Katie's Revenge

[BryanP]

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0928girlslain-tattoo28-ON.html

Inmate who killed girl gets her name tattooed on forehead

Associated Press
Sept. 28, 2006 10:23 AM

CARLISLE, Ind. - An inmate serving a life term for molesting and killing a 10-year-old girl named Katie somehow got "Katie's Revenge" tattooed across his forehead, and prison authorities were trying to determine how it happened.

The Indiana Department of Correction placed Anthony Ray Stockelman, 39, in protective custody away from the general inmate population last weekend after authorities discovered the tattoo, said Rich Larsen, a spokesman for the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility.

Stockelman was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to abducting, molesting and killing Katlyn "Katie" Collman. Katie was missing for five days before her body was found Jan. 30, 2005, in a creek about 15 miles from her home in the southern Indiana town of Crothersville.

Larsen refused to comment on what Stockelman has said about it or what else investigators have learned. He said he did not know how a picture of the crude tattoo was taken and distributed outside the prison, including on the Internet.

Collman's father, John Neace, said he heard about the tattoo from friends and believes it was the work of inmates.

"If I had to guess I'd say it's a statement from the inmates," he said Wednesday. Neace said has no idea whether his late daughter's distant cousin, who is also serving time at Wabash, played any role.

Stockelman's tattoo, which covers nearly his entire forehead, has "KATIE'S" in large letters and "REVENGE" below in smaller letters.

The search for Katie, a bright child who enjoyed basketball and the Disney Channel, had consumed Crothersville. Police initially believed she was abducted and slain so she would not reveal methamphetamine activity in her neighborhood.

Investigators had interviewed Stockelman early on because he matched the description of a man seen with the girl. Then another man told police that he was involved in the murder. That confession was eventually shown to be false as evidence pointed investigators back to Stockelman and DNA from the crime scene was found to match his.

A message seeking additional comment left Thursday for an Indiana Department of Correction spokesman was not immediately returned.

[TarpleyG]

Collman's father, John Neace, said he heard about the tattoo from friends and believes it was the work of inmates.

"If I had to guess I'd say it's a statement from the inmates," he said Wednesday. Neace said has no idea whether his late daughter's distant cousin, who is also serving time at Wabash, played any role.

Duh!....ya think?  It didn't get there through divine intervention, I assure you.

Good for the other inmates...maybe this'll start a trend.  Who needs an Internet sexual molester database when you can permanently mark the ahole's forehead.

Greg

[The Rabbi]

Sounds like the Mark Of Cain.

Prisons are bad places of child abusers since many inmates were themselves abused as children.
Maybe "just" sentencing someone to prison is actually a fairer punishment because the market system there will mete out true justice.  Look at Jeffrey Dahmer.

[BryanP]

Update time:

Here's another site with the story.  This one has the picture.

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=5467204

[cordex]

I hope gives the inmate who did that a brand new staple and a Bic pen for his work - he deserves that much at least.

[Monkeyleg]

The guy is lucky that his head is still attached to his body.

[280plus]

Yea, too bad...

[Standing Wolf]

Frankly, I think the death penalty would have been far more sensible, not to mention less expensive to the tax payers.

[brimic]

Frankly, I think the death penalty would have been far more sensible, not to mention less expensive to the tax payers.

No kidding. Taxpayers will probably be stuck holding the bill when the man has cosmetic surgery to remove the tattoo and then psych counseling because of the emotional trauma he endured.

[Car Knocker]

Frankly, I think the death penalty would have been far more sensible, not to mention less expensive to the tax payers.

It is cheaper to warehouse someone for 40 years than it is to fund the death penalty appeals under the current system.

[Standing Wolf]

It is cheaper to warehouse someone for 40 years than it is to fund the death penalty appeals under the current system.

You may be right. All I know for sure is that it costs more to keep a convicted felon locked up for a year than it would to send a deserving young person to virtually any college in the nation for the same period of time.

[Lee]

The good penmanship, grammar and spelling deserve an A.  I'd guess he's got injuries in other areas as well...A+ maybe.

[Antibubba]

As apt as it may be, the taxpayers of Indiana will be paying to have it removed-the "Justice" system will see to that.

[cordex]

As apt as it may be, the taxpayers of Indiana will be paying to have it removed-the "Justice" system will see to that.

Hell, I'll remove it myself.  Someone hold him down, I've got a potato peeler around here somewhere.

[Nick1911]

Don't tattoos require special equiptment?  I guess I don't really understand how someone could tattoo someone in prison.

-Nick

[Matthew Carberry]

Frankly, I think the death penalty would have been far more sensible, not to mention less expensive to the tax payers.

No kidding. Taxpayers will probably be stuck holding the bill when the man has cosmetic surgery to remove the tattoo and then psych counseling because of the emotional trauma he endured.

How bout I buy him a hat instead and we call it even?

[Matthew Carberry]

Don't tattoos require special equiptment?  I guess I don't really understand how someone could tattoo someone in prison.

-Nick

Just takes a needle and some ink from a pen.  Cons will steal motors out of small things to create a real vibrating needle tip to increase the speed of application but all of our ancestors did just fine manually for millenia.

[mfree]

"Taxpayers will probably be stuck holding the bill when the man has cosmetic surgery to remove the tattoo and then psych counseling because of the emotional trauma he endured."

Of course, something truly horrible could happen, like the doctor doing the cosmetic procedure having equipment contaminated with, say, necrotizing fascitis or something equally gruesome... but hey, those are the risks you take when you're a murderer surviving on the dole and good graces of the US taxpayers, right?

[mustanger98]

If any of ya'll are paying attention right now, on FOXNEWS "The Lineup", they're having a report on this case tonight.