Victim's cousin charged with tattooing killer

waggy

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/30/inmate.tattoo.ap/index.html

COLUMBUS, Indiana (AP) -- An inmate accused of forcibly tattooing a slain 10-year-old girl's name onto her killer's forehead in an Indiana prison was the victim's cousin, a family friend said.

Jared Harris, 22, is a cousin of Katlyn "Katie" Collman, family friend and spokesman Terry Gray told The Republic newspaper. He said he did not believe they knew each other well.

Harris, 22, who is serving time on a burglary conviction at Wabash Valley state prison in Carlisle, has been charged with battery and accused of tattooing "KATIE'S REVENGE" across Anthony Ray Stockelman's forehead.

Harris told prison officials the attack was in revenge, according to an affidavit.

Stockelman is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to abducting, molesting and killing the fourth-grader, who lived about 70 miles south of Indianapolis. She was missing for five days before her body was found January 30, 2005, in a creek about 15 miles from her home.

The affidavit said that prison officials transferred Harris to the same prison wing as Stockelman on September 19, three days before the attack, and that Harris subsequently threatened Stockelman's life several times.

Harris slipped into the open cell Stockelman shared with another prisoner on September 22 and, when Stockelman returned, Harris closed the locking cell door, according to the affidavit.

Stockelman told investigators that Harris put his right hand around his throat and told him, "I'm either gonna stick you and leave you bleeding or I'm gonna tattoo you." After applying the tattoo, Harris discarded the tattoo gun in a prison trash can, he told investigators.

It was unclear how he had gotten the tattoo gun.





ok yes i know its kind of a repost. but this is more of a update. do we really want to know how they got a tattoo gun? eww.
 

MegaVovaN

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awesome! Too bad he serves life sentence, imagine humilation he'd get if everyone was asking him wtf is on forehead
 

anxi80

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i read this earlier. there's a portion of the story that the cnn article doesnt mention but my local news one does, and ill admit it bothers me a little...
The newspaper said treatments to remove the tattoo have begun. A spokesman for the prison said prison officials found a medical practitioner to remove the tattoo free of charge, according to The Indianapolis Star.
link. sure its humiliating but still doesnt change what he did and so in the case of this guy im all for some inhumane treatment and keeping it on there.
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: Citrix
repost from like 2 months ago?

not really. more of a update. they had not charged or knew (well im sure they did) that it was the cousin.

now they have charged him.
 

Jeeebus

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mehh should have stuck him. dead men tell no tales. now the cousin is going to get extra time added onto his sentence, and this bastard gets some free plastic surgery.
 

BobDaMenkey

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Lameo that some doc is gonna take it of for free. I think that should have been stuck to his forehead for the rest of his life.