Deadly Blogging
Update: It seems that portions of smchyrocky aka Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman’s journal have been deleted…but not before I archived everything. Here’s a cache of her livejournal and comments from last night: smchyrocky.zip (6.4mb).
Pundit Guy, Ace of Spades, FED, and apophenia all have something to say about Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman, the “LiveJournal Murderer” as they’re calling her. Her last post, on Thursday, November 18th, 2004 at 10:56 AM:
Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered
I won’t have computer acess until the weekend or so because the police took my computer to go through the hard drive. I thank everyone for their thoughts and e-mails, I hope to talk to you when I get my computer back.
has received more than 5000 comments. The name of her blog, “My Crappy Life: The Inside Look of an Insane Person” certainly makes you doubt her general mental state. The MSN username “narcissa_21″ also gives me the impression that Ms. Rachelle Waterman might have an unhealthy preoccupation with herself.
There’s an official report from Alaska State Troopers:
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A DetachmentLocation: Thorne Bay
Case number: 04-89156
Type: Homicide/Murder I
Text: UPDATE: Lauri Waterman murder investigation, Craig AKOn 11/19/04, the Alaska State Troopers in cooperation with the Craig Police Department arrested two additional suspects involved in the death of Lauri Waterman, age 48, of Craig. Jason Arrant, age 24, of Klawock and Rachelle Waterman, age 16, of Craig were taken into custody after follow up investigation revealed they were involved in a conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.
Details of the investigation revealed that Rachelle Waterman approached Arrant and solicited him to kill her mother, Lauri Waterman. Arrant agreed to kill Lauri Waterman and enlisted the aid of Brain Radel, age 24, of Thorne Bay. Between the solicitation and the actual murder, Arrant, Radel and Waterman plotted several murder scenarios and aborted one attempt to carry out a plan in September 2004.
On Tuesday, 11/10/04, Rachelle Waterman told Arrant that both she and her father would be out of town for the approaching weekend. She and Arrant agreed that it would be a good time to attempt to carry out their plan, because Lauri Waterman would be home alone. Rachelle Waterman told Arrant how to enter her house without being detected.
On Saturday, 11/13/04 Arrant and Radel made preparations to carry out their plot. During the early morning hours of Sunday, 11/14/04, Arrant dropped Radel off near the Waterman residence in Craig and drove to a prearranged meeting place. Radel entered the house. He abducted Lauri Waterman out of her bed and forced her into her mini-van that was parked in the garage. Radel drove Waterman out in the mini-van to the vicinity of Main Line Road Bridge over the Yatuk Creek, in the central part of Prince of Wales Island and met up with Arrant. Their plan was to murder Waterman and to stage what appeared to be a fatal drunk driving motor
vehicle accident, but after Radel had murdered Waterman they changed their plan.They loaded Waterman?s body in the mini-van and drove to the end of the USFS 3012 Road, a remote and deserted location in the vicinity of Thorne Bay. Once there, Radel soaked the body and the van in gasoline and set it on fire in an effort to destroy evidence. After the van was burning, they drove in Arrant?s truck to another remote location near Hollis, where they attempted to burn and destroy other items of evidence.
On Sunday afternoon, after Rachelle Waterman returned home, Arrant contacted her and reported that they had killed her mother.
This account was developed during interviews with the three defendants over the past four days. During the interviews all three made admissions as to their involvement in the murder. Physical evidence recovered at the various crime scenes collaborated many of the defendant’s statements.
Radel, Arrant and Waterman have been charged with Murder in the 1st degree. Due to the severity of the charges, Waterman has been waived into adult court. Additional charges of Solicitation (for Murder), Conspiracy, Tampering with Physical Evidence and other charges are pending. Arrant and Waterman will be arraigned in the District Court in Craig this morning.
Author: Trp Robert Claus (RCC2)
Received and posted Saturday, November 20, 2004 1:35 PM
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So, we have a blogger calmly reporting her mother’s murder–which the Alaskan Police say she was directly responsible for. We’ve gone from sex scandals to murder. And, in the previous blogger sex scandals (Queen of the Sky, Jessica Cutler), we’ve seen a huge increase in popularity. Nobodies have gone to A-listers, in one swoop. Check out the comments on Rachelle Waterman’s livejournal this month:
This is the best measure of interest in her blog, since I don’t have access to site’s statistics. However, I don’t think this kind of interest will live very long–in fact, I predict a curve like this:
A murder is a news item–after the initial shock and news dies down, interest will fall to a level only slightly higher than it was previously. Yet, the scandal around Queen of the Sky generated persistent traffic to her blog. Why is sex more interesting than murder? Probably because Queen of the Sky is writing new content, and Rachelle Waterman is not. Let’s say the golden rule once more:
Blogging is all about content
In light of this interesting scandal, I have made a complete archive of her livejournal. Currently I’ve saved 96mb of uncompressed html–soon enough, I’ll have a full backup of the blog, in case it goes offline. If you want a copy of Rachelle Waterman’s archived blog, here it is: smchyrocky.zip, comments included. It’s about 6.4mb.
Additional Resources:
- GirlKilledMom Livejournal community
- Browsable Archive of Rachelle’s LJ
- The Blog as Criminal Evidence
- CSI: Livejournal
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I grew up around this girl, was in the same class as her brother. And her mom was my subsitiute teacher in elementary school. But I still no absoultly nothing about this case and wasnt even aware of the death until yesterday! I know ive been out at sea but damn yesterday? Can someone please give me some information about this. My email is aaron420_is@hotmail.com
Peace neil, live long and prosper.
Very well written!!!! Being a stereotypical redneck, I would like to agree with you for the most part and tell you that you make a very good point. It is a pleasure to stumble upon someone with your level of intelligence.
Hello Neil,
I’m sensitive to racism because it’s my personal opinion that excessive preoccupation with the subject leads to more racism. I am colorblind to skin, but when someone reminds that there are black people and white people in an emotional context, I feel outraged. Everyone should be treated equally.
As for freedom of speech, even some racist or political speech is protected by the ideals that serve our Nation. There is or was a Nazi party in America which, while offending many, has a right to speak its white supremacist platform.
I don’t have a politically correct agenda, but I do believe that stereotypes should be avoided. The “black suspect gets beaten by police” trope has been overused; even worse when it is invoked ad vacio and serves no point at all.
I’m not a teen, but let’s get along
Hey Elliott Back….. Are you sensitive about racism because you are a negro? Do you have a problem with freedom of speech? Are you one of those people who feel the need to push your “politically correct” agenda on everyone you come in contact with? Or….. you are a teen who knows EVERYTHING and you have the world all figured out. Can’t we all just get along?????
Muschi
New Yorker, I wish I had a way of filtering out that kind of racism… o_O
Wow and she’s the only chick that’s not smiling. I knew this chick had to be white, because I know if this was to happen to someone who was black or hispanic, the two guys would’ve gotten a beat down with a throw of a slipper. Plus the mom would’ve been the one on vacation, who goes on vacation without their mom? Maybe girl and her dad had something going on. Hmmm!? Anyways that “catch” person will get “caught” so w/e. They’re all going to burn in hell…
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second row right..
They’ve taken off the comments to her entries now.
Deleting stuff from that blog because you didn’t like the fact that the blog was becoming a circus is like burning down a house where a murder was committed because you didn’t like the fact that looky-loo’s kept driving by it. While I sympathize with innocent bystanders who are upset at the negative attention their town is getting, that blog–just like the hypothetical house–is a crime scene. If you didn’t like the fact that it was becoming a circus, the prudent thing to have done would have been to contact the police, explain the situation, and ask if they could have LJ take the blog down or lock commenting on it…not just take matters into your own hands.
Deleting that content was a stupid thing to do. The moron who did it interfered with a murder investigation, and they deserve what they’re going to get when the police find them: dragged down to headquarters, where they will be interrogated.
Kudos to the owner of this blog. You did the right thing notifying the police that the alleged content-deleter is posting here.
I am…. I was hoping to hear why I was mistaken……. so that I could change my theory if needed……
Awww, poor x_girl. Thread-deprived?
Let me just tell you this is some crazy ****.
man…. no one has posted in two days now……
You think I am mistaken about what Aly….. now I am curious….
Mistaken that it is a she? ……maybe….but the info that “catch” gave sure sounds like a girl that I know that used to be close to Rachelle….at first I thought it was her family, or at least at their request…. but not from the sounds of it.
Mistaken that the original content of the Journal should not have been tampered with?……that is just my opinion… and the trooper’s opinion as well according to the atricle…
Please tell me why you think I am mistaken….
If you want a complete live mirror, please check out http://www.sixsixsix.org/smchyrocky/ ! I don’t want to put up that kind of mirror–it would be troublesome…. and I have a filesystem to debug…
Elliot….is there some reason to not just put all the data in the zip file in plane sight right here ?
well i owe this blogger an apology… sorry for jumping to conclusions.
i guess i’ve gotten a bit jumpy when it comes to people pushing their agenda and concealing it in order to get people to look at things they wouldn’t normally choose to view.
apparently the folders in the zip file were the result of replies posted in the girl’s online journal. nothing like having to eat crow in a public forum – doh!
and btw, thanks for having the foresight to archive it in the first place.
I believe you are somewhat mistaken x_girl.
okay so i downloaded the zip file. yeah you got kahunas man passing judgment on someone while using that **** to further your own – whatever it is – perversion, i guess. **** off why don’t ya?
Just from what she said…. and I am sure that it is a she.. I think I know who it is….
before the murder I had thought to myself on more than one occasion “why doesn’t this person and rachelle hang out anymore…. they used to be such good friends”….
It definately won’t be that hard to figure out.
I’ve sent an email to the Alaska State Troopers and left a message for the daily news reporter. I want to talk to Sgt. McPherron about this–because on this page we have a confession and a LOT of evidence about whoever has been tampering with that journal… I’ll keep you guys posted.
Update: The reporter called me back and gave me Greg Wilkenson’s number, who gave me Sgt. McPherron’s number, who gave me his email address. He should now be aware of this thread, etc…
P.S. I live in Craig too….. The town is still in shock. I knew the victim, and all three killers. I actually employed one of them last year. And bought paintball supplies from the other one. I knew Rachelle and had worked with her on several occasions. You can feel the solom energy in the comunity, in the elementary school especially. It is a sick thing that these ppl did. How horrified Mrs. Waterman must have been, and how mortified Mr. Waterman must be now……. so, so, sad for them. I saw friends and family of Mrs. Waterman dining the other night. How sad for all of them to go through this.
If anyone here has any specific questions about what is going here… please feel free to ask.
would suck to get served a search warrant just cause you deleted some stuff off the net…. you may want to them in…. you probably wont get into any trouble… making it “friends only” was probably a good idea, but locking or deleting original content was a poor choice.
Catch may be interested in the later part of this story. Here is the story and the link to it, http://www.adn.com/alaska/v-printer/story/5862525p-5777619c.html
Men hid teen’s role in slaying
TROOPERS SAY: Two suspects now implicate victim’s daughter.
By PETER PORCO
Anchorage Daily News
(Published: December 2, 2004)
The two young men charged with murdering Lauri Waterman on Prince of Wales Island last month initially tried to shield the victim’s daughter when investigators questioned them about the killing.
Jason Arrant and Brian Radel, interviewed separately by Alaska State Troopers, came to admit their own roles in the death of the 48-year-old teacher’s aide, according to the troopers.
But each at first denied that 16-year-old Rachelle Waterman of Craig, an A student who in the past had had sexual relations with each of the men, was involved in the killing.
Arrant and Radel, both 24, eventually broke down under questioning and told investigators that it was Rachelle Waterman after all who had instigated the plot to kill her mother, the agency said Wednesday.
These and other new details of the troopers’ case against the three suspects emerged this week in interviews with Sgt. Randy McPherron, supervisor of the Anchorage unit of the troopers’ Alaska Bureau of Investigation.
Rachelle Waterman, Arrant and Radel are each charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree murder, kidnapping and other crimes.
They are being held in Ketchikan Correctional Center. Each is represented by a different court-appointed attorney. A trial is tentatively set to begin in Craig on Feb. 3.
Troopers believe they know why Arrant and Radel carried out a plot that ended in Lauri Waterman’s death: The two men were doing a favor for a girl both had slept with, McPherron said.
Rachelle was openly dating Arrant, who lives in Klawock, a few miles north of Craig on the east side of the island, and works as a janitor at the school, according to the trooper. Rachelle’s mother, however, was opposed to the relationship because of Arrant’s age, McPherron said.
Radel, who lives in Thorne Bay on the west side of the island, at one time employed Rachelle in his now defunct business, Dark Wolf Computer Services, the trooper said. At some point, their relationship became sexual, but McPherron was unsure of the details.
“Where Brian fit in, I don’t know,” he said. Arrant and Radel, longtime friends, apparently were aware of each other’s involvement with Rachelle.
The girl had talked to Arrant several times since the summer about having her mother killed, McPherron has said, but she may never have spoken directly to Radel about it. Arrant brought Radel into the plot, and the discussions were linear — Waterman to Arrant to Radel and back along the same line.
Troopers are still sorting details, and the investigation is nowhere near complete, according to McPherron. Rachelle Waterman’s reason for wanting her mother killed, to take a major example, remains a mystery.
“We couldn’t cross the bridge of motive with her,” McPherron said. Of the three, the girl has revealed least, he said.
Rachelle has told troopers, however, that she informed Arrant that both she and her father would be out of town the weekend of Nov. 13-14, according to a court document. She knew Arrant would arrange for the murder of her mother at that time, the court papers say.
According to McPherron, Radel did the dirty work in the plot. He broke into the Waterman home about midnight Nov. 13, using a tip the girl gave Arrant, and overcame Lauri Waterman, who had been sleeping.
He also struck the fatal blow or blows and later set on fire the woman’s body and her van on a remote logging road about 2:30 a.m. Nov. 14, McPherron said.
But contrary to the earliest reports, Arrant was present at the killing, McPherron said. The two men — Radel driving Lauri Waterman’s Plymouth Voyager and Arrant in his own vehicle — met at a remote location and drove to where a road crosses Yatuk Creek near the old Naukati logging camp, roughly 30 miles north of Craig.
Their intention, McPherron said, was to kill the woman and make it look as if she had gone off the road at a sharp curve near the bridge, a single-vehicle crash by a drunken driver.
But Radel, wielding a blunt object, apparently botched the killing in such a way that the original plan no longer could be carried out, McPherron said. The men, therefore, decided to destroy the evidence by burning her body and the van.
Trooper Robert Claus, who has worked out of Klawock for 10 years and has known the Waterman family a long time, became the lead on-scene investigator, according to McPherron.
Claus knew about the tensions between Rachelle Waterman and her mother, McPherron said. Claus put Arrant and Radel at the top of the list of those to interview.
When Lauri Waterman’s remains, discovered about noon on the day she was killed, were positively identified Nov. 17, investigators began talking to the men.
Little came of the first interviews that day, but Arrant began acting suspiciously that night, McPherron said.
Troopers brought him in again next day, and he began to talk, admitting to knowledge of the killing, the trooper said.
“It snowballed from there,” McPherron said. The three were charged in the case within 48 hours of the first interviews. McPherron said he is confident the suspects’ admissions will hold up to any court appeal.
As is now widely known, Rachelle Waterman kept an online personal diary to which anyone with a computer has access. From September 2003 until Nov. 18, the day before she was arrested, the girl wrote in varying moods, including depression, about her triumphs at academics, athletics and music, as well as failures, and of her frustrations with her mother.
The troopers have read the diary thoroughly, including the thousands of comments from the public that have been posted since the case broke last week, McPherron said. But nothing useful has come from it, he said.
“It seems to be of no concern to us. There’s nothing of evidentiary value on it,” McPherron said. “Any information prior to the conspiracy is of great interest to us. But we’re looking for something (specific). We’re not interested in something we can’t verify. We’re interested in hard evidence, in someone who says, ‘Rachelle wrote me on such-and-such a date saying she was going to do this.’ ”
Investigators are fairly certain no one besides the three is involved in the killing.
“We’ve uncovered no evidence to indicate that,” McPherron said.
The last several months’ worth of Rachelle’s diary postings vanished from the site this week. Troopers, said McPherron, want to know who was responsible for that and may serve search warrants to find out.
“Someone who has access to the site, someone who knows Rachelle’s username and password, has deleted those entries,” he said.
Troopers say they’ve uncovered no evidence in the diary or elsewhere to support any claims that Lauri Waterman was physically abusive to her daughter.
“Obviously there was some discord in the family, some problems between mother and daughter,” McPherron said. “Rachelle was getting mixed up with … becoming sexually promiscuous with these older people, and that can’t be good for you.”
The problems between mother and daughter may be a part of what spurred the killing, McPherron said. “But there’s no evidence that Lauri Waterman was behaving in any way but as a normal parent. She was trying to keep her (daughter) out of trouble. Obviously, Rachelle chafed at that.”
Daily News reporter Peter Porco can be reached at pporco@adn.com or 257-4582.
re: JingleBell, how many “depressed” “goth” “wiccan” teen girls do you know who give access to their all important precious angst journal to everyone and their brother so they can write in it for them? I’m thinking the only reason anyone has access to Rachelle’s journal now is because she’s the kind of stupid to leave herself logged in on a public computer, and someone could have very easily saved that information for a time such as this.
I seem to remember the username smchyrocky being involved with a internet drama (pre-killing) at some time, and darned if I can’t remember when it was, or who it was with. Initial greppings via google don’t corroborate my memory, but still.
JingleBell, you’re a match for “catch” … please. Can you use a single pseudonym? Make threats on your own name…
Maybe rachelle didn;t even post half that suff, you never know do you?
Free Rachelle Waterman……………
’s LJ!!!
Rachelle seems to have given access to her journal to an awful lot of people…
Of course all anyone cares about is the journal. It’s more telling than a confession, with how she begged for attention via comments, and ranted so much about killing someone because she was mad. Not just one time, but several times. She didn’t post about her mother’s ‘abuse’ until closer to the time her mother wound up dead. That journal is more important than Rachelle, in the eyes of many. She signed her lease on her “emotions” the second she sought to kill another human being. Because unlike someone who survives abuse and runs away, murderers don’t get pity.
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Nothing has been deleted by me. The removed comments were by another. And again, its all about the damn journal with you people.
Nothing has been deleted by me. The removed comments were by another.
And you did remove some of those more offensive comments, right? I’d call that tampering, or impeding a state investigation, or conspiracy. From the point Rachelle Waterman was arrested, her journal, her laundry, and the bar of soap she used in the morning is evidence. When you deliberately alter that, you could compromise a key piece of information in the case.
Catch….
You realize you’ve probably comitted a crime, right? Don’t know exactly what level INTERFERRING WITH A POLICE INVESTIGATION, namely through DESTROYING, OR ATTEMPTING TO DESTROY, EVIDENCE is on, or what the punishment is, but I must say that you, bub, are a grade-a moron.
Have fun when you eventually talk to the Police.
Yes I’ll give you that, but she said she planned it. What more do you need. Plus I think they most likely have a copy and if not they can still get them all, so they are not losing anything. Its just a spectical for the web world that I don’t think is needed.
The decision about “real evidence” in Rachelle’s journal is not up to you, but rather forensic experts or perhaps psychologists or the Alaska PD themselves…
If the alaska PD want it back they can have it anytime they want. I am not the only one with access. The post are still there afterall. The investigation has nothing to do with me, but like I am/was still rather fond of rock and don’t like all the negtive and outright wrong stuff people all over the net and media are saying. And I don’t think there is real evidence in the journal, anyone that knows her knows she said stuff like that pretty often, there is nothing special in there, well other than those last few entries.
Catch, you seem to be modifying evidence in an ongoing Alaskan murder investigation. Don’t you think the right thing to do is nothing, rather than tamper with her journal? Let the LJ servers stress out–this has nothing to do with you, and could be taken very negatively by Alaskan PD.
There are so many people taking about this now that I forgot to mention in case you all were wondering about the last post in her LJ. Others in many blogs have wondered how she did that last one since her machine was gone. Well there are other places to access the net, and in this case she was at her neighbors house using a computer there. THose two families are very close and she was there “mourning” her loss.
Yes I did know her quite well at one point, we had a falling out of sorts about 1.5 years ago, but I still kept in touch every 3 weeks or month. Yes the entries are still there, I just made them private, so you have to login as rachelle to see them and now only friends can post. I have her password and have thought about taking the whole thing down, but I don;t think Rock would want that. She does like attention. And not she said nothing either in her journal or to me about having her mom killed. I stopped talking to her a few years ago becuase she starting doing things that I didn;t approve and she wouldn;t listen to reason. IE drugs *** and the whole deal. I couldn;t watch her go that path so I just stopped talking to her for the most part.
Actually. “narcissa_21″ is probably a Harry Potter reference.
For the record (and this “Catch” person is obviously lying because) her posts have not been deleted, they have been locked. I don’t know whether they were made friends-only, or if they were made private, but they are still there, just locked (you can tell this by looking at a journal’s calendar).
actually it says that the journal is protected..
The Blog As Criminal Evidence…(new subtitle, added 11/30/04 – The LJ Murderess?)
(This entry is becoming the Frankenstein of blog entries – I keep adding misbegotten pieces and parts to update the thing. This update is relevant only to my amazement at the psycho site hit explosion that has happened because I…
Hmmm. Maybe I should kill someone too to increase my blog traffic?!
it’s nice to know you’re friends with a murderer. who has their mother murdered? that’s completely retarded. i hope the ******* **** get’s life in jail for being a solicitor and an accesory before the fact, along with conspiracy.
Catch, how well did you really know her? Really I am just curious to know because did she say anything to you about her wanting her mother eliminated?
humm, I really can’t believe this happen, I could not conceive of doing something like this. Then posted what I did… what idiot would do that, I mean there are some idiot LJ’s like http://www.livejournal.com/users/bad_vibes/ <– Who just talk about like the stupidest random stuff, or maybe its actually meaningful but disguised.
Ah, so there is no secret to it? I should have known.
I deleted her post and entries. People that don’t know her have not right to post “hate mail”. I know rachelle rather well or did I should say. It’s not a joke for the Internet community to poke fun at.
LJ is just html, so you make a recursive walk starting at the root index file, and following and saving all its links, and so on until there are no more links to do. There’s a program called winHTTrack that works well–on linux, use the “wget” command.
THANKS!
How do you archive an LJ?
Ok–I’ve posted the zip–it’s about 54mb. It has a lot of files in it, probably overkill, but that’s how it is. Just double click the index file and start browsing…
They also took down her Elfwood art site. Not that the art community will mind… But all those comments on her LJ were amusing, I wonder who removed them.
Yeah.. THEY DELETED THEM!! ARGH!!! Post them, if you can, then…
Yo homie,
go to her livejournal…
they deleted her most recent posts!
you should post those archived posts…that you so wisely saved.
I’ll link to em
peace
-shab-