Back in August 2009 Kristi Cornwell of Blairsville, Georgia disappeared. It was a pretty big story in part because her family and friends made a concentrated effort to locate her and kept the story in front of the media for quite some time. I posted about Kristi’s disappearance on several occasions on my other site as well as after the move here.

Working with the GBI Richard Cornwell, Kristi’s brother, searched countless miles of the Union County, Georgia area where Kristi had disappeared.

Last summer police received an anonymous letter penned in purple ink from an alleged woman that alleged her grandson was responsible for Kristi’s disappearance. Authorities pleaded for the unnamed woman to come forward but received no results. Police now believe that the letters were actually written by James Scott Carringer, the man who offed himself after he kidnapped and raped a Kennesaw State student last year. I wrote about Carringer last April after he committed suicide. Police found purple ink pens in his home along with several calendar entries he had made in the same purple ink.

Along with Kristi Cornwell Carringer is suspected of attempting the kidnapping of a woman in Ranger, North Carolina in August 2009, the April 2010 attempted kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl in Montgomery, Alabama and the kidnapping and rape of a relative in Ellijay, Georgia, the 19-year-old Kennesaw State University student.

More info on the story can be found at the AJC along with the articles I linked to above.

31-year-old Andres Wilhelm Schafer of Woodstock, Georgia has been arrested and charged with three counts of child molestation after he inappropriately touched a 7-year-old girl twice in the Belk store at Town Center Mall in Kennesaw, Georgia (the third charge is from the fact that the 10-year-old had to witness it).

The little girl and her 10-year-old sister reported the molestation to a family member who reported it to store security. They detained Schafer until police arrived to arrest him.

Schafer is lodged in the Cobb County Jail on $200,000 bond.

57-year-old Raymond Devaughn Taylor is…I mean was an assistant accounting instructor at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, at least up until very recently.

Back on November 30th Taylor allegedly disrobed in his classroom in front of his student. A student in his class reported the alleged incident on Friday. Taylor, who lives in Kennesaw, was arrested and charged with public indecency. He is currently out on $5,000 bond.

KSU released the following statement earlier today,

Raymond Devaughn Taylor, a part-time instructor at Kennesaw State University, was arrested on Monday, Dec. 6, for allegedly removing all of his clothing while standing in front of students in the accounting class he taught. 

Taylor, 57, of Kennesaw, has been charged with public indecency. Kennesaw State officials have terminated Taylor’s affiliation with the university, effective immediately. He will not return to his part-time teaching post, nor have access to the campus.
 
The alleged classroom incident with Taylor occurred on Tuesday, Nov. 30, between 4:35 and 4:45 p.m., in the final accounting class that he taught for the fall semester. The incident was reported on Friday, Dec. 3 to Kennesaw State academic officials, who immediately requested an investigation by the Kennesaw State University police department.
 
Taylor was questioned and subsequently arrested by KSU police officers on the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 6. He was transported to the Cobb County Adult Detention Center (CCADC), where he was booked and held on the charge of public indecency. On Tuesday, Dec. 7, Taylor was released from the CCADC on a $5,000 bond.
 
Kennesaw State University Interim Provost W. Ken Harmon is encouraging any students who would like to report or talk about the incident to take advantage of university resources that are available to them.
 
“Kennesaw State fosters an environment where students are encouraged to report inappropriate and unethical behavior,” Harmon stated. “Counselors in the Office of Counseling and Psychological Services are available to students who would like to address this matter. Also, if there are other aspects of this case which students would like to report, they should feel free to contact the university’s Department of Public Safety.”
 
Arlethia Perry-Johnson, KSU’s vice president for external affairs, said student safety is the university’s highest priority. "Our academic and public safety officials took this incident very seriously, and everyone involved took swift action to address it,” Perry-Johnson stated. “Our utmost concern is for the safety and welfare of our students, and we encourage them to report any incident that makes them feel uncomfortable in the classroom."

60-year-old Jesse James Warren, the man who allegedly killed three people and wounded two more at the Penske truck rental place in Kennesaw, Georgia, pleaded not guilty Friday at his arraignment in Cobb County Superior Court.

Warren, who apparently lives in Temple near the Casa Obvious, sat quietly while the DA read the 16 charges which include murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, aggravated battery and assault. The Cobb County DA will be seeking the death penalty in the case.

Back in March I told you about ‘Magic Jeff’ Jeffrey Alan Wasley of Kennesaw, Georgia. Magic Jeff was busted for child porn by the FBI and Cobb County Police.

Wasley ended up pleading guilty to one count of Production of Child Pornography in Federal Court. He was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison to be followed by lifetime probation and having to register as a sex offender.

According to the Cobb County Georgia PD Officer Jeremy Potts of Kennesaw was arrested Wednesday and charged with possession of child pornography.

The Cobb County Crimes Against Children Unit was contacted by the Department of Public Safety Internal Affairs Unit about a Cobb County police officer having child porn on his personal computer. After interviewing 24-year-old Jeremy Christopher Potts Wednesday investigators obtained a warrant to search his home and seized several pieces of electronic media.

Potts was arrested and charged with Possession of Child Pornography. He has resigned his position with Cobb County and is lodged in the Cobb County Jail on $20,000 bond.

Cobb County police have arrested 60-year-old Gary Wayne Garvin after he allegedly masturbated in the children’s book section of the Barnes & Noble in Kennesaw, Georgia on April 6th.

Police were called when witnesses reported that a man was sitting in the store masturbating in the presence of little girls. Garvin left before police could get there but the witnesses were able to get the tag number of his white Mustang.

Garvin was arrested and lodged in the Cobb County Jail on April 7th on charges of Public Indecency and Child Molestation. He is currently out on $40,000 bond after spending five days in the pokey.

38-year-old former magician and church youth counselor at Calvary Jesus Church Jeffrey Alan Wasley of Kennesaw, Georgia is now facing 20 years in prison for his least-liked trick of producing child pornography out of thin air.

Wasley would apparently hang around in stores like Target and Walmart and wait until little kids would go into a bathroom without their parents (shame on any parent that lets their four-year-old go to the bathroom by themselves at fucking Walmart by the way) and follow them in. He would then offer to help them and videotape the kids while they used the bathroom.

Back in 2008 two brothers, ages 5 and 7, reported his creepy behavior at the Target to their mother, who in turn notified security. They identified him on store surveillance and followed him to his car, getting the license plate number.

When Cobb County police got a warrant to search his home they found at least six home-made videos as well as thousands of other child porn photos that he had downloaded off of the Internet.

When the FBI showed up at Wasley’s house that he shared with his wife and two children in December 2008 he locked himself in his garage and slashed his throat and wrists. Unfortunately for the taxpayers of Georgia the EMTs did the same great job they always try to do and managed to save this douchebag’s life.

Rather than go to a jury trial Wasley took a plea deal yesterday and and pleaded guilty to Producing Child Pornography. The plea agreement will give him about ten less years of jail time than if he were convicted by a jury. His sentencing is scheduled for June 10th.

Jeff’s MySpace (www.myspace.com/wowmagicjeff) has long been taken offline as has his website at www.magicjeff.com

Thursday afternoon 25-year-old Justin Detrell Wilburn of Kennesaw, Georgia managed to get in an accident, hitting an empty car, while driving in the rain. Police determined that he had been going too fast for the current conditions but it was the condition of wounds and blood on Wilburn that really concerned the Cobb County deputies.

After questioning Wilburn they ended up paying a visit to his mother’s house in Powder Springs. JoAnn Wilburn, a math teacher at Pebblebrook High School and Justin Wilburns mother, was found stabbed to death in her home.

Wilburn was arrested and charged with Murder as well as some traffic charges resulting from the accident and is currently lodged in the Cobb County Jail with no bond.

I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if drugs played no small part in this tragedy.