GUILTY CO - Judilianna 'Judi' Lawrence, 19, murdered, Colorado Springs, 10 Oct 2008

[Lady Loves Lurking]

They do. I'm afraid there will only be more to come. Each time someone commits a violent crime in the years to come and it comes out they're a vet or active duty, undue attention will probably be paid to the military aspect of that person's background and life. The problem with this guy, Robert Marko, is that he was clearly proud of being a soldier, and his "About me" on MySpace seems to reference the training he's receiving in the military and how he'll be the ultimate killer. I imagine there are a lot of other soldiers right now who'd like to give the guy a beating just for the way he presented himself.

Just an FYI -- I'm the child of an Air Force vet, very military positive, even though I never joined. So I do have trouble with the military in general catching flack for psychos like Robert Marko.

You're right and that makes me really sad.

 

[believe09]

I revere those who serve-suspecting that there is a failure some where in either the support services that are offered to this company or the vetting process when they sign up, however, just makes sense IMO....

Unless the stories have been squashed elsewhere, I think it is safe to say that this group has some unique feature to them-either seen something that has brought them round the twist, or there is an odd game of monkey see, monkey do going on...I am not being flip, but 8 members have been charged with homicides state side??

 

[Lady Loves Lurking]

I revere those who serve-suspecting that there is a failure some where in either the support services that are offered to this company or the vetting process when they sign up, however, just makes sense IMO....

Unless the stories have been squashed elsewhere, I think it is safe to say that this group has some unique feature to them-either seen something that has brought them round the twist, or there is an odd game of monkey see, monkey do going on...I am not being flip, but 8 members have been charged with homicides state side??

Something is up and i wonder what these boys were up to while still overseas. i imagine the vetting process is :

"sign here."

 

[SuziQ]

Some background info is cropping up.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/17730868/detail.html

(snip)
A fellow soldier from Fort Carson who said he served with Marko in Iraq also posted a comment on MySpace that Marko had a "huge imagination" and said that most of the things Marko said about Iraq never happened.

"Shawn" wrote: "We never had a hard time. We had guard (duty) and we went out on patrols … but as fire fights and death were to blame for this, it is fake. He never saw blood. He never saw action to shoot at."

"The Army had nothing to do with this except to give him a different place to live and I would bet this would of happened in Michigan, if he was there," the poster wrote.

That sentiment was echoed by a high school friend of Markos who talked to the Kalamazoo Gazette.

Kyle Haas, now 20, told the newspaper that she exchanged e-mails with Marko as recently as about a month ago.

Haas said that Marko sometimes called himself "Raptor Robert'' while in high school. "One time, he said he was going to kill everybody,'' she said.

Fort Carson sources told the Colorado Springs Gazette that Marko received counseling for "an over-active imagination'' after irregularities were found during a mental-health screening upon the soldier's return in February from Iraq. Marko was deemed fit for duty after the counseling and wasn't undergoing further treatment, the sources said.

 

[OkieGranny]

From February 2011:

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/..._Allegedly_Sliced_Teens_Throat_115098889.html

A judge has sentenced Robert Marko to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of 19-year-old Judi Lawrence in 2008. The sentencing comes after Marko's conviction earlier in the month...

Marko was also sentenced to 96 more years behind bars for the other crimes he was convicted of, which include two counts of sexual assault, and criminal attempt to commit sexual assault with a deadly weapon.