Tracey Byrd and Michael Sparks of Lawrenceville, Georgia were arrested earlier this week after a complaint from one of their children’s schools was made to police about their conditions. The Lawrenceville PD paid a visit to their home earlier this week and ended up staying for several hours searching the filthy place.

Police found garbage all through the home as well as the skeletal remains of four dogs. An animal control officer estimated that they had died from starvation. The dogs may have starved but it’s for damn sure judging by the mug shots that Byrd and Sparks didn’t miss too many meals.

The couple’s children have been removed from the home and both Byrd and Sparks were lodged in the Gwinnett County Jail on two charges each of animal cruelty. Their bond is $11,200 each.

Raymond Wesner of Lawrenceville, Georgia was arrested back in April on several charges including Child Molestation.

Rather than have his family testify against him at trial Wesner decided he needed to have them killed. His cellmate contacted police last week saying that Wesner had tried to hire him to have his family killed, so investigators went undercover.

A police officer posing as a hit man (I guess the fact that the “hit man” was in jail and couldn’t have been very good didn’t occur to Wesner) contacted the man who offered him $75,000 to kill his family before his hearing.

Wesner has been charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of murder and three counts of attempted murder and threatening a witness.

35-year-old Mark Dorough of Lawrenceville, Georgia was arrested last Thursday after he allegedly flashed a woman and her young children.

The victim said that Dorough walked in front of her car and unzipped his pants and stuck out his tongue.

When questioned by police Dorough told police he had had a drink but that he hadn’t done anything wrong. He was arrested for Public Indecency and lodged in the Gwinnett County jail on $2,400 bond where he remained yesterday.

44-year-old Kevin James Lilly of Lawrenceville, Georgia has been accused of luring a teenager to Georgia for financial and sexual gain.

Lilly allegedly met the 17-year-old Ohio girl online about a year ago and struck up a romantic relationship with her with the intent to get her to move in with him. He drove to Ohio to meet her and absconded with the girl. Police found her living with him back in the middle of March and he was arrested on the 16th.

While legally the girl is old enough to consent her in Georgia her family believes she was coerced and the law agrees. He faces charges of Interference With Custody as well as Electronic Transmission of Obscene Material to a Minor. He was denied bond in a Gwinnett County Magistrate Court yesterday. He has been separated from his wife and three sons since he was arrested in March and the judge felt that he was a flight risk if they let him out.

Lilly works as an umpire for both college and high school sports in Gwinnett County and he also works at Medieval Times in Duluth, Georgia.

Obviously as I mentioned, here in Georgia if you are 17 you are old enough to consent to sex with an adult but I’ve got to tell you if you are 44 and trolling the Internet for 17-year-olds you are one sick frigging puppy.

Kevin’s Facebook

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38-year-old Donna Sue Harber of Lawrenceville, Georgia stopped in at the Gwinnett County Jail earlier in the week and ended up getting arrested for her efforts to cheer up a male inmate there.

Harber allegedly got into the inmate visitation booth and a Sheriff’s Deputy observed her lift her short and show her tits. Perhaps it was to distract from the area above her breasts? Wow, where’s the fucking eye bleach?

Harber was arrested for Public Indecency for her quick peek show.

Police in Lilburn, Georgia are attempting to find out what set off 23-year-old Westley Scott Strellis of Lawrenceville earlier today.

Strellis walked into the Wal-Mart on Lawrenceville Highway around lunchtime today, grabbed a metal baseball bat from the sporting goods section and headed back to the electronics where he smashed the screens of 29 televisions, causing over $22,000 in damage. Damn, that’s an expensive lunch.

Strellis is lodged in the Gwinnett County Jail charged with 29 counts of Criminal Damage to Property.

49-year-old Dainley Dewayne Green of Lawrenceville, Georgia has been arrested after beating a little dachshund so badly that it suffered a fractured skull and other broken bones.

What’s even more disgusting is the fact that Green beat the dog in order to punish his two children. Damn, I wonder what he would do to them if he was really mad?

Green’s wife finally got scared enough of his erratic behavior to file a TPO against Green and when deputies showed up at the house to see what had happened the little dog was shaking and had a swollen eye and was still bleeding from being strangled.

Green has been arrested and charged with Animal Cruelty and lodged in the Gwinnett County Jail where hopefully someone will strangle him until he bleeds.

On July 27th, 2009 the Gwinnett County Police arrested 27-year-old Ashley Suzanne Schutt after they found her 30-year-old husband Gregory L. Schutt stabbed to death in their home. When Law enforcement arrived at the Schutt’s house in Lawrenceville after responding to a 911 call Ashley was outside and told them that her husband was inside and dead. They discovered Greg’s body with multiple stab wounds. From reports I have read this was no defensive stabbing though. Greg was killed with three different weapons, a hammer and two knives. There have also been allegations that he was drugged as well. He had no defensive injuries on him that I have been able to ascertain.

Ashley crawled through her lawn to the neighbor’s house and asked them to call police. Schutt told police that they had been victims of a home invasion robbery and that she had also been raped by the robbers. That was disproven by police during the course of their investigation and from what they found on the scene they decided they had enough probable cause to arrest Ashley Schutt for Murder and Possession of a Weapon During a Crime. She is currently being held in the Gwinnett County Jail without bond. According to the Gwinnett County Police the motive was domestic related.

Some of the stuff I come across and write about seems so clear cut. Some stories aren’t quite so clear, at least on the surface and leave me shaking my head wondering “why?” The story of Greg and Ashley Schutt is one of those. Perhaps it’s just because all of the details haven’t surfaced to the public yet.

Greg and Ashley had been married eight years (possibly nine now). Greg’s MySpace page paints a picture of normality. Photos include Batman, Family Guy, a model. He appears to have liked wrestling. One thing I found that was noticeably absent from his photos were pictures of his wife. Out of 148 photos there are exactly two, including the one of the couple which is below.

Just because he doesn’t have a bunch of pictures posted doesn’t necessarily signify anything. I have a ton of photos online but only a few are of my wife. That’s more because she shies away from wanting to be associated with my online life than anything else though. She teaches and with the amount of knuckle draggers that she has to deal with on a daily basis I can understand not wanting them to have too much info. One thing I did find interesting though is the photo that Greg did have up. According to Ashley’s photos and comments she has worked hard the last couple of years to lose weight. As a matter of fact she has lost a lot of weight and that must have really been a boost to her self esteem. Why then would the only two pictures her husband have online be “fat” pictures?

Maybe it doesn’t mean anything, but then again maybe it is indicative of something else going on. There have been plenty of reports from co-workers of Ashley and other friends that this was an abusive relationship. One commenter at another site mentioned the fact that she would show up for work with black eyes.

Ashley’s MySpace, on the other hand, chronicles her weight loss and also lets us in on some of the other details of their lives. Consider the screen names themselves. Greg’s is Gmoney, whereas Ashley’s is AshleyandGreg. She has pictures posted of her weight loss and as you can see from her unflattering mug shot (are any of them really flattering?)  she was successful in that. Her “about me” section has the following,

“About me…my name is Ashley, I live in ATL, work in ATL, and play in ATL. I am 27 years old and have been married to my 30 year old husband Greg for almost 9 years. We have been through everything together, we have gone around the world together (thank you US Army), and we have so much more to experience together…I can hardly wait. For those of you who have known me for a long time, I have lost a lot of weight…as you can tell from my picture! I’m finally down where I want to be and where I feel my best…145-150!”

According to Ashley’s blogs a good friend lived with them for four years while they were trying to help her get her life together. Four years is a long time for a house guest and can tend to be quite disruptive to family life. Having a “stranger” in the house, no matter how close they are to the family, can certainly make people act differently. Then again it might also keep you on your best behavior. About a year ago they had to ask their friend to move out and then it was just Ashley and Greg.

Back in December of last year Ashley left this comment on Greg’s MySpace,

I know that you are sending gifts for Piggy and stuff but actually send my a comment once in a while, you know that you like me, you miss seeing my face while I’m a work, ok that might be a stretch, but you know. I will try and do the same. I live for you and love you more than anything. We can make it through lifes troubles. I just know we can, but we have to be a little more understanding of eachother I think.
I will see you when I get off and I will bring the peckermint brownies!

…and prior to that one was this,

Your wife should be the first to comment on you…then again maybe you don’t want me to comment on you at all.
I think we all know what I would say! I love you baby, welcome to myspace! *A*

What has changed in the last year that would make Ashley brutally stab her husband after bashing him with a hammer? It’s obvious that she was trying to make her life better, and she talked about having children as well. Was this on-the-surface happy marriage abusive? It certainly appears so from the outside. Perhaps the changes Ashley was making in her life were too much for Greg to bear? If that’s the case why couldn’t she just leave? Murder is so damned permanent and this was no “crime of passion”. The way it was carried out indicates, at least to the layman, a pretty disturbed person who carried out a particularly gruesome murder. The fact is that no matter how much abuse was going on at home by killing him Ashley committed the most selfish act in the world by taking his life.

Anyone that does have information or know the family is more than welcome to leave a comment, or email me at captain.obvious@sickcrimes.us anonymously or otherwise.

Updated 4/23/11 – Ashley Schutt’s murder trial in Gwinnett County is scheduled to begin on Monday. Her family tried to get the charges reduced but to no avail. Other than that I don’t have a heck of a lot of information right now.

Updated 5/12/2011 – I’ve been remiss in not updating this post since the end of the trial. Judging from some of the reports released since the trial the murder was pretty brutal and seems to have gone far beyond just protecting herself although after years of abuse there had to be a lot of buried anger there.

Anyhow, Schutt was convicted and received a life sentence plus 35 years.