On this day (January 5, 2007), Jodi
Sanderholm was raped, sodomized and murdered by Justin Thurber in Kansas. The
killer was sentenced to death on Friday March 20, 2009. In loving memory of her
and her family members, I will endorse the Jodi’s Voice, by telling you more
with information from the website.
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Jodi Sanderholm
(September 26, 1987 to January 5, 2007)
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About Jodi’s
Law
The purpose of this site is to provide
an easy access point for information and links relating to Jodi’s Law and other
stalking laws.
Current laws do not offer a clear
enough definition of stalking nor do they carry a severe enough punishment. I
became aware of this situation when a close family friend went missing on
January 5, 2007. The story of her disappearance is listed below. Jodi Sanderholm was 19 years old,
valedictorian of her high school, dance instructor, and a college student when
on January 5, 2007 she disappeared in broad daylight. Within hours Arkansas
City, KS police department had her murderer & rapist in custody.
Unfortunately, it was too late for Jodi. Jodi’s caring, intelligent and
beautiful outlook on life exemplifies everything I hope my own daughter will
grow up to become.These stories happen all too often in our society, however,
you never think they will happen to someone close to you. I moved in next door
to Jodi when she was almost two years old. Jodi and her sister were my own
11-year-old daughter’s babysitters until recently when we moved to New Mexico.
This story happened in a town of
approximately 12,000 on a Friday afternoon. Jodi left her dance practice,
called her mother to cancel a planned lunch, and disappeared.Her murderer was
well known to her dance team and the police department. The police have called
him a “groupie” of the team and by the early hours of Saturday morning the
police were looking for him. He was taken into custody on unrelated charges on
Saturday, January 6th. However, Jodi was not found until Tuesday, January 9th.
It was an excruciating long wait for all of Jodi’s friends and family. In the
end, her murderer stands charged with aggravated kidnapping, rape, aggravated
sodomy, and murder. Jodi was killed within hours of her last contact with her
mother. The cause of death is listed as blunt force trauma and strangulation.
It breaks my heart to think what her
last hours were like and the fear she must have felt. After enduring all of
this Jodi’s body was left in the woods, while her killer sank her car into a
nearby lake and went on about his normal day.
Looking back there were many aspects
that led to Jodi’s murder. Her murderer had been taken into custody earlier
that same week and released when he complained of chest pains. The police
released him with the thought that they would pick him up and press the charges
later. They had not picked him up on January 5th and it is now too late for
Jodi.
Her murderer was the object of
multiple restraining orders placed by other young women and just the day before
is accused of following another dance team member for miles until she went to
the police department for safety. However, there were no laws in Kansas (or New
Mexico) that would allow the police to arrest him for stalking.
The law I am proposing will come too
late for Jodi, but it will come because of Jodi. Strengthening the legal
definition of stalking while increasing punishment would allow law enforcement
agencies everywhere to better protect our citizens. It is my belief that this
law should be changed on a national level. Due to the fact that Internet
stalking can currently occur from many states away. Uniformity and definition
is the key to making sure our young women are safe from stalkers. http://jodisvoice.org/about-us/about-2/
About Jodi
Sanderholm
Jodi was born Sept. 26, 1987, in Arkansas City, to
Brian J. and Cindy A. (Shanks) Sanderholm. Jodi attended Arkansas City schools,
graduating from Arkansas City High School in 2006. She was one of four
valedictorians in her graduating class. While in high school, Jodi was a member
of the National Honor Society, a Kansas State Scholar, a Kansas Board of
Regents Scholar and earned the Outstanding Physics Student of the Year Award
presented by David Stinemetze. She was a member of the Ark City High School
Dance Team for four years. Two of those four years she was the captain. Jodi
was a member/instructor of Ark City Dance and a Universal Dance Association
Instructor. After high school, she attended Cowley College where she studied
pre-pharmacy. While at Cowley, she was a member of the Cowley Tigerette
Danceline. http://jodisvoice.org/about-us/about-jodi-sanderholm/
See more on the website: http://jodisvoice.org/intro/
QUOTE
1:
Thursday 21
January 2010 - The relatives of murder victims on Thursday pleaded with Kansas
lawmakers not to abolish the state's death penalty, saying that the penalty
should be handed out to those who kill and not weighed in terms of what it
costs the state.
“You cannot put a price tag on my
sisters’ life,” Jennifer
Sanderholm told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “That
is ultimately what you will do if you abolish the death penalty”
QUOTE 2: Justin Thurber raped,
sodomized and murdered 19-year-old Jodi Sanderholm of Arkansas City on 5
January 2007. In March 2009, he was sentenced to die by lethal injection by a
Cowley County judge.
Thurber feared the death
penalty and, the night before his trial, tried to plea bargain to take capital
punishment off the table, Jennifer Sanderholm told lawmakers, her voice wracked
with emotion.
“He was scared
and he didn’t want to die,” she said, surrounded by
her mother Cindy and father Brian who also testified.
AUTHOR: Jennifer Sanderholm is the sister of 19-year-old Jodi Sanderholm who was
raped, sodomized and murdered by Justin Thurber on 5 January 2007.
COMMENTS & CONDOLENCES:
I am sorry for the loss of Jennifer
Sanderholm. I totally walked in your shoes and she does remind me of Sally Anne Bowman (One of the many reasons why I became a supporter of the death penalty
when I was a strong opponent). I will pray to God to comfort your family and I
will encourage people to support Jodi’s Voice. If you want to see justice
served and watch Justin Thurber die, I encourage your family members to stop
the Kansan Abolitionists by starting a similar campaign like, Vote No on Proposition 34. May your R.I.P.
One way to show that I care for murder victims and their grieving
families, is to write rebuttal essays to the Abolitionists. The Abolitionists
write letters to those murderers on Death Row, which are insulting to the
murdered victims. I started this blog to encourage the world to remember the
victims and their families.
See my response to the
KCADP:
KCADP Statement on Kahler’s Death Sentence
Written on October 11, 2011 by Allison in Kansas Cases, Updates
The Kansas
Coalition Against the Death Penalty released the following statement after
James Kraig Kahler was sentenced to death today:
We
regret the loss of the lives of Karen, Emily, and Lauren Kahler and
Dorothy Wight. Sentencing Kraig Kahler to death will not restore their lives.
It will not bring peace to the remaining family members or the
traumatized local community. Public safety could have been achieved with
the alternative sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
REBUTTAL:
Sentencing this killer to death will not restore the victims to lives but Life
without the possibility of parole does not restore them to their lives either,
why not we just do not punish the killer at all.
“It
will not bring peace to the remaining family members or the traumatized local
community.”
KCADP should check with the victims’ families who want to see justice
served or those who had justice served already.
“Public
safety could have been achieved with the alternative sentence of life in prison
without the possibility of parole.”
Please see the quote from Thomas Sowell.
Please read this blog post on how I
rebutted them in another incident.
Here is a Tribute
Video by Dayton Gates:
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ReplyDeleteThe sick creature cries innocence. That makes the disposition stronger
ReplyDeleteThe sick creature cries innocence. That makes the disposition stronger
ReplyDeleteHe needs to accept his punishment and open his arms for the needle. I wonder if he would take responsibility if his dear parents would stop coddling and believing him.
DeleteWords can't say want I'm thinking! Beautiful and amazing! I hope they ex,him soon he should not be breathing!
DeleteMore photos have been added to Jodi's memorial on findagrave.com. joe
ReplyDeleteDust off Ole Sparky for this POS so we can all be sure he will never be out on the streets again. My deepest and most heartfelt condolences go out to the family and friends of the victim.
ReplyDeleteI just saw you sister’s story on the ID Channel and I was moved to tears. This filthy animal that murdered your sister MUST face & be administered capital punishment. I pray that God have helped your family heal
ReplyDeleteAnimals do not do this. Evil humans do.
DeleteIt's way our due!, he is so discussing ! Look what he did to this beautiful little girl! Fry his gross ,whatever he is!
DeleteWay overdue!
DeleteHis execution is long overdue. People are waking up to the fact that keeping these evil,sub humans on Death Row keeps a lot of people employed. Joke.
ReplyDeleteMy deepest condolences and prayers for your loss, the evil so called POS that brutalized such an amazing young woman and took away your beautiful daughter ,sister and friend deserves to get the death penalty. He had no thoughts feelings or remorse for what he did to your loved one and yet he has the audacity to ask others to spare his life? Oh no that's not the way it works . I know God will judge him one day and I truly do not believe he deserves to go on breathing especially when he stole a beautiful bright young lady who had her whole life to live. He deserves the same mercy he gave which was none! I will continue to pray for your family that you will one day see justice done and your beautiful daughter will continue to rest in peace always knowing she is and will always be a bright young Angel watching over you all.
ReplyDeletePeople do not turn into Angels when they die. They also do not watch over anyone.
DeleteThe Bible says the dead "know nothing". They cannot hear, see, watch over you or
communicate.
If you are a Christian believer, you will reunite with a loved one in Heaven....
It amazes me how killers are so afraid of death themselves. My daughter Stefany Fairbanks was sensensely stabbed to death while walking in a park. I feel the mother's pain. We all come here for a reason....Jodi's death has saved thousands from being stalked and killed. We would give anything to have our child back...but on another level she is a hero for those who are being stalked by these gutless monsters. I have lost trust in a safe environment and perhaps we should all carry self defense (spray...a gun...being aware of our surroundings etc). Those out there please be careful...be safe...be aware. My daughter had her headphones in and was walking around in broad daylight in a park with people....it can happen at any time.
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ReplyDeleteBreak out the death penalty I don’t believe in murderers going to prison and getting three meals a day and breathing air when their victims are dead and buried 6 feet under murder them the same way that they murdered their victim that’ll put a lot to end with these freaking murderers I’m sick of it I believe in the death penalty I don’t mean 20 years from now I don’t mean death penalty today As the judge says guilty and the jury says guilty get this murder out of this world they do not deserve to live in our society!!!!!!!
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