Burger might be spending the rest of her life getting hot-dogged in jail, but on the bright side, if the Obamassiah wins, she’ll be getting a massive tax break on her jail-house earnings!
Maybe she was slowly coming to realize that even if Obama wins, the universe will not actually change, and that on November 5th she’ll still be a sad, lonely, old lesbian.Loss of faith in one’s god can drive people to do all sorts of crazy things. Please keep in mind that non-conservatives are considered innocent until proven guilty. Messages of support can be sent to: carolwrites@earthlink.net.
Police: Ex-lover killed woman in rage
Palm Beach Post, October 29, 2008
Carol Anne Burger killed her former lover ["wife"] by stabbing her 222 times with a Phillips-head screwdriver and then took pains to hide her crime, police said Wednesday.
“Change … Hope”
Jessica Kalish, who shared a house with Burger despite breaking up with her more than a year ago, was found last Thursday stuffed in the backseat of her gun-metal BMW sedan, abandoned behind a medical office at 2300 S. Congress Avenue. Her blood was splashed around the rear end and undercarriage of the car, as if her killer had tried to load her into the trunk. The driver-side window was shattered.
Examining the body, detectives absorbed what had been done to her. Stab wounds were clustered around the back of her head and stitched across her back and arms and face. Most were between an inch and an inch-and-a-half deep. A blow to Kalish’s neck probably killed her, investigators determined.
At a news conference Wednesday, police laid out what they’d learned during a week of investigation. They said the evidence pointed to one conclusion: Burger killed Kalish, a 56-year-old software executive whom friends described as worldly and intelligent, and then tried to throw investigators off her trail.
What pulled the trigger in Burger?
Her friends, the ones who can bring themselves to believe what police said about her, turn the question over in amazement.
If this could happen to someone like her, they said, what does it mean for the rest of us?
Burger, a 57-year-old writer, did yoga, had a fondness for Shark Week on the Discovery Channel and preferred to watch musicals in theaters with Dolby Sound. She recently stopped drinking coffee. [Probably not a good idea!] She thought Jackson Browne’s For a Dancer was good to listen to when you were sad [I always thought Jackson Browne could drive somebody to murder] and she refused to take anti-depressants despite her relationship problems with Kalish.
Their situation really was a bad one, friends said, but for financial reasons Burger and Kalish had continued to share the house they’d bought together in 2000.
Burger, who on Oct. 7 was tapped to cover the election for the Web site, The Huffington Post, still sometimes felt sad and isolated. Kalish, whom Burger had married in Massachusetts in 2005, had met another woman.
At 3300 Churchill Drive, Burger had her half of the house, a room and office where she would write and read and surf the Internet, and Kalish had hers, where she would spend hours absorbed in cyber dates with her new companion, friends said.
All in all, the former couple seemed to be doing the best they could as their lawyer drew up plans to sell the house and divide the money. But secretly, police said, something was building up in Burger that would explode in a sudden, sustained burst of rage.
Minutes after someone called their home and said he had found Kalish’s wallet and keys near 548 E. Gateway Boulevard, Burger reported Kalish missing Thursday afternoon. She told police Kalish left for a workout Wednesday night and never came home.
As investigators studied the case, several telltale signs, including the ferocity and personal nature of the attack, pointed to Burger, they said.
But before they could question her, Burger walked out into her back yard, pressed a gun up under her chin and pulled the trigger, police said. Detectives found her body there last Thursday but couldn’t locate a suicide note.
In the days that followed, detectives and crime scene investigators put together this theory:
On Wednesday night, Kalish exercised at LA Fitness at 2290 N. Congress Ave. and was home by 9:30 p.m. A confrontation ensued, and she probably was dead by midnight.
After stabbing Kalish, Burger put her in the BMW and drove her to the Congress Avenue site. She walked home, a distance of about 2 1/2 miles.
Burger cleaned up the garage and used the washing machine and bathroom sink, where traces of Kalish’s blood were later detected. She got into her Toyota Celica, drove to Gateway Boulevard and tossed out Kalish’s keys and wallet.
On Tuesday night, detectives proved their theory, said Lt. Gary Chapman, who heads the department’s major crimes squad.
Using Luminol, a chemical agent that causes blood traces to fluoresce under ultraviolet light, they found a “tremendous amount of blood” splattered throughout the garage, where the attack must have taken place, Chapman said. The Luminol also revealed Burger’s glowing sneaker prints on the garage floor, mapping her steps after she walked through her old flame’s blood.
“We believe the process of killing Jessica was pretty lengthy, in and out of the car,” Chapman said. “She obviously was out of her mind.”
Some of Burger’s friends at first refused to believe she was capable of such savagery.
“My gut tells me that it’s impossible and that something else is going on,” said Helen Gale, Burger’s close friend and confidante. “This is just beyond belief.”
During the past several months, Burger e-mailed Gale, who often visits Delray Beach from California, in a series of messages that charted her ups and downs.
“I’m feeling pretty isolated myself,” Burger wrote on Aug. 13. “Part is simple depression, I suppose. The other part is simple withdrawal whenever I’m depressed. I just can’t bring myself to punish people with my sad self whenever I’m down. But I usually bounce back in time.”
Other messages offered insight into her strained relations with Kalish.
“I was really annoyed when I found out that Jess let her life insurance lapse for lack of payment,” Burger wrote on Oct. 15. “She’s the beneficiary of everything I own and I have insurance on me that she would collect if I should drown in that triathlon I’m doing this weekend. But if she had a car crash I’d be up a creek!
“Today when I told her about it, she just said too bad and said she’d pay me back. (I won’t hold my breath).”
Scanning those e-mails now, with everything police discovered still spooling in her head, Gale reflected on the horror of it all.
“It’s horrendous,” she said, “what human beings are capable of doing to each other.”
Burger combined work with pleasure, writing on the day before the gory slaying about Obama and queers.
The very sensitive Belch comments:
This is a case of an old-ass childless lesbian that had a hot flash and murdered her ex. Carol Burger hated herself and her lesbianism, hated the fact she didn’t have any children, and blamed it all on Christians, Republicans, Bush, and the United States. And she took it out in a disgusting, violent rage against the woman who best represented herself: her ex-wife. Not satisfied with killing one childless lesbian, she blew her brains out Kurt Cobain style, bringing the body count to two.
He also posts an article cataloging how dumb the alleged killer was, and pointing out how the papers are so disrespectful that they hide the fact that Burger and Kalish were “married”. Bush-McCain Derangement Syndrome also seems to have played a part:
Friends said Burger and Kalish were married in Massachusetts but had broken up at least a year ago. Burger and Kalish had recently hired a lawyer to draw up plans to sell the house and split the money. Kalish had met another woman and would spend hours on her side of the house, absorbed in cyber-dates with her new companion.
Burger, upset at the disintegration of her relationship and disgusted with the U.S. during the past several years, sometimes talked of moving to Panama or Mexico to start again. That she had recently lost her job didn’t help the bouts of depression she sometimes experienced. When the Web site The Huffington Post tapped Burger to cover the election from Florida this month, the job seemed to give her renewed focus.
It’s sad to imagine that as she was writing the following hope-filled paean to the coming Obama-changes, Mrs Burger was probably distracted by dreams of shoving a sharp object into her “wife”s eye-sockets and other orifices:
Those “community organizers” that Rudy Giuliani mocked at the Republican National Convention proved to be a uniting force here in Delray Beach this past weekend — a city that has twice been named an “All America City” by the National Civic League (1993 and 2001).
And when Sarah Palin said that small town mayors are just like community organizers except that they have “real responsibilities,” Republican crowds loudly applauded her. But Delray Beach’ community and neighborhood organizers showed that their work brings people together. Consider it a tribute to “community organizers” everywhere.
The Delray Beach Multicultural Festival on Sunday, October 12th, drew a record crowd of more than 2,000 people (of all shades and persuasions)
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“We have so many different and beautiful people living here that we wanted to come together for a day to share our lives and experiences in a celebration of diversity. Everything has always been free,” said Gholson.
The 2000 census placed the population at 60,020 people, with 26,787 households. The racial makeup is 66.49% White, 26.63% African American, 6.97% Latino, 0.17% Native American, 1.08% Asian and 0.08% Pacific Islander. That diversity has surely grown in the years since …
The Festival is a showcase for various groups, including church organizations, that work together to promote harmony and lessen the perceived differences between races and nationalities, Gholson said. Environmental groups are there (Sierra Club) and political organizers with the Barack Obama Campaign for Change (the Florida Democratic Party).
Asked about the specter of racism injected by John McCain’s Campaign, Gholson said optimistically, “We’re hoping that Barack Obama’s candidacy shows the promise of equality in America. After all, we all want the same things for our families and our nation, don’t we?”
Bunny Elrod, 67, and Lindsay James, 27, were having fun at the festival. Elrod said she was undecided until recently. “But when McCain picked Sarah Palin, that sealed it for me. She’s a poor pick and certainly a bad representation for Republicans.” James likes the diversity and decidedly ‘unposh’ attitude in Delray, compared to nearby Boca Raton. “Really, Palin wants to take away a woman’s right to choose, and what about making rape victims pay for their own rape kits in Wasilla?” [Is Jams stupid or brainwashed? "Using Rape for Votes"]
“I think Palin and McCain have now just appealed to the lowest common denominator and awakened racial divides we haven’t seen in years-and perhaps thought were finally fading away.”
Shirley Johnson, working the Obama booth at the festival offered that racism seemed always to be just “below the radar in this campaign. And Barack Obama knew it would be thrown at him.
October 21, 2008