pushed programming into every school, her colleagues said, and opened opportunities to children that other educators might not have dreamed of, said MaryKay Misterka, special services supervisor at the school district now.

    “God gave Bobbi a gift,” Misterka said. “Her teachers and staff loved her, but so did the general education staff because she was so supportive ... and she helped more than 1,000 children over her career.”

    Bobbi, 64, retired about nine years ago to begin a new phase of her life with Gene, who took what he learned managing newspaper delivery to launch a business delivering phone books across Northeast Ohio.

    Gene’s daughter was one of the people who worked for him over the years, friends said, and so was her boyfriend, George Brinkman.

    Gene and Brinkman became friends.

    When Gene’s daughter and Brinkman broke up a few years ago, she left the company. But Brinkman kept working for Gene, who trusted him enough to housesit for him and Bobbi when they went on vacation.

    Suzi and her girls

    Suzi, 45, met Scott Plymale, a fleet operations manager for FirstEnergy, last year.

    “When I asked what she did, she told me she ran a zoo,” said Plymale, who started dating Suzi in December.

    Suzi supported her family by working in real estate appraisal. But she also cared for at least four cats and a dog, along with whatever animal she found that needed help.

    Her rental house on Ridge Road in North Royalton — along with a previous home on Bennett Road — was a neighborhood hangout for her daughters, Taylor Pifer, 21, and Kylie Pifer, 18, and their friends, even after the girls went to college.

    Taylor was a senior studying fashion design at Kent State. She told some of her friends she dreamed of dressing the rich and famous in Los Angeles, but others said she wanted to stay closer to home.

    Kylie was a sophomore studying forensic biology at Bowling Green. She was hoping to become part of crime-solving teams like the ones she watched on the television shows CSI and Bones.

    “There was never a dull moment at the house,” said Dale Kostar, Taylor’s boyfriend. “We always had something to talk about.”

    George Brinkman, Suzi’s childhood friend, was a regular at cookouts and in their daily lives, wrapping gifts alongside Suzi’s new boyfriend, Plymale, on Christmas Eve.

    In recent months, as Suzi and Plymale grew closer, Brinkman wasn’t around as much, friends said. But Suzi and her girls communicated with him over Facebook.

    Brinkman gave Taylor a ride home from Kent at least once this year, Plymale said. But when she and Kylie got a flat tire June 10 at SouthPark Mall in Strongsville, they turned to Plymale for help.

    Plymale said a Good Samaritan put on a spare tire for the girls by the time he and his children made the 20-minute drive to the mall. So when the sisters drove home, Plymale and his kids headed across the street from the mall to Costco, where he bought a bouquet of flowers for Suzi, who hadn’t been feeling well.

    About an hour passed before Plymale and his kids pulled into Suzi’s driveway. Her car was there. So was the girls’ car with the spare tire and a van Plymale said he recognized as Brinkman’s.

    When there was no answer at the door, Plymale figured the whole group piled into someone else’s car and were out somewhere having an adventure.

    Plymale said he knew a secret way into the house through a bedroom window and considered, for a moment, breaking in and leaving the flowers inside.

    Instead, he left them outside the door, a surprise Suzi would be sure to see when she got home.

    Suzi never saw the flowers.

    Taylor’s boyfriend found them Sunday evening still outside the door when he went to check on the family.

    Inside, all three women were dead, face down, in bed.

    Suzi’s throat was cut, Taylor was smothered and Kylie was strangled with a telephone cord, authorities said.

    Gruesome discovery

    Bobbi John gushed with love and happiness last week as she posted a steady stream of family vacation photos on her Facebook page.

    She and Gene vacationed so regularly at the Finger Lakes in New York that winery owners there often greeted them as they walked in with, “Oh, it’s Gene and Bobbi from Ohio,” recalled a couple who sometimes traveled with them.

    But this month’s trip was to Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., where the couple met Bobbi’s son and his three children.

    Gene and Bobbi’s life together evolved as they aged.

    Bobbi still walked 7 to 8 miles each day with her sister.

    Gene recently turned over management of his phone book company to his son, but still managed one warehouse himself.

    Bobbi and Gene both dived into volunteer work at Tabor United Methodist Church in East Canton after Aultman Hospital bought their former Methodist church in Canton.

    They both sang in the church choir. Last Thanksgiving, Gene carved 20 pounds of turkey for an annual church fundraiser while Bobbi in recent months stitched quilts with other women at the church to give to those in hospice care or to children with special needs.

    “Bobbi was so looking forward to this chapter of her life,” said Misterka, her friend from Stow-Munroe Falls schools.

    Bobbi and Gene’s neighbors in Lake Township saw the couple return home from the beach Sunday evening as scheduled.

    The couple had trusted George Brinkman to housesit while they were away, and all appeared to be well until Gene’s son, Jason, arrived Monday afternoon.

    Inside, he found the Johns’ elderly dog — which had been unable to stand on its own for some time — barking, laying in its own feces.

    And the door handle on the outside of the Johns’ bedroom was broken off.

    Jason used a screwdriver to open the door and found Bobbi dead in the couple’s bed. He lifted a blanket or sheet that covered his father’s lifeless body on the floor, saw blood and called 911. The couple had been shot.

    As the sun set Monday, law enforcement who had been looking for Brinkman in the North Royalton slayings cornered him at a house in Brunswick.

    They negotiated with him overnight, but as dawn broke, law enforcement moved in.

    And George Brinkman, the man who portrayed himself as a snarling wolf, was caged.

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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Cuyahoga County prosecutors to seek death penalty against man charged in five killings

    By Cory Shaffer
    cleveland.com

    CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley's office will seek the death penalty in the case of a North Canton man charged with killing five people earlier this month in Cuyahoga and Stark counties.

    A grand jury on Tuesday indicted George Brinkman on charges of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, kidnapping and offenses against a human corpse in the killing a woman and her adult daughters in North Royalton.

    The charges include death specifications in the June 10 slayings of Suzanne Taylor, 45, and her daughters Taylor Pifer, 21, and Kylie Pifer, 18.

    Investigators believe Brinkman used a knife to slit Taylor's throat before he strangled Kylie Pifer with a telephone cord and smothered Taylor Pifer with a pillow in their North Royalton home.

    Brinkman is also charged in Stark County with murder in the deaths of a Stark County couple. Rogell Eugene John, 71, and his wife Roberta Ray John, 64, were found shot to death Monday afternoon at their home in Lake Township, the Stark County Sheriff's Office said.

    Brinkman was arrested after a nine-hour standoff in Brunswick. A SWAT team surrounded a home on Valley Forge Drive late Monday after learning he was there.

    He is being held on a $75 million bond.

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    Complications delay local murder investigations


    By Jenna Kuczkowski, Andrew Keiper and Anthony Dworning
    Kentwired

    Kent State and the surrounding area has been connected to a multitude of murders and killings over the past year, either through proximity or academic connections.

    Multiple students have been killed in separate incidents, and a number of killings have happened near the university’s campus. In most cases, investigations are ongoing and charges have yet to be filed, or there is little to no movement in court proceedings.

    George Brinkman Case

    After starting the court proceedings more than three months ago, George Brinkman Jr. is still only in the pretrial phase of prosecution for his alleged role in a triple murder.

    On June 11, Taylor Pifer, a Kent State fashion design student, was found dead in her mother’s house on Ridge Road in North Royalton, Ohio, along with Pifer’s mother, 45-year-old Suzanne Taylor, and her sister, 18-year-old Kylie Pifer, who studied biology at Bowling Green State University, who were also killed.

    Brinkman was later apprehended and charged with the family’s murder: 13 counts of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, kidnapping and offenses against a human corpse.

    Brinkman, 45, had his arraignment June 30 at the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, where he pleaded not guilty. Judge Brendan Sheehan also revoked Brinkman’s bond, originally set at $75 million.

    Since then, Brinkman had six pretrials and has another scheduled for Sept. 28.

    According to court dockets through the Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts, the reason for continuance is at the attorney’s request for more time to research the case further, which has been cited each time.

    There have also been three state subpoenas issued and a request for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to provide any and all documentation in its possession regarding Brinkman, such as medical records, disciplinary records and psychiatric records, to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office for purposes of discovery.

    If convicted, Brinkman would be eligible for the death penalty, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office.

    A motion was filed Aug. 28 by Fernando Mack, one of Brinkman’s attorney’s, to dismiss the capital components of the case “due to constitutional and international law violations." That motion was later denied by Judge Peter Corrigan of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on Sept. 5.

    Following his next pretrial on Sept. 28, Brinkman’s trial date has been set for March 26, 2018, by Corrigan. In addition, Corrigan ordered the defense’s expert source report to be finished by Dec. 29, 2017, and the state experts report due by Jan. 31, 2018. The motion hearing is set for March 21, 2018, according to court dockets.

    Separately, on June 13, the Stark County Sheriff’s Department charged Brinkman with the deaths of a Stark County couple — Rogell Eugene John, 71, and his wife, Roberta Ray John, 64, — who were found dead June 12 in their Lake Township home.

    Inspector William Jones with the Stark County Sheriff’s Office said they still intend for Brinkman to be charged in Stark for murders at some point.

    http://www.kentwired.com/latest_upda...c2628513d.html
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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