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OMG, this is just sick! How could a father do this???

#1 Postby cajungal » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:32 pm

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Published: Jan 14, 2007 12:30 AM
Modified: Jan 14, 2007 05:26 AM


Slain girl's father arrested





Mandy Locke and Toby Coleman, Staff Writers
CLAYTON - Friday was supposed to be a daddy-daughter bonding day for Katlin and John Patrick Violette.
Violette had quit his job at Lowe's Home Improvement the day before and had the whole day to spend with 4-year-old Katlin. Amber Violette, Katlin's mom, dropped by the house to have lunch with the two Friday, then left them to play while she went back to work, Clayton police said.

Less than five hours later, Amber Violette came home to find her only child splayed in the hallway, her head severed from her body. Panicked, she dialed 911.

"Her head's off. I can't do anything," Amber Violette screamed at a Johnston County emergency dispatcher between yelps. "She's dead, don't you get it?"

There was no trace of John Violette at the house, Amber Violette told the dispatcher, according to a 911 tape released Saturday.

By midnight, police had officially blamed Katlin's father for her death. They tracked him to a hotel in Washington, D.C., where he was arrested early Saturday and charged with first-degree murder.

Investigators say they don't know what drove Violette to such a point. Aside from his quitting his job, police haven't found anything out of the ordinary in the family's life, police said.

"Things just aren't making sense," said Tex Lindsey, commander of the U.S. Marshal task force that helped hunt for Violette. "Why would a father do this?"

Credit card records led U.S. Marshals to the hotel in Washington, said Clayton Police Chief Glen Allen. Lindsey said Violette, 37, was at a Holiday Inn within walking distance of the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Marshals heard him moving inside his room, but Violette didn't answer when they beat on the door, Lindsey said. They knocked it in and arrested Violette. He didn't resist but later tried to escape twice as Marshals took him to jail, Lindsey said.

Violette is still there, awaiting extradition to Johnston County. Police hope to return Violette to the county early this week.

Investigators got on Violette's track about 1 a.m., when officers at Raleigh-Durham International Airport spotted his station wagon in a parking deck, Allen said. By then, though, Violette was long gone.

Investigators think Violette bought a U.S. Airways ticket to Washington. Allen said they think he boarded about 7:30 p.m.

Authorities don't know why Violette picked Washington. He has no obvious connection to the area, said Clayton police Lt. Jon Gerrell.

Police found no weapon with Violette or left behind in North Carolina. They are looking for some sort of "edged weapon," Gerrell said.

A pathologist at the state medical examiner's office in Chapel Hill worked Saturday to determine how Katlin died; police didn't expect results until this week. Allen said there were other "obvious signs of trauma" but declined to describe them.

Amber Violette told the dispatcher, "It looks like someone attacked her. ... I'm going to be sick."

By all appearances, the Violettes seemed an unlikely family for such a tragedy. Neither John nor Amber had any brushes with the law. Clayton police don't recall ever going to 2020 McKinnon Drive in the seven years the Violettes lived there.

John and Amber met at a church in Cary, Gerrell said. They married and later settled into an idyllic white-sided house in Clayton's Grovewood subdivision. They were among the first to move in when the subdivision opened in 1999, property records show.

Katlin made the family a threesome in 2002. Neighbors said her parents doted on her; John often pulled her in a wagon as the family strolled through the subdivision. On Friday night, neighbors tried to figure out how something like that could happen to such a quiet young family.

On Saturday, calm seemed to return to McKinnon Drive. A gaggle of children shot hoops. A woman helped balance her granddaughter, who rolled down the sidewalk on a scooter.

Katlin's pink bicycle with training wheels leaned against a rail on the Violettes' porch. A memorial of stuffed animals and flowers was piled high around the family's mailbox as yellow police tape wrapped around its post flapped in the breeze.

Staff writer Mandy Locke can be reached at 829-8927 or mandy.locke@newsobserver.com.
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#2 Postby GalvestonDuck » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:29 pm

First of all, WHY did he quit his job? Whatever caused him to quit his job could also be whatever is setting him off on a path of homicidal destruction.

Maybe he has lost touch with reality. If that's the case, I wouldn't be surprised to see this end with suicide-by-cop.
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#3 Postby cajungal » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:39 pm

I agree, Duckie. That is usually the first sign of trouble is when someone quits his job. You don't quit your job unless you have another already lined up. He was obviously in some sort of deep depression and just snapped.
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#4 Postby pojo » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:55 pm

OMG!!! WHY? This is utterly unbelievable.
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#5 Postby O Town » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:09 am

I just can't imagine walking in to find my 4 YO little girl like that. :cry:
Utterly unbelievable is right!
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#6 Postby Miss Mary » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:27 am

Sick is what it is.

There are two aspects/words/acts missing in our culture: Respect and Responsibility.

Imagine if we showed respect for others (religion, race, dare I say it, politics) and then to be responsible for what you should be responsible for: from taking care of your family, giving 100% at your job, being kind to others, taking care of animals, etc.

The world would be such a nicer place.

Respect & Responsibility - my new motto. Which is also taking the high road.

If he couldn't handle being a father, then the responsible thing would have been to say is - I can't do this, and leave. Which would have brought a whole lot of heartache but this little girl would be alive and the mother would have her daughter. The same could be said for Scott Peterson - he could have just said I'm not cut out for this anymore and leave. A cowardly, responsible act yes, but Laci and her son would be alive today.

I'm done. Extremely disturbing stories like this really worry me. What is this world coming to? Don't answer, it's rhetorical. There is no easy answer.

Mary
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#8 Postby Canelaw99 » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:11 am

I can't imagine why some of these parents do this kind of thing. A month or two ago, there was a mother that slit her child's throat here in the Miami area. Crazy, crazy stuff.....
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#9 Postby Janie2006 » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:43 pm

I'll never understand the apparently deep capacity human beings have for depravity and cruelty. :(
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#10 Postby JQ Public » Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:10 am

Yeh this is all over the news in Raleigh. Many of the first response emt people needed lots of counselling following the sight of that gruesome murder scene. It is said to have been one of the worst murders the small town of Clayton has ever seen! :x :x :x
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#11 Postby cajungal » Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:35 am

I still can't get that image out of my head and could just imagine what the mother of that child is going through! If it would of been me, I think I would of had a massive heart attack right there seeing my child like that. That poor little girl can't even have a proper burial!
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