NEW YORK, July 31, 2007
Murder-Castration Was Revenge, Cops Think
Mentally Disturbed NYC Woman Suspected Of Killing Allegedly Abusive Stepfather
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(AP / CBS)
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Investigators believe the suspect, Brigitte Harris, "did it," a law enforcement official said on Monday. "We are trying to determine why."
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Harris had not been arrested or charged, said police were checking reports that Eric Goodridge, 55, may have abused Harris as a child. Detectives were hoping to question the 26-year-old suspect at a hospital mental ward where she was admitted after the slaying, the law enforcement official said.
Police also were seeking a search warrant to comb the suspect's computer files for clues about a motive. On her MySpace.com home page, she referred to herself as The Original Dark Angel and listed her mood as "depressed."
Her attorney, Arthur Aidala, after viewing the MySpace page, said, "You could tell that she's someone who's calling out for help."
He said his client's stepfather was "a monster."
"And living with a monster from the age of 3 is something that you just don't recover from without professional help," he said.
Harris left chilling notes in her Rockaways apartment accusing Goodridge of abuse and justifying her crime, the New York Daily News reports.
"He wrecked my life," read one note found near her stepfather's body Saturday, according to the Daily News. "At first, I blamed myself. Now I know it's not my fault," another said.
Police said Harris sent e-mails to Goodridge to lure him to her apartment, the Daily News reports. Then she handcuffed him to a chair, gagged him with duct tape and throttled him until he died, authorities said.
He was already dead when she cut off his penis, officials said, noting there would have been much more blood if he had been alive when it was severed.
When officers were summoned there at about 1 p.m. Saturday, they discovered his mutilated body; Harris was missing.
The victim had been bound with duct tape, handcuffed and strangled before having his penis sliced off, police said. The medical examiner determined he died from "homicidal violence," including gagging and neck compression.
Police immediately began searching for Harris and learned she had checked into a hospital for psychological treatment.
Goodridge lived in Staten Island when he was married to Harris' mother. He later married another woman, who died five years ago, according to the Daily News. That woman's mother defended Goodridge as a decent dad to his other children, who are now orphaned.
She acknowledged to the Daily News that she had heard rumors that Goodridge had abused Harris, but said she didn't think they was true.
"I would die if I could believe that," his former mother-in-law told the Daily News. "He wouldn't pay child support, but I wouldn't believe that."
But a former brother-in-law told the Daily News he had also heard of the sex abuse claims long before Goodridge's shocking death.
"It stands to reason if someone pulls a Lorena Bobbitt, there's a good reason," he told the Daily News.
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- Otherwise, what good is she as a so-called wife?
Posted by Agnim
OK everybody, Agnim displays the characteristics of a spouse abuser, and potential molester, or rapist, because it seeks to justify self gratification through the denial of the right to self identity of people other than itself.
Advice for any females within it's vicinity, go get help, or at least alert your local authorities of the possibility of a *** offender in your area. Put distance between you and this sociopath, or else you may be the next victim being discussed in these blogs. - Reply to this comment
- I think that if he did what she said he did he had it coming. and he got just what he deserved.
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- Agnim have you absolutely lost your MIND, are you that paranoid, psychologically inept, and emotionally apathetic????
Where do you come up with this nonsense, women are made to take knocks, are you that much of a moronic FOOL, please tell me you can't be that SOCIALLY/PSYCHOLOGICALLY INCOMPETENT......
You have to audacity to call this woman a "WITCH", how dare you, you "MODOIDIOTO", this man repeatedly rapped this woman as a child, I believe her, inspite of her mother's denial.
If you want to castigate someone direct your venom towards her mother, who probably knew what was going on, but didn't give a DAMMMMMMMM..
I've heard so many cases of sexual abuse where the child confided in his/her parent[mother] and instead of investigating the allegation dismissed it, because she was too trifling and self-centered to prosecute, out of fear she was going to have to go it along, now that's pathetic....
This young woman lived a "NIGHTMARE", and to top it off she confided in her mother, and this bi[t]ch brushed her off and didn't bother to investigate, she should have been brought up on criminal neglect charges.. - Reply to this comment
- Watch the movie "Hard Candy" it is the plot she followed in performing this crime.
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- To agnim (and anyone else who thinks there's no such thing as spousal rape)
No means no. If a couple are arguing, and a man wants ***, but the woman says (and MEANS) "NO"--she has that right.
To force sexual contact is rape--married or not.
Sexual activity "should" involve all of the following (in no particular order)
mutual affection/attraction, respect for the other's needs/wants, consent/willingness to participate and being 'on the same page' in regards to person/place/time/circumstance.
If you're missing some of that, something's amiss. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by Iceman_1960 at 07:57 PM : Jul 31, 2007
Please, raping a child is not the same as fcuking your wife.
Leona Bobbit was a witch who shouldn't be walking freely in any society.
The husband had to be really pathetic to allow her life. A man can't rape his wife. Being wife means that the woman intends to make herself available. Otherwise, what good is she as a so-called wife? - Reply to this comment
- CATHOLIC & ANGLICAN PRIESTS NEXT! LOL
Women were made to take kocks; yet this witch can take a stand against a pervert who tormented and traumatized her as a child.
Therefore those men who have been sodomized and traumatized by the christians in the catholic and anglican Churches of Child Sodomy surely can follow the lead of this sick heroine, no?
Come on 'men', what happen to your balls?
Did you lose them too in the Churches of Child Sodomy? LOL - Reply to this comment
- "In 2002, John Bobbitt was scheduled to fight Joey Buttafuoco on Fox Network's Celebrity Boxing." - Wikipedia
D*amn. I missed that one. - Reply to this comment
- GOOD FOR HER!! I know a couple of girls whose stepfather molested them, but they couldn't say anything to their mother because he'd deny it and she'd believe him. They suffered and he was never charged. The time limit expired for charges to be brought. Murder would be too good for him!!!!
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- Lorena Bobbitt, the only "r*ape victim" ever to complain that her "r*apist" failed to bring her to climax, was found not guilty.
"Lorena was charged with "malicious wounding" of which she was found not guilty in January of 1994 on the basis of expert testimony that she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of her husband's abuse. According to her defense lawyers, on the night of the attack, Lorena's PTSD manifested itself in a form of temporary insanity causing an irresistible impulse to sexually wound her husband. As a result, she could not be held liable for her actions. After the jury issued a verdict of not guilty, Lorena was ordered to spend 45 days in a psychiatric hospital."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorena_Bobbitt - Reply to this comment
- Stupid censorship software. Dick Cheney must have written it.
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"He was already dead when she cut off his p*enis, officials said, noting there would have been much more blood if he had been alive when it was severed."
This is not what the word "castration" means.
Castration is the removal of the testes." - Reply to this comment
- I'm amazed at all the psychics on this site who know he was a molester without knowing anything about the case or the people involved.
Ever heard of innocent until proven guilty? Bet you have but you are just too prejudiced to be able to see over your own warped notions of justice.
If that was any kind of justice it was that of a lynch mob. She is a murderer now and should be treated as such. - Reply to this comment
- My parents married ,too young. Adored Dad. I was not a full term baby. So the marriage broke up. I was 5. Born legally blind and phy handicapped. Due to C/P did not walk until 2 or so. Then she married again. That man told Mum not his she goes. So foster home after foster home. Started sp ed at 10. Was only blind/multi and yes a girl in that school system. Teacher taught the sighted not blind so just sat there. still in sp ed at high school,way behind my peers. Scared to death. Grad at 19, same yr Nixon resigned, Then 7 yrs at blind centre. Then moved in with my friend of 24 yr. I have closer at they who abused me are dead. In my last post staff meant teachers and school personalle. No one has the right to violate your person at any age. I got a person fired for putting his paws on me at the blind centre. yrars ago. This one man entered my room and he never did that again.
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- "He was already dead when she cut off his ****, officials said, noting there would have been much more blood if he had been alive when it was severed."
This is not what the word "castration" means.
Castration is the removal of the *testes. - Reply to this comment
- She should have cut off his *** while he was alive. You go girl. I hope she doesn't have to serve time for what she did!
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- MichelleM99 I to am 52 and I to suffered at the hands of counselors in a place called Methodist Youthville. This was a place for children that came from troubled homes. More than once I witnessed a young girl getting molested by a counselor and I kept my mouth shut for fear of my life.
Not only was I raped at the age of 13 by a young black boy there,I was later raped by a counselor.
The drugs and beer an sexual escapes that went on at that place was not a place to raise children. I was abused and almost drowned by my adopted mother through trying to drown me in a bathtub and more than once suffered abuse from her till I was ten,then taken away by the state and she never served any time,but was ordered to pay for my up keep for the next 6 years in a convent school and then Youthville.
This woman in this article did what she felt she had to do and i'm behind her all the way,even if it's not right. I pray she never serves a day for what she did. - Reply to this comment
- good for her. People who abuse children deserve a much worse death--he was lucky.
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- Too bad she killed the bas.**** before cutting his pe.nis off, she could have showed him his works. This is a clear example of what is meant in Texas when they say... He needed a Killin!
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- RE : MichelleM99
"Get Your Knife Out"
Head - Straight down to Your Own - "Federal Building"
Take care of Business - "Today" - "Now" ! ! !
Even : "J. Edgar Hoover" (FBI Director)
Often enjoyed : A romp in bed with : "Young Boys"
Video tapped - Statements : From former FBI Agents :
Describing how - They delivered Young Boys - For S*e*x*
Is evidence to that ! ! ! !
"Solicitation - Prostitution - Pimps"
The FBI - (Uncovered) - In one of it's more finest moments
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Research :
The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover
copy and paste (Google)
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If those Young Boys, came from Juvenile Detention Centers.
Then - They may - "Not" - of had any Choice in the Matter
That activity - Now turns into a : S*e*x* - Slave Trafficking Operation.
of Young Boys
MichelleM99 - ..Happy Cutting ...Enjoy Yourself .....Have a Good Time ! ! !
Lastdance - Reply to this comment
- This is a poorly written article.
1st: ""...then gagged, handcuffed and castrated him to avenge..."" (Is he alive?)
Then: ""...mental ward where she was admitted after the slaying,..."" (Oh, she killed him?)
And more: ""He was already dead when she cut off his ***..."" Ah HAH, she killed him before the maiming!)
She got the order of operations all wrong. - Reply to this comment
