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From: Victoria Keisner [mailto:messingaround@email.msn.com]

Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 10:42 PM

To: Openletter@mail.kinkele.net

Subject: Why?

I am an Anacortes resident by choice. I choose to live here because I felt

that it was a relatively crime free area to live in. Boy was I wrong.

Everyday I commute to work in Marysville from here and now I don't feel very

safe doing that. I have seen the State Patrol alot more since Scott was

killed on highway 20. Seeing the police there makes me feel a little safer

than I would if they weren't there but I still have chills running up and

down my spine when I cross over the bridge and look at the field. Today I

saw the cross with flowers on the side of the road and I began to cry. I

don't know why I cried except that I felt sadness for the family of Scott.

I can't help but to think of how his parents feel because I have a four year

old son and I would be insane if he was killed.

I believe the mother of those two men is somewhat responsible for the way

they turned out to be as adults. She has not even acknowledged that it was

her children that killed that wonderful man on highway 20. She thinks that

alcohol caused it but she is wrong. Her two sons were not taught the values

of respecting others as children and they have grown up showing that.

What I cannot understand is why those men were not further investigated

when they were pulled over by the police. I hate to admit it but I was

stopped for going 30 miles over the speed limit one day. The officer asked

me to step out of the car. I think he wanted to see if I was sober or not.

He told me that he could have sited me for a wreckless driving offense but

because I was honest with him about my speeding he just gave me a speeding

ticket. I learned that 20 miles over the speed limit or more is a wreckless

driving offense which would give the officer probable cause to ask me to

exit the vehicle. Why then were those men not asked to exit the vehicle? I

don't know. Why weren't they given a ticket? I don't know. I am not

saying that the officer who pulled them over was at fault at all because if

he or she would have known then he or she would have stopped them, I am just

stating facts.

I feel that the man who did the shooting should get the full punishment of

death or life in prison. The others should also get the maximum penalty for

what their involvement of the crime was. The two brothers seem to think

that the justice system in America is a joke. I hope the courts show them

that it is not a joke. They killed a U.S. Navy Officer and they should have

to think about that for the rest of their lives. They have also brought

shame to this community. I do not think they realize the damage they have

done. Wake up guys! I've been considering starting a pitition to the

Skagit County Court for a first degree murder charge but I would need alot

of help. Please E-Mail me and let me know what you think of this idea and

if you could help me.

My condolences to the Family of Scott Kinkele

Victoria Keisner

messingaround@msn.com

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