Jesse Dirkhising
BORN: May 24, 1986 AD
DIED: September 26, 1999 AD
The Death of Jesse Dirkhising - Raped and Murdered
by two homosexuals
Ignored by the Media
Most the listing from Covenant
News and Jim Rudd
Affadavits
regarding the murder of Jesse Dirkhising
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affadavits regarding the murder of Jesse Dirkhising. Please note that
these contain graphic descriptions. Parental Discretion Advised
Not
A Hate Crime
By Joseph Farah / WorldNetDaily.com
His parents thought he was working as a hair stylist on weekends. But
when Prairie Grove, Ark., police responded to a 911 emergency call at 5
a.m. Sept. 26, they found 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising on the floor, unconscious,
near death, one of his wrists bound with duct tape. A half-hour later,
he was pronounced dead at St. Mary's Hospital in Roger. A police investigation
determined young Jesse was repeatedly raped over a period of hours, including
with foreign objects. While enduring this ordeal, his ankles, knees and
wrists were bound in duct tape and he was gagged and blindfolded. He was
tied to a mattress. He may have been drugged, police say. A sedative called
amitryptiline was found in the home of two men -- Joshua Brown, 22, and
David Don Carpenter, 38 -- along with Jesse's body. Just another brutal
local crime, you say? Why is Farah recounting a police blotter story from
Arkansas? I don't know. Something bothers me about this story. It ought
to bother us. It was big news in Northwest Arkansas, but the story of Jesse
Dirkhising hasn't made a ripple in the national news. I wonder why? I wonder
if it's because the victim is not a part of some politically protected
sub-group, a special class deserving of extra government privileges? I
wonder if it is because the suspects are, indeed, members of such a group.
Remember how the nation stood riveted to the details of a hideous murder
that took place in Wyoming when a homosexual was tortured to death? Never
mind that the crime had little or nothing to do with the victim's sexual
proclivities. Uh-uh. That didn't matter.
Who was Jesse Dirkhising?
Media Tune Out Torture Death of Arkansas Boy
Joyce Howard Price / The Washington Times (link expired)
Most of the nation has not heard about two homosexual men who face
the death penalty in Arkansas, charged with raping and torturing a 13-year-old
boy to death last month. The brutal crime against Prairie Grove, Ark.,
seventh-grader Jesse Dirkhising -- who was raped repeatedly and suffocated
with his own underwear in the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 26 -- was reported
by news organizations in Arkansas and also covered by newspapers in Oklahoma
and Tennessee. But the boy's death did not receive national media attention.
Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, said
he is not surprised. "Nobody wants to say anything negative about homosexuals.
Nobody wants to be seen on the wrong side of that issue," said Mr. Graham,
who sees "political correctness" at work.
No Media Memorial For Jesse Dirkhising
By L. Brent Bozell III / Creators Syndicate
When Matthew Shepard died on October 12, 1998 at the age of 21, five
days after getting into a pickup truck with two goons who beat him mercilessly,
he had already become a huge national news story that continues today.
It made the cover of Time magazine with the headline "The War Over Gays,"
with reporters predictably using the occasion to blame religious conservatives
and call for hate-crime laws and other gay-left agenda items. But when
Jesse Dirkhising died on September 26 at the age of 13 from suffocation
after being bound, gagged with underwear in his mouth, blindfolded, taped
to the bed, and sodomized by one gay man while another gay man watched,
the national media said nothing, even after The Washington Times exposed
the untold story.
Media
Outlets Quash Stories on Dirkhising Death
By Lawrence Morahan / CNSNews.com
Stories about the alleged murder of a 13-year-old boy at the hands
of a homosexual couple have been quashed by some major media outlets and
have caused death threats to be sent to others, a group of reporters and
talk show hosts told CNSNews.com. "About 10 percent of my emails are from
people who haven't heard of the case and who want material to verify what
they heard. People asked me to send them some stuff because people they
told about it didn't believe them," said Eric Hogue, a broadcaster with
WHK AM and FM radio covering northeastern Ohio and Pennsylvania, in an
interview with CNSNews.com.
Affidavits Reveal 'Gay' Sadism Link in the Jesse Dirkhising Murder
Americans for Truth
Why is the media not covering Jesse Dirkhising murder like that of
Matthew Shepard? Where were the Human Rights Campaign, and the National
Gay & Lesbian Task Force on the day of Jesse Dirkhising's death? View
facsimiles of two affidavits of this case for yourself.
Two Killings, One Newsworthy The Other Not
By Bill O'Reilly / APB News (link expired)
NEW YORK -- The question is stark and brutal. If the murder of Matthew
Shepard, a gay man, by two drunken thugs in Laramie, Wyo., was a national
story and a heinous hate crime, why wasn't the killing of 13-year-old Jesse
Dirkhising publicized the same way? Jesse was tortured, sodomized and finally
killed by a gay man as another homosexual watched in the small town of
Rogers, Ark. Yet the national media ignored the crime, causing outrage
among those who see hate crimes as a tool being used to hammer the agendas
of special interests. The two men who murdered Shepard have been convicted
and, most likely, will spend the rest of their lives in prison. But the
two men allegedly involved in the killing of Jesse Dirkhising have yet
to be tried, and when they are, you may not even hear about it.
The
Death of Jesse Dirkhising
By Michelle Malkin / CapitalismMagazine.com
"Jesse slowly suffocated and died." A jury heard those chilling words
this week in the opening statement of a little-noticed Arkansas trial.
A mother heard those heartbreaking words spoken about her 13-year-old son,
Jesse Dirkhising, whom prosecutors say died at the hands of two men who
raped and murdered the boy during a marathon torture session. The trial
raises grave questions about society's increasing tolerance of gay pedophilia.
But in New York and Los Angeles, the national press hounds were more interested
in covering the trial of rap star Sean "Puffy" Combs than in reporting
on the tragic death of Jesse Dirkhising.
Jesse
Dirkhising's Deliverance
By Joseph Farah / WorldNetDaily.com
The case of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising continues to haunt me since
I first wrote about it weeks ago -- before anyone else in the national
press. The details of the crime in Prairie Grove, Ark., Sept. 26, were
chilling enough before I read more than I cared to read in the affidavit
filed the next day. This is not an easy story to write about nor read about.
Be warned. Joshua Macave Brown and David Don Carpenter have pleaded innocent
to charges of capital murder and six counts of rape in Jesse's torturous
death. The pair is charged with drugging the boy, raping him repeatedly
and killing him by asphyxiation. If you have the stomach for it, here are
the shocking details of what the police investigation found. As I wrote
last month about this case: "Remember how the nation stood riveted to the
details of a hideous murder that took place in Wyoming when a homosexual
was tortured to death? Never mind that the crime had little or nothing
to do with the victim's sexual proclivities. Uh-uh. That didn't matter.
This was a hate crime. New laws were needed. New brainwashing programs
must be introduced into the schools. New sensitivity outreach projects
were required by all media outlets. Bill Clinton sounded off. Janet Reno
chimed in.
Small-Town Predators
By Candi Cushman / WORLD Magazine
The rape and murder of a 13-year-old boy roils Arkansas, but not the
national press. Reaching its long black arm into quiet farmlands and fall-colored
mountains, Highway 62 long provided the only link between Lincoln, Prairie
Grove, and Rogers-three rural communities that dot the 150-mile route east
of the Oklahoma border in northern Arkansas. That was before September,
though, when two homosexual men in Rogers allegedly raped and killed 13-year-old
Jesse Dirkhising, a Prairie Grove resident and Lincoln middle-school student.
Now the three towns are forever connected in a depressing tale of small-town
sin and media double standards.
Is
Homosexuality Normal?
By Reed Irvine / Accuracy In Media
Why have the establishment media ignored the horrible murder of 13-year-old
Jesse Dirkhising by two homosexual men in the little town of Rogers, Arkansas?
That is a question that was first asked by The Washington Times on October
22, nearly a month after the seventh-grader was found dead after he had
been brutally assaulted sexually by Davis Carpenter, 38, and his lover,
Joshua Brown, 22, on September 26. The front-page story in the Times by
Joyce Howard Price brought the story, which had been on the front page
of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on three days, out of Arkansas. But a
Nexis search at the end of November found only a half dozen news stories
about it outside of Arkansas and a dozen editorials, opinion columns and
letters.
Homosexuality
Is Not Normal
By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid / Accuracy In Media
In earlier commentaries we have contrasted the extensive coverage our
establishment media gave to the murder of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual
college student in Wyoming, and the murder by two homosexual men of Jesse
Dirkhising, a seventh-grade student in Arkansas. At the end of November,
a Nexis search of publications outside of Arkansas turned up only a half
dozen news stories and a dozen editorials, columns and letters that mentioned
the Dirkhising murder. Jonathan Gregg of Time magazine gave an explanation
for this in an article on Time’s web site on November 4. He said: "The
reason the Dirkhising story received so little play is because it offered
no lessons. Shepard's murder touches on a host of complex and timely issues:
intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform,
the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising's
death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no
lesson here, no moral of tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment
of the perpetrators. To be somehow equated with these monsters would be
a bitter legacy indeed for Matthew Shepard." But there are important lessons
to be found in the Dirkhising case. One is that the homosexual lifestyle
frequently involves practices that are both revolting and what follows
may not be suitable for children. Josh Brown and Davis Carpenter, the killers
of Jesse Dirkhising, were just doing what Carpenter, who is thirty-eight
years old, had been doing for years -- inflicting physical pain on others
for kicks. Sadomasochism is celebrated in homosexual literature and art.
Those who engage in it are not described as sick "monsters." There is a
tendency to try extreme perversions in search of thrills. One, called "golden
showers," is urinating on a partner. Another is using objects to sodomize
a partner. In Jesse Dirkhising’s case, his tormentors used cucumbers, a
banana, a sausage and a douche bottle. These practices are shown in the
celebrated Mapplethorpe photographs. During the 1993 Gay Rights March on
Washington, an exhibit in the Mellon Auditorium, a federal building, featured
whips, chains, bondage devices and electric cattle prods as instruments
of sexual pleasure.
Death
Penalty Possible for Gay Men in Dirkhising Murder
By Bob Melvin / CNSNews.com
An Arkansas circuit judge ruled Friday that prosecutors can seek the
death penalty against two homosexual men charged with repeatedly raping
a 13-year-old Bentonville boy, Jesse Dirkhising, then allowing him to die
of asphyxiation. At a pretrial hearing, Benton County Circuit Judge David
Clinger also granted a defense request that potential jurors can be given
a questionnaire to determine whether they had already made up their minds
about the highly-publicized case. But Clinger said lawyers could not delve
too deeply into their private lives by asking questions such as what types
of magazines they read.
Sex
Fantasies Evidence in Jesse Dirkhising Trial
By Jon E. Dougherty / WorldNetDaily.com
Statements detailing sexual fantasies about young boys, made to police
by a suspect in the rape and murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising last
year, can be admitted as evidence in court, a state judge has ruled. Circuit
Judge David Clinger of Benton County, Ark., also said Apr. 26 that a search
of Davis Don Carpenter's apartment was proper during his arrest for killing
Dirkhising last fall.
Judge
Denies Bail to Homosexual Accused of Rape and Murder of 13-Year Old
By Lawrence Morahan / CNSNews.com
A judge in Benton County, Arkansas, Wednesday denied bail to one of
two men charged in the September, 1999 rape and murder of a 13-year-old
Arkansas boy. The victim, Jesse Dirkhising, was discovered, bound and gagged,
in the apartment of 38-year-old Davis Don Carpenter and 22-year-old Joshua
Macave Brown. Police say Carpenter and Brown were lovers and that Brown
repeatedly sodomized the boy while Carpenter watched. Circuit Court Judge
David Clinger refused to issue bail to Carpenter, who is currently being
held in the Benton County Jail. Carpenter's trial on charges of capital
murder and six counts of rape is set for July 17.
Lawyers Mum On Plans For Trial In Jesse Dirkhising's Slaying
By Michelle Bradford / The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (link expired)
BENTONVILLE -- Jury selection starts Monday in the capital murder trial
of Joshua Macabe Brown who, along with a former roommate, faces the death
penalty if convicted in the November 1999 slaying of 13-year-old Jesse
Dirkhising. Brown, 23, and Davis Don Carpenter, 39, are each charged with
one count of capital murder and six counts of rape in the boy's death.
Benton County prosecutors said the Lincoln seventh-grader suffocated after
being drugged, bound and sodomized Sept. 26, 1999, in the Rogers apartment
where Carpenter and Brown lived.
Media
Ignore Homosexual Murder-Rape Trial
NewsMax.com
Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a man accused of raping
and murdering an Arkansas boy. Family groups have complained that the news
media have demonstrated a pro-homosexual bias in their reluctance to cover
the case. The media should give as much attention to this case as they
did to the highly publicized "hate crime" murder of Wyoming college student
Matthew Shepard, the family groups say.
Jury Selection Starts for First Trial in 13-Year-Old's Death
By Brian Skoloff / The Associated Press
BENTONVILLE, Arkansas -- Jury selection started Monday for the trial
of a man charged along with his roommate with rape and capital murder in
the death of a 13-year-old boy. Jesse Dirkhising of Prairie Grove, Arkansas,
died Sept. 26, 1999, after being tied up and drugged in the home of Joshua
McCabe Brown and Davis Don Carpenter in Rogers, Arkansas, prosecutors said.
The state is seeking the death penalty.
Dirkhising
Murder-Rape Trial Opens in Arkansas
By Scott Hogenson / CNSNews.com
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- The trial of one of two men accused in the 1999
rape and murder of a 13-year-old boy in Arkansas began Wednesday with prosecutors
arguing that the boy's death does constitute capital murder. 23-year old
Joshua Macabe Brown faces execution if found guilty in the murder of Jesse
Dirkhising, who died while bound and gagged, and subject to repeated rape.
Brown's roommate, 39-year old Davis Don Carpenter, faces his own capital
murder trial in May. Medical experts said the boy died of suffocation in
the apartment shared by the men as a result of the position in which he
was left, and the defense said Brown did not want to kill the boy. But
prosecutor Bob Balfe discounted the argument, saying, "it's still capital
murder," when a violent act results in death. The boy's parents had allowed
Dirkhising to stay with Brown and Carpenter, described in earlier affidavits
as lovers. But Betty Yates, the boy's grandmother, said that decision probably
contributed to the boy's rape and death. "The parents put him in a situation
he shouldn't have been in. They knowingly let him spend weekends with the
two guys knowing they were gay," Yates said in an October, 1999 interview
with CNSNews.com.
Prosecutor
Describes Gay's Rape-Murder Of 13-Year-Old Boy
By Brian Skoloff / The Associated Press
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- A 13-year-old boy was sedated, restrained and
gagged with his own underwear and duct tape, then raped repeatedly before
he suffocated, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday. In his opening statement,
prosecutor Bob Balfe said Jesse Dirkhising had been given a strong sedative
then restrained on a bed before dying in the assault on Sept. 26, 1999.
A judge ordered separate trials for Brown and Carpenter because each is
expected to blame the other for the boy's death.
Officers
Testify They Couldn't
Help Dying Boy
By Brian Skoloff / The Associated Press
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Police officers didn't try to revive a dying boy
who had been sexually assaulted because they weren't carrying their disease-deterrent
masks, the officers testified Thursday. Police officers said at Brown's
trial Thursday that the boy was lifeless, his face was blue and he had
blood in his mouth and excrement smeared on his body when they entered
the gay couple's apartment in Rogers. "There was horrible stench in the
room when I walked in. It was overwhelming," said Jason Curry, a former
police officer in Rogers now with the U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona. Under
cross-examination by Brown's lawyer, both Curry and former Cpl. Ian Smith
said they had left the masks necessary to protect themselves from disease
behind in the car when they entered the apartment. Department policy mandates
their use during resuscitation attempts, they said.
Mother Says Son Was Her 'Best Friend'
By Tracy M. Neal / The Benton County Daily Record (link expired)
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Tina Yates told jurors that her teen-age son was
her best friend and they did not have any secrets between them. Yates took
the witness stand Thursday during the capital murder trial of Joshua M.
Brown. Brown is accused, along with co-defendant Davis Don Carpenter, of
raping and murdering 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising, who was Yates' son.
She testified that she knew Carpenter and Brown were homosexual lovers,
she said: "I have no prejudices against gay people."
Gay-Bondage Death Of Boy 'No Accident'
By Brian Skoloff / The Associated Press
BENTONVILLE, Arkansas -- Logic showed that a 13-year-old boy was not
a willing participant in a sexual-bondage game that led to his death in
a homosexual couple's apartment, a prosecutor told jurors. Making a late-night
run for more duct tape, picking up only two sandwiches instead of three,
and leaving the child unattended all prove that the men were not concerned
about Jesse Dirkhising's welfare, prosecutor Bob Balfe said. "Why did they
need more duct tape? Was it because he was struggling?" Mr Balfe asked
jurors in his closing argument.
Tape Describes Sex Games With Boy
By Michelle Bradford / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (link expired)
BENTONVILLE -- Joshua Macabe Brown sounded incredulous. He said he
returned to the candlelit, littered bedroom after eating a sandwich to
find that the boy he'd tied to the mattress, gagged with underwear and
sodomized wasn't breathing. Benton County jurors Thursday heard an audio
recording of Brown's interview with police Sept. 26, 1999. Hours before
Jesse's death, Brown sodomized the boy with different items while Jesse
was face down with pillows propped under his midsection.
Homosexual
Murderer Faces Life for Young Boy’s Death
By Fred Jackson / AgapePress.com
In Arkansas, the jury in the case of the homosexual murder of 13-year-old
Jesse Dirkhising ran into more problems last night, this time over whether
the young boy’s death was accidental. By last evening, the jurors could
not come to a unanimous decision on whether Brown should get a life term
on the murder charge. In fact, according to press reports, only one of
the jurors voted for the life sentence. The other 11 said 10-20 years would
be sufficient.
Murder-1,
Rape Conviction In Death Of 13-Year-Old
By Jon Dougherty / WorldNetDaily.com
A jury has found a 23-year-old man guilty of raping and murdering a
13-year-old Arkansas boy in 1999. The case began to receive widespread
national attention following an Oct. 22 editorial by WND editor-in-chief
and CEO Joseph Farah. In his column, Farah laid out the details of the
case and criticized the lack of coverage the story had received in the
national press. "It was big news in Northwest Arkansas, but the story of
Jesse Dirkhising hasn't made a ripple in the national news. I wonder why?
I wonder if it's because the victim is not a part of some politically protected
sub-group, a special class deserving of extra government privileges? I
wonder if it is because the suspects are, indeed, members of such a group,"
Farah wrote.
Murder Ignored The Sound Of Silence
By Dana D. Kelley / The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (link expired)
So why the stone silence from gay groups that can and do howl at the
top of their lungs over tragedies like the Matthew Shepard murder in Wyoming?
You'd think that GLAAD and GLSEN and the rest would be eager to condemn
such acts. Average, fair-minded folks grossly underestimate the radical,
extremist advocacy of gay activist groups.
Media Coverage Of Trial Still Lacking, Critics Say
By Andy Davis / The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (link expired)
"Anything controversial, anything that might get the pressure groups
upset, the elite media is going to stay away from." Dorthea Cooke, the
Media Research Center's director of media and development, said the case
illustrates how news organizations have become "mouthpieces for the gay
rights activists."
Dirkhising
Murder Case -- On Short End Of Media Double-Standard?
By Fred Jackson / AgapePress.com
Last week, 23-year-old Joshua Brown, the first of two homosexuals charged
with killing 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising, was found guilty of first-degree
murder and rape. But Americans who rely on the major TV news networks probably
never heard that story.
Mum's
the Word on Gay Rape and Murder
By Dan Frisa / NewsMax.com
With few exceptions, there has been virtually no coverage by the mainstream
media of the horrific case in Arkansas where 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising
was raped and murdered, allegedly by a gay couple.
Brown In Prison For Life; Judge Says Boy's Death Sent 'Shivers Up' Spine
By Michelle Bradford / The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (link expired)
BENTONVILLE -- A Benton County judge Friday sentenced Joshua Macabe
Brown to life in prison without parole, rejecting his defense that the
13-year-old boy he murdered wanted to be bound, gagged and sodomized. Circuit
Judge David Clinger gave Brown, 23, the maximum sentence for first-degree
murder. He also imposed the jury sentence of 25 years in prison for rape
in the sodomy of Jesse Dirkhising of Prairie Grove. Brown didn't flinch
when Clinger pronounced the life sentence. Clinger lambasted Brown and
Brown's gay lover, Davis Don Carpenter, during the sentencing. The judge
said the pair devised the plan to rape Jesse in the apartment the two men
shared in Rogers. "I don't find that Jesse ever agreed to that, that he
agreed to become the sex toy of two grown men," Clinger said. "You and
Davis Carpenter had quite a time inflicting this on this bound and helpless
young man who was barely thirteen." Jesse could not move, breathe, resist
or even cry out for help, Clinger said. "Imagining Jesse's thought process
during his slow and torturous death has sent shivers up my spine," Clinger
told Brown.
Boy's Rapist-Murderer Gets Life Without Parole
FOX News (link expired)
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- A man convicted of rape and murder in the case
of a 13-year-old boy who suffocated during sexual bondage was sentenced
to the maximum Friday - life in prison without parole. "Usually a murder
is over in a minute. In this case, this victim was left helpless and bound,"
Judge David Clinger told Joshua Macabe Brown, 23. "Trying to imagine his
thought process has sent shivers up my spine." Brown was found guilty last
week in the 1999 death of Jesse Dirkhising at the apartment Brown shared
with his lover, Davis Don Carpenter, 39.
Dead Boy's Kin Weigh In On Term
By Michelle Bradford / The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (link expired)
BENTONVILLE -- Benton County prosecutors Wednesday gave Circuit Judge
David Clinger statements from the family of Jesse Dirkhising, the 13-year-old
who was sodomized and died Sept. 26, 1999. Prosecutors hope the anguish-filled
writings will prompt Clinger to sentence Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, to life
in prison for Jesse's death and sexual assault. The Lincoln seventh-grader
suffocated after being bound, gagged and drugged in the Rogers apartment
shared by Brown and his lover, Davis Don Carpenter.
Liberal Media 'Ignores' Rape-Killing Of Boy, 13
By Toby Harnden / The London Telegraph
THE horrific rape and suffocation of a boy of 13 by two homosexuals
has ignited controversy over whether some murder victims are more important
than others in America. The case of Matthew Shepard, murdered by anti-homosexual
bigots in Wyoming, became a cause celebre. But the death of Jesse Dirkhising
in Benton County, Arkansas, passed virtually unnoticed outside the state.
Us
and Them
By Andrew Sullivan / The New Republic
What happened on September 26, 1999, to 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising
can only be described as evil. Two men who had become friendly with Jesse
and his family invited the boy over for the day. According to prosecutors
at the trial now under way in Bentonville, Arkansas, the two men drugged
Jesse, tied him to a bed, shoved his underwear into his mouth to gag him,
added duct tape to silence him, raped him for hours using a variety of
objects, including food, and then left him in such a position on the bed
that he slowly suffocated to death. Unless you frequent rabid right-wing
sites on the Internet or read The Washington Times, you've probably never
heard of this case. The New York Times has yet to run a single story about
it. The Washington Post has run only a tiny Associated Press report--and
an ombudsman's explanation of why no further coverage is merited. Among
certain, mainly gay-hating right-wingers, the discrepancy between the coverage
of this case and the wall-to-wall coverage of the similarly horrifying
murder of Matthew Shepard proves beyond any doubt that the mainstream media
is guilty of pro-gay bias. Do they have a point?
Wrapping
Up The Dirkhishing Story
By Brent Bozell / Townhall.com
You could call it a forgotten ending to a forgotten story. On March
22, a jury in Bentonville, Ark., convicted 23-year-old Joshua Brown of
first-degree murder in the death of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising. On Sept.
26, 1999, Brown and his lover, Davis Don Carpenter, 39, bound, gagged and
drugged the skinny, long-haired boy and raped him with objects until he
died of "positional asphyxiation." Let the record show this is a story
the national press has deliberately chosen to spike. The national media's
ongoing, see-no-evil campaign of calculated ignorance on the Dirkhising
story stands in stark contrast to both its perpetual exploitation of crimes
against children and its campaign to smear the religious right as the killers
of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard. Iconoclastic gay journalist
Andrew Sullivan recently arrived at the scene of the discrepancy in The
New Republic: "In the month after Shepard's murder, Nexis recorded 3,007
stories about his death. In the month after Dirkhising's murder, Nexis
recorded 46 stories about his. In all of last year, only one article about
Dirkhising appeared in a major mainstream newspaper, The Boston Globe.
The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ignored the incident completely.
In the same period, The New York Times published 45 stories about Shepard
and The Washington Post published 28. This discrepancy isn't just real.
It's staggering."
The Media Draw Criticism On The Dirkhising Case
By John Leo / US News & World Report
For nearly 18 months now, the news media have been trying to brush
off complaints about their noncoverage of the Jesse Dirkhising murder,
but the issue won't go away. Dirkhising is the 13-year-old Arkansas boy
who was drugged, tied to a bed, raped, tortured, and suffocated in September
1999. Both accused killers are homosexual men. The Associated Press at
first did not put the news on the national wire. But the Washington Times
ran a Page 1 story. It contrasted the enormous coverage of the Matthew
Shepard torture-murder with the media silence about a somewhat similar
case in which the alleged perpetrators were gay. Then Brent Bozell's Media
Research Center and Bill O'Reilly of Fox's The O'Reilly Factor weighed
in, raising the issue of media bias. "Nobody wants to say anything negative
about homosexuals," said a research center spokesman. But on the Internet,
it's a big story. This is bad news for the news media: a story told everywhere
except in mainstream newspapers and magazines and on TV.
Plea
Offered For Defendant In Boy's Rape, Murder Case
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK -- A plea offer to accept life without parole instead of
the death penalty has apparently been proposed in a case against a man
charged with raping and murdering a 13-year old boy, sources close to the
case say. It was unclear Monday which side made the offer and what plea
would be entered by Davis Don Carpenter. But sources say the defense approached
the prosecution with the offer to accept a penalty of life in prison if
the prosecution would take the death penalty off the table. Benton County
Prosecutor Bob Balfe would not comment on the possibility of a plea offer,
but said no deal has been made. Carpenter's roommate and homosexual lover,
Joshua Macabe Brown, 23, was convicted of first-degree murder and rape
in the same case and sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors were also
seeking his execution.
Guilty
Plea in Arkansas Rape-Killing
The Associated Press
BENTONVILLE, Ark., April 18 -- A man charged with choreographing the
fatal rape of a 13-year-old boy pleaded guilty today in a deal with prosecutors
that spares his life. Davis Don Carpenter, 39, will spend the rest of his
life in prison for the Sept. 26, 1999, rape and slaying of Jesse Dirkhising.
Prosecutors said Carpenter diagrammed an attack carried out by his lover,
Joshua Brown. Brown was sentenced last month to life without parole after
being convicted of first-degree murder. Circuit Judge David Clinger said
he was satisfied the case ended with both men avoiding execution. Under
a deal, Carpenter pleaded guilty to rape and capital murder in return for
two life sentences without parole. In his police interviews, Brown said
Carpenter choreographed the attack but did not take part. In a jailhouse
interview last week, however, Brown told The Associated Press that Carpenter
participated.
The
Tragic Story Of Jesse Dirkhising
By Allyson Smith / WorldNetDaily.com
While one of the convicted killers of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising
appeals his guilty verdict in the case all the way to the Arkansas Supreme
Court and another has withdrawn his guilty plea, three years later there
are few voices speaking out for the victim. No local memorials have been
held since his brutal death at the hands of two homosexual predators who
confessed to using the boy as a sex toy while torturing him to death.
Hebrews 12: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Numbers 35:33 So ye shall not
pollute the land wherein ye are:
for blood it defileth the land:
and the land cannot be cleansed of the
blood that is shed therein,
but by the blood of him that shed it.
E-mail: Glory2Jesus@ArmyofGod.com
or telephone 1-757-204-4454
Please write to: Rev. Donald Spitz
Glory to Jesus Ministries
P.O. Box 2876
Chesapeake VA 23327