Michelle Boudin held down the anchor duties Sunday evening, rather dully. Here’s what they had:
Weapons of mass destruction found! In Fletcher
Holly Headache said Fletcher police arrested a man at a house in the River Birch subdivision after answering a burglary call. When the cops arrived, they found one live pipe bomb and materials to make grenades and more pipe bombs. They also allege that they found meth in the house an drug paraphernalia. The dude is in the Hendersonn County jail under a $130,000 secured bond, according to Holly.
Non-news news story
For their second story at the top of the 6, Boudin came back with a story she tried to sell as new, but actually had absolutely no news value at all. None. Guess they just like running the “Are you not entertained?” video of Christopher Lunz, because they were there when they arrested him.
You remember the case. The whack job called Jon “Punnyman” Le and used Le to set up his arrest. Lunz was on the run, wanted for killing his father down in Florida. Lunz said he was afraid cops would beat him up or kill him or something, so he wanted the TV people to be there to witness it.
Anyway, Boudin said the Sylva man was sentenced to life in prison and that he claimed to have killed 20 pedaphiles. Boudin credited Court TV for some reason.
So we checked Court TV’s web site, which correctly reported that Lunz’s trial and sentencing happened back in June. Here’s the pedaphile reference from the Court TV story:
The panel found Lunz guilty Thursday of first-degree murder for plotting his estranged father’s murder in his Florida home in March 2003.
Lunz, who represented himself during the trial, addressed the jury in a 45-minute monologue in which he described having a split personality and being sexually molested by his father.
Enduring such abuse at a young age defined his life, Lunz said, and forced him to kill other child molesters.
The first time he committed murder, he was in a crack-induced haze, Lunz said. After witnessing a drug buddy molest a baby in a hotel room, Lunz said he choked the man to death and disposed of the body.
“He was the first pedophile in over 20 I’ve killed,” Lunz said. “I decided it was a good thing to do.”
Lunz testified that he had turned himself in to the FBI, to mental hospitals and to funeral parlors, but because no victims materialized, there was never any follow-up to his confessions.
In other news…
The guy that was arrested for hiding in a woman’s apartment closet and assaulting her will be in court on Monday. Sheriff Bobby Medford said last week that the deputy that was first on the scene mishandled the investigation and promptly fired the deputy… The driver of a Volvo van somehow lost control of her vehicle on Smoky Park Highway and ran over an embankment and curb, then slammed into the Sun Trust bank branch in a shopping center. She also rammed a Dumpster. Best part of the story – WLOSers showed somebody picking their way through the rubble to get to the ATM, which still worked… The teen camp counselor who fell off Roaring Fork Falls in Yancey County on July Fourth is improving. He’s in the hospital listed in serious condition, an improvement from critical condition.