Friday, November 23, 2007

Thanksgiving And 2 Best Friends Passed Away

We got the call Sunday morning November 18 that Mr. Lerch passed away at 4:30. Mr. Lerch passed away while he was sleeping. They checked his pulse, and he didn’t have one. That was the sign he was not breathing. His organs and heart had stopped functioning. At least I saw him before he passed away. The funeral is Tuesday November 20. The visitation was Monday November 19. I wish it wasn’t his time to die, but I guess if God calls you home you don’t have a choice. I have had 2 of my best friends die. I don’t know what was God’s intension to let my best friends Les and Mr. Lerch die.
they finally put the man who killed Les in jail. They had a report on fox 5 news today Monday November 12 at noon. I have copied the news report.
Franklin is his name.
Franklin Benson, 47, goes before a Newton County Magistrate judge Monday morning to face charges that he murdered his girlfriend and then dismembered her body. He was arrested late Sunday after GBI agents and crime lab technicians cracked the strange case.

It began October 30 when some dogs found a human foot in some woods behind a vacant house off Georgia Highway 212 and Island Shoals Road in Newton County. Searchers soon discovered another foot, some legs and a hand.

It turns out Leslyan Williams, 49, of Decatur was reported missing about the same time by some out-of-state relatives. With that missing report and the remains, investigators soon came up with boyfriend Franklin Benson's name. They learned Benson runs a car care business near the crime scene.

"Investigators were able to make a connection with the location where the body was found and two individuals," GBI spokesman John Bankhead told 11Alive News Sunday night. He said crime lab technicians were then able to link up the severed hand and the victim. They obtained fingerprints from the remains and compared them to the victim's fingerprints and made a match," Bankhead explained. Investigators will continue to search for Williams' head and torso, hoping an autopsy will determine the exact cause of death.

Suspect Franklin Benson is now being held in the Newton County Jail awaiting his Monday first court appearance. Meanwhile, investigators are asking anyone with information on either Williams or Benson to call the GBI Tip Line at 1-800-597-TIPS (8477).

I am heart broken to hear that someone that stupid chose to kill Les.
I am hoping they will keep him behind bars all his life. He does not deserve to be let go.
It is beyond SICK!!!!!!

We had turkey giblet gravy, corn bread dressing, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, cranberry sauce, acorn squash, peas, bunny rabbits made from black olives and stuffed with cranberry orange cream cheese, dinner rolls, and pumpkin pie with whip cream. We toasted with sparkling red grape juice our Thanksgiving for so many wonderful friends and family and our dearly departed wonderful friends Ms. Les and Bob Lerch who is now with our heavenly Father.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Having A Sad Moment


Franklin Benson, 47, goes before a Newton County Magistrate judge Monday morning to face charges that he murdered his girlfriend and then dismembered her body. He was arrested late Sunday after GBI agents and crime lab technicians cracked the strange case.

It began October 30 when some dogs found a human foot in some woods behind a vacant house off Georgia Highway 212 and Island Shoals Road in Newton County. Searchers soon discovered another foot, some legs and a hand.

It turns out Leslyan Williams, 49, of Decatur was reported missing about the same time by some out-of-state relatives. With that missing report and the remains, investigators soon came up with boyfriend Franklin Benson's name. They learned Benson runs a car care business near the crime scene.

"Investigators were able to make a connection with the location where the body was found and two individuals," GBI spokesman John Bankhead told 11Alive News Sunday night. He said crime lab technicians were then able to link up the severed hand and the victim. They obtained fingerprints from the remains and compared them to the victim's fingerprints and made a match," Bankhead explained. Investigators will continue to search for Williams' head and torso, hoping an autopsy will determine the exact cause of death.

Suspect Franklin Benson is now being held in the Newton County Jail awaiting his Monday first court appearance. Meanwhile, investigators are asking anyone with information on either Williams or Benson to call the GBI Tip Line.