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Oregon woman killed by husband filed for divorce
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon woman had filed for divorce just a week before her estranged husband opened fire at the suburban Portland office park where she worked, fatally shooting her and injuring two of her co-workers before killing himself.
Teresa Beiser, 36, was asking for joint custody of her two children with Robert Beiser, 39, in what appeared from court documents to be an amicable dissolution of their marriage.
But a martial arts instructor who knew the Gladstone couple well said Robert Beiser bought firearms recently and wanted to go to a shooting range to practice.
"He never had guns, and all of he sudden he buys guns," said Al Dorsey, who has taught the couple's 14-year-old daughter tae kwan do for several years.
Dorsey said many parents and students at the TaeKwanDo 2 martial arts training hall, based in suburban Milwaukie, Ore., are considered friends. He knew the Beisers well and watched the childhood sweethearts struggle with their marriage before their divorce petition was filed last week in Clackamas County Circuit Court.
"Rob came in all the time and talked to me, and Teresa would talk to me or my wife," Dorsey said.
But when Robert Beiser recently showed an interest in guns and wanted to go to a shooting range, Dorsey — an Army veteran — was wary.
"I told my wife, 'I don't feel comfortable going shooting with anybody that's going through a divorce,'" he said.
Wednesday evening, the Tualatin Police Department released more details about the shooting at the medical lab where Teresa Beiser worked. Police said Robert Beiser got out of his vehicle shortly before noon Tuesday and began firing into the front windows of the Legacy MetroLab. He was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun.
He fired at least three rounds into the building from the parking lot. One of those rounds struck Teresa Beiser as she was standing near the front lobby.
Robert Beiser yelled at a man in the lobby to get out of the building as he continued to fire multiple shots, police said.
One of Teresa Beiser's co-workers — 20-year-old Brittney Nichole Lore of Vancouver, Wash. — was near the front doors and was injured by flying glass and bullet fragments. She ran out of the building and flagged down help at a nearby Subway sandwich shop, police said.
Lore was treated at a Portland hospital and released.
Another Legacy employee, 63-year-old Tony Ochoa of Tigard, was sitting at his desk when he was struck in the hand and chest with one of the first rounds fired into the building, police said.
He started running out of the building but was confronted by Robert Beiser and shot in the leg. He then crawled to a neighboring business, where an employee administered first aid until officers arrived.
Police said Ochoa was recovering at a Portland hospital; an update on his condition was not available Wednesday evening.
Investigators found Teresa Beiser's body near the lobby. She had been shot multiple with an assault rifle and shotgun.
Robert Beiser's body was found in a bathroom at the back of the lab. He died from a self-inflicted shotgun wound, police said.
Other than some moodiness and appearing distracted, Robert Beiser showed no signs that he was capable of such violence, Dorsey said.
Dorsey said he and Robert Beiser had discussed some recent shootings in the news, sharing their concerns. "He even said, 'There's nothing that bad that would make you want you to do something like that,'" Dorsey said.
Beiser and his wife were both working two jobs, and were devoted to their daughter and 11-year-old son, said Dorsey and other family friends.
A neighbor on a side street said she and her husband frequently walked past the couple's house and noticed how neat and tidy it was.
"The house was always well-kept, and they always decorated at Christmas," said Vicki Obrist, who added that she and her husband never got to know the family.
Dorsey said Teresa Beiser was working to become a competitive body builder, and she pushed her daughter to be competitive in tae kwan do.
He said Robert Beiser had worked on fundraisers for trips to tae kwan do tournaments and had accompanied his daughter. The couple appeared to be friendly when they attended tae kwan do practice sessions.
"He really loved his kids, and he really loved her too," Dorsey said. "This man worked hard, and I think his world just started crumbling."
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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I always believed that being "allowed" supervised visits is an abomination and amounts to a consolation prize, when prior to talk of a divorce, there was no concern about a non-custodial's ability to care for his child.
My kid was taken from me in New York. the judge tried that shit on me. That is to offer me a consolation prize. I declined, because I knew I would be no more than an out-of-state visitor and would have to fight each time to see the kid which up to that point, they refused to allow me to do. I would essentially be a baby sitter for the bitch, which I wasn't about to do, either. I would constantly be paying sharks to go to the court to ask for a little time with the kid. Not for me. I wasn't about to lose another dime in time or "shark" fees to get me something that should have been mine to begin with - a right to my kid.
It was heartwrenching to me - I felt like offing myself. But I eventually got over it. I haven't seen the kid since he was 2 1/2 y/o. Now he's almost 18. I understand he was recently trying to contact me, but I know for a fact it was only for more money. He, or I should say she gets $380.00/week from me. That's the extent of my involvement. If he wanted my involvement, he would have called me a long time ago and that didn't happen.
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The bruises are pictured above. They could have been made by Merriman and, frankly, they could be anything. They could be makeup, bruises from something else, bruises because he grabbed her to prevent her driving drunk, or a multitude of other things. Some women bruise very easily--I've no idea if Tequila is one of them.
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ChrisPCD Says:
August 27th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
"Just because someone isn't convicted of something doesn't mean they're not guilty."
True. But it's not what you know, it's what you can prove. :)
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jeana Says:
August 27th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
There may not be enough evidence of domestic violence, but enough that the judge would rather be safe than sorry. Just because someone isn't convicted of something doesn't mean they're not guilty.
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NE Says:
July 29th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Most men I know don't even own a tv? They are either into computers, photography, cars, guns, sports, etc? Most of the men I've met are usually much more active than any women I've meet that watch tons of tv including cooking shows like foodnetwork.?????
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Knock Knock Says:
August 12th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Doug asks:
"Can you please provide the link to this, it will be good ammo for future reference."
Here you go:
Report:
A Culture of False Allegations: How VAWA Harms Families and Children
Press Release:
One Million False Allegations of Domestic Violence Each Year, Report Finds
The organization that put these out is called "Respecting Accuracy In Domestic Abuse Reporting" (RADAR).
If I were you, I would be careful to avoid making any public assertions of fact based on the above report, simply because the source -- RADAR in this case -- is an advocacy organization and therefore by definition is biased. (You wouldn't trust the Tobacco Institute's reports about the safety of tobacco, would you?)
So if you do quote RADAR's report, you should be careful to describe it as "indicative" or "suggestive", rather than "authoritative" or "dispositive".
I recall my very foolish wife inviting me out to Polo for Heart in Richmond Hill where her boyfriend was one of the polo players. At one point he actually came up to me and put his arm around me and said “Attila. How are you doing?” At that moment in time It took every ounce of my martial arts discipline training to refrain from violent behaviour, and I walked away. Lucky for him and more importantly lucky for me and the children as I would be useless to them in jail.
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An Ohio lawmaker has re-introduced legislation that would include a father's rights in the abortion decision-making process. Under Roe v. Wade, fathers are left out of the equation when a woman considers whether or not to have an abortion that would end the life of their child.
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In the Marines we had a jerk tailgaiting me pretty bad while driving my hummer. I finally got pissed and told the gunner to rotate the TOW system on him. You could see strait through the dummy round showing it is empty and it takes 60yds for it to even arm if you did fire but the fucker almost wrecked hammeing his brakes so hard to finally back off! I miss heavy guns and explosives! They make people MUCH more polite! LOL
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It is interesting that she spent all that time "researching" me and never found anything of interest that she could attack. I did ask her why she was taking so long and pointed out she has a serious problem with claiming many yhings by men are control items yet she refused a reasonable post with independent research and attacked me for questioning why she didn't allow it therefore using the exact same kinds of control she complains about all over her blog.
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There are several studies that have found that, when men and women with equal criminal histories are charged with the same crime, men get the more severe sentence. One such study found that sex played the greatest role in sentencing disparities - even greater than race. That's the female sentencing discount.
http://fcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/2/170
Gendered Justice
Domestic Homicide and the Death Penalty
Jill Theresa Messing
School of Social Work, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Jill.Messing@asu.edu
John W. Heeren
Department of Sociology, California State University, San Bernardino, jheeren@csusb.edu
This research examines a newspaper sample of men and women who killed multiple people in a single domestic altercation during the years 1993 to 2002. As all these perpetrators of multiple domestic homicide are eligible to be capitally tried, differences in capital sentencing are examined using bivariate statistics and descriptive, case-oriented analyses. Women who kill their children using a knife or firearm are disproportionately sentenced to death, whereas men who kill in the context of a separation are granted leniency in regard to the death penalty. The interaction between the gender of the offender and the crime committed is discussed.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/otheropinions/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1179120053203970.xml&coll=1
Going easy on men who kill partners
Monday, May 14, 2007 Tania Tetlow
Everette Simpson married three times, and three times he murdered his wife. Simpson stabbed his first wife 16 times with a butcher knife and then served nine years in prison. He stabbed his second wife with a hatchet, was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter and served 11 years before being paroled. Last month in Slidell, Simpson beat his third wife and her brother to death and then set the house on fire to conceal the murders. He died in the fire, so at least he won't be released and marry again.
Sheriff Jack Strain asked how a "monster" like this could have been free to kill again. The answer is simple -- the national average sentence for men who kill their female partners is two to six years in prison. Criminal justice systems and juries do not, on average, treat the murder of women by their husbands terribly seriously.
In contrast, women who kill their male partners are sentenced to an average of 15 years, three times as much as male defendants, despite the fact that many of these women killed in self-defense.
Women in abusive relationships find themselves trapped. They know that the system will not, or sometimes cannot, protect them from husbands who promise to track them down and kill them. Ashley Ruffins was stabbed to death last year after the police in both Orleans and Jefferson parishes failed to answer her repeated begging to enforce a protective order. Even when the police respond immediately, as they did in Mandeville last month, they could not protect Adrienne McGee from being shot down in the middle of the street in broad daylight.
But if these women try to save their own lives, fight back and end up killing their batterers, they often face life sentences in prison. Their children are effectively orphaned. Three recent New Orleans trials, all held in the same month, illustrate this fact:...
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Oh Steve, I dont know how I can saY THAnk you (I wish I had other words. ou are a good man. Worrying over Sean was bad enpough bujt now I hazve my husbancd to worry of. Had an accident in Wisc last Friday spent 4 days there and now he is home in a hospital in La Grange, very serious. I write to Sean every day. I love my adopted son more then my life. If I ever met Gloria, I woul;d wring her neck, well time for bed. Love you Nannette
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